I only use a card with larger amounts of money, never in normal purchases, for this in cash it is unbeatable, anonymous and greater control over expenses. Apart from that, I avoid that stores have to pay commissions that are ultimately recharged on the products, an aspect that many forget when paying with a card.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2022
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Is cash so anonymous? Does the cash machine record the serial numbers of the notes you took? When a shop takes its cash to the bank at the end of the day, does the bank again record the serial numbers? If so, a cynical regime could figure out how much you spend in each shop, but not what you bought.
I don't know if they do this yet, but it's an easy, obvious, concealable scam.
This is not happening.
Good thing that in most of Germany cash is still heavily preferred as a payment method.
A lot of stores don't even accept cards, a lot of supermarkets are cash only as well.
AFAIK it's mostly because using cashless payment methods in germany is taxed which is why most smaller businesses don't accept cards in the first place.
I have used those terminals and it's easily possible to update the certs if you know what you're doing. But an IT professional with experience in those terminals must do this and I guess there's just too few of those around to fix all at once.
Sadly (or thankfully?) remote access to those terminals is pretty limited, so you most likely have to be there physically and can't do remote config changes if you didn't set that up in a very specific way before.