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| | | | | Just a little for emergencies | May 18, 2025 |
Nowadays almost all payments are electronic. Occasionally I only have on me my keys, my phone and my bank card.
| | | | Luca Adie
Germany
Local time: 14:25
German to English
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It's very common for small shops and restaurants to only accept cash in Germany.
| | | | Lingua 5B 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 14:25
English to French
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After I supply this information, shall I also provide my address and daily movement routes?
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IrinaN (X)
United States
Local time: 07:25
English to Russian
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| AI is winning | May 18, 2025 |
It learned to mock and insult humans. It's really hard to imagine that some protein-built body took part in concocting this question on this site.
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Lingua 5B wrote:
After I supply this information, shall I also provide my address and daily movement routes?
Would be brilliant if, due to translation business drying up, people running a "membership-based website targeting freelance translators" (Wiki) would run a racket that brutally robs the translators instead.
(BTW, Jared, I will renew my paid membership, promise. Oh, and 15€, so...)
| | | | | Learned via experience | May 18, 2025 |
It's useful to carry enough cash to pay for a tow truck.
| | | | Lieven Malaise
Belgium
Local time: 14:25
Member (2020)
French to Dutch
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ADIE Translations wrote:
It's very common for small shops and restaurants to only accept cash in Germany.
In Belgium every shop, restaurant or pub is legally bound to offer at least one electronic payment method.
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| More now than a few weeks ago | May 19, 2025 |
Some weeks ago, there was an issue with card payments at my bank, and I ended up having to return groceries at the checkout because I couldn't pay all of them cash. Since then, I've added some more in my purse, and I've also put more cash in my emergency supplies at home. Just needed a little wake-up call (and feelings of shame, though, fortunately, one of the other customers saw my card and knew it was an issue with my bank and not with my liquidity...).
| | | | Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 15:25
Member
English to Turkish
| Reminded me of this.. | May 19, 2025 |
Edith van der Have wrote:
Some weeks ago, there was an issue with card payments at my bank, and I ended up having to return groceries at the checkout because I couldn't pay all of them cash. Since then, I've added some more in my purse, and I've also put more cash in my emergency supplies at home. Just needed a little wake-up call (and feelings of shame, though, fortunately, one of the other customers saw my card and knew it was an issue with my bank and not with my liquidity...).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kau01Au3f90
Those bloody immigrants... Great show this btw.
| | | | | Post removed: This post was hidden by a moderator or staff member for the following reason: Empty post. | Luca Adie
Germany
Local time: 14:25
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Lieven Malaise wrote:
In Belgium every shop, restaurant or pub is legally bound to offer at least one electronic payment method.
I'd really prefer this system. I was shocked when I first moved here how much is done in cash. Shops chase you out if you have a credit card and not an "EC Karte" (German debit card). Quite a pain in the xxxx.
I very much like living in Germany, but some things are a tad old-fashioned, especially in the south where I'm based. I find it surprising that many of the small companies in the largest economy in Europe just won't accept card payments or only debit cards... but that's just how it is here!
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| I take out a bit of cash once or twice a year | May 19, 2025 |
And I don't know what to do with it. It makes me feel especially bad if I only have 5000 ruble notes and have to use them for grocery shopping: that look of hate in the eyes of the cashier who has to give you change is something special. When my company gave me about my salary's worth of cash as a gift for working with them for years (I thought: wow, are they planning to fire me? but not yet), I deposited them on my bank account right away, cash burns your pocket and begs to be spent
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I always have cash with me and try never to use a card at small shops. Depending on system, a card costs them about 2.5% on each purchase. What's the advantage of giving that money to a bank rather than to your local shopkeeper, who's having a hard time competing against the big chains and supermarkets?
Try asking a small shopkeeper what they prefer and how much it costs them to accept your card and then act as you like, but at least be aware of what you're doing. Personally, I hav... See more I always have cash with me and try never to use a card at small shops. Depending on system, a card costs them about 2.5% on each purchase. What's the advantage of giving that money to a bank rather than to your local shopkeeper, who's having a hard time competing against the big chains and supermarkets?
Try asking a small shopkeeper what they prefer and how much it costs them to accept your card and then act as you like, but at least be aware of what you're doing. Personally, I have no problem with using a card at a supermarket, even though I don't see any real advantage in having my personal details, whereabouts and shopping habits all neatly recorded somewhere in the cloud.
So, cash it is. ▲ Collapse
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Most shops prefer cards now; in the Netherlands, cash payments tends to cost them quite a bit more than card payments. Since last year, my rowing club no longer accepts cash payments for this reason.
I still carry a bit of cash but these last years have mainly used it for church collections and to buy the homeless magazine from the friendly homeless man outside my local supermarket.
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