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    Percentuale di pagamenti effettuati con contanti fisici anziché digitali nei paesi dell’Eurozona (2024)

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    3. CuddleTrapBabe on

      It’s really interesting to see such a huge contrast between countries like Malta at 67% and the Netherlands at only 22%. It shows how cultural habits, trust in banks, and even tech adoption vary across Europe.

    4. Enchantress4thewin on

      digital overlords and banks not knowing how much I spend on X or Y is great! 🙂

    5. qwerty_1965 on

      That number for Ireland feels off. If the supermarket check out is a measure it’s about 80% card.

      Must be all the barbers and taxis.

    6. Isotheis on

      I don’t even know anyone who still carries cash. Is the second hand market that significant? Maybe the 50 cents to use the toilet…

    8. Worth-Wonder-7386 on

      I am always shocked how common cash is when traveling to countries like Germany. 
      Here in Norway, cash was only used in 3% of transactions, and the largest use is either for gifts or drugs. 

    10. TheJewPear on

      Since Covid I can’t bring myself to use cash anymore… I use it only where I have to, and even then my head gets filled with thoughts of all the hands that must’ve touched that bill.

    11. 11160704 on

      Germany is not the outsider the internet makes one believe it is.

    12. KP6fanclub on

      I avoid cash as much as i can – use it for tips or poker buy ins.

    13. BachelorThesises on

      I simply don’t go to “cash only” places in Switzerland.

    14. the-longer-lead on

      Cash transactions have no unwanted fees to visa/mastercard/3rd party. Why go out of your way to pay that fee?

    15. ctk80 on

      the only reason I have 100 euro in cash at home is if I lose my card and need to buy something while waiting for a new card to arrive. other then that I havent used physical cash in maybe 8 years

    16. ReflectedCheese on

      I only get cash for birthdays or when I find coins on the floor/couch and just use a vending machine to get rid of them, no atm accepts loose change

    17. lawman9000 on

      I still always keep cash on me when back in Germany. Just an old habit, even though most places take a card now.

    18. Cavetrollexplorer on

      This is wild, had no idea numbers would be anywhere like this. Was expecting up to maybe 10 percent in countries known for this, like Germany

    19. Reckless-Savage-6123 on

      I hope the use of cash increases. I am not against digital payments and would even prefer them if the EU and the local institutions weren’t the scumbags that they are, tracking and monitoring people, their spending habits, even controlling people through digital money . F… them .

      I use cash as much as possible and will continue to do so.

    20. SaphirRose on

      Feels better to pay with cash, you actually see and feel money going away, you are inclined to actually save money… With cards its just some numbers in the aether.

    21. Realistic-Berry_888 on

      I still think of my 3-scoop ice cream that I had to leave in a Viennese ice cream shop because it turned out it’s “cash only” ;__;

      unthinkable in Warsaw

    22. jull1o on

      I’m from denmark. Can’t remember when I payed with cash. Even had cash.

    23. Gullible_Mousse_4590 on

      I’ve lived in Ireland for a couple of years and I saw someone use cash today and it was the first time I’d seen it since I came here. Must be going to the half of shops that are using cash

    24. oojiflip on

      I was surprised at just how ubiquitous and seamless card payments were in Greece compared to how finicky it often is in France. This tells the opposite story, however

    26. alastairlerouge on

      This is most likely not accounting only for retail payments, otherwise percentages would be much lower

    27. PandaCheese2016 on

      I wonder what the rate for petty theft of cash is across the same countries.

    28. TSSalamander on

      Just fyi, the mastercard fee is like 2%. Which is significantly lower than the loss rate caused by handling cash. Cash is a lossy form of transaction. between embesselment and just straight up transportation loss and forgetfulness, cash is not efficient. Which tells us this is not why businesses want you to pay it cash. They do that because they’re tax cheats. See there’s a much bigger set of fees you can skirt by just not declaring them propperly

    29. Fast-Presence-2004 on

      I was in Lithuania and Italy lately and everyone accepted card payments, no matter how small the store, in Italy even street vendors. Even beggars had QR codes for Revolut. I’m surprised they have a cash rate higher than Germany.

    30. Blurghblagh on

      I do not believe for a second that 49% of payments in Ireland are made with cash.

    31. neelvk on

      I was in Paris over Christmas break and had to use the laundry. It was an unmanned shop and the central payment system only allowed for tap (no chip reader or stripe reader). The 100 euros I withdrew from an ATM have come home with me. I never paid cash for anything – tickets (train and museums), restaurants, grocery stores etc. Same thing happened to me in Italy during spring break.

      I have a feeling that the numbers in the graph are inflated a bit. Or maybe there are enough people in Europe illegally that cash transactions still make up a big enough volume.

    32. actias_selene on

      If you have some undeclared cash income, you want to avoid depositing on a bank account. Also useful to use in transactions for side-gigs in some countries.

    33. cloud_t on

      Interesting about Lithuania so high, and not to see Sweden. From what I gather, the nordics have ditched most cash payments.

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