Re:Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the...
by Symbiote on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:56AM
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That is two different things.
Paying by card is very common in some countries (Northern Europe, France), paying by credit card is common in some (UK, Ireland), paying by cash is common in others (Germany).
It's not possible to generalize all of Europe for any of these, except to say that all EU/EEA countries have modern systems.
(For example, there are restaurants in Sweden that don't take cash, and restaurants in Germany that don't take any cards, restaurants in Denmark that charge an extra 2% if you use a credit card rather than a debit card, and restaurants in Britain that happily accept the 5% it costs them to accept AmEx.)
Paying by card is very common in some countries (Northern Europe, France), paying by credit card is common in some (UK, Ireland), paying by cash is common in others (Germany).
It's not possible to generalize all of Europe for any of these, except to say that all EU/EEA countries have modern systems.
(For example, there are restaurants in Sweden that don't take cash, and restaurants in Germany that don't take any cards, restaurants in Denmark that charge an extra 2% if you use a credit card rather than a debit card, and restaurants in Britain that happily accept the 5% it costs them to accept AmEx.)