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Re:Reversing UK mobile rail tickets by leipert on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:23AM (#34662730)
In Germany the pandemic had quite an impact. From 2019 to 2021 cash payments dropped by ~12%, down to 38% of transactions.

What’s more important, loads of shops eg bakeries have card terminals now.

Source: https://www.papershift.com/blog/die-kartenzahlung-ist-in-deu...

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Re:Reversing UK mobile rail tickets by netsharc on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:26PM (#34669620)
Although the chances of formite transmission (i.e. through touch) is apparently quite low: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/science-and-r...

Disclaimer: Everyone seems to have their own level of risk tolerance/acceptance with Covid.

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