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1 and 2 cent pieces, what do you think about removing them? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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They're not worth anything, never were but even less through the years with inflation.

If a store wants to sell something for 99 cent, they can either just take 1€ or 95 cent.

Maybe even 5 cent pieces? But that would be a bit radical.

I am a bit annoyed that easy ideas like this are never discussed in politics, or wherever. It would make our lives just a little bit easier, and having them achieves NOTHING.

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[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Germany. You could do card payments but only by sliding your card into a card reader. NFC payments were pretty much non-existent. Third world country 🫠

[–] DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats just objectively not true. NFC payments have been rolled out slowly for years before the pandemic. It would have happened anyways, maybe the pandemic just gave it a little boost.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Keine Ahnung, vielleicht hing mein Ost-Kaff einfach nur hinterher ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] fraencko@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds a bit harsh. Me and a couple of other people I know have used contactless payments even for quite some time before COVID. It was relatively simple to set up by linking your PayPal account to Google Pay if you had an Android phone. But I agree that contactless payments weren't widely adopted by the general German population until 2020.