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

submitted 2 years 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 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

No, but I also didn't see contactless payment methods being widely used until the pandemic.

[–] DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Where do you live?

I could pay contactless almost anywhere before the pandemic. You might get weird looks at the bakery if it was like 2€, but that was it.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (4 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 🫠

[–] fraencko@feddit.de 2 points 2 years 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.

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