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To be fair the only place where I saw taxis accepting cards as a rule was NYC

Practical, still a bit weary though especially without EMV readers

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Go to any place in northern Europe and it's basically only card.

Where exactly, because I've been to ask the Scandinavian countries in the past couple of years and I paid taxis with cash in all occasions

For everything else, yes, mostly cards

Well. yeah if you aren't using any app to get a taxi, maybe. Still 90% of Taxis in big cities take card for sure. Even the more sketchy ones have the card machine, but it always seems to "not work" when needed...

Denmark is pretty much only cards, but debit cards at this point, well above 80% for retail is card payments.

I normally have a few may 100 to 200DKK in my vallet, because the credit/debit card system do still fail. I haven't run into anything in the last few years where I could pay with card or mobile payment.

Between my debit card and Mobilepay, I haven't used cash in nearly 2 years living in Copenhagen so I finally ditched my leather bifold wallet and made a slim card holder out of an IKEA bag. It's only been a month or so, but so far no regrets.

It’s come to the point where I wouldn’t even think twice about ordering a hot dog in a stand with no cash on me. It’s 99.99% chance that they accept card, because if they didn’t they couldn’t sell a single hot dog as no one has cash.

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