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My limited anecdotal evidence from going to an AH in Amsterdam as a tourist just last week, the card terminal still had a sticker on it saying "No Visa/Mastercard". That said, did a quick Google and this Reddit post[0] (in Dutch) implies that perhaps even the terminals with that sticker accept debit/credit cards as of 4 months ago.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/geldzaken/comments/1085e6t/albert_h...

Very recently, January this year it worked for the first time in an average neighborhood AH for me.

Funny note: Aldi accepts everything, even AMEX.

I believe it was around the beginning of 2023. Maestro has been deprecated and no further cards will be issued from July this year, so all merchants need to start accepting other card types (Mastercard/Visa Debit) by then at the latest.

Hopefully this will put an end to the common perception in NL that Mastercard/Visa == credit card. Most of them aren't!