We chose that when we stopped using cash.
You stopped using cash? It is one of the most insane things I ever heard.
You transactions are tracked, I assume? The rule in the eu (PSD2) is that a dozen private/public/hybrid/other databases, of unclear substantial identity, will record your transactions.
And what if you had a an infrastructural shortage? No transactions then?
How can people think of "cashless society" as something outside a dystopia?
That is in fact a highly naïve, direly naïve society: (*) the data is not contained into national boundaries by law already, and (*) you cannot know what will happen to the country and society in n years time.
Some didn't before 2020, but during 2020 the trend accelerated, and many shops stopped taking cash. Aside from hygiene, it's also easier to deal with safety for the store (i.e.: nobody can steal the cash register).
The supermarket in my neighbourhood has ~30 self-checkout machines. Only one of them takes cash. The human-checkout also takes cash, but is usually closed.
There is a possibility that such practice violates EU legislation in the terms of "paper" Euro being legal tender on the territory.