as a rule, we never use cash. i’ve been carrying around 500 kronor in notes for years, and i can’t get any use for them because people would rather take swish than deal with the hassle of cash. even in a blackout or network failure at the supermarket cash would be no use because they all use digital cash registers than ingest the bills and spit out change automatically.
the thing we are being told by our government is “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. we are being recommended to keep two payment cards from different issuers, as well as cash. this is all for redundancy, not because something has broken.
Exactly and Sweden is also fast becoming completely cash free. Guesstimates close to 50% of our stores are (or are soon becomeing) completely cash free. It’s rare to find a store that takes cash at all here.
what a weird headline.
as a rule, we never use cash. i’ve been carrying around 500 kronor in notes for years, and i can’t get any use for them because people would rather take swish than deal with the hassle of cash. even in a blackout or network failure at the supermarket cash would be no use because they all use digital cash registers than ingest the bills and spit out change automatically.
the thing we are being told by our government is “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. we are being recommended to keep two payment cards from different issuers, as well as cash. this is all for redundancy, not because something has broken.
Exactly and Sweden is also fast becoming completely cash free. Guesstimates close to 50% of our stores are (or are soon becomeing) completely cash free. It’s rare to find a store that takes cash at all here.
500 kr is the exact amount of cash you need at very specific vendors, the only place where they don’t do swish at all 🍃
except in sundsvall