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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not normal to use cards for very small purchases in the UK - in many small retailers you'll see a sign saying something like "Cards only accepted for purchase above £10". The reason for that is that if you're a small business, a card transaction normally carries a flat fee of about 30p, so the retailer would lose money if he were to accept a card payment on something with less than 30p profit!
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Wow, that's quite a lot.
In Denmark there's a fee of about 3p per transaction. There was an uproar a couple of years back, when they tried to charge the consumers the fee.
I seldom use cash. Probably once or twice per month in average.