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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

This is so blatantly false, IDK how any Dane could believe this???
We do absolutely have cash, and it's legal tender, which means cash can't be refused as payment.
Except we also have an anti corruption law, which states we can't make cash payments above $3000.
So that's kind of weird?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I imagine OP isn't saying that there literally is no such thing as cash in Denmark but something more nuanced like "cash is becoming rare."

No idea about Denmark's laws but there are companies (edit: I mean "countries" not companies) where cash is yes still the legal tender but payment at some businesses can only be made cashless. Denmark may have a law stating businesses must accept cash, but you can certainly have systems where cash is legal tender but some businesses will not accept it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

you can certainly have systems where cash is legal tender but some businesses will not accept it.

Not by normal laws, legal tender means you have to accept it. It's not just that it's not illegal to use. Credit cards for instance are NOT legal tender, meaning a business does not have to accept them, but you can use them almost everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Traditionally legal tender means that a person / entity has to accept it for the payment of a debt - i.e. they can't refuse cash and say you didn't pay them because you didn't use some other method.

However, in many retail scenarios there is no debt - there is an exchange of payment for goods, and so the traditional common law legal tender rules do not prevent retailers from refusing that exchange (i.e. customer doesn't get the goods, retailer doesn't get the money, the transaction just never happens) on the grounds of payment methods.

Some places have additional laws on top of legal tender that might require retailers to accept cash.

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