Sweden to force grocery stores and pharmacies to accept cash

Although digital payment systems are convenient and efficient, relying solely on them makes society vulnerable to cyberattacks. Keeping cash as a payment option is a sensible step.

Hurray, I as an American Swede dual citizen would certainly welcome the use of cash. When I go home for visits it would be so much easier than dealing with swish. You have to have a Swedish bank account and a separate phone to use swish, which is not something tourists can easily deal with. It has taken me years to get an account last summer, finally, and next time I visit I will need to know how to use it. My Swedish bank would not accept cash at all so I had to make a transfer from an American bank to the Swedish one, but only from the US with a US phone. And everytime I go grocery shopping I pay with an American credit card, but have to sign and show my passport. The smoothest way for small purchase transactions by tourists and expatriate Swedes is CASH, which you get from an ATM with your credit card! That is my positive opinion of cash! Be more tourist friendly please! 😃

Of course… to think about credible ways to reduce the digital gap was ask too much from the government.. so the easiest way is to step back and force the market to “downgrade” 🤷🏽🙈