A great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash. Some didn't before 2020, but during 2020 the trend accelerated, and many shops stopped taking cash. A

A great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash. 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.