Supermarkets and drugstores massively affected: card payments impossible - purchases only with cash
Created: 05/25/2022, 10:36 am
By: Stella Henrich
Those who wanted to pay with the card at the cash registers of markets yesterday were put off.
The terminals went on strike.
The disruption continued as of Wednesday morning.
Munich – There were disruptions in cashless payment transactions on Tuesday.
Supermarkets, discounters and retailers throughout Germany were affected.
Dealers report this via social networks.
Customers could not pay with an EC or bank card or with a credit card at the checkout.
The disruption lasted until Wednesday morning.
There are also numerous reports of problems with card payments from providers on the
alle disturbances.de website
- from Commerzbank, Visa and Sparkasse to the Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken.
Unfortunately, I couldn't pay with the Klarna Visa credit card at the gas station.
EC card worked.
Seymen Cabadag, post on Disqus.com
Another user reported via Facebook that only a certain type of card reader is affected.
SR currently
confirms this
in a Twitter post and names the manufacturer Verifone as the cause of the problem without naming the exact background.
The card reader is said to be one of the best-selling terminals in Germany.
Supermarkets around Aldi, Lidl, Rewe massively affected: card payments impossible - purchase only with cash
The consumer retail chain from Dresden also wrote on Facebook about a nationwide failure of card payments in supermarkets.
According to information from
Focus.de
, branches of Netto Marken-Discount, Edeka and individual Rewe branches are particularly affected.
But there are also isolated failures at Aldi Süd, Aldi Nord, Rossmann and dm.
A look at the website
alle
disturbances.de suggests that the fault has not yet been resolved.
While only a few disruptions were reported to the portal, especially between midnight and 3 a.m., the number increased again significantly in the early hours of the morning.
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With such a card reader, customers can “normally” easily pay at the checkout.
(Iconic image) © K. Schmitt/imago
If you still want to try your luck during the day and pay by card at the checkout, you should definitely have cash with you.
Or when entering the store, clarify whether card payments are possible.
This saves you trouble and long queues.
Petrol stations also attach stickers to the dispensers in the event of device failures.