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Pana - Network State of Refuge · 3w
You assume, because you don't know how big a burden shrinkflation has been on the small retailer. Your take is academic at best. We usually look at things from an industry overview or from the cus...
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The problem is that the ECB effectively gives consumers "free" currency without giving vendors a corresponding "free" product to balance it out. Vendors have to raise prices or endure shortages.

But now the banks provide "free" nextgen terminals to vendors  and...it's all good? Nope.
Pana - Network State of Refuge · 3w
It's not free 🤔 It's your own money converted to Digital Euros as has been seen in other country implementations. Eg: India 🇮🇳 where CBDC was experimentally pushed out through their biggest govt owned bank. What you're debating is the age old model of payment terminals since Visa launched...