Re: A supermarket in Mexico now allows Bitcoin payments for all their items
Elektra supermarket in Mexico recently started accepting Bitcoin payments and is encouraging their clients to do so, as they offer a 20% discount when paying with it (until end of the year).
Here's the promo banner (in Spanish):
Now people in Mexico are able to buy groceries, and retail in general using Bitcoin directly.
An interesting thing to consider is that the parent company, Grupo Elektra, has operations in these countries: Mexico, US, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Panama, and El Salvador.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Elektra
That means that they already accept Bitcoin directly from at least 2 countries: Mexico, and El Salvador. Some of the other countries in that list could potentially be the next one.
Here's the promo banner (in Spanish):
Now people in Mexico are able to buy groceries, and retail in general using Bitcoin directly.
An interesting thing to consider is that the parent company, Grupo Elektra, has operations in these countries: Mexico, US, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Panama, and El Salvador.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Elektra
That means that they already accept Bitcoin directly from at least 2 countries: Mexico, and El Salvador. Some of the other countries in that list could potentially be the next one.
That's a good one. Trying to encourage more people to be interested in Bitcoin in particular and crypto in general.
Howver, my concern is what might actually discourage people is the transaction fees in doing these payments.
But, I like their concept, the discount is quite tempting.