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Re: A supermarket in Mexico now allows Bitcoin payments for all their items
by
syedakhlaque
on 23/12/2021, 06:27:10 UTC
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.
This is a good development that supermarket in Mexico is going to accept payments in Bitcoin. Moreover, the supermarket is also giving a 20% discount to its customers. On all shopping from this market, the payment is being received directly through Bitcoin.
If private institutions and markets will step forward to promoting bitcoin or cryptocurrency in the shopping mall, supermarkets, etc, it will fell a positive impact on the bitcoin user & bitcoin families. They will be facilitated, comfortable for its utilization.