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.
Mexico is one country that still refuses to use bitcoin as a legal payment in that country, because as far as I remember June 2021, the richest person in Mexico Ricardo Salinas who is the owner of Banco Azteca wants to create the first bank that accepts cryptocurrency in Mexico, but it seems that Ricardo Salinas desire get a strong rejection from the financial authorities and also the mexican government, and I think from this refusal it seems that Ricardo Salinas will stop his desire to see bitcoin adoption in mexico, to be honest I'm very surprised apparently Ricardo Salinas still wants to develop the use of bitcoin in mexico, by accepting payment for goods using bitcoin at one of its retail businesses, namely elektra.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.
Source :
1. https://twitter.com/RicardoBSalinas/status/1409048815722696708?t=VJ0cXSjbXWcOWLs3rRS6Mw&s
2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/28/mexican-billionaire-salinas-says-he-wants-to-give-his-bank-clients-access-to-bitcoin.html