French Retailer Monoprix Poised to Accept Bitcoin, Perhaps This Year
A French retailer by the name Monoprix may begin to accept bitcoin payments as soon as this year, a number of reports indicate. The information comes from Patrick Oualid, the company's e-commerce director, in an interview published Tuesday on French outlet JDN. "Monoprix has always been a pioneer and sought to bring to its customers what we do not necessarily see elsewhere," he said. That pioneering will place Monoprix as the first major retail outlet in the country to accept digital currency payments, despite the fact that Oualid says bitcoin is mostly viewed as an outlaw's currency in....
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