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Title: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: LifeOnBitcoin on August 15, 2013, 11:43:39 PM Great news! The Ridley's grocery store chain, Lolo's Fresh Food Warehouse and an Ace Hardware owned by Ridley's are going to accept bitcoin payment from Beccy and Austin, the Life On Bitcoin documentary movie couple. This is a trial run, and Mark (an executive at Ridley's corporate) said Ridley's would be interested in expanding their acceptance of bitcoin and looking for options to integrate it, so they can offer it to more of their customers at the point of sale if this goes well. We will see. You can read about it in more detail on our blog here http://lifeonbitcoin.com/lifeonbitcoin-day-22-progress-report-breakthrough/
We'll keep the updates coming here and on our Facebook and Twitter. Cheers, Theron H. LifeOnBitcoin.com Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: The Bitcoin Catalog on August 16, 2013, 12:00:58 AM Just WOW
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: CoinsForTech on August 16, 2013, 12:23:28 AM Awesome!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on August 16, 2013, 01:01:55 AM Good work!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: btceic on August 16, 2013, 11:03:40 AM You guys are doing a great job!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Carlton Banks on August 16, 2013, 11:49:44 AM IRL grocery outfits are a big key to mainstream adoption, I've always thought this, and so here's a vital part of the puzzle edging into place. If they turn the trial into a permanent operation, they can expect a sudden wave of miners waving their smartphones around at the checkout tills...
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: 01BTC10 on August 16, 2013, 12:08:48 PM Last year my aunt asked me where is the value of BTC if I can't use to make my groceries. There we go!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: LiteCoinGuy on August 16, 2013, 12:53:04 PM just want to ask something because i live in europe:
why is this such a great news? are the stores so big? thx Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: vulgartrendkill on August 16, 2013, 12:55:39 PM This is awesome. But when I've done transactions using multibit these have taken over an hour to validate! Surely this would need to be completed before someone could leave the physical shop?
Or is this a non issue... Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: 01BTC10 on August 16, 2013, 01:33:06 PM just want to ask something because i live in europe: About 2 dozen stores in 4 states. why is this such a great news? are the stores so big? thx Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Kuroth on August 16, 2013, 02:11:25 PM Very cool
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Elwar on August 16, 2013, 03:48:30 PM This is awesome. But when I've done transactions using multibit these have taken over an hour to validate! Surely this would need to be completed before someone could leave the physical shop? Or is this a non issue... A matter of seconds: https://www.youtube.com/embed/YZ-pqo0cLcE?autoplay=1&rel=0 Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: vulgartrendkill on August 16, 2013, 04:02:14 PM fantastic :)
i kinda knew there would be something like that out there :) Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on August 16, 2013, 06:48:30 PM Now when we approach grocery stores in Vancouver, we can point to the fact that Ridley's is already doing it. 8) You blazed a trail
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: LifeOnBitcoin on August 16, 2013, 09:26:40 PM Go get em Bitcoin Co-op!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: QuestionAuthority on August 17, 2013, 07:36:05 AM What system would they use to convert those btc to fiat? BitPay?
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Katrina Elisse Caudle on August 17, 2013, 07:39:43 AM Now when we approach grocery stores in Vancouver, we can point to the fact that Ridley's is already doing it. 8) You blazed a trail Yay! I'll line up to buy groceries in bitcoin. :P Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Lethn on August 17, 2013, 08:33:44 AM That's awesome, when you can buy food in Bitcoin you know it's made progress :D
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: Fizzgig on August 18, 2013, 05:06:17 PM I wanna buy bananas with bitcoins!!!
Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: wolverine.ks on August 18, 2013, 10:09:42 PM If someone were so inclined to edit the Ridleys Family Market Wikipedia page, here is the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley%27s_Family_Markets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley%27s_Family_Markets) i'd hold off on editing ace hardware, and lolo's doesnt have a page. way to go lifeonbitcoin! Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: System on August 18, 2013, 10:18:10 PM This is awesome. But when I've done transactions using multibit these have taken over an hour to validate! Surely this would need to be completed before someone could leave the physical shop? Or is this a non issue... https://vimeo.com/67461331 Non issue, very quick. Title: Re: Ridley's Grocery Store accepting bitcoin from Life On Bitcoin couple Post by: LifeOnBitcoin on August 28, 2013, 06:24:27 AM Here is the little video vignette we made about this. http://youtu.be/ac1MOAyVQyo
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