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http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/04/09/monoprix-pret-a-se-mettre-au-bitcoin-des-la-fin-de-l-annee_4398350_3234.html

Monoprix is a big French retail corporation and they are saying they will start to accept bitcoin before 2015

c'est énorme, giant, magnificent and fabulous.
https://www.google.fr/search?newwindow=1&safe=off&hl=fr&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=monoprix&oq=monoprix&gs_l=img.3..0l10.4559.5638.0.5908.3.3.0.0.0.0.146.409.0j3.3.0....0...1c.1.40.img..0.3.405.O5jfBpn9KNo
It's huge
465 stores in France.
monoprix belongs to Casino group.
Casino is primarily expanding its multi-format portfolio in the convenience and discount segments. Its business model is built on a network of strategically related, yet clearly differentiated banners – Spar and Vival (urban and rural superettes), Monoprix and Franprix (centre-city stores), Leader Price (discount outlets) and Naturalia (organic foods). With its 6,500 convenience stores, Casino leads this segment in France.

Right now we need all the good news that we can take. Hopefully more retailers and other businesses will follow suit in adopting it!

yes!!! Lets keep the wave coming and one day people will adopt with the trend, even the haters of bitcoin

That's huge!
Uh... but how they convert btc into fiat?

Bears are in denial phase  ;D

They will suffer.

it is not until next year...

https://i.imgur.com/byadt9Q.jpg

Monoprix director of e-commerce, P. Oualid said on Twitter :
Hello, it is not a hot topic for this year... (no longer relevant for the end of the year)

Bitcoin isn't a hot topic in general or for them? I don't really mind when they start accepting it as long as they're still interested in doing it at some point.

If all stores in the Casino group started accepting BTC that might be the biggest adoption of all time. International reach too.

2014 charismeis would accept :D

Quite a large retailer, let's see how it works. And remember, it's just the beginning  :)

Hope they will release some info on how many purchases have been made the first month.

Each new tremble under the surface gets us that much closer to the next big bang. ;)

Bullish news for sure. France is starting to look like a very bitcoin friendly place. I would swap some bitcoin for some french wine and cheese.

Hopefully, my bitcoin holdings are sufficient for a holiday in France in the next 2 years. :)

They'd probably only do it for the website, or does it specifically say all the retail stores too?

Yay,cool news ;D I may start changing my mind about france & their crap  ::)

Some Brits would probably be happy if they accepted/bought/sold BTC in Spar.

Surprises me France hasn't banned bitcoin yet.... the word, and replaced it with "piece de monnai numerique" or something equally ugly and cumbersome in the name of preserving the French language.

Next year seems like it holds a lot for cryptos in general, especially for bitcoin! (this will kick off in 2015)

Great. Next year I go to France for holiday and carry my phone installed bitcoin wallet loading BTC.

Go on a shopping spree with your bitcoin :D

WOOW!! awesooome hope some retailers in my country follow it as well..n make it a trend! Would be insaane! :D

No shit.  They fucking hate stuff invented in America and they got to change the name and make it illegal to say all things which they didn't invent.  They are the most jealous fuckers I've ever seen.  They hate when others make cool shit.

I'm French and I'm not "fucking hate stuff invented in America" .
I'm not really "the most jealous fuckers" in the world and I don't "hate when others make cool shit".... in fact I love Bitcoin invented in America..  ;) and I try to use Bitcoin every week.... not so easy in Paris...

OK buddy - merci pour le courrier électronique.  Have a nice weekend!  Why is it illegal to say 'email' and 'weekend' in France?  Every fucking country in the world says: 'computer' - not France: 'ordinateur'.  

France invented an internet system called 'minitel' - but the American Internet (invented by Darpa not that punk called Berners-Lee) made minitel look very stupid.  Even before that, IBM was a big computer company and France wanted one too, so they made Bull Inc. with taxpayer money.  Bull lost billions and billions.  France now makes laws against saying things like 'email' because it doesn't want the Americans to ruin their culture - yeah, right.


If you don't hate everything American, then you are not true French - maybe Arab/French. 

really great news, the decision of a country will affect other countries, moreover it is a big country like franch, some countries will affect the world later. glad to hear it

French are always behind when it comes to technology. Most don't even speak english.

...and usually when they speak French, they are in a really pissy mood all the time.  Maybe their underwear are too tight. 

Cool!  Let's hope it comes true.  i have some friends there who would love this idea.

Only 3 good things ever came out of France:

1) French Dressing

2) French Fries

3) Slush's Pool(that's where his servers are)

Damn thing is, EVEN French Fries weren't invented in France - it was Belgium.  French can't stand it when something is invented somewhere else.  They always have a story how 'it was really invented in France'  I heard it a million times while in France.

But I must admit, French fries are pretty fucking good.

Well, France bashing on the way... fine...not a big deal...
-Is it really illegal to say "email" and "weekend", here, in France ? : I live in France since 50 years, I say email and weekend all the time and nobody yet condemned me to anything... (perhaps in Quebec...)
-Ordinateur : what a sweet word... and you're right  : we are one of the few countries in the world to not use the word"computer" (or a derivative)... thanks to IBM who asked in 1955 to a french linguist to provide a translation to "computer"...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinateur#.C3.89tymologie
-Minitel : what a crap... but it's ended now... you can be happy for the french people.
-Bull : Touché, c'est "la crème de la crème" of French companies   ----> enormous financial losses
-maybe not Arab/french... only french.
Well, in fact to summarise my thoughts, we mix the best of US culture and European culture... but I think you make a mistake : US culture has a strong presence in France (movies, music, books, computers science......) and a majority of french people love US culture...

Glad to hear it. More the Bitcoin community expands, better it's chances for survival.