Edeka "A big largest German supermarket corporation" accepts bitcoin

[sangoku]

Revenue US$ 58.658 billion (2009)
Number of employees 250,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edeka

https://www.edeka-lebensmittel.de/

[suda123]

Revenue US$ 58.658 billion (2009)
Number of employees 250,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edeka

https://www.edeka-lebensmittel.de/

is this equivalent to Walmart?

[DarkHyudrA]

Unless someone translate it and point out where it says they are accepting Bitcoin, this post is pointless.

[b457]

They "just" accept Bitcoin through Bitpay.
But hey, at least some large company in Germany is accepting Bitcoins.

[Lauda]

Unless someone translate it and point out where it says they are accepting Bitcoin, this post is pointless.

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It's on the homepage. This is great news. I wonder when have they started accepting Bitcoin, is there a news article? AFAIK there was a test period in April.

is this equivalent to Walmart?

You can't really compare the two. Walmart:
Revenue $ 485.651 billion (2014)
Number of employees: 2.2 million

[dothebeats]

They "just" accept Bitcoin through Bitpay.
But hey, at least some large company in Germany is accepting Bitcoins.

Through BitPay or not, at least they considered on accepting bitcoins. I wonder how many more large companies would consider accepting bitcoins in the near future? Our country (the Philippines) doesn't have much businesses that accepts bitcoin as payment. We have a large user base here in our country so if any bitcoin-accepting company would start a business here, I'm sure it will be heavily promoted.

[Kaneki]

appropriate measures, hoping some supermarkets in my country willing to accept bitcoin 

[Mickeyb]

They "just" accept Bitcoin through Bitpay.
But hey, at least some large company in Germany is accepting Bitcoins.

If I was an owner of the big corporation or the company I would surely go step by step and accept Bitcoin through the Bitpay. Then after some time, I would switch when everybody else is switching. This is business, this is not a game, and being careful is a name of the game.

For Bitcoin, this is a great news. More we have on board, the merrier, simple as that. We need a majority to accept Bitcoin and then the minority will follow. Another great news, I think 4th or 5th this week.

[unamis76]

This is amazing news!! Maybe some major supermarkets in Europe can take this as an example...

[Denker]

Edeka is accepting Bitcoin via Bitpay since march or april this year. The company is not as big as Walmart but they are Germany's biggest grocery store. In 2014 the revenue was 51 Billion Euro.

Here is an older article from a german Bitcoin blog.

http://bitcoinblog.de/2015/04/02/supergeil-bei-edeka-mit-bitcoins-lebensmittel-bestellen/

[Luqman]

This is a good news.. Hope other big company will try to accepting bitcoin..

[n2004al]

Nothing strange. There are to many other big businesses which accept bitcoin since some time. Can be named Microsoft, Dell, etc. It is good that these giants are followed by other giants in other countries. This is a big sign that the bitcoin has a secure future ahead of itself.

[S4VV4S]

The website and company image kind of reminds me of Lidl, which isn't surprising since they are both German companies.
None the less, it is good news and a good addition to the Bitcoin accepting Businesses chain.

[Amph]

this is good, the last news about excluding bitcoin from vat, passed from europe court, should help other entity like this to grow all over other union countries

[Lucius]

This is definitely good news and perhaps that encourage others in Germany to do the same.
Maybe Lidl and Kaufland make a move

[Yeezus]

They "just" accept Bitcoin through Bitpay.
But hey, at least some large company in Germany is accepting Bitcoins.

Why is it "just". They still accept bitcoin and people can spend them there which is great. We need many more merchants willing to take the plunge. Doesn't matter whether they use bitpay or not at the end of they day.

[IIOII]

Hey, German here.

Unfortunately I have to dampen your euphoria a bit.

This is just a single market operating under the Edeka franchise. It is not the entire Edeka group. As you can read in the Wikipedia article, Edeka "consists today of several cooperatives of independent supermarkets all operating under the umbrella organisation".

So unfortunately it's not billions of revenue. But it's a start at least...

[b457]

It's only a "just" because they immediately change Bitcoin to fiat money.
Accepting Bitcoin is a big step, no questions (particularly in the conservative Germany).
But I would like to see that they only accept Bitcoin, without a middleman.

[3x2]

It's only a "just" because they immediately change Bitcoin to fiat money.
Accepting Bitcoin is a big step, no questions (particularly in the conservative Germany).
But I would like to see that they only accept Bitcoin, without a middleman.

It would be great if they pay salaries of their employees in Bitcoin.

[RustyNomad]

Another step in the right direction for bitcoin.

This is where we need bitcoin, right down into the grass roots so to speak. Supermarkets is where people go almost everyday, its just a matter of time before some non-bitcoiners ask about this bitcoin thing so it will help with adoption over time.