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Question: How much of an issue, if any, is protecting your identity from the supermarket? (Read the thread first.)
Why would I possibly care about hiding from a supermarket - 2 (50%)
I'd rather not use my name, otherwise I don't care. - 1 (25%)
I want the source of my finances obscured. - 0 (0%)
I would prefer some kind of measures but it wouldn't stop me. - 0 (0%)
Nothing but a complete disconnect between my food and my identity is good enough. - 1 (25%)
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April 05, 2013, 08:53:39 AM
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So, I spent a few hours analyzing my favourite online shopping site (Coles - Australia only), and it is "vulnerable" to automation. This means I could reasonably set up a server to accept bitcoins and send your order to the supermarket using my own money.

It wouldn't exactly be a "bitcoin supermarket," but it would be close. Would you use it?

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It wouldn't exactly be a "bitcoin supermarket," but it would be close. Would you use it?

Well, I'm in the U.S.   Where will you be offering this service?

Though I suspect you'll go through the technical efforts necessary to get this running and then a few weeks or months later you shut it down because you are operating as a money transmitter, according to FinCEN.

But there are multiple grocery options available today and I don't use them.  The most recent service I looked at wouldn't work because I couldn't be sure I would be around during the delivery window.   If they were to drop off and leave, I wouldn't want to order anything refrigerated.     Another service I was going to order from, Alice.com, would ship the items to me, but again but again -- the logistics of the delivery getting dropped off (and possibly disappearing thanks to not having a halfway secure method for accepting delivery (e.g., a porch), that just isn't something I'm that anxious to use.

But I see the delivery trucks out and about, so there are others that do use these services.  And the order sizes are enough to where there's almost always a few dollars per order going to VISA/MC.

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April 05, 2013, 09:55:45 AM
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It wouldn't exactly be a "bitcoin supermarket," but it would be close. Would you use it?

Well, I'm in the U.S.   Where will you be offering this service?

Though I suspect you'll go through the technical efforts necessary to get this running and then a few weeks or months later you shut it down because you are operating as a money transmitter, according to FinCEN.

But there are multiple grocery options available today and I don't use them.  The most recent service I looked at wouldn't work because I couldn't be sure I would be around during the delivery window.   If they were to drop off and leave, I wouldn't want to order anything refrigerated.     Another service I was going to order from, Alice.com, would ship the items to me, but again but again -- the logistics of the delivery getting dropped off (and possibly disappearing thanks to not having a halfway secure method for accepting delivery (e.g., a porch), that just isn't something I'm that anxious to use.

But I see the delivery trucks out and about, so there are others that do use these services.  And the order sizes are enough to where there's almost always a few dollars per order going to VISA/MC.

Sorry, I should've mentioned that in the OP. It's the Australian supermarket Coles. They do both home delivery and pickup directly from a loading dock at the back of a few key big shops.

FinCEN doesn't have any jurisdiction here as far as I'm aware.

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