A big step for the implementation of crypto; the largest supermarket in Croatia will accept crypto as a means of payment from this month. Reuters reported this in a news item.
If you like to go on holiday in Croatia, you have probably seen the chain: Konzum. This is the first supermarket chain in Croatia to accept this type of payment. The supermarket is part of Fortenova Grupa, the largest food producer in the Balkans.
“Payment with cryptocurrencies is currently available in our online stores, but soon we plan to introduce it in other stores across the country,” Konzum said in a statement. It is therefore unfortunately not possible to go to a physical store today and pay with bitcoin.
The supermarket offers online payment options with many different coins. You can according to SeeNews rightly with nine different cryptocurrencies: bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), EOS, DAI, ripple (XRP), stellar lumen (XLM), tether (USDT) and USDC. With this you can pay for approximately 12,000 different products, and that without additional costs, according to SeeNews.
Soon the Netherlands?
Perhaps this sends a signal to other chains to get started with crypto as well. For the time being, there is no supermarket chain in the Netherlands that accepts crypto as a means of payment. Albert Heijn already had the blockchain technology discovered, but they don’t accept crypto yet. There are some companies in the Netherlands that accept crypto for products or services. Although it remains easier to do your shopping with euros.
There is a negligible bit of hope. Konzum also operates in other countries. In Bosnia and Herzegovina it is known as ‘Velpro’ and in Serbia and Montenegro as ‘Idea’. It is not known whether crypto is also accepted here, but otherwise it is hoped that a Konzum supermarket will also find its way to the Netherlands. It probably won’t, since they only operate in countries of the former Yugoslavia.
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