I suppose it could be a serious catalyst to monero’s circular economy.

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    Put yourself in the place of the grocer. If one person asked you to accept platinum as payment, would you? Probably no. If 10 people or a few loyal customers did, you might look into it.

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    Get prepaid cards from online stores against monero, that’s been my solution for any discrete purchases I’d like to make.

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    I think the real problem would be that it would have to be in a place that accepts Monero more broadly. Like, for example, if someone started a grocery store, then they can’t really ship things to you. So they need to have a large enough community locally to sustain that.

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    At this point the owner would have to be into Monero for it to happen.

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    A better question is to ask how do we get a single farmer accepting and requesting monero usage.

    The grocery store is a middle man that does little creation of value except occupying a location and marking up products to pay for electricity and labor, all of which must be paid in fiat by law.

    Many farmers eek out a living off grid, and without any labor costs.

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    Given grocery stores tend to use the currency corresponding to their government’s authorized legal tender for use in payment of debts: a lot of small things. A select number of stores in different regions accept bitcoin one way or another, word-of-mouth to support purchasing with Monero through similar systems can encourage practical consideration of it. It will take the slow expansion of Bitcoin-accepting businesses to also accept Monero as value that can benefit the business. In general, I don’t know of any specific grocery store in my region that accepts crypto, Monero has an uphill battle to see grocery deployment.