{"id":18576,"date":"2022-09-19T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2022-09-23T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T12:54:11","slug":"day-to-day-hypermarket-expands-cryptocurrency-friendly-venues-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/09\/19\/day-to-day-hypermarket-expands-cryptocurrency-friendly-venues-in-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Day to Day hypermarket expands cryptocurrency-friendly venues in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Discount<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/06\/10\/lulu-opens-27th-hypermarket-in-saudi-in-jeddahs-al-rawabi\/\"> store<\/a> Day to Day has <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">opened<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">its largest <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">store \u2013 and it\u2019s in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/07\/29\/lulu-opens-concept-stores-in-abu-dhabi-and-dubai\/\">Abu Dhabi<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The move is part of the brand\u2019s<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/06\/03\/web-3-0-integration-is-majid-al-futtaims-newest-venture\/\">cryptocurrency-friendly<\/a> venues<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> across the UAE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Day <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">t<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">o Day <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">is one of the<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> first retail<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">ers<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">in the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">country<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">to<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> accept cryptocurrency payment<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">s \u2013 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">including Tron, Ethereum and Bitcoin<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2013 in-store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Shoppers can pay using their mobile phones or <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">point-of-sale machines located in<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8211;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">store<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Customers<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> can<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> also<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> shop <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">via<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">the company&#8217;s website<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">,<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> which offers delivery <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">across the Emirates<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A global YouGov survey revealed that UAE consumers trust cryptocurrencies more than other nations and are eager to pay for their day-to-day purchases <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">using the currency<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The total cryptocurrency transaction volumes grew by more than 500 per cent to $15.8 trillion <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">last year<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> in the Middle East, according to a report by blockchain analysis firm<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">Chainalysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount store Day to Day launched its largest store, in Abu Dhabi, which accepts cryptocurrency payments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":18577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4105,1],"tags":[1506,4313,883,3966],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18586,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions\/18586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}