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While it is most definitely true that they do not accept it directly, they very likely do accept it with gift cards, which you can purchase with Monero. That is how I have been buying my groceries for the past year and a half.
When I lived in Europe and North America, this is also how I bought most my groceries.
Except I used bitcoin because the monero gift card vendors are terribly insecure.
Please elaborate on your claim of them being terribly insecure. It's not something I've noticed, but I could be missing something.
They send the card details over email. If you know of one that doesn't, please let me know
What do other merchants do? Because when I was still using Bitcoin back in like 2015, that's what Bitcoin gift card merchants did as well. So what's different these days?
They show it to you on their website.
Ah, fair enough. Do they give you the chance to copy and paste it? Or do you just have to screenshot it and be annoyed every time you need to enter it?
Yes, its not an image. That would be terrible for blind people.
Being a blind person myself, that is one particular reason I wished to know.
I use btcrefill and you get the code straight from the website. There is probably some JavaScript "click to unseal" button you have to press first, but then you can copy it the code to redeem. But honestly it probably depends on the vendor.
I'm not visually impaired, but I'd be curious if you'd find it accessible.
Do you sometimes have to request refunds from shitty sites that sell you something that you can't use because its in an image without alt codes?
It's not happened yet, but that doesn't mean much.