LOCATION
Lagos, Nigeria
INTRODUCTION
This is a season when retail shops offer discounts to customers. Lagos, Nigeria is a large city with lots of retailers dealing in different varieties of goods mostly in shops or supermarkets.
This discount given by retailers; in addition to Celebration of the Holiday season, is also one of their means of attracting new customers and increasing sales. A shop may witness nothing less than 150 customers interested in the discounted goods per day within this period which runs mostly for about 1-2 weeks depending on the particular shop.
Customers prefer payments via Debit cards to Cash due to the associated dangers. Two of the major problems they always encounter is the high fees and delayed transactions during payments. And it might escalate this period as number of transactions per shop is expected to increase due to the discounted sales.
IDEA
First thing is to meet with the owners or managers of not less than two of these shops that have already made their plans of placing discount on goods known to the public before the stipulated kickoff date. The meeting should be with one retailer at a time, and at their own convenient location and time.
Get to convince them into adopting bitcoincash as one of their payment methods by pointing out the advantages like fast Transaction and low fee per transaction. If they are new to bitcoincash or cryptocurrencies at large, then they should be given clear education and direct answers to their questions. They may also be pointed to online resources where they can get more clarifications about bitcoincash.
If they give a positive feedback then, introduce them to a trusted Bitcoin Cash wallet e.g Bitcoin.com wallet. They should be taught how to download, install and send/receive payments.
In other to be more convincing about the speed of transaction and low charges, send any amount of bitcoincash to their newly installed wallet and ask them to send it back. If everything goes well and they accept the proposal, then the next step should be taken.
Present them with the suggestion that; payment for the discounted goods should only be restricted to and accepted in Bitcoincash. Make them see and understand the advantages attached.
They are likely to welcome this idea since the advantage of fast Transaction means less stress for their workers and reduction in waiting time for the customers. The low Transaction fees is also an advantage for the customers in addition to the discount and may attract even more customers.
Last step, is to inform their customers of their plan by printing and placing a banner containing the information and their Bitcoincash Wallet plus steps involved in the download, installation and use of a bitcoin Cash Wallet infront of their retail shops. They can also do this through their various communication channels.
CONCLUSION
If this idea works fine then, there would a massive on-boarding of residents of Lagos Nigeria to the bitcoincash wallet and therefore to bitcoincash
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