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Sure, people would try it out with deep discounts on the goods, however, most retailers would be somewhat reluctant to give those discounts. Retailers typically have very slim margins on their sales, so any discounts would only be slight.
Could be only used for selected products or services, so that they can still fill the margins on aggregate while using Bitcoin as a promotional tool.
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Ok, a promotional loss leader may work. But the problem with that is that not all promotional goods are desired by everybody. If your objective is to get people on BTC for retail, you have to make it really easy and convenient to do so,
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