Has anyone bought groceries with bitcoin from wholefoods (Flexa / SPEDN)?

There seem to be a million articles that talk about "Wholefoods accepting BCH", but has any of the 251,000 subscribers to this subreddit actually gotten it to work?

From the engadget article:

And the feature doesn't require new point-of-sale hardware -- companies just have to configure their scanners to allow Spedn to work, according to Fortune.

It's hard to say if this will take off.

OK, so it sounds like wholefoods "can" take bitcoin if they go into their datacenter and reprovision all thier POS systems to "pay by barcode". That doesn't mean they've done it, just that their register firmware has the "feature on/off" switch.

From another thread, there was also talk of an invite code needed to enable the IOS app. So if any of this stuff is true, and not vaporware, sounds like the procedure is:

1. Move to the US.
2. Trade in your Android phone for an iPhone.
3. Download the SPEDN app.
4. Go to the Flexa site and try to get an enable invite.
5. Enable SPEDN.
6. KYC into SPEDN or Flexa (not clear which)
7. Wait X many days / weeks for KYC to process.
8. Deposit BCH into SPEDN app after KYC completes
9. Wait X many days / weeks for BCH to be "available to spend/spedn"
10. Go to WholeFoods and ask if they have enabled "pay with barcode" in their register firmware.
11. Wait X many days / weeks for WholeFoods to enable "pay with barcode" in their register firmware.
12. Go get groceries but make sure it will total to less than $100
13. Pay with BCH (horray!!!)

So... has anyone gotten this to work.... Can anyone type out what they actually had to do to get this to work. Hopefully, some of the steps listed above aren't actually necessary.

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