{"id":12924,"date":"2021-10-07T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/youth-fashion-retail-chain-pacsun-now-accepts-11-cryptocurrencies\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T03:54:19","slug":"youth-fashion-retail-chain-pacsun-now-accepts-11-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/youth-fashion-retail-chain-pacsun-now-accepts-11-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Fashion Retail Chain Pacsun Now Accepts 11 Cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 5, the youth fashion and retail brand Pacsun announced the company is now accepting cryptocurrencies via Bitpay\u2019s payment services. Pacsun says the company has a youthful audience that is \u201cvery tech-oriented\u201d and the firm has seen an \u201cincreasing desire towards cryptocurrency.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pacific Sunwear of California Goes Crypto<\/h2>\n

The American retail clothing brand, Pacific Sunwear of California, LLC, otherwise known as Pacsun, is now supporting crypto-asset acceptance. Founded in 1982, Pacsun has roughly 400 stores in all 50 states and in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

The company has partnered with the crypto payments firm Bitpay and disclosed it will accept 11 different crypto assets including bitcoin (BTC<\/a>), bitcoin cash (BCH<\/a>), ethereum (ETH<\/a>), wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), dogecoin (DOGE), and litecoin (LTC<\/a>). Five different stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar will also be accepted by Pacsun.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith digital sales doubling since last year, we understand the continued importance of creating an exceptional online shopping experience for our customers,\u201d Brie Olson, the president of Pacsun said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to pave the way for the fashion and retail industry, being the first to offer cryptocurrency payments through Bitpay, and we anticipate many other companies following suit considering the ease it brings to the checkout process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacsun \u2018Sees an Increasing Desire Towards Cryptocurrency,\u2019 Fashion Chain Believes It\u2019s Critical to Keep With Lifestyle Trends<\/h2>\n

The announcement also notes that Pacsun believes it\u2019s \u201cjust as critical\u201d to keep up with the fashion trends as it is for them to keep up with lifestyle trends. The company has noticed these trends when they launched their new Pacsun Kids line of products alongside a collaboration with the ROBLOX metaverse. \u201cPacsun shares our goal to let everyone live life on crypto making them a natural addition to our growing list of top brands adopting cryptocurrency,\u201d Stephen Pair, the co-founder and CEO of Bitpay remarked.<\/p>\n

Pacsun co-CEO Michael Relich explained that Gen Z is the company\u2019s primary consumer and the demographic is \u201cvery tech-oriented.\u201d Relich said that the firm dedicates a lot of time and effort to \u201calign with their lifestyles and resonate with them on a more personal level.\u201d Pacsun has witnessed demand from the young generations who want to pay for goods and services using digital currencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing their increasing desire towards cryptocurrency, it was clear that we needed to adjust and offer Bitpay as another payment option, to further instill their confidence in us as one of their go-to retailers that truly listens,\u201d Relich concluded.<\/p>\n

What do you think about Pacsun accepting 11 different crypto assets via Bitpay? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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On October 5, the youth fashion and retail brand Pacsun announced the company is now accepting cryptocurrencies via Bitpay\u2019s payment services. Pacsun says the company has a youthful audience that is \u201cvery tech-oriented\u201d and the firm has seen an \u201cincreasing desire towards cryptocurrency.\u201d Pacific Sunwear of California Goes Crypto The American retail clothing brand, Pacific…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}