Neighbourhoods and corridors
Westlake & MacArthur Park · Pico-Union · Boyle Heights & East LA · Huntington Park & South Gate · South LA — Vermont, Central Avenue · Panorama City & Van Nuys · North Hollywood · Compton & Inglewood · Koreatown
Los Angeles County runs one of the largest cash-paid workforces in the country and some of the heaviest remittance corridors into Mexico and Central America. The storefronts serving it — check cashers on Vermont and Pico, money transfer windows around MacArthur Park, mercados across the San Fernando Valley — are the counters this program is built for.
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Counter order · Los Angeles
LA's cash economy is enormous and geographically spread out, which changes the shape of the opportunity. Rather than one dense corridor, the county has dozens of neighbourhood commercial strips each with its own cluster of check cashers, mercados, phone shops and transfer windows serving a specific community.
The customer profile is consistent across them: paid in cash or by check, sending money to Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras, and increasingly aware that dollar stablecoins move faster and cheaper than the alternatives. That awareness is what makes an LA counter productive from the first month.
On the ground
Check cashers, mercados and carnicerías, money transfer agencies, phone and prepaid stores, swap meet vendors, tax preparation offices. These are the formats the program was designed around, and the neighbourhoods below are where they cluster.
Westlake & MacArthur Park · Pico-Union · Boyle Heights & East LA · Huntington Park & South Gate · South LA — Vermont, Central Avenue · Panorama City & Van Nuys · North Hollywood · Compton & Inglewood · Koreatown
Check cashers, mercados and carnicerías, money transfer agencies, phone and prepaid stores, swap meet vendors, tax preparation offices.
Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Philippines, Armenia, Korea — the corridors that drive stablecoin demand at a Los Angeles counter.
Spanish, English, Korean, Armenian, Tagalog. Serving a customer in their own language is the single biggest advantage a counter has over an app.
The arithmetic
Crypto is priced as a percentage of the order, so the revenue scales with the ticket rather than with the number of items you sold. These are worked examples at an illustrative 1% to 3% revenue share — check your agent agreement for your own rate.
| At the counter | Order size | Store keeps (low) | Store keeps (high) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A customer cashes a check and puts part of it into Bitcoin | $200 | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| A regular buys USDT to send to family overseas | $500 | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| A customer sells crypto and takes the cash | $1,000 | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| A small business owner buys on payday, every other week | $2,500 | $25.00 | $75.00 |
| One larger order, the kind an ATM's daily cap refuses | $10,000 | $100.00 | $300.00 |
The figures above are worked examples, not projected or guaranteed earnings. They show how the arithmetic works on a given order size at an illustrative revenue-share range. Your actual rate is set in your agent agreement, and what any individual store earns depends on its foot traffic, its neighbourhood, its hours and how many customers it serves. Anytime Capital does not promise any level of income.
Typical time to serve a customer
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Assets your customers can buy
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Los Angeles is the largest Salvadoran and Guatemalan population centre outside those countries, and remittance sending is a routine weekly or fortnightly act for a very large number of households. Those households are the ones who have already worked out that a dollar stablecoin arrives faster than a cash-to-cash transfer and does not care that it is Sunday.
For a store, that means the stablecoin conversation is not something you have to introduce. Customers arrive asking for USDT by name, usually because a relative on the other end told them to.
It also means the store types that convert best in LA are the ones already handling transfers — the check casher with a transfer window, the mercado with a service desk, the phone shop selling international minutes.
Your employee signs in at retail.anytime-capital.com, verifies the customer once, places the order and takes the payment at the counter. There is no machine to install, no crypto for the store to hold and no float to fund.
Anytime Capital is the registered money services business behind the transaction and carries the customer identification programme, the monitoring and the reporting. Your store is a serving location, and your existing licences remain yours with their own obligations.
Onboarding is a compliance review and a training session. Nothing is delivered to your address, and there is nothing to earn back before the first order is profitable.
Keep reading
The numbers, the rules and the store type closest to yours.
The neighbourhood commercial strips with existing money services traffic — Westlake, Pico-Union, Huntington Park, the east San Fernando Valley — rather than high-rent retail districts. Money services volume predicts crypto volume far better than general foot traffic does.
In most of these neighbourhoods, yes, and they almost certainly already do. The advantage a counter has over an app for these customers is entirely about being explained to in their own language by somebody they know.
Not to act as a serving location for Anytime Capital's platform. Anytime Capital is the registered money services business and carries the compliance programme for the activity. State law varies, so what applies to your specific store is confirmed during onboarding, and nothing here is legal advice.
None. The platform runs in a browser on a phone, tablet or the PC already behind your counter. There is no kiosk, no floor space requirement and no monthly platform fee.
One to two minutes for a first-time customer, because their identity is verified once. Under a minute for everyone after that.
Elsewhere in the programme
The same programme, answered for a different question, store format or market.
Tell us where the store is and what your customers keep asking for. We will tell you what we can offer at your location.