Hmm that might be a very difficult thing to do as a bitcoin user no? To just encourage a business to accept bitcoin you need a lot of convincing power and proof that it's profitable for them.
I wouldn't know how we could reach this together but I do hope it happens.
You really need to encourage them indeed but I think with sone good words its already possible and they just have to look it up and they will see why its than a pretty good currency to use and also to hold.
You need for researching about some fact in the environment of the store before giving a suggest to the store for accepting bitcoin and I just say this for preventing if there is not enough bitcoiners in the environment and why the store are really need for accepting bitcoin?
Exactly, if a place has not bitcoin users at all or if has then they are really few in number so how come you can encourage a local business to accept bitcoin as a way of payment? They would only do it if they see some great potentials in it but if they see nothing about it around the they would probably say no to it.