bitcoin has no arms. no legs and no voice.
bitcoin will not be accpted in your local town store if you simply sit on yor hands and hop bitcoin somehow drops in and talks to your local stores manager.
bitcoin only grows as a real world currency if those that want it in their local stores, actually themselves go into their local stores and help the local stores be bitcoin acceptable.
this means YOU (anyone reading this that wants their local store to accept bitcoin)
Surely plenty of people did this in the last 5 years?
you'd be surprised to find out how many are actually sitting on their hands and waiting for someone else to do it for them.
you keep hearing people say "i wish .... accepted bitcoin" the you ask "..." why don't you accept bitcoin, they answer "nobody told us they want it"!!!
i asked some people about how many of them actually asked businesses to accept bitcoin and those who said they did were so few!
maybe people think merchants are mind readers.