this article is mostly advertising that "company" there may not even be 25000 online stores to accept anything in first place either since the source website is not a known one and specially since OP is just advertising his own website to generate traffic i wouldn't take this type of news seriously.
news sites like this have a track record of "creating news".
Exactly, lately I'm been noticing a lot of post that points to that website so I'm sure that someone is really working hard here to promote that website. Anyways, I search and it looks like a lot of crypto related news have reported this so its probably just a spin article. I think its official though, (
https://twitter.com/UTRUST). They have strategically targetting EU markets and they have partnered with Gambio.de (
https://www.gambio.de/). It says that the Gambio powered stores attributes 30% of e-commerce revenue in Germany so its going to be interesting how this partnership will evolved. The 25,000 figure came the Gambio website itself.
It all sounds very promising to me. In germany crypto is already quite well known and many people are just waiting for more places to pay for it with it. If something like this comes in 2019, crypto will surely make another positive leap forward. I myself am already looking forward to it and hope that we can pay with crypto in many well-known shops. Hopefully other big companies will follow suit soon and also offer payment with crypto. That would be really great!