'The new Marulas Public Market in Valenzuela City is the first-of-its-kind DigiPalengke initiative in Northern Metro Manila where an entire marketplace is equipped to accept mobile cashless payments.'
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1015376--
This is quite interesting since even a public market where most of the time common folk buy their everyday needs is accepting digital payments. While this is not entirely related to cryptocurrency, it's as if the people are slowly seeing the convenience and security cashless payments offer to their everyday lives. For years, scan-to-pay stores are just confined within the walls of malls and luxurious places but it seems that we're slowly bringing it to the masses and eventually, it will be the norm to pay only with our smartphones and pre-loaded accounts--and in the future, possibly even cryptocurrencies.
We can see a lot of malls worldwide are turning into digital. Like what you have mentioned about scan-to-pay systems. You know everything comes with a process this will not done overnight, it takes time like you said. And as the time goes by, new discoveries will take place especially in the world of internet like in crypto.