where i live 95% of the shops use a terminal from SIX[0], small shops use SumUp[1] or TWINT(as far as i understand that's comparable to venmo). i've seen about <5 shops with bitcoin stickers, mostly abroad. and they were mostly vape shops, interestingly enough. guess there's no demand at all for crypto in the physical spaces i'm a part of.
which makes sense, you'd either end up paying in pegged, virtual crypto dollars, or pay with a completely separate crypto currency which then means that the shoes you bought a month ago are suddenly worth a magnitude more or less. might as well pay in turkish lira.
[0]https://www.six-group.com/en/home.html [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumUp
I wonder how many of those vape shops are fronts for organised crime and/or money laundering operations and how much that's related to them being happy to accept bitcoin.