Greetings, your insight is much welcome.
I feel that what is needed is to work with local retailer associations and find ways to onboard as many businesses as possible in a local geographical area. That way, shoppers will see a Distriator logo in every other shop window in the town or shopping parade. To do this might need a team of 2 or 3 knowledgeable Hive enthusiasts who would do "hand holding" in person to get the businesses set up.
I would say that we could ✅ this one out. In Sucre, Venezuela, we have more than 60 businesses located around the same area, accepting $HBD as mean of exchange with a lot of use cases already proven, feel free to check this out: https://hivesucre.social.gifts/
Some marketing materials would need to be funded and made, especially if we could do a "big launch" in a town and have half a dozen or more businesses launching the programme all on the same weekend.
Absolutely, it may look easy on theory but this is not something that easy to pull out. The @hivesucre team can tell you first hand how titanic yet satisfactory this endeavour has been.
Stores are using QR codes for receipts to their Hive clients and the transactions are smooth, the challenge is for non crypto users or people that doesn't have any clue of how a our wallets work, in our case we have taken a lot of our time to do proper workshops for the businesses so they can know how to use keychain for instance properly, besides giving them personal attention literally 24/7
So yeah,it'd be great to develop tools that would make it easier, and I believe that's the road we're taking. Cheers.