I think they will be informing their customers is they will be accepting Bitcoin or other crypto currencies in their store. That will be a good idea to one of my country's city but I don't think it will be that popular.
In my country, a lot of Bitcoin scams and frauds are happening and I think that brought a damage to some people that are maybe, trying to go or invest their money into crypto currencies. Since there are a popular exchange of Bitcoin in our country that can send BTC or PHP without a fee, that will erase the problem to the fee but the problem lies within the people who will be using it.
I agree that the store will inform if they accept bitcoin so that you can use your bitcoin if buy some stuffs on that store. Asking the stores if they accept bitcoin is good idea simply because if you do not have enough cash and all you have is bitcoin you can ask that store if they accept bitcoin. Lastly, I think there is a big possibility that in the near future many store will accept and allow bitcoin as payment of their costumer.