There are a lot of things that you are yet to discover. Not only have shops started accepting bitcoin, but some countries have also made it a legal tender.
 
Some companies too also consider it a method of payment for large purchases, and they also use bitcoin as part of their reserve funds. Bitcoin adoption is rapidly increasing, and it's not just in shops accepting it this time.

It's a gradual process. I remember my early days in the forum where we used to discourse on bitcoin's adoption and even speculate when bitcoin will get integrated as a payment method by merchants. It's really nice to see that in recent years, it's coming together but we're still not there (yet). There's plenty of work still to be done so that the average Joe can use Bitcoin to pay for goods and services at tx cost lower than the fees offered by commercial banks and card firms like mastercard, visa, etc.

Usually shops are already accepting btc as payment but most even companies do the same, if i could recall as then there were some gas station that was accepting bitcoin payment people were patronizing them. Bitcoin has gone beyond the way you have had it and you can unveil more things if you stick around here.

I’ve only seen one shop in person that ever accepted Bitcoin and that was in Las Vegas and judging from the experience it was just a gimmick. I do hope shops are one day able to accept Bitcoin, but high fees and the limited block space being given to patented layer 2s means customers would rather just use cash.

I can imagine how excited this has made you, giving you a kind of reassurance that what you're investing in is actually something that is becoming global. For many of us on the other side of the world, this is not new.

Some of the shops accepting BTC in some countries do it just for clout-chasing, just to attract young customers like you to their shop.

I actually doubt that.

Bitcoin is a risky investment much more a risky payment method. These businesses need to have a profound understanding of bitcoin and how it works and how it could benefit or cause harm to their business.

It’s not a simple marketing strategy because they are quite literally putting everything on the line. I think if a shop decided to put bitcoin as one of their accepted payment methods they genuinely believe in btc and would want to be part of it.

There's not a lot of them unfortunately, maybe in my country it would still be the same as any other, they like to use fiat much more than bitcoin because they're either ignorant, they're not aware that bitcoin exist, or that bitcoin isn't a thing and most of them probably don't want the added hassle of having to convert bitcoin to fiat so they can cycle it back to their business to buy back their stocks and pay their workers. In a small business, it might work but the problem is that the tax season will be a hell of a lot more difficult to do because there's some issues they need to deal with involving doing transactions using bitcoin. Also, the word is patronage not patronizing because that would mean that the bitcoin users that are paying their gas on that gas station is condescending or demeaning them in some way.

I love buying stuff using crypto in general and I have been doing this for years now, almost all my equipment was bought online unfortunately not many are accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment.

I have spent weeks looking for online marketplaces that accept crypto and most that I have found have something to do with crypto e.g. crypto hardware wallets, crypto asic miners, graphics card stores, crypto-related smartphones, etc.

The others are Gift card stores, bill payments, vouchers, and co, I read on this forum that Newegg is accepting Bitcoin payments. I haven't looked into this, if this is true there are many things I have wanted to buy on Newegg, and this could make me go ahead with the purchases instead of using restricted credit cards from my country.

It is a different story in my country, there is only 1 out of 1000 that are accepting crypto, and even now that the government isn't very friendly with crypto adopters in the country it will take some balls to display "crypto is accepted here" in front of your store, I took down mine months ago and still accept Bitcoin behind closed door.

There are quite a lot of shops accepting Bitcoin. I don't know how up-to-date this map is, but you definitely can use it to get an image: https://coinmap.org/view/#/map


Your post contains quite a few confusions there. I will start with the fact that Lugano is not a country, just a region in Switzerland.
Also you've put together regions or countries with big support (or legal tender) for Bitcoin with regions/countries with not that special status of Bitcoin. Not mentioning the Bitcoin is actually regulated in many (maybe even most) countries of the world.