My inclination is to look not at 'main street' but more niche things where people do care about the tech involved and care about it being an edge for the product or service, but it's all kind of not a big enough market for the stampeding VC herds to bother with.

I would love to know how to locate more businesses like that though; I haven't had much luck.

Agreed, let me know when you find them.

Years ago I worked for this company - at their office in Padova, Italy - and it was a great experience in terms of the people and tech.

https://www.icare-world.com/us/