Our town's supposedly required to have bicycle parking in the biz district (but not next door in Champaign). I also bring my bike conspicuously into places where there isn't a good place to stick it (a bank that every once in a blue moon I have to go to - but then, last time I did that, one of our local racers came out from the back and gave me friendly grief about just how much that bike wasn't worth ;-)).
I will go the extra mile for a place where I can park - too bad I don't spend enough for that to change biz practices, but the more of us who are out there...