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Unless a large portion of the marketplace for those goods and services moves to the currency's p2p client itself, at which point it becomes trivial to integrate price levels (i.e., a "basket of goods and services") into the protocol.

Imagine if an expanded ebay marketplace, including a wide range of goods and services, were integrated into today's Bitcoin protocol.

Unlikely, and very hard to implement, but not impossible.




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