Besides the local repairs, all of these seem to attempt to stop people from being able to purchase the items you can see in store cheaper online, which makes th

Besides the local repairs, all of these seem to attempt to stop people from being able to purchase the items you can see in store cheaper online, which makes the assumption that if the shopper can't find the item cheaper online they will purchase it in store. It seems unlikely that a shopper savvy enough to have an item recognition app is going to not know what the online price is for a similar item, even if it's not identical. Consumers obviously assign some value to being able to see the actual item, but it's not clear that the value is as high as you need to sustain a retail operation vs a generous returns policy.