You mean like the CDC publishing a statement that they are considering the likelihood of surface transmission 'low', in the same time that there were no new stu

You mean like the CDC publishing a statement that they are considering the likelihood of surface transmission 'low', in the same time that there were no new studies to support a change, they cited no research or reasoning, but we had multiple independent government sources contemporaneously complain that their monitoring efforts were being interfered with to downplay the seriousness of the outbreak? I somehow failed to take that statement to heart. There have been repeated claims that we haven't detected surface transmission - but ruling out fomite transmission in a droplet-transmitted disease such as this is a joke. The best you can do is rule out fomite transmission after long periods of time. Which is fine for something like "do I have to worry about my amazon package's contents, which hasn't been touched by human hands in at least 24 hours?" but not in a scenario like the OP's, where a high traffic area like a store means you can have surface contact within minutes of contamination. The most conservative papers I've seen regarding surface transmission consider the safe period 'after a couple of hours', which is not the threat model of OP's post.