> In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals. What's the idea there? I hear that those stores overexaggerate the risk. Ok, but

> In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals. What's the idea there? I hear that those stores overexaggerate the risk. Ok, but why spend the time, effort and money actually locking things down and making it hard for their paying customers to shop. I can imagine if the threat is not real, they'll just issue press releases, write public letters to the governor, buy ads somewhere, etc, but not actually put plexiglass and locks everywhere, which makes it harder for them to do business in the end. EDIT: also, cheers to the fellow assembly language HN user name holder :-)