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Coincidentally, an assistant manager at that store told me last week
that I was not allowed to bring my camera inside the store. He cited
security risk,

He's most likely full of crap. They don't want you photographing prices,
products, people, etc.

The reason I know this is because I was assigned to film a person purchasing
tools and parts from a hardware for a television project and the assistant
manager threw us out as soon as he saw the camera without letting us
explain. (Told the manager it was too bad...would have been free publicity
for the store, shown across north America. He invited us back but of course
production was finished.)

-c