This shot resulted in my first experience being asked to leave a store for taking a picture in it. It was a little trinket/antique store in St. John New Brunswick which had a handful of interesting items. I took a couple of shots & the stern, professional owner asked me who had given me permission to take the photos. I was baffled. I wasn't stealing them. I wasn't rearranging them. I wasn't peeing on them. I though she must have been worried that I was stealing their souls or something. I told her that some things are interesting to me. She informed me that her sister was a 'professional photographer' and that she wasn't even allowed to take pictures in there. I assured her that I was harmlessly amateur and left the store without buying the thing I was going to.
It's gotten worse over the past couple of years. I think it's partly paranoia and partly greed. Mall security are told that people might be casing a store for a robbery. With an SLR. Which needs to be held up to the face, focused and shot. Really dumb thieves apparently.
The rest have been conditioned to know that everything, even garbage on their sidewalk, has a pricetag and they're entitled to milk any potential copyright revenue out of it. Somehow.
I still get asked to leave malls & shops from time to time. Escorted past the dozens of tourists (& potential criminals) with point & shoots & cell phone cams happily snapping away. My mentioning this to the escort, however, invariably falls on ignorant ears.