should you get to decide if people can take pictures of your store?
I see this argument made over and over again here on HN and it’s puzzling that people always stop at the first part.
Companies won’t stop at the “look at your content” phase. They will use the knowledge gathered by looking at your content to do something else. That’s the problematic part.
Retail companies research what other retail companies are doing and copy them all the time... was the answer supposed to be no here?
Of course it's OK to take note of what stock is on a store's shelf, go back to your own business, and sell the same stock. It's also ubiquitous. It is de facto practiced globally by everyone, it's generally legal, and it's morally fine. Broadly speaking we call this competitive intelligence or market intelligence.