zahavasdad: insulting a customer is a most serious offense for any retail merchant
That is totally irrelevant to stores insisting that customers dress appropriately – which is designed to creatge a cartain atmosphere. Good (goysha) restaurants, for example, expect men to wear jackets and ties, and will ask someone wearing jeans to leave – they don’t want customers to think they are a hamburger joint rather than a fancy restaurant. No hiddush there.
NYC ignoring Federal and State law is part of an apparent policy of discrimiantion, which frum Democrats should complain about (but not too loudly, as they know who butters their bread)