You are exaggerating. I used to shop there when I had $ - was in Los Angeles WF a couple times a week. No one got mad if you didn’t donate, and you can walk right past the petition people easily, no prob.
However, the parking lot was the only place I ever saw a Boxer for Senate bumper sticker.
Fraid not. Both those incidents happened exactly as I described. I can’t remember a time when I went to the WH on Santa Monica Bl that there wasn’t some leftwingloon mooching for signatures.