This case is why those policies exist. One elderly woman against three healthy, young men? They could’ve killed her. They could’ve put her on life support and endless surgeries.
And she could have shot them and ended their careers.
This case shows why it's insane to hire women to work in hardware stores anywhere but flooring and appliances. The clientele--and the occasional criminals--are 90 percent male. What frightens ferals and Mexican border crashers is not committing an impropriety and having a finger wagged at them as they fly by in a cart packed with chainsaws and generators. It's getting the crap beaten out of them by men with access to garden implements.
This kind of wholesale gate-crashing would be impossible without female cashiers.