The only other thing that I would add is even if Dillards was to cooperate with the guy, they couldn't do it two weeks before Christmas with the shopping crowds.
Any business is at the mercy of, not only the government, but the hyena packs that are sure that they know how to run that business better than the management does. Even if someone seriously disagrees with a law or regulation, they are not above beating you over the head with it, given the opportunity.
MM, I understand. I must also say that if people of good conscience don’t jump in when the situation dictates, FR will devolve further into a surreal substrate of roving bands of ideology thugs who attack like packs of hyenas at the first hint of non compliance with the group think.
FR used to be better, it can be that way again.
BTW - The best way to deconstruct an illogical argument is through logic, which unravels at the first sign of structure.