HankB noted,
"Some decades ago, meatcutters went on strike against my usual grocery store back in Chicago - they had a couple of guys on the picket line, but there was NO violence, and people kept going in and out of the store without incident"
Yeah, but as I noted the crazy quotient is higher now.
All good advice. One thing I should have emphasized is the importance of the swoosh in-swoosh out aspect since I'm pretty crippled up and I know the KS store almost as well as the employees --little random searching involved, electric cart or not.
So as the Marines would have it: "Observe, Assess, Overcome," I guess it'll be "Observe, assess, and hobble away."