It’d be great if among competing businesses, some require chips and some don’t and the free market runs its course.
Yeah I guess I don't totally see the point. If I'm chipped then IDGAF if some non-chipped cretin shops next to me. And if I'm not chipped yet, then daddy still needs groceries.
Well, the good 'chip is only 95% effective. If you've got nothing but 95's (shout to Devon Peterson) mingling in your shop, pretty low risk of a problem. Add in a bunch of 0's (in COVID protection and life generally), what, 1 in 20 of the chip'd can still get it from some loser?
Beyond that, for my personal shopping satisfaction, it'd be nice to know that the people I'll be around in one store are all normal or better people who wisely got chip'd, and that I can stay out of the store that allows unchip'd and probably attracts those sorts of "muh freedom" people, not just becaue they're COVID-ridden but because they're gross across the board.