This is not county wide, here.  For example, Lowes is not doing it.  Only 2 of the many big stores.    So lets think this through together.  If it were, county or state wide order.  If I, and others hold Home depot accountable and it hurts their bottom line, then Home depot has the choice to lobby our political leaders.  How else can we put pressure on them.  Do they listen when there are protests?  Nope!  Letters, they don't care.  But perhaps businesses in a county can have more influence.  They pay a larger share of the taxes in a state or county and have an ongoing face to face relationships with political leaders.  They donate to causes political leaders ask them to support.  They have access. Fighting against a line in front of a store is one way to give feedback to the top that the populace is not just sheep. This is the way of the world.  The little folk put pressure on the bigger folk and the bigger folk put pressure on the biggest folk.  Certainly if every store in an area is doing this you cant boycott, but just cut spending.  And emailing the companies isn't a bad thing.  Letting them know you are ready to spend but wont as long as they go along with the crackdown on things like boating, free movement in your own yard and state parks, and buying seeds to garden, which some states have made illegal.