You could send a tip to an ADA lawyer. Or maybe report them for not meeting fire code.

The shit has wheels and isn't behind a fence. Move it yourself, tell them to fuck off, and go back the next day and move it again until the management give up. What are they going to do? Get a police stake out? Hire RoboCop to uphold the law? Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

Trip on one of the pots on the ground and tumble yourself into the racks to create a domino effect

Nobody wants to shop anymore

So you’re saying this large chain-store put out a bunch of free plants for people to take at their leisure?

Wow, what a maze. Are there accessibility laws that might be violated where this is?

I've seen three Sobey's do this for many years. I assumed they didn't have to right to use the parking lot like some other stores do, since the lots are never full. Totally on them for not managing their stock and making it our problem.

This has to be a fire code violation or something

"trip" and knock a few down

OP, just move the racks.

It's a little ironic that you say they hate shoppers with a shopper's store in the background...

I'd be tempted to just drag them over to the other open area you mentioned and see if they do anything about it.

i suspect that area is visible for the cashier and the little camera dome under the ceiling in the background

Honestly it probably is Kore stupidity than spite

Walmart does this all the time.

I don’t say this as a justification but they have probably placed them further out so the plants can get light. Back up against the building, under that overhang, they would not get the light they need, and after a few days this inventory would spoil and be lost, which is probably bad news for someone’s job.

Again, not a justification. I just don’t think the placement is completely at random.

I'd say pour salt into each pot but I fear the plants are the propery of a local nursery and it's not their fault the store is managed by idiots