Yup, I had approached a few girls in the store right before hand to be rejected by all three. Immediately after the third rejection a security guard came up to me and said that I was "bothering women", that this was coming from management and that I needed to leave the premises.

Now granted I have been frequenting this location for the past two and a half months, have used it as a good place to practice my interactions with girls, and have probably approached over 100 different girls in the store. But I don't feel any interaction was worthy of banning. Although I may have gotten a little needy with some girls, if she said "I'm not interested" then I respected that and left her alone.

The ironic thing is that I currently work for whole foods, not at the location I got banned from but still... Probably not a good idea to tell them I work for them no?

I had walked straight out of the store directly to the street, then took a right and sat on one of the benches they had provided for outside seating, diagonally across from the exit I walked out of. I was sitting down on the bench for a few minutes when the security guard came up to me again and told me to leave. I tried to reason with him, see if I could talk to management and get a warning or something, but it was no use, he wanted me gone. As I turned the corner there was another regular-looking guy behind the bushes, I immediately noticed he was trying to film me with his phone. I'm a super introverted, quiet, keep-to-himself kind of guy, but they wanted to portray me as some creepy stalker. What they saw as "bothering" women, I saw as "talking to".

What I took from this was that this was their cheap, power-tripping ploy to shame me and feel better about themselves. Being a so-called "pickup artist" is not something that is socially accepted, society expects to you date a couple girls, get married, have kids and live "happily ever after". By trying to improve myself by getting better with girls, approaching hundreds within the store I was rejecting this notion, I was saying "fuck that". The people who noticed me approaching tons of girls and confronted me about it didn't like the fact that I was choosing a different path, that I was not settling for what society wants me to do. They didn't like it and they wanted me gone.

Now a year ago I probably would have seen this as the end of the world, I would have retreated into learned helplessness and cried about how I got banned and that I was never gonna be good with girls. Fuck that. Now I just see this as more fuel to my fire to get better with women. There are other whole foods locations and there are other places to game girls. This isn't the end of the world and I'll be fine. I am still a beginner and so on another positive note I see that the only way I could have gotten banned is if I was taking massive action, which I was!

Anyways, this will probably just end up being a funny story one day... :D