One thing I've noticed that's quite common is a lot of places where EXIT DOORS all seem to have automatic openers, but ENTRANCE DOORS do not. Needless to say the automatic Exit doors will not open when approached from the outside. Perhaps they're trying to offer a message?
A particular peculiarity is found at two of the Walmart stores in town. There is a separate "handicap" door with an automatic opener that can be used for entry - if you can reach the button.
The handicap door, however, is approximately 40 yards from the main entrance, and admits one to a narrow hallway leading back (about 40 yards) to just inside the main entrance/exit.
The hallway is where they have the drink machines, and while it is probably wide enough for a wheelchair if no one's getting a drink it obviously is NOT wide enough for a wheelchair to pass a standing person, or someone going the other way, without maneuvering past very carefully. The interior hallway seems to be where the young and healthy workers (both of them) like to "dump" small things that get in the way in the main store, so there's frequently significant clutter.
Two wheel chairs meeting each other would be a total lockup, as one would have to turn around or back out for the other to pass.
Ah yes, and all 24 of the "handicap parking" spaces are directly in front of the main entrance - 40 yards from the "handicap entrance."
There is a nice ramp (obviously really a shopping cart ramp) at the main entrance, but none near the HC entrance, but if you ramp up onto the sidewalk at the main entrance, you usually must thread your way through the "out-front" display of lawnmowers, potted plants, fertilizer, etc., and frequently there is no outside path you could get a chair through.
But once inside, you can borrow one of their electric carts (with about 60% odds the battery will last just long enought to get you to the middle of the store - but not back).
I really do think maybe they're trying, but unfortunately they're not doing much thinking in the process.