To me, this makes no sense. Endeavours like this make a shopping district far more attractive for people to visit and they’ll likely spend money in other businesses. So it benefits everyone.

But I find it difficult to believe a shopper will skip visiting a place because they can’t get a park right outside instead of walking around a side street corner.

(And somehow they manage to tell the shop that they didn’t visit? Either shops are lying or the customer visited eventually, so what’s the issue?)