This makes me quite cranky. It makes it hard to ride your bike places, sometimes. I won't ride my bike to my favorite shopping center because there is NO place to lock my bike (aside from the 4x4 foot ginourmous columns that I would have to have a 20 foot lock to get around).

I've requested at my local grocery store that they install a bike rack (I know 2 employees ride their bikes because I've seen them lock them at the shopping cart corral a few times). It would cost them less than a couple hundred bucks and would not only make customers happy (the 2 of us that bike anyway), but their employees, too.
I just lock it to the railing when exiting the store. It's kinda in the way, but if anyone ever says anything, I'll plead my case... yet again.