That's not what they mean. They're saying, inside of a parking lot, cars can get into and out of the parking spaces solely by driving in the aisles and outer vehicle paths. They don't need to drive directly in front of the storefronts at all. People on foot have to walk directly in front of the storefront because they need to go inside. Making the innermost path in parking lots a pedestrian only path and restricting motor vehicles to the outer parts of a parking lot would be a much easier win than legalizing jaywalking and trying to get rid of crosswalks to make actual streets pedestrian centric like they were a hundred years ago.
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The crazy thing is, and forgive me if you've heard this before, this insane situation is the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign:
"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM
"Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street", Peter D. Norton https://www.jstor.org/stable/40061474
That's not what they mean. They're saying, inside of a parking lot, cars can get into and out of the parking spaces solely by driving in the aisles and outer vehicle paths. They don't need to drive directly in front of the storefronts at all. People on foot have to walk directly in front of the storefront because they need to go inside. Making the innermost path in parking lots a pedestrian only path and restricting motor vehicles to the outer parts of a parking lot would be a much easier win than legalizing jaywalking and trying to get rid of crosswalks to make actual streets pedestrian centric like they were a hundred years ago.