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Ok. Thanks for pointing that out.

Here it's unheard of.

We immediately associate "No puedes tomar fotos" with a green, blue or black uniform. That prohibition here usually comes from government offices/officials preventing people from documenting protests or incidents that may provide evidence of any wrongdoing.

It’s weird though. Most of the signs I see (coincidentally, most often in grocery stores) have been there for a long time. They’re accompanied by little icons of a 35mm camera and/or one of the now old-fashioned full-size video cameras. I think they might have originally been designed to thwart competitors. No taking pics of our fancy layout of product displays!

Yes. That makes sense. Now it makes little sense, I believe. Any competitor can Google any display imaginable of any product to become the next whatever it is they can become