There's a blue fronted Amazon parrot there--"Cookie"--that the manager INSISTS not be touched. Parrots are social creatures that crave companionship and Cookie is by no means aggressive or nippy on any way. She or he approached me for a scratch which I obliged. The owner severely admonished me. He told me that if anyone gets injured it's on him. While I understand liability concerns it's cruel to keep a parrot in a store and to forbid any type of interaction. What kind of pet will this Amazon turn out to be if he doesn't learn to play? Basically no one interacts with this bird as it's forbidden and that's too bad for him.
This pet store encompasses the exact reasoning for ending the captive parrot trade.