I can’t say exactly why, other than maybe causing drama or simply because nobody wanted to enable her addiction, but where I used to live there was a well known alcoholic homeless lady that was banned from every single store in town that sold alcohol. I always felt bad for her, being the very epitome of the stereotype of homelessness. Where you couldn’t just give her money, because she would just drown herself in booze. Made running into her awkward because she was, at least to me, nice as hell but fuck if I knew how to actually help.