Was driving with my Aunt awhile back and thought I could hold it the 10 minutes to our new destination when we saw the first was closed early. Anyways, the last 5 minutes of our journey I was literally about to burst. This happens once in great while, side effect of getting older I suppose. So we get to strip mall, go into the store, lo and behold they “don’t have public facilities.” And neither did the shop next to them or the one across the way. I ended up having to go behind the building behind a partition that was thankfully there blocking at least one road and covered myself the best I could, but I had to go. See, I always thought it was a law that a place of business that sells goods and is open to the public had to provide facilities. At least, it used to be.
As I understand it, restaurants have to offer them (and not to the general public); I’m not aware of any others that are required by law (though gas stations may be included as well).