She wouldn't touch my bacon.

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47. Actually, service was indeed denied.

The cashier wouldn't ring-up all the OP's groceries, and the OP was forced to do so herself (himself?).

The fact that the cashier was apologetic and the OP consented without objection does not change the fundamental situation. The cashier even admitted that under normal circumstances, another employee would process a transaction involving pork products, but no one else was available. If the OP did not want to process her own groceries, she would still be in the right, and the matter far more complicated and potentially uncivil.

You are certainly entitled to your own opinions concerning the need for and nature of accommodations for religion or anything else, whether concerning commercial transactions, housing, employment, public accommodation, etc., but many of the standards you've offered as fact in this thread are simply not reflected in the law in most jurisdictions. As an attorney with a practice that includes many of these matters, I would note that accommodation and discrimination issues represent very large, complex, specialized and evolving areas of law involving various legal disciplines.