I don't mean to be personally insulting, but hopefully this response will teach you not to ask questions like that!!! Look what it did for you. It brought to the front of their attention that someone wants to do something they disagree with. Let's hope they don't send out some sort of memo giving local managers the ability to cite corporate policy as a reason to disallow OC (or CC for that matter). Super job! We sure didn't need this outcome.
OCing and CC is not illegal, immoral, or wrong, so why must gun owners INSIST on having someone else tell them it's ok. Yes, it's private property, and yes they can ask you to leave, but why do people INSIST on asking? Is it not better to ask forgiveness than permission? Or is that "disrespectful". (Don't get me started on how disarming citizens is disrespectful).
DO NOT ASK PERMISSION, you aren't doing anything wrong. Dear God I hope this doesn't backfire. Better still, I hope people never send any more emails like this. Don't send an email and ask for permission to excercise a right which can be, legally, restricted on private property. If they do in fact dislike carry, allow them to deal with it at the local level. You've already got plenty of people here sharing their local experiences where OC (and CC) are completely unnoticed.
Did not take any insult from it...regardless of their answer, I will continue to carry and had no intentions otherwise. No where did I ask permission, I simply posed a question to ask if this was a Corporate policy or not.
I do appreciate the fact that you added what you did as some people may have construed it differently from it's original intention and meaning. I agree that it is indeed easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission in some cases.