Your right to hold my child? I think not.

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So a few weeks ago I was out with my daughter doing some grocery shopping, when I ran into a former coworker of mine that I've never liked. She's very entitled and says really rude things and then gets upset if you get upset at what she said. So she saw us, walked right over and pinched my daughters cheeks hard enough to make her whine. I removed her hands and told her not to touch her, and she told me that it was fine, and that my daughter just needed to get use to it. I gave her the stink eye, told her no she didn't, and continued my shopping. All the while she trailed after me. I kept ignoring her, until she tried to reach for the baby again and I blocked her hands. This time I told her that she must have misunderstood me before, it wasn't ok for her to grab at my daughter. She actually told me that it was her right to hold my daughter. I almost laughed out loud. She began to carry on, almost yelling about how it was her right to hold or touch the baby, and how I was just supposed to let her. Finally one of the grocery managers told her that she was either going to need to settle down or leave. I beat a hasty retreat while she was going on about how he couldn't talk to her that way. I'd like to think I handled it well all things considered. However I'm curious as to what you would do in that situation?