Posted on 10/20/2023 7:25:26 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
We’ve all been there! We’re leaving a grocery store and a staff member asks us to stop, they want to see our receipt.
And for most folk, this experience is embarrassing because it straight up makes you feel they believe you’re a shoplifter.
In one TikTok, a guy called David explains how much this experience angers him and a lawyer @Texaschancla told people you don’t actually have to show your receipt if those are your goods!
This guy says: “It really ****** me off that people at Walmart check your **** when you’re leaving. Like excuse me Walmart, last time I checked, I wasn’t trained on how to use your self checkout system. So, if I miss scan an item, or I miss something and I don’t do something properly, that’s not my ******* problem. That’s yours.”
Ouch. This guy REALLY doesn’t like being stopped by a staff member, right…
However, it turns out all shoppers might just have the legal upper hand right here, according to lawyer and fellow TikToker @Texaschancla.
He said: “David has an excellent point here. As soon as you have paid for those items, they are now your items. So everything in that little shopping bag that you’re walking out with belongs to you.
He continued: “And now it’s up to you whether you want to give the Walmart employee permission to look through your bag, or to touch your things. You have no obligation to even stop when they asked you to. They are not law enforcement. There is no law. You are a private citizen going about your business. If they have reason to think that you shoplifted. Then bring it on.”
Well said.
Checking that people exiting the store actually paid keeps prices lower and allows stores to survive. Those who are not stealing need have no concern whatsoever about a ten second standard check. The lawyer complaining is a childish ass.
Nobody is forcing you to go to Costco. If you don’t like it, leave.
What do you think shrinkage is at Costco? Pretty low. Why do you think prices are so low? Because (among other things) they minimize shrinkage.
Quite whining.
I don’t care if they have a legal right. I have nothing to hide: I paid for my package of toilet paper and box of ramen, and I don’t care if the employees look over my receipt.
Well aren’t you proud of yourself. You sound like a bit of a douche to me.
“There is no law.” (Old news.)
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/10/14/video-fight-missouri-walmart-goes-viral/
In 2021
https://nypost.com/video/walmart-fight-breaks-out-in-this-body-slamming-phone-stomping-brawl/
I’m just telling you what the law says, to my understanding. They cannot make you show your receipt, unless they witnessed you lifting products. They need a cause in order to accuse you of theft.
However, as I said, if you refuse to show your receipt they can issue you trespass ban that can come with charges if you try to enter the store during the length of the ban.
I think they’re just making sure you actually went through the checkout and you aren’t just walking out with a bag of stuff. I’m okay with that.
If they look at the receipt to make sure you scanned everything that’s just dumb. Unless they plan to check off every item in your bag.
Our Walmarts doesn’t check receipts. They don’t even have cashiers.
With you on that.
I don’t like being told what to do, sometimes.
I’ve had them ask for the receipt for bigger items that won’t fit in a bag. Like catfood or something. Easy to forget it on the bottom rack
I’m not going to argue with grandpa. I’m not trying to get away with something
But understand why they do it
Maybe they should just bring back cashiers and save us all the second looks and scrutiny
Exactly. It takes a whopping two seconds, big deal!
I live a hundred miles north of Seattle. Crime is out of control. I appreciate stores trying to keep theft down as much as possible.
I’m the same way. When I get done and start to head out, I always got my receipt and in my hand. If they want to check, that’s fine with me, and sometimes I’ll even ask them if they want to check it.
This has never, EVER happened to me in any store I’ve ever shopped at. I must have an honest face. ;)
They’re only looking at the receipt for unbagged large items. If you’re not stealing, why would you care if they checked your receipt? Thieves just wanna steal.
One private citizen does not negate the rights of a private owner as to how to conduct their business - it is their store, their merchandise and their premises, you cannot claim your “rights” prevent them from asking to see your receipt, as long as you are on their property, which in some cases may extend to the parking lot.
It is a case of two sets of “private” rights, and the caveat is when one “private citizen” is on the property of and buying goods from the other “private enterprise” - same difference, as companies have some of the same “private” rights as citizens.
Of course under basic contract law — you don’t have to do anything after you pay for your goods. They are yours. Period.
But as mentioned above, they can ban you from the store so you can not come back.
Re: Costco could cancel your membership if you don’t show the receipt. But the goods you paid for are yours forever, receipt-check or not.
I’m in Redmond - see poss about crime on Nextdoor everyday. Shocking!
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