He might be a jerk, but I get pretty pissed when I go to a Wal-mart in a pretty bad section of town and you have to show your receipt before walking out the door with anything. When the store first opened, I frequented it alot, but have since moved. The receipt checkers were extremely rude to caucasions exiting the store. I solved that problem, I don’t go there anymore.
Why don't you try operating a retail store in a bad section of town. Perhaps, after a while, it might just sink in as to why they need to do this.
“He might be a jerk, but I get pretty pissed when I go to a Wal-mart in a pretty bad section of town and you have to show your receipt before walking out the door with anything.”
They may do this everywhere. I don’t like it - and I usually check out at the “express line” in plain sight of the person at the door. It’s another example of “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about”. It’s insulting.
I don't often shop @ Wal-Mart; but I do shop @ Sam's. The receipt checkers just put the Sharpie® mark on my receipt without looking at it. I think @ my Sam's store, they actually check minorities more thoroughly. I was told once by a former employee that @ Sam's they are mainly concerned about theft by friends of employees in which the employee is complicit in the theft.