Since I do not shoplift, any store floorwalker that detains me for more than thirty seconds is going to be sued for illegal detention. Kidnapping if you will.
Once he/she/it forces you to go somewhere against your will, he damn well better have the goods on you or he is committing a crime. If he is armed, that will add more weight to you case.
If I am not mistaken, in most states, you have to take an item outside the store in order to commit the crime of shoplifting.
I am the guy that did a u turn when asked by some kind of store security at Walmartto see my receipt . I marched over to Customer Service and returned damn near $200.00 in groceries.
Concealing an item is good enough in Washington state.
DK
Good for you for returning the groceries...I won’t shop in a store that treats reg customers as thieves.
I don’t stop. A local Walmart put an older female employee at the door to check receipts and I just refused to stop. She had a line of people and I just went around them. She said something to me and I just said no thanks.
When I lived in middle GA, the Perry Walmart had a period where they might ask to see your receipt when you left the store. I’d just say “no” and sail right on. In some instances I’d just come from the nearest register and then out, so they’d seen me the whole time. I admit I had to train them in the beginning. They argued with me. Wrong move!! haha. But soon I guess they got the word, because they stopped asking me.
Wal-Mart (and other places) asks random people for the receipt, this is why people are stationed at the door.