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.”
Oh for God’s sake. I shop at Costco and don’t mind them checking my receipt at all - especially because that way I don’t have the cost of theft built into the price of everything I buy.
I have never participated in that exercise at any store, ever, I never did the Radio Shack form even as a kid.
Costco is the worse.
Around here Costco is the only place that routinely checks receipts. Walmart has people by the exits, but I never see them actually check anything. No big deal to me whether they do or not, since I’m not stealing stuff.
Some lawyers seem to exist just to “Burn it all down, Man!”
They are best ignored.
I’d rather have them not check and when thefts are too much to bare, they shut the store down and these complainers need to travel 50 miles to do their shopping.
Once, when I bought a pair of shoes from Walmart, the security guard wanted to check my receipt. I continued walking without responding and went to my car. On the way, he grabbed the receipt from me, because I had it hanging from the box. He went back to the store and I went to my car.
When I put the shoes in the car, I went back into the store and demanded my receipt from the guard. He had to root through the garbage to find it.
Well if other people are stealing stuff - you’re paying for it.
I went through this at Best Buy with the register literally within arms length of the hulking clerk. I never went back I was so mad.
They may not have a right to check, but they do have a right to ban you from the premises if you don’t allow them to check. You are trading a willingness to abide by their conditions in exchange for access to the business.
You are not being forced to shop there. Go shop at Ikeas stupid leftists.
This clown does not understand the customer willingly walks onto private property when he chooses to shop in that store. If he doesn’t want to consent to a receipt check, don’t shop there. IMO, the management has every right to require this inspection.
I always just tell them, when they ask to see my receipt, “No thanks, I’m good.” Only one young man, in all these years, has bothered to even respond and he said, “Sir, I need to check your receipt,” and I said, “No you don’t,” and kept walking. It amazes me that people will wait in line when it’s busy…I just go around them all.
Ditto!!!
So, under this notion,, if you have 10 bags worth of stuff. As long as you pay for one item in one bags, it’s all yours?
If this is true. And people do not allow them to check receipts at the door. I would expect that the stores will move to allow that person to leave and issue a trespass. Or, more stores will just shut due to theft.
Interesting indeed.
Here is a crazy idea. Stop shopping at walmart.
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