Posted on 06/27/2010 1:57:46 PM PDT by Daffynition
What depresses me most about all the Door Ladies that are starting to show up all over the place is that to me it shows that SHOPLIFTING has skyrocketed.....
I agree. I hate those stores. I hate getting in line behind someone with a pallet of stuff. I just avoid the places.
Crowds, lines, delays. It’s why I do all my shopping the moment the doors open. I am mostly alone in the store except for the employees, get my stuff and am oughta there in 5 or 10 minutes.
Who cares what you see as relevant?
“ANYONE laying a hand on me loses it. A Best Buy employee found that out the hard way.”
Good. I’d like to hear that story.
I haven’t joined Costco or Sam’s, but this is why I hate going in stores like Wal-Mart. It’s the store equivalent of a huge, centralized bureaucracy. I can never just dash in and get out in reasonable time. They’ll have 20 cash registers but only two or three open. I’m always very cordial to clerks. I know they don’t make the rules. Still, I always feel like cattle in a chute. There’s no excuse for chasing and manhandling someone who has shown a receipt. What if that lady had just received an emergency phone call and had to leave? What if she felt sick and just had to get out of there? They should all pattern after our local Publix stores—they treat you royally.
It is not a law that you must show your receipt at the door.
I won’t get in a line (again) to get out of the store.
If no one is stopped ahead of me, I will show my receipt, but I won’t let go of it and I won’t stop my progress towards my car.Otherwise, I walk past the line.
The stores doing this are saying they suspect you may be a thief.
It’s probably in the membership agreement somewhere...regardless, the employee should never touch a customer and should have contacted mgmt/security. Also, I would cancel this particular princess’ membership...sounds like a troublemaker...magritte
I don’t shop at either place but are you saying that after you’ve paid, they have to go thru all your stuff and check that you have paid for it? Not just the receipt check?
That’s crazy!
You don’t have to wait in line to leave the store.
She should have waited in line like a civilized person.
But unless she was suspected of a crime, neither a door jockey or a store dick can hold her. Since she wasn’t suspected of shoplifting, they couldn’t touch her (not waiting in line isn’t a crime AFTER merchandise is paid for).
In many places what the door jockey did would get her arrested for battery.
Either my keys or my cell phone always sets off embarrassingly loud alarms in our local mall stores. I feel like people glare at me like I’m a criminal. I go to the nearest clerk and explain myself. Sure wastes a lot of time.
Slightly off topic. Has anyone else noticed that the number of food sample ladies at Costco has declined?
I have never been in a Costco but I know Sam’s does not bag any items they go back into the cart just like when you take them out at the register. They have to at least make an effort at the exit door to check you went throught the check out process and paid.
So, you didn’t have time to wait on line like everybody else, but you had time to wait five minutes, look up the Costco number, call them, chew out the manager and point out the offending employee?
I think she was wrong to grab you and your purse, but I don’t have much sympathy for the rest of he anecdote. Sorry.
Next time wait in line like everyone else.
Agreed.
WHY?
Trap or tramp?
Door ladies are just another symptom of the bureaucratic, zero-tolerance, unthinking mindset of so-called managers that because one customer may steal all are guilty or at least suspicious.
What these retailers with their silly little locking hook displays and everything of value behind glass don’t realize (or won’t admit) is that the vast majority of their ‘shrink’ is due to employee theft (including abuse of discounts) and waste.
Being treated like a criminal when I am returning a DEFECTIVE PRODUCT is a particular annoyance. Those women are obsessed with their little pink stickers. Shame the store wasn’t so attentive when they put the defective item out for sale without any QA.
Not even close to assault.”
No, more like attempted purse snatching.
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