Posted on 06/27/2010 1:57:46 PM PDT by Daffynition
They used to check the receipts at the Wal-Mart I shop at but they have stopped it because they have the built in sensors in the door and most items have the code embedded in them somewhere and if they don’t neutralize it at the check out counter the alarm goes off. Sometimes it goes off any way and then you need your receipt checked.
The issue is not whether a store has a receipt checking policy but whether you have already contractually agreed to it. These are membership clubs and in your membership agreement that you sign you pre-agreeto allow them to check the receipt....
Regardless, the agreement doesn’t give them the right to assault or detain her. The stores recourse is to cancel their membership and refuse them further admittance.
Now, stores like Best Buy and Fry’s that want to check your receipt and look in your bag are different. They have no right....I routinely refuse to let them inspect my bag or see my receipt....Once I pay for the mechandise at the register it is mine just like any other personal possession.
LOL, my kids won’t shop with me when I go to those stores....
It deserves to....I’ve never had a problem with them.
She didn’t understand you were special.
I don’t think I have to stand in line with the small people either.
These peons should be reprimanded and fired.
(sarcasm)
>>capitlaized<<
Whoa. Join the imperfect typo-prone masses. There’s plenty of room in our club. ;)
Yep. On a good day.
I think you are right about shoplifting skyrocketing. I have noticed that the Costco stores I frequent have almost no selection of music CD’s anymore and what they do have is old music. I asked an employee about this and she said that they discontinued carrying most of their music as the shoplifting is so bad that they can’t make a profit. She also pointed out that BluRay is only available once you purchase it and take your receipt to the pick-up window.
What, in the bushes. The johns are in the store.
What law did she break that the police would get involved over? She disregarded store policy. That isn’t even a civil matter, let alone criminal.
The only person who broke the law works for the store. The woman who didn’t want to wait in line was a boor, in relation to the poor shmucks waiting in line. But once she paid for her purchase it became her property.
Once I have paid for my purchases I will not wait in line to get out of the store.
She lost her job and all her wealth? That would certainly render me indignant.
I used to go to Sam’s for lunch. Now a light snack is all that is possible.
I don’t think I have to stand in line with the small people either.”
The truth is, you don’t.
You do it because you think you have to.
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Illiterates SHOULD be harassed.
If people complained to COSTCO as they should then the policy would likely end. More and more people have become willing subjects to be treated as assumed criminals by both government and private businesses until proved innocent. In the mean time a shop lifter is going to walk out of the store with several hundred dollars on their person or use an emergency exit to carry more obvious merchandise out and run like mad to a waiting vehicle. How do they get past the front door? If you don't have a purchased item then no line right?
But you need a membership to shop at Costco. One of the duties of membership is following the rules of the store.
If you dont like it, shop at Wal Mart instead. Its almost as cheap.
In Florida that would be “false imprisonment” and good for a profitable court case.
Parcopresis - fear of defecating in public places;
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