Posted on 03/11/2011 7:51:18 PM PST by Daffynition
Why can’t the first clerk do that? Don’t they do that with oversize items at the Home Despot?
That sure would be horrible...
Not.
HEY!
It worked for Obama.
They are not Constitutional rights. Get a grip. Private business and property are not covered in the Constitution when it comes to checking receipts.
Get a grip!
I guess you completely missed my point. I am not surprised.
Well shucks I sure feel bad about it.
“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.
Whatever.
I usually go in and out the garden entrance. :)
You are correct.
I happened to walk into a local liquor store where the Muslim behind the counter was bitching out some friend of his accusing the said friend of being racist b/c she was concerned about Muslim extremism.
Haven’t walked back in the door since (it’s been a year now). Even though they are cheaper.
Shoppers can and will modify their behavior not only on price.
Me too, except the checker is usually asleep ;=)
I went to the local walmart the other night with my very tall 12 year old daughter in tow to pick up a few things, to include some adult beverages. I went through the self checkout lanes and I knew since I was in the self checkout lanes, I was going to have to show my ID to the register monitor. So, I show her my ID so she can override the system and approve my purchase of beer.
Then she starts asking me if I have ID for my daughter to prove that she is my daughter!!!! I said excuse me, ummm..no I don’t have ID proving she’s my daughter and I said what’s it matter I’m buying the beer for myself. She asked me again. I told her no. She backed down and told me that since my daughter looked like me, she was going to approve it. But she used the excuse that they’re cracking down because of problems. They’re not law enforcement, they’re cashiers!! So is every adult who goes in with their children going to be asked for proof of identity proving that they are in fact their children when they buy alcohol? Ridiculous...won’t go there anymore!!!
The world's full of rude people. The trick to a more stress-free life is to not make an issue of it every time you encounter one.
The local Wal-mart is in a nice area. And has one of the lowest inventory theft rates in the area. They have intensive monitoring with several dedicated security people on the floor at any given time and lots of security cameras.
They still catch several shop lifters a day. I understand they usually prosecute at least one a day, and others they ban from all Wal-mart stores forever, and threaten them with trespassing charges if they return.
Their security cameras can track people a couple of blocks from the store property. And the local police tend to keep at least one vehicle in the area (They pay a lot of sales taxes.)
It's a reasonable policy given the amount of theft. I doubt that state law quoted by Rick really exists, but it's a stupid law if it does.
I have had a fantasy of doing this for some time now. this guy is a hero. I hate WalMart and their stupid ‘receipt checkers’ that assume everyone is stealing unless they prove otherwise. NOT a good way to treat customers- hence I am not their customer anymore.I can go to Target or almost anywhere else and not be accused and accosted like a common thief after just having spent my hard-earned money at their business.
Ihre papiere, bitte.
The trick to life also is to make a fuss when the Jackbooted thugs insist on putting their private business jackboots on your neck.
Bite me too, jackass.
OK, I have to share just how much I LOVE Free Republic! This story epitomizes my affinity for this site. There are so many gems in this story that it’s hard for me to break down, but here goes:
The fact that Rick is indeed a “prick” goes with out saying. It is almost a side note in this little foray into “I’m the King of Assholes in my town” play for the everyman. Let’s face it, pricks are a dime a dozen these days. No, what stands out is that at some level; somewhere just beneath the comb over and the Walmart purchased “redneck fishing” t-shirt, Rick is semi-aware of his “prickness”. He hints at this at the end of his narrative when he thinks maybe he should buy Tony and “M” a gift card. However, much like like Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, we know that Rick’s feigned contrition is not really meant to be. For in is own mental epic, a sort of Bizarro Matrix, these innocent victims (forced to live in the real world) are unaware of the radiant prick-liness that Rick has just shone upon them. (”Pitiful hourly employees, do you not realize I have the ability to render the very fabric of time and space and local receipt-showing ordinances?!”) Moreover, our “NEO-Prick” almost feels sadness for these mortals that they will never really be able to appreciate the nature of the completely meaningless, prick-laden experience they have had to suffer in addition to their already trodden Walmart employment experience (As a side note, I am firmly convinced that anyone who works at Walmart will spend zero time in Purgatory; “that ticket’s been duly punched . . .”) No, our would be, albeit tragic, Greek-like prick hero realizes that the only way to maybe magnify the experience, to illuminate non-prickdom, is to jot down his prickness for posterity’s sake. And, as is the nature of the human opera we call life, we are at times degraded (Not news to Tony . .) and other times elevated by others. For even though Rick took finger to keyboard to etch his Royal Prick saga upon the winds of the ethernet, it could have too easily have been lost. However, like a Robin to a truly magnificent asswipe of a Batman; Daffynition has managed to keep this “Ode upon a Grecian Prick’s Urn” alive just a byte longer.
I salute you both for your shameless, blatant “Street Prick-Theater and libretto”. We may never see the likes of ye again . . .
And this is why I LOVE the Free Republic site.
Why?
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