Calm Man Successfully Buys TV And Denies Walmart Receipt Checkers

TheConsumerist ^ | March 7, 2011 | Ben Popken

[Shimmer1]

I don’t show my receipt either, if I buy something from near the front of the store, but if I’m wandering through the store, I don’t expect to get out without showing a receipt. Walmart doesn’t know if I stole it or not.

[Kirkwood]

I remember when someone in the store would carry your purchase out to the car.

[joesjane]

yippy kai yay mother f...oh never mind

[Newtoidaho]

If Walmart sells items at a rear register, they need to have a better clue about this issue. Insisting on seeing a receipt as I leave the store pisses me the hell off. Just like TSA screening. Considered guilty without any probable cause.
I’m sorry that Walmart caters to a lot of losers who shoplift them blind, but they need better in-store monitoring if that is the case.

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I was at a store once and was going to buy a CD and the cashier asked for my zip code. I don't know why but I told her I didn't want to give it and she said that she had to have it before she could sell the CD. So I said, 'Fine,' and walked out.

This guy's example is extreme but then again maybe we're all a little too compliant for our own good.

[mnehring]

The way I see it, he is on their private property and it is common courtesy and ethics to respect the rules they have regarding their property and how transactions are conducted within it, such as confirming you aren’t leaving their property with stolen merchandise. He may have found one law to defend his belief, but just because something is lawful doesn’t make it ethical or respectful.

I may have a legal right to free speech, but I’m sure he wouldn’t appreciate my coming into his private property such as his house, and cursing him out in front of his children.

[rsobin]

Yeah he’s a jerk, but sometimes this is what it takes. Why should he be “inspected” because young minorities are responsible for 90 percent of the thievery happening there? Answer: he shouldn’t. I will not submit to to a sheeple check at Walmart either and they had better not touch me . I will have that person arrested on the spot. This is just more control over you folks.

[Rembrandt]

Sam’s and Walmart keep prices low by keeping things simple. A**holes like this make things more difficult thus making prices go up. Go buy your farqing 37” TV for your girlfriend at Target next time!

[CarmichaelPatriot]

You can show your receipt. Or, through higher prices, you can subsidize all the shoplifting that will occur when Walmart is not allowed to check receipts.

You didn't read the article, did you? THEY'RE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO REQUIRE YOU TO SHOW A RECEIPT AFTER YOU'VE PAID FOR AN ITEM. IT'S STATE LAW! We even have that law here in Kalifornia. The moment you pay for the item, the store loses all interest in that item and cannot make you prove ownership. They can (try) to detain you if they saw that you picked up the item and started walking out the door with it, and try to hold you for the police, but without proof of a crime THEY CANNOT DETAIN YOU! I do this all the time, except at club stores (Sam's, Costco) since that's part of your membership agreement.

[Cementjungle]

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.

Why don't you try operating a retail store in a bad section of town. Perhaps, after a while, it might just sink in as to why they need to do this.

[neutrino]

Anything that annoys WalMart can’t be all bad.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

This is how we lose our rights and freedoms. Not all at once, but a little bit at a time.

Death by 1,000,000 paper cuts.

[RushingWater]

My mom says at her Wal-Mart in Mississippi the receipt checker will only ask people who are not of her race.

[mnehring]

I will not submit to to a sheeple check at Walmart either..

Then choose to shop somewhere else. By all indications, he was completely aware of how they conducted transactions before he stepped foot into that store. He could easily use the market system to voice his displeasure and shop elsewhere but instead, he disrespected their private property and the rules they established for that property and the transactions that take place in it.

[mnehring]

What about the freedom of private property and your setting the standards of what takes place on your property?

[BibChr]

Wow. Rick is really a jerk.

[Salamander]

I have only had to do this with either things that were too big to fit into a puny WalMart bag *or* if the checker neglected to deactivate the RFID chip in a _box of Excedrin_ which then set off that incredibly embarrassing alarm.
[seriously]

I once asked them why they started doing this and found out that people were shoplifting _trampolines, garden furniture, yard fountains_ and *other* huge stuff that also wouldn’t “fit in a bag”.

Since I resent paying higher prices due to shoplifters, I don’t get myself all torqued up over it.

I’m a bit peeved by Sams Club asking for receipts, though.
They don’t provide *any* bags and the old bastid who works the out door is a really unpleasant and belligerent snot who *thinks* he’s working for the FBI or something.

He digs through _everything_ in your cart, just to be sure you didn’t somehow walk out with a 12 pack of Sharpies or something.

It would be ironic if, while he was tying up the checkers with his head games, a bunch of kids waltzed out with $500 worth of video games, wouldn’t it?

[joesjane]

yippy kai yay mother f...oh never mind

[Rembrandt]

“I will not submit to to a sheeple check at Walmart..”

Fine. Your choice. Enjoy shopping at Target and paying Target’s price.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Slowly freedom slips away.