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Calm Man Successfully Buys TV And Denies Walmart Receipt Checkers
TheConsumerist ^ | March 7, 2011 | Ben Popken

Posted on 03/11/2011 7:51:18 PM PST by Daffynition

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To: Daffynition

I cannot believe what I am hearing here. The next step will be checking your pockets and bags. What if you have a coat on that is sold there? Got a receipt? What I buy with my money is mine! Yes I will shop somewhere else and pay more money if I have too(and I don’t have a lot of money).Are you people going to submit your DNA to shop there also? Or just Xray screening? Oownership is a key right. This reduces that right.


61 posted on 03/11/2011 8:34:30 PM PST by rsobin
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To: Daffynition
Just got back in the USA after four plus years away. We've been to three Walmarts, and each visit cost me more than $250.00, because we are getting re-set-up in the States for a while. One one visit the bill was $380.00!

I haven't seen a receipt checker one time.

62 posted on 03/11/2011 8:34:30 PM PST by John Leland 1789 (Grateful.)
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To: Rembrandt; RushingWater

“Hmmmmmm. And your Mom votes.......democrat? I suspect your Mom is spewing bravo sierra.”

Careful how you speak of someone mother.


63 posted on 03/11/2011 8:34:36 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Daffynition
When the buyer stated he'd carry the TV away the clerk should have taped the receipt on the box. I don't know how the law in VA is worded but it needs to be revised. Sure he paid for the TV but he was yet inside the place of purchase. WalMart is not deliberately violating a law, but merely wanting to prevent shoplifting, which raises prices for all consumers.
I suppose he thinks he should be able to sit down inside a grocery store after going thru check-out and make himself a sandwich.
64 posted on 03/11/2011 8:35:34 PM PST by jla
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To: Daffynition
was able to successfully say no to the receipt checker blocking his way with his body

Most of the receipt checkers are in their 70's. Way to go Rick.

65 posted on 03/11/2011 8:35:53 PM PST by Jean S
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To: Jean S
Most of the receipt checkers are in their 70's. Way to go Rick.

Sure proves that Wal*Mart is serious about preventing shoplifting.

/sarc

66 posted on 03/11/2011 8:38:49 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Mmogamer
For some people the only way to feel important is to act like an a-hole. Tony is a perfect illustration of this kind of turdblossom getting off on making other peoples' lives more difficult.

Typical of most liberals btw.

67 posted on 03/11/2011 8:39:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: al baby

Which is why when my Costco membership expired I didn’t renew it. I don’t like being made to feel like a criminal.

If the checker’s sole job is loss prevention... the company needs better loss prevention, b/c the stuff is largely going out the back door with the employees/hired help.

Some checkers are nice...others on a power trip ...working their way into the TSA.


68 posted on 03/11/2011 8:40:30 PM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

I would agree if it’s the government forcing you to do something. An enterprise that has certain rules of conduct, applies them the same way to all their customers (and its potential customers are aware of the requirement), and does not force you to do business with it, should be able to continue to set those rules of conduct.

I wish government asks for people’s identification to make sure they have the precious right to vote before they are allowed to do so.


69 posted on 03/11/2011 8:42:23 PM PST by winner3000
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To: Thumper1960
Sure proves that Wal*Mart is serious about preventing shoplifting.

You mean a truck actually came in this month to fill the usually almost empty shelves? Gosh there musta been something actually worth stealing on it. Seriously I wish they were as agressive at having fully stocked shelves again the way they used to be as they are with their security.

70 posted on 03/11/2011 8:44:17 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

DBKP...my new tagline of late. ;-D


71 posted on 03/11/2011 8:44:24 PM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: MindBender26
Happened to a lawyer friend in FL. The cashier was rushing off duty and forgot to give him his receipt (as shown on security tape.) Store detained him at door for more than 10 minutes. Settlement was low 5 figures.

Exactly why people have such low opinions of attorneys.

72 posted on 03/11/2011 8:44:29 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: Daffynition
I have never run into a "rude" receipt checker and my experience with them goes back to 1964 when I worked in a department store. Employees bags were checked for receipts as a matter of routine.

Costco, BJ's, Sams Club, Walmart, CompUSA, Best Buy .... I doubt they are all doing it to make their shoppers feel like criminals.

73 posted on 03/11/2011 8:45:27 PM PST by Abby4116
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To: rsobin
This is just more control over you folks.

Bingo! That's what all those posters above you simply don't understand. The law states you don't have to show a reciept so Walmart is playing Nazi with the sheeple. It's not the guy's fault there are shoplifters in the store. It's not the guy's fault Walmart doesn't have a more efficiant means to make sure merchandise was indeed paid for at x,y,z part of the store. It's the store's fault. Send the little door checker to escort electronics out of the store and they'd have a better customer relation. Once, I was stopped at the grocery store because my purse pinged the alarm. I don't know why, but they claimed it did. I was stopped at the door and escorted back to the office in front of everyone like a criminal. I told them to dump my purse out and show me and everyone whatever it was. They wouldn't and said for me to leave. What?!? You make a big deal out of it and then won't even look in my purse?!? I don't think so. I called my LE husband who was on shift so drove over to the store and hollered at them that if I was suspected of shoplifting they should have called the cops. They still refused to look in my purse and couldn't get rid of us quick enough. I think that was the last time they used their new little alarm and they quit having someone hang around the door. Talk about bad customer relations. In the parking lot, I went through my purse and found a ratty old allergy rx box that had a bar code on it so I'm guessing that was the cause of it all.

74 posted on 03/11/2011 8:45:57 PM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Daffynition

So you let a complete stranger have so much power over you He makes you feel like a criminal please


75 posted on 03/11/2011 8:47:11 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: cva66snipe

My point is if Wal*Mart is supposed to be “serious” about loss prevention, shoplifting, theft, etc., they’d do better than to have geriatrics and wheelchair-bound employees as greeters and interrogators.


76 posted on 03/11/2011 8:47:39 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: cva66snipe
You know when that alarm goes off {when I don’t even have any purchases} I’ve thought about grabbing my chest and falling to the floor in a fit yelling “turn it off turn it off” LOL...

I've had the alarm go off as I walked into a store. The door guy looked up at me, I looked at him... I think we both had the same "WTF?" expression on our faces. I walked out, turned around, walked back in, no alarm. Not a word was said by either of us. Just one of those things.

77 posted on 03/11/2011 8:48:11 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: COBOL2Java

ROFLOLMF!!!


78 posted on 03/11/2011 8:49:04 PM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: BibChr

I wonder if he goes by Dick?


79 posted on 03/11/2011 8:49:20 PM PST by BOBWADE
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To: KrisKrinkle
What is pitiful is self-important slimeballs who gum up the daily lives of their fellow ordinary citizens. Conservatives show courtesy and respect to their fellow man. This dickhead went out of his way to cause trouble for an innocent guy trying to do his job. What was proved? Nothing. What principle was at stake? None. Just narcissistic crap from a nitwit troublemaker.

Nothing conservative about making an ass of yourself, unless you think Chris Matthews and Co. are right about us.

80 posted on 03/11/2011 8:50:02 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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