Posted on 12/22/2012 5:17:32 PM PST by traumer
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS (KMOX) - An East St. Louis couple is charged with beating an elderly employee at a Metro East Best Buy.
It’s considered normal procedure by most to be asked for your receipt while leaving a busy store like Best Buy with expensive items. But Latoya Greenwood, 38, didn’t take kindly to the request.
Police say she began shouting obscenities at the 61-year-old Fairview Heights Best Buy employee at the exit door. Her husband got into the act and smacked the man across the face, sending him down to the ground while his wife didn’t flinch and kept the curse words flying.
The husband, 39-year-old Hickey Thompson, is charged with felony aggravated battery and is held on $20,000 bond. Greenwood is charged with disorderly conduct.
As for the 61-year-old victim, he was treated at the store and declined to go to the hospital.
Down here it’s corrupt checkout clerks colluding to ring up a sale for far less than the value of the purchase. They’re checking to see if the receipt is reflective of the merchandise in the bag or bags. It’s a particular problem with seasonal temp hires around Christmas.
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Old age and treachery....
....will whip youth, skill and cunning every time.
Just say'n...
Another scam is the cashier and customer working together to intentionally underring an item. 50” TV? Scan the UPC of a smaller TV (or even something else entirely). Or else just “miss” scanning a few of the more expensive items and shove them into the bag. The exit check is as much to make sure the employees aren’t helping in theft as it is for customers just stealing on their own.
All three of you are correct it is private property...
However, you are incorrect on the law.....also, on basic liberty...
Once you purchase the merchandise at the register it is your personal property, no longer the stores.
If you wanted to break it into pieces at the register after you paid for it and place it in the trash it is your right.
The store (regardless of it’s internal policy) has no right to inspect any personal property without cause. Cause is defined by direct observation of theft. Period....
They have no right to look into your bag any more then they have to ask you to open your wallet or take off your watch or drop your drawers....That right was given up by them when you legally purchased the merchandise.
They have no right to detain without cause, and they better be right.....
You know I’m right because the only defense you mustered is calling me names....
I don’t berate the employees, I joke with them but they also understand I won’t bend. Every time, the say no problem and have a nice day.
They get it, they no their limitations and the law. They also know your rights and theirs....
Isn’t it about time you learned yours?
Sam's might have different rules because you have to pay a membership and agree to their terms before you can buy anything there.
Yep. Employees are a major source of theft in a lot of stores.
I don’t have a problem letting people see my receipt and look through my merchandise. It’s a way to keep down shoplifting and keeps prices in check. It isn't the store's fault. It's our society that's to blame.
This 63 year-old, 3rd degree, black belt,martial arts instructor agrees with you
Just like during Watts riot, when the NG started ventilating the rioters, the rioting stopped.
You will not get out the door without a receipt at SAMs Club.
Doesn’t bother me.
An employee checked our cart against our receipt as my husband and I left Sam’s Club this evening. It is their standard procedure. It also doesn’t offend me. I know too many bad apples spoil it for the rest of us.
I'm a member of Sam's, and they routinely inspect my receipt and merchandise when I leave... I agreed to that in contract... I'll hold up my end of the bargain....
But a general merchandise store...not going to happen....
If it was a “government” store, everyone on this forum would be screaming.....
Because it's a private entity, everyone is willing to surrender their dignity and rights...
I didn't sign a contract with Best Buy, nor Walmart or most other retailers....
They open an enterprise to sell goods to the public, i enter that establishment and purchase the goods in good faith. My obligation to them ends there.
I quietly and respectfully decline their search....they have no legal standing or right.....
They don't seem to have a problem with it, they let me back. I don't have a problem telling them no....it works....
If the rest of the freepers on this forum are willing to surrender their rights this easily to a store clerk at the door, we are truly doomed as a free society...
See my post #48
Nobody is forcing you to partake of their service. If you're unhappy, you go to a place that accomodates your view. If nobody does, you start a business to compete with them. It's the American way.
Your theory is not supported by law in any number of states. You want to try selling a car without a title? Same thing. What right does anyone have to to require proof of ownership? It’s *your* property after all, just because you said so.
61 is elderly?
LOL! I guess to someone under 30, we are elderly, but at 62 I still work 50 hours a week, climb mountains and can make a tin can dance from 50 paces with my .45.
LMAO. ‘Super sonic elderly’?
I wasn’t complaining, just pointing out it was not legally required to comply....
The store doesn’t seem to have a problem with it...they welcome me back and I’m a Best Buy frequent buyer....
I don’t have a problem with it, I politely refuse their unwarrented search, they comply....
It appears that you are the one with the problem.....
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