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.
I don’t subject myself to a “unwarranted search” at BB.
I don’t/won’t shop there. Problem on my end solved.
Happy to amuse you Big Shot.
At least you’re not out somewhere embarrassing your wife.
“61 is not elderly.”
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You’re not kidding. I’m old enough to be his mother.
I once called The Boston Globe for over-using the term elderly,such as in this case,and asked them why they never referred to Ted Kennedy as our elderly Senator. They hemmed and hawed,as usual.(Ted was about 75 at the time).
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So using the logic stated, when you are in any private establishment, you surrender your right to a warrantless search at any time.....for any reason the store management or employees decide......
Can they peek at you in the bathroom? it’s their store, their bathroom...if you don’t like it you don’t have to use it....Just following the logic...
Read my post #48 regarding Sam’s Club which is a membership store that you sign a legal contract with before shopping there....totally different than a general retail store...
Best Buy continues to solicit my business and I continue to shop there, just politely refuse there search at the door....
BTW, just because they search everyone doen’t make it right....
“Best Buy store policy requires a loss prevention officer check for receipts near the exit if customers do not pay for merchandise at the front of the store.”
That is not true.
At both of the Best Buys I sometimes go to, the loss prevention officer could spit and hit the check out stand where I am being checked out at - and they still ask to see your receipt.
Needless to say, my shopping at Best Buy is for sale items, and only if they are at a really good price.
However, at this point I just find your responses a little disappointing, but mostly pathetic....
Keep trying though, I'm sure you can form a cognitive thought and commit it to a post....
you are so wrong that it is pathetic. There is nothing to keep me from going through a checkout lane at Wal-mart and turning around to go back through the store and helping myself to additional items to put in my bag.....or maybe snatching a bag or two off of an unused checkout counter and filling it up with whatever....they could control some of this by allowing you to enter ONLY through an enter door and preventing you from leaving(I’ve seen turnstiles) other than through a checkout lane and directly outside (no way to re-enter the selling area other than through the enter door....that would work.
And then you get your butt thrown in jail
How’s that Einstein? Ever hear of Concealed Carry?
Make up your mind, are you addressing loss prevention or surrender of your liberties?
I agree, nothing (but your good character) is preventing you from concealing a variety of stolen merchandise on your body....In bags, your pockets etc. and in places I don’t even want to know.
Unless you are observed doing it by a store employee, loss prevention personnel, or law enforcement, the store has no right to detain you, search your person or possessions or otherwise prevent you from leaving the store.
The store’s recourse is that they can refuse you re-entry with criminal trespass.
Before you accuse someone of being pathetically wrong, it may serve you to have a basic understanding of the law and civil liberties.
You may think it’s Grinch-y of them, but I work in a retail store, and you wouldn’t believe the stuff I see on a nearly daily basis, especially at this time of year. Dishonest people try every trick in the book, and even have plenty of new ones. You can thank the thieves for their part in the continuing rising prices, because stores don’t catch everybody. I wish you would consider cutting a break to any store that wants to check your receipt.
No, that was about as witty as I can manage, and even nastier than usual.
Dragging a man’s lady into the fray isn’t fair, and I apologize for it.
I was ticked because I’ve had some crummy jobs in my life, retail, bartending, washing cars, and there were times when I could barely keep from maiming someone.
You strike me as a lot better-natured guy than some of the hardcases I had in mind, and yet (figuratively) I took a swing at you.
Listen, it’s the holidays, and I’d rather end this wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas. Next time I’m out and the man wants to check my receipt, I’ll slip him a real $10 and tell him it was the idea of a friend of mine.
You hang in there, friend, hey?
That's GERITOL you addled old coot! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I feel a song coming on.
Actually, I’m very nice with them and they are with me....
They keep inviting me back and I keep buying merchandise so the relationship appears to be working....
Unfortunately, I do believe you regarding the theft level and the assorted scams....In recent years, shoplifting has moved from the bad column to the cool spot for kids to twenty somethings....
This is a societal problem as much as a store problem....
Apology accepted..
Merry Christmas to you as well....
BTW, I have held those jobs as well at one time...I haven’t always worn a blue dinner jacket with an ascott while stranded on an island...
I like the idea of the $10, but give it to a worthwhile charity, there’s a lot of people who don’t have a job that are desperate and need the help...
Again, Merry Christmas!
I recently made a major camera purchase at Best Buy for what I thought was a good price, and having paid for it at the camera counter, I was getting set to show my receipt at the door when I noticed I had a discreetly deployed escort. He was twenty or thirty feet ahead of me, but walking my way, and no doubt making sure that I exited directly. At the door he turned and politely wished me a good day.
Nope, Obama says he’s taking care of the unemployed.
Working man (and woman) is who I turn to, count on, give a little extra to, whenever I can.
Cheers!
Yup. Stopped reading right there.
Nevergore, they do actually; it's actually called "Shopkeeper's Prerogative". They have every right to check your receipt agreement or not. Many times they will waive the inspection if the customer resists hoping to see the customer again in the future.
The Texas historian T. R. Fehrenbach wrote a definitive non-romantic history of the Comanche peoples a few decades ago, and in it he illustrated the cultural collapse of those families in a single generation citing their treatment of their elders. Of course, the elderly among them were few and then anyone older than 35, probably.
When the jig was up, and the inevitable collision between an industrial and paleolithic order came to a foregone conclusion, the comparison he came up with is that of a deviant biker gang, one that regularly treated their elders like crap. That was his marker of a collapsed social order.
But East St. Louis has needed a high wall constructed around it for the past couple of decades.
I like the way you said that...”discreetly deployed escort.” That sounds just like some of my wonderfully alert, watchful, and courteous co-workers! :-)
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