What they bdid was wrong... no doubt they should serve jail time....
But best Buy is also wrong....
They treat you like a criminal when you leave their store demanding to inspect your bag and receipt.
My wife hates going with me to Best Buy to shop, I always refuse to let them look in my bag. Once I pay for the merchandise and their employee places it in a bag, it’s my personal property. They have no rights...
I always tell the guy at the door if he shows me his drivers license and pays me $10 dollars he can peek...
Otherwise, NO.....
There is a reason that they ask to see your receipt.
You are sneaky looking.
Sam’s Club checks your purchases against the receipt before you go out the door.
I didn’t know this was against the law.
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.
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.
The registers are right at the exit at the local best buy, I don’t get why they then need to check your bags, I was pregnant last time I went in, I was a little grouchy and I haven’t been back, for this reason but I would never hit someone over it.
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.
“They treat you like a criminal when you leave their store demanding to inspect your bag and receipt.”
This is one of the reasons that I shop on-line elsewhere. Guilty until proven innocent.
I also love Lowe’s asking for your phone number on a cash transaction. I am a dirty old fart, and if a cute check-out girl under 30 asks this, I ask them if I can have theirs first. Shuts them right up.
Somebody walked out of the local Best Buy with an Apple Computer a few years back because the guy checking Receipts was distracted by another Customer, possibly a diversionary plant.
They have since changed their Procedures. In fact, I shop at Costco and they always check Receipts at the door. No big deal, takes a few seconds. I don’t mistake their procedures with a TSA Body Cavity Search.
Whether a Big Bad Corporation or a little Electronics Store, you are on their Property and are subject to their security rules.
Don’t like it, shop at Amazon.com. (Well, come to think of it, around here we call Best Buy the Amazon.com Showroom)