Posted on 10/18/2006 5:18:01 AM PDT by Brilliant
Wal-Mart may be expanding in the People's Republic of China, but here in capitalist America the low-price retailer has become the Democratic Party's favorite pinata. The media like to portray this as a populist uprising... But what they don't ...disclose is that this entire get-Wal-Mart campaign is a political operation led and funded by organized labor.
We've done a little digging into the two most prominent anti-Wal-Mart groups, and they might as well operate out of AFL-CIO headquarters. An outfit called Wal-Mart Watch was created by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), probably the most powerful union in America after the National Education Association. Wal-Mart Watch is backed by Five Stones, a 501(c)3 organization that received $2,775,000 in 2005 from the SEIU, or 56% of its $5 million budget. According to financial records, SEIU also gave Five Stones $1 million in 2004 to launch the anti-Wal-Mart group...
A second group, Wake Up Wal-Mart, is more or less a subsidiary of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). Wake Up Wal-Mart refuses to divulge its funding sources, but here is what we do know: The group was founded by the UFCW, is housed at UFCW headquarters, and its campaign director's $135,000 salary is paid by the UFCW.
Wake Up Wal-Mart also has close ties to the Democratic Party. Its union-funded campaign director is Paul Blank, who was political director of Howard Dean's failed Presidential campaign. The group sponsored a 19 state, 35-day bus tour across the U.S. earlier this year, staging anti-Wal-Mart rallies. Nearly every major Democratic Presidential hopeful has joined in the Wal-Mart-bashing, including Senators Joe Biden and Evan Bayh, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and trial lawyer-turned-man-of the-people John Edwards. They all seem to believe they have to take this line to pass union muster for 2008...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Do yourself a favor and Google "shopkeeper's privilege."
Of course, my definition of reasonable would not include anything that is of even the slightest inconvenience for me. ;-)
"Whenever people act like that over being asked for a receipt you know 2 things.
1. That they don't have a decent bone in their body.
2. They've never worked a hard day in their life."
You are free to do as you wish, I usually just say "no thank you" when I am requested to do this - it's not abuse to say "no" to a search like this. If they want to inspect what I am purchasing, their opportunity is at the cash register, once the transaction is complete, it's my stuff.
Most stores in my area have discontinued the practice because most people simply refuse to comply, and those that do are not shoplifters.
If by some odd chance they didn't get one of their anit-theft tags de-activated at the register and it set off the alarms on the way out I would just continue on my merry way. The receipt in my hand says that what I have in my shopping bag is my property and, unless they have a police officer there with a properly obtained search warrant, they have no business looking through my personal property.
Please consult with an attorney before following that course of action, you'll save yourself a whole lot of trouble.
Attorneys do not need to get involved with receipt checkers unless it is agreed to prior to the transaction. Once the transaction is complete then the item along with the receipt is your own personal property. The only exception would be Costco.
It's a little more complicated than that, in the sense that each State has its own Shopkeeper's Privilege Statute, but essentially you nailed it.
Boy, I bet you are just a bundle of fun at the Public Library.
"DEMOCRATS 06 - SOFT ON TERROR, HARD ON WALMART!"
See tag line!
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