Stop showing your receipt

[Marine Cpl]

If I open a store displaying collectible “insert word here“ and have security wanding people coming in looking for guns and exiting because I want to curb theft and you don’t want any part in that, then don’t come to my store.

No Constitutional Rights violations there. You are free to tell me to F myself too as per your right. If you refuse to submit to a wanding after you come into my store, you can leave since I do not have the right to search you but you never can come back unless you don’t mind getting arrested for trespass.

It’s as simple as that.

 

[Darth]

Government vs private business. You taught me that.

Right.

A private business has no right to stop you, and I’m not interested in their conversation. Bye.

 

[Bigfoot]

It is funny standing back and watching everyone line up like cattle! Do what your TOLD! Lol

I have never seen a line at my local Walmart. But then again I absolutely avoid the busy times.
When I do show my receipt they glance at it real quick and then I am on my way out.
I think that some of the greeters / receipt checkers just go through the motions.

 

[GOPerfect]

I do not shop at Walmart. Ever. If I did, no receipt would be shown

Aside from BJ's wholesale club, I have never been asked to show a receipt. If asked, I absolutely would not comply. Touch me? Bad choice

 

[Defilade]

I have never seen a line at my local Walmart. But then again I absolutely avoid the busy times.
When I do show my receipt they glance at it real quick and then I am on my way out.
I think that some of the greeters / receipt checkers just go through the motions.

You are right, but when I shopped at Sam's club there would be a long line, cattle all lined up to show a receipt which the don't check the inventory against.anyone that shopped there or watched how they conduct their stop could steal shit easy enough. Waste of time!

 

[GOPerfect]

Is there a posted sign telling customers that they need to show a receipt upon leaving the store?

 

[GOPerfect]

Do I Have To Show My Receipt At Wal-Mart? - Legal Definitions

The last thing you want to hear while exiting a retailer is the familiar beep of the store anti-theft system. If you're at a large retailer, you will likely be approached immediately by a greeter to check your receipt. But do you have to comply? We've got both the legal and practical answers...

www.legaldefinitions.co

 

[Bigfoot]

Lots of things get through but it’s a deterrent for the larger things like TV’s and vacuum cleaners that don’t go in bags.

You're right, If I do not have large items like a 30 pack(s) of beer or a 24 pack(s) of Pepsi.
Or a big bag of cat or dog food etc in the cart. They never ask to see my receipt.

 

[GOPerfect]

I might go to Walmart tomorrow and see what happens. Haha, me in Walmart. That should be funny...

 

[BDinPutnam]

I might go to Walmart tomorrow and see what happens. Haha, me in Walmart. That should be funny...

Bodycam please.

 

[GOPerfect]

Bodycam please.

If I go, I will film.

 

[Airborneguy]

I was pretty much with him until he started talking about liberty. This isn’t a liberty issue. The only liberty he has in this case is the right to not shop at stores that do this.

Also, I‘m pretty sure it’s common practice to walk on by if there’s a line at the receipt checker. That’s what I do. I don’t care if there’s no one there waiting, but I’m always rushing around nowadays so there’s no way I am waiting on a second line to leave the store, especially at places like Home Depot that have no stop policies for actual thieves.

Stores do ban people for stuff like this. Target has a very strict shoplifting policy and very, very good camera systems (hint, hint). Around here at least they don’t check receipts though.

 

[Bigfoot]

I was pretty much with him until he started talking about liberty. This isn’t a liberty issue. The only liberty he has in this case is the right to not shop at stores that do this.

Also, I‘m pretty sure it’s common practice to walk on by if there’s a line at the receipt checker. That’s what I do. I don’t care if there’s no one there waiting, but I’m always rushing around nowadays so there’s no way I am waiting on a second line to leave the store, especially at places like Home Depot that have no stop policies for actual thieves.

Stores do ban people for stuff like this. Target has a very strict shoplifting policy and very, very good camera systems (hint, hint). Around here at least they don’t check receipts though.

I have noticed in my local newspaper that a lot of people get busted for shoplifting at the local Target.
Now I know why... Just sayin'

 

[GOPerfect]

I was pretty much with him until he started talking about liberty. This isn’t a liberty issue. The only liberty he has in this case is the right to not shop at stores that do this.

Also, I‘m pretty sure it’s common practice to walk on by if there’s a line at the receipt checker. That’s what I do. I don’t care if there’s no one there waiting, but I’m always rushing around nowadays so there’s no way I am waiting on a second line to leave the store, especially at places like Home Depot that have no stop policies for actual thieves.

Stores do ban people for stuff like this. Target has a very strict shoplifting policy and very, very good camera systems (hint, hint). Around here at least they don’t check receipts though.

Speaking of AWESOME cameras....

Wegmans. The grocery store. Holy shit are they freaking amazing.

 

[Bigfoot]

If I go, I will film.

Woo Hoo! ... LOL

 

[Darth]

It’s pretty obvious that he was referring to the correlation between the mindset that comes with this crap and how we lose our liberty.

As evidenced by the fact he mentioned how things differ with membership clubs.

I swear some people try to be as thick as cement.

 

[Criticalt]

This hardly ever happenscat our local Walmart.
I was asked one time because I didnt come from the front checkouts, I came from the sporting goods counter in the back.
I was walking fast but was cornered by a 75 year old bag checker.
He asked for my receipt, I was annoyed but complied. He looked at the receipt.....100 rounds of 9mm, 40 rounds of 45 Colt, and 500 22 LR.
He giggles and says, " Im not going to mess with you!".
Being annoyed, I responded, "good idea".
Realizing that was pretty rude, I smiled and winked.

 

[Vantrepes]

My standard response for years has been "No thank you" and never break stride. I am always polite, because I know it's their job, and I don't fault them at all for doing their job.
I just don't like being treated like a thief when they have no cause. If you think I stole something and have reasonable suspicion, fine, have your loss prevention guy deal with it, and we will talk.
Casting a wide net to have some security theater is their game to play, not mine, and it sure as hell isn't worth my time to stand there and wait for them to play it.
If they make the receipt check part of their required policy, I would have shopped elsewhere. I don't shot there any more as it is, so that point is moot.

Only twice has anything happened.
Once, the lady jumped in front of me, and put her hand on my chest, demanding to see the receipt.
She got a brief, but calm explanation of how what she was doing was both against policy, and illegal because she had no right to detain me, and placing her hand on my chest she was very close to breaking New York State law*.
Just as that ended, a manager walked up, puffed his chest out, and said "What'a the problem here?" He got a slightly more forceful. but still conversational, lecture about the lack of training on why, and how they are able to detain someone leaving their store when they suspected theft.
He let out a breath, asked her why she was stopping me, she said "He won't show me the receipt! And then he KEPT WALKING!"
The look on his face was telling, as he said "Sir, I'm sorry, have a good day." to me, and "We need to talk" to her.

Second thing that happened was at the same Wally World. I said the normal "No thank you", and kept walking. I heard the lady customer behind me ask the greeter "Can he do that?!" To the greeters credit, he responded "What am I going to stop him for? Buying stuff and leaving?"

I understand it's their job, so I don't give them any shit for it at all. They are paid to stand there, say "Hello", and "May I see your receipt?" The company wants them there, they are willing to do it, no harm, no foul. I choose not to participate unless I am contractually obligated, and I'm not.

* No, she wasn't, but my bet was if she didn't know store policy, she sure as hell wasn't going to be up to speed on NYS law. The wide eyed look she got when I said it confirmed my suspicion.

 

[BDinPutnam]

You do have to remember this is a jobs program, not a security program.

 

[kev74]

I have never stopped for a receipt checker at walmart. I just keep walking like they're not there.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I have never stopped for a receipt checker at walmart. I just keep walking like they're not there.

In our Walmart’s they don’t check unless you have a big item.

 

[Bozo]

Not a Wally World regular, and our local store had not been checking in the past. I go in at 7am before work, and the place is empty. Cameras everywhere, including overhead ones in the toiletry lanes that beep at you to try to get you to look up, bored employees standing around, etc. I grab what I need, maybe 1/3 of a cart full. Go through the self-checkout, more cameras and 2 employees watching.

The exit from the self-check corral is exactly 20 feet from the door, but a receipt checker is necessary? I did stop as she was pleasant enough, but she only glanced at the receipt long enough to maybe verify it had a current date on it? All of the "Security" technology is not about security at all - it's about monetizing your shopping habits, right down to facial recognition.

 

[Darth]

In our Walmart’s they don’t check unless you have a big item.

IYKWIM.

 

[Acer-m14]

i'm thinking now on buying some stickers ..like some places use "paid for" when u buy a item ..
but a sticker for my shopping bags .. tie the plastic handles in a knot and slap a sticker at the check out ..

"search warrant required"

LOL ..

oh the receipt is in one of the bags

 

[cgrutt]

Damn now I have go go to Wally world to be a dick to the 75 y/o greeter lol...

 

[Acer-m14]

Damn now I have go go to Wally world to be a dick to the 75 y/o greeter lol...

why you being a dick to the greeter .. .. be a dick to the leaver

just ask at first .. you a greeter or leaver what your job position LOL ..

 

[Marine Cpl]

These 75 year olds are nothin but jackbooted thugs!

 

[Acer-m14]

nothing for walmart ..

but BJ has a opening

(Part Time) Front Door Receipt Checker Job - Norfolk, VA 23502 - Indeed.com

BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.

www.indeed.com

 

[Grimscale]

MY local Walmart has that one guy who demands to see my receipt every time I'm leaving after purchasing ammo. I've watched him completely ignore people with big ticket items in their cart as they leave, yet hassle me each and every time.

Walmart policy is that they cannot stop you. From now on he will receive a polite "no thank you" when he asks for my receipt.

 

[Calculon]

Not even going to watch the video. Are we really so upset and our rights violated by them checking a receipt? Retail has always had thin margins and theft has a significant impact whether you're Walmart or the corner deli. Don't like it, don't shop there. Plenty of important things to be upset about.