May I See Your Receipt?

[GagHalfrunt]

You just equated "may I see your receipt" with an anal cavity search on the street.

So..yeah, go do that RMA.

ROFLMAO!

That your way of saying that you can't distinguish one illegal detainment from another? Again, I'm going to challenge your clueless ass because it's so much fun watching you dig yourself deeper and deeper into a pit of abject stupidity.

Guy stops you on the street. Screams "Someone stole from me!! I don't know who. I'm going to search you now to make sure it wasn't you!!"

Do you comply? Do you have an obligation to subject to a baseless, warrantless search? If he forcibly detains you and searches you without cause, without consent, without due process and without a good faith belief that you are in fact the thief has he broken the law? Yes or no? Simple question.

Why would your rights in Wal-Mart be any different? What color is the sky in your delusional world where customers are forced to prove their innocence to be allowed to leave a store?

Feel free to tap out any time now, I can kick your ass on this all day. It would take about 2 seconds to google this and learn the truth about customers rights vs store rights, but I admire your almost militant insistence on remaining completely ignorant.

 

[Mixolydian]

I've only ever had this happen at Costco, which is part of their protocol.

 

[jlee]

ROFLMAO!

That your way of saying that you can't distinguish one illegal detainment from another? Again, I'm going to challenge your clueless ass because it's so much fun watching you dig yourself deeper and deeper into a pit of abject stupidity.

Guy stops you on the street. Screams "Someone stole from me!! I don't know who. I'm going to search you now to make sure it wasn't you!!"

Do you comply? Do you have an obligation to subject to a baseless, warrantless search? If he forcibly detains you and searches you without cause, without consent, without due process and without a good faith belief that you are in fact the thief has he broken the law? Yes or no? Simple question.

Why would your rights in Wal-Mart be any different? What color is the sky in your delusional world where customers are forced to prove their innocence to be allowed to leave a store?

Feel free to tap out any time now, I can kick your ass on this all day. It would take about 2 seconds to google this and learn the truth about customers rights vs store rights, but I admire your almost militant insistence on remaining completely ignorant.

Yup. They can't stop you from leaving. I don't understand all the angry butthurt about this.

But please, go on. Your face must be bright red with veins popping out and everything!

 

[phucheneh]

But please, go on. Your face must be bright red with veins popping out and everything!

Yeah, he seems to think that we can't see past his 'ROFLMAO's and into his deeply tormented soul.

I save my hate for things that deserve it. Taylor Swift. People who say 'for all intensive purposes.' Children who look at me funny.

Stores trying to prevent losses because GagHalfgrunt is a thief? Outrage not found.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Wow - there are some serious crazies out there; http://consumerist.com/tag/receipt-checking/

Link has people beating the shit out of, pepper spraying and manipulating receipt checkers.

Also, some receipt checkers go way over the line - one dude broke a customer's leg when the customer refused to show a receipt.

That’s when, according to the suit, another employee used a “martial arts type strike with his leg,” that led to the broken bones.

I was looking for a funny / goofy picture of receipt checking,.. and I ran into this mess. Oy vey!

 

[Mixolydian]

People who say 'for all intensive purposes.'

I love that.

 

[jlee]

Wow - there are some serious crazies out there; http://consumerist.com/tag/receipt-checking/

Link has people beating the shit out of, pepper spraying and manipulating receipt checkers.

Also, some receipt checkers go way over the line - one dude broke a customer's leg when the customer refused to show a receipt.


I was looking for a funny / goofy picture of receipt checking,.. and I ran into this mess. Oy vey!

I've never been assaulted by a receipt checker. I want to retire early!

 

[MrPickins]

ROFLMAO!

That your way of saying that you can't distinguish one illegal detainment from another? Again, I'm going to challenge your clueless ass because it's so much fun watching you dig yourself deeper and deeper into a pit of abject stupidity.

Guy stops you on the street. Screams "Someone stole from me!! I don't know who. I'm going to search you now to make sure it wasn't you!!"

Do you comply? Do you have an obligation to subject to a baseless, warrantless search? If he forcibly detains you and searches you without cause, without consent, without due process and without a good faith belief that you are in fact the thief has he broken the law? Yes or no? Simple question.

Why would your rights in Wal-Mart be any different? What color is the sky in your delusional world where customers are forced to prove their innocence to be allowed to leave a store?

Feel free to tap out any time now, I can kick your ass on this all day. It would take about 2 seconds to google this and learn the truth about customers rights vs store rights, but I admire your almost militant insistence on remaining completely ignorant.

Here is an idea: don't shop at places with this policy if it bothers you so much.

I swear, people love to be offended...

 

[SlitheryDee]

if its a place that always does it, yea. No big deal.

If I'm walking out and the beeper goes off cause the employee didn't scan the tag, I'm not stopping. Chase me if you want but I paid for my stuff, you didn't do your job.

Wait... You're drawing the line at the one time someone might have a good reason to check your receipt? The beeper is there to catch people who didn't pay for their stuff. Even if failure to deactivate the magnetic thingy is a more common occurrence, they should check each and every one of the people that set it off.

 

[rudeguy]

Wait... You're drawing the line at the one time someone might have a good reason to check your receipt? The beeper is there to catch people who didn't pay for their stuff. Even if failure to deactivate the magnetic thingy is a more common occurrence, they should check each and every one of the people that set it off.

No...they should deactivate each and every one of the tags. I'm not going to wait around for some 80 year old lady to come over, then dig through my bags, then check my receipt, then get the tag fixed. I'm not going to do it. If the store doesn't like it, they can ask me not to come back and I won't. I've never had an issue though.

 

[lord_emperor]

I don't show, unless it's agreed to before-hand as in Costco. At Fry's I just walk by and pretend the guy isn't there.

Pretty much this. The only place that does this I know of is Wal-Mart and the greeter clearly isn't paid enough to care.

 

[Bob the Coder]

Meh...at Costco, it's part of the membership agreement...so I show the receipt. Any place else..."Piss off. If you think I'm stealing, arrest me. My lawyer needs the money."

Pretty much this. I don't shop at Costco, so the first part goes out the window.

I don't get angry or rage out... there's no need to. In fact, the few times this has happened I've found it a little amusing.

"Can I check your receipt?"

"Nope. Have a good day "

I've only received further protest once. "Sir, I need to check your receipt." "Check your video footage instead. I paid with a credit card, so you can track me down if you find that I've stolen something."

I just find the whole thing absurd. I seem to recall Best Buy starting all of this nonsense years ago.

 

[KentState]

What's ironic is how powerless stores are with stopping shop lifters. I remember customers clearly stealing when I worked at Best Buy in college and basically being told that it's up to the manager to take care of these things. Do not get involved beyond reporting to security.

 

[Belegost]

I show the receipt. If they can stop assholes from shoplifting, it keeps my prices down. Shoplifters cost us honest people money, so I hope they do catch some of those pricks.

Completely agree, and it's not like a guy looking at a receipt and looking at my bags take more than 10 seconds.

One time at Costco the guy even caught that I had gotten charged for two of something that I only had one of - saved me $15.

 

[JBT]

The last time I was at Costco I bought ice, the receipt checker noticed the ice was MISSING and I didn't end up "forgetting" the ice.

 

[rh71]

Meh...at Costco, it's part of the membership agreement...so I show the receipt. Any place else..."Piss off. If you think I'm stealing, arrest me. My lawyer needs the money."

They ask all the time at Lowes (why is this the first mention of this?) and you know why they do it. Take the 5.3 seconds to get it marked off instead of starting a scene or getting "harrassed" while you walk off screaming "I know my rights!" Crazy nuts.

 

[BoomerD]

They ask all the time at Lowes (why is this the first mention of this?) and you know why they do it. Take the 5.3 seconds to get it marked off instead of starting a scene or getting "harrassed" while you walk off screaming "I know my rights!" Crazy nuts.

I've never been asked for a receipt at Lowe's or Home Depot...and I've never been "harassed" for refusing to show the receipt.

 

[waggy]

Depends on if the inspection was part of my membership.
Membership = look in my bag
No membership = move out of my way

/this

I have been asked at walmart. i just keep walking and it has never been a issue.


At sams club? i wait. Though i rarely have more then 14 items.

 

[MustISO]

Best Buy and Micro Center near me do this. I do want to try running sometime just to see if I can get someone to tackle me, I need a paid vacation.

 

[zCypher]

I don't recall ever being asked for a receipt outside of Costco. I definitely see the people at the door at places like Wal-Mart from time to time, but I don't recall ever being asked to stop and show my receipt by any of them. maybe you guys just look really suspicious, or live in really shitty neighborhoods? Either way... Who cares, if it's that big of a deal you just don't show the receipt. It's not like they can actually do anything about it. how does this even register as anything to care about? haha

 

[disappoint]

Here is why I think this is so stupid:

The cashier just filled that bag you're carrying out of the store. When do they think the shoplifting occurred? Between the cashier and the greeter? That's like what 3 to 8 feet? And often times there is nothing to swipe between the cashier and the greeter.

 

[keird]

What if the store employees notice a suspected shoplifter enter the store? They implement the 'just a random period of checking receipts', when all of a sudden the suspected shoplifter gets caught on video right after a bunch of other people not acting weird exited the store. The suspected shoplifter can either act evasive or get caught. If evasive or caught and they have the shoplifting on video, great. They call the cops. If you or I were just props for their video... whatever, we weren't the target, anyway.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Here is why I think this is so stupid:

The cashier just filled that bag you're carrying out of the store. When do they think the shoplifting occurred? Between the cashier and the greeter? That's like what 3 to 8 feet? And often times there is nothing to swipe between the cashier and the greeter.

Bring a bag from a previous visit in your pocket. Go to a department with its own cash register that you could legitimately have purchased something from (Walmart electronics dept comes to mind). Steal something and put it in the bag. Do some more shopping and walk out with that bag amongst your other purchases. Or you could skip all the other shopping and just walk out with whatever is in the bag. The cashiers up front are used to people walking right past them with bags of merchandise they purchased in the other department, so they won't think anything of it. The only thing between you and freedom is the door sensor and the receipt checker, and not everything in the store has the magnetic security strip. I'd say you have a fair chance of making it out with your prize without being accosted.

 

[Childs]

If its some place like Costco where they check everyone's receipt, no problem. If I'm the only one they single out I'll ask specifically why. If they don't have a reason I'll ask them to get the manager to explain it to me. Although something like that hasn't happened in a long time.

 

[Braznor]

Wow, all you guys are ducking out to lunch.