Posted on 03/11/2011 7:51:18 PM PST by Daffynition
You have to understand that 75% of this loss prevention is about EMPLOYEE Theft. Maybe as high as 90%.
They could still slap the stickers on and steal, you see. Or help others steal.
Not my problem though. I'm the guy that tries to return money I find before keeping it.
Even THAT should be stopped.
There's no excuse for the receipt nazis.
If people KNEW what WalMart did to them with the Cameras they'd never ever shop there.
Actually People are wrong to do this for one thing yes you may have bought, it you may own it, but untill you make it out the door the store still has custody of it thats the law period. They do this simply for insurance purposes if you run over some in the store or something they are the ones to pay.
That's false imprisonment/illegal detention.
Wrong.
When money changes hands it is yours period. You don’t even NEED a receipt.
Yup...make us into docile sheep, willing to obey any authority who commands us to do something...
Yuck.
Ed
For reporting a suspected theft? I don't think so.
No. no I don’t. Still have marks from the last Golden.
BTW your lab is a good looking pup.
Go picket Walmart. Fight the system, dude.
Or, go to Walmart and make purchases, leave and refuse to show your receipt when asked. Then, sue. Repeatedly.
It’s folks like you who make America great. /s
Bingo. Frankly, I'm more than a little surprised to see so many on a Conservative political discussion forum assuming this guy's a WalMart hater and calling this guy an asshole for standing up for his rights.
This should be a much more thought-provoking thread than it is. Yours was the first post that was. Thank you.
There, fixed it for you. Sorry you're so "inconvenienced" by those who aren't as compliant as you are.
You got that right. What has this forum come to anyway?
That happened to me once. I was at the airport in Brussels, Belgium when it happened. It was a duty-free shop that sold books, cd's and magazines. As I walked in the alarm went off. The clerk at the cash register looked up as I walked in, but didn't say a word.
As I walked out, the alarm went off again. I was in her sight the whole time, so as I turned around, looked at her and shrugged, she said to me in her best english "something you have wasn't scanned" - or something to that effect. Not knowing what she meant I walked back into the store, and set the alarm off AGAIN. At that point she motioned to my luggage bag and helped me find the item that was setting off the alarm: a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD I'd owned for 10+ years. Apparently the store I'd purchased it at forgot to disable the "security" on the CD case. We removed the CD from the case, ran the case over a device to disable the security tag, and that fixed it.
Sometimes stuff just happens, and I was actually glad this Belgian airport store clerk was as nice and friendly as she was.
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I love Terry Gilliam! His MP animations were great, and Brazil is awesome, pure Kafka! And Metropolis.
Did you ever see the Python skit where an Englishman bought a refrigerator, and a bureaucrat came to his door, telling him he needed to measure the kitchen before it could be plugged in? Then a bureaucrat came behind him and told him he needed to examine the hinges of the refrigerator before it could be used, then a bureaucrat came behind HIM with another clipboard and form to fill out, testing the guy’s electrical plugs, then behind him, another bureaucrat.
Then the camera pulled back, slowly, showing a line of hundreds and hundreds of bureaucrats lined up outside the guy’s door, each carrying a clipboard and another form to fill out and sign...it was hilarious!
Ed
Not sure about your state but the zip code here is used for county taxes.
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