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Calm Man Successfully Buys TV And Denies Walmart Receipt Checkers
TheConsumerist ^ | March 7, 2011 | Ben Popken

Posted on 03/11/2011 7:51:18 PM PST by Daffynition

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To: fella
Sounds like we have a den of thieves pushing a point solely to their advantage.

We have an open carry law. You ol'boys go delaying people getting out of the store by playing games with the receipt checkers you might just find out that doesn't mean walking around with a popped beer bottle eh.

Politeness first, then go home and beat your dogs or something.

341 posted on 03/12/2011 7:24:39 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: Daffynition

Hah hah!

Ed


342 posted on 03/12/2011 7:26:43 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: EvasiveManuever
Your pre-requisites are very subject to judicial interpretation ~ and I assure you the judges would look at a punk like you and decide you stole it even if you paid for it.

Just some folks like that.

And don't delay the lines ~ the customers don't like that, and they are not Wal-Mart, and frankly THEY DON'T CARE WHAT KIND OF PUNK YOU ARE ~

343 posted on 03/12/2011 7:27:03 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: rikkir
When WallyWorld decides it is their policy to use full body scans to check every "customer", you'll be fine with that. After all, "They are a private business, and therefore can set whatever rules they want to conduct business." (Though, of course, they can't 'set whatever rules they want') Most thinking people wouldn't be. Of course, if you want your wife's bonus to inflate, perhaps she and her fellow employees should stop stealing from WallyWorld and thereby cut down on the losses at that particular retailer.

By way of full disclosure, I worked there for a short time during the early part of this manufactured "recession" and know quite a few things about WallyWorld. They didn't get to be big by being customer friendly nor pro-American.

344 posted on 03/12/2011 7:30:27 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: rikkir

Okay...say I cede your point, a store can make you abide by any agreement, even if it violates state law.

Okay, then let’s have Wal-Mart force everyone to burn any leftist literature they have at home, if you want to shop there, ya’ gotta burn the Communist Manifesto and any books by Bill Ayers.

Also, any one that wants to shop there must register third-party Independent and promise to vote for Conservative pro-lifers over the next ten years.

And, they have to give $10 to the Salvation Army! And they have to promise not to swear at anybody, to not watch any X-rated movies, and to go to church every Sunday, ONLY if the church is Christian and conservative!

Hey, I like this idea of saying stores can force you to do anything they want, even if it’s against state law! Thanks, great idea!

Ed


345 posted on 03/12/2011 7:34:10 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Daffynition

So, earlier in the day I explained this article to my girlfriend along with the slow erosion of liberty in this country.

Tonight we ate out and when ordering I asked for a substitution on a special and was told by the waitress, no dice, it’s not allowed. I acquiesced and my girlfriend says, “aren’t you going to say something? Your rights are being denied”. I about spit my drink across the table.


346 posted on 03/12/2011 7:36:06 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: muawiyah

One merely exiting a store with a purchased item is not evidence of a suspected theft. Since no loss prevention agent nor store employee observed a person taking or concealing an item for the purpose of theft, there can be no suspicion of theft. Unless, of course, the retailer suspects all customers of theft and treats all customers accordingly. Retailers would do better to strip search their own employees and monitor their executives 24/7 to greatly reduce financial losses.


347 posted on 03/12/2011 7:36:37 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Sir_Ed
Everyone should have already burned any leftist literature they keep at home.

What's wrong with you?

348 posted on 03/12/2011 7:38:48 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: Daffynition
I feel like I should stop by and give them gift cards for performing admirably in the tough situation Walmart has put them in, but that might be received poorly.”

You're probably right. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, it an endless stream of IQ-challenged DemonRats who can keep saying "Just following orders..."

In deference to the sheep here, wondering why you were being a "dick," perhaps you can print out the citation of the state law you are aware of and cite it on the back of a tee shirt, or something.

349 posted on 03/12/2011 7:39:41 PM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: muawiyah

I’m a union member? Damn, I didn’t know that! I didn’t know self-employed web designers joined unions!

Who’s my shop steward then? Since I’m the only one here, it must be me! But...I don’t know which local we belong to...

And I’m a seminar poster? The last seminar I went to was 30+ years ago, in Spokane, to a Bill Gaither seminar...and we didn’t discuss Wal-Mart, we discussed the Bible, marriage and God.

Ed


350 posted on 03/12/2011 7:40:12 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Rebelbase; Daffynition
I always get substitutions on specials ~ and the waiters make sure that happens for me every single time.

I also tip them.

There are some people who couldn't get a substitution if it were nothing but mashed potatoes instead of french fries.

351 posted on 03/12/2011 7:41:37 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: Artemis Webb
Sorry but “Rick” is a dick. His little display is pointless. I’m not impressed by assholes.

If he is right, I must agree someone else here is the cute word you just used.

Lie down and lick boot, if that's your choice.

352 posted on 03/12/2011 7:44:16 PM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: muawiyah

How does it feel to be an azzhole?

I’ve never been able to know what it’s like, but since you are one, enlighten the rest of us.

You toss out the commie tag when you can’t get your way and folks won’t knuckle down to your way of thinking. We call this being authoritarian.

It’s also called being an azzhole.


353 posted on 03/12/2011 7:46:14 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: muawiyah
“Natural law is also on the side of Wal-Mart.”

Expand on that please.

What logic leads to the conclusion that natural law, with its basis in a state of nature, is on the side of Wal-Mart, a corporation that could not exist in a state of nature, whose very existence requires an organized society.

This is a request for information, not a dig.

354 posted on 03/12/2011 7:46:44 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Curs(ed be those who don't.)
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To: doc1019
Is there punctuation in your future?

You're not familiar with al baby, are you.

355 posted on 03/12/2011 7:47:15 PM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Thumper1960
You funny little friends already tossed the commie card earlier so I thought I'd give it back to you.

The problem with punks who want to push around the employees at Wal-Mart is that they're all union geeks who like to spend their weekends beating up old ladies in Wisconsin.

We know your type.

356 posted on 03/12/2011 7:50:23 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: muawiyah

Actually, the opposite’s prolly true...some good ol’ boys I know who open carry (we have it here, too) if some clerk grabbed their shoulder and said they were being held against their will, they’d prolly be inclined to pull their gun and stop the clerk from illegally detaining them.

It’s the way ALL Americans used to feel, till the Docile Sheep Ethos raised its simpering head...

Ed


357 posted on 03/12/2011 7:50:42 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: KrisKrinkle

“Organization” is elemental. The state of nature could not exist without it.


358 posted on 03/12/2011 7:51:27 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: muawiyah

That’s why I just walk around the lines...I’m not a sheep, docilely submitting to people ordering me around, against state law.

I just walk around the docile serfs, meekly submitting to an authority they have no actual duty to submit to...it’s scary, how submissive some Americans have become.

Ed


359 posted on 03/12/2011 7:54:38 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: muawiyah

Zooom, right over your head!

It’s called IRONY.

Ed


360 posted on 03/12/2011 7:57:06 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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