[I Shall Endure]

You can show your receipt. Or, through higher prices, you can subsidize all the shoplifting that will occur when Walmart is not allowed to check receipts.

[CarmichaelPatriot]

You can show your receipt. Or, through higher prices, you can subsidize all the shoplifting that will occur when Walmart is not allowed to check receipts.

You didn't read the article, did you? THEY'RE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO REQUIRE YOU TO SHOW A RECEIPT AFTER YOU'VE PAID FOR AN ITEM. IT'S STATE LAW! We even have that law here in Kalifornia. The moment you pay for the item, the store loses all interest in that item and cannot make you prove ownership. They can (try) to detain you if they saw that you picked up the item and started walking out the door with it, and try to hold you for the police, but without proof of a crime THEY CANNOT DETAIN YOU! I do this all the time, except at club stores (Sam's, Costco) since that's part of your membership agreement.

[Salamander]

I have only had to do this with either things that were too big to fit into a puny WalMart bag *or* if the checker neglected to deactivate the RFID chip in a _box of Excedrin_ which then set off that incredibly embarrassing alarm.
[seriously]

I once asked them why they started doing this and found out that people were shoplifting _trampolines, garden furniture, yard fountains_ and *other* huge stuff that also wouldn’t “fit in a bag”.

Since I resent paying higher prices due to shoplifters, I don’t get myself all torqued up over it.

I’m a bit peeved by Sams Club asking for receipts, though.
They don’t provide *any* bags and the old bastid who works the out door is a really unpleasant and belligerent snot who *thinks* he’s working for the FBI or something.

He digs through _everything_ in your cart, just to be sure you didn’t somehow walk out with a 12 pack of Sharpies or something.

It would be ironic if, while he was tying up the checkers with his head games, a bunch of kids waltzed out with $500 worth of video games, wouldn’t it?

[ponygirl]

One summer in college I worked at a department store. One of our VPs used to actually cover the first floor as undercover security. One day, he held the door open for a guy carrying a microwave oven. It turned out to be a shoplifter and our security guys WHO WAS ALSO AN EXEC was on tape holding the door open for him.

[rikkir]

“You can show your receipt. Or, through higher prices, you can subsidize all the shoplifting that will occur when Walmart is not allowed to check receipts.”

AMEN. That is exactly the point. My wife works for Wal Mart. You would not believe the number of people who try this very tactic everyday.
Rick, you being a jerk to the guy at the door just allowed 10 more people to get away with it because the next time some one says to him they don’t have to show it, he won’t push the issue.
I appreciate you raising prices on all Wal mart customers, and I especially appreciate you lowering my wife’s bonus this year. Thanks.