Your wife's bonus will not be made on the back of my rights.
Let’s scrape away all of the BS here. Your premise is flawed to begin with.
When you walk through the front door of that store you have made a tacit agreement to abide by the rules set forth by Wal Mart. If not they have the right to refuse you service.
When you purchased the TV, you again agreed to a set of rules set forth by Wal Mart called a purchase agreement. It includes the return policy etc. They are a private business, and therefore can set whatever rules they want to conduct business. You as a free American can choose to, or not to obey those rules. If you choose not to then you can choose to shop at another store whose rules you do agree with.
You do not have any “right” to shop at Wal Mart, and you do not have the “right” to break Wal Mart’s rules, immediately after you entered an agreement to abide by those rules when you made your purchase.
It’s the same argument we conservatives have been using for years abut the anti-smoking nazis. These are private businesses. If they want to allow smoking , and you don’t like smokers, then your right ends with your decision to go to an establishment that doesn’t allow smoking where you’ll be comfortable. You don’t have a right to go into the smoking business, and start demanding that everyone put out their cigar, or cigarette because you’re there and don’t like smoking.
So, my wife’s bonus aside, you are still off base. If you don’t like Wal Mart’s door policy, shop elsewhere. That sir is your “right”.