[muawiyah]

It's not a one way street. The merchant is not sending thugs to take your money. You are not stealing his stuff. But at the same time you check your billfold to make sure the merchant's professional pickpockets haven't hit you, he wants to make sure his front of the store freeforall so favored by customers didn't allow you to steal his stuff.

Contracts between private individuals are DIFFERENT than arrangements between individuals and governments.

BTW, it is common in much of the world for merchants to hire people to kidnap potential customers and drag them to their tents for trade. We don't do that.

[fella]

Even a lowly assistant manager of Walmart understands that they are way off base in demanding that a bill of sale be presented to them in order for a citizen to maintain their liberty and freedom. Your rights do not end at their property line. We got rid of that fifedom system when we cast off the King. As our founders said “Exercise your rights or loose them”.

The man had the Constitution and the law of Virginia on his side.