[KrisKrinkle]

“His state law says the store is NOT allowed to check the reciept and therefore the checking of the reciept is an illegal act.”

I tried to find where his state law said that but was unable to. But then I'm not well enough acquainted with his states law and the system I was searching in to do a good search. Can you give us a citation or reference or something?

[muawiyah]

No one has come up with a cite to a statute, but you can come up with whole big bunches of Virginia Supreme Court decisions that suggest the merchant CAN CHECK A RECEIPT for merchandise as long as you are on the premises.

The legislature and the courts in Virginia favor owners (and stores) ~ both in questions of quality of custody of goods normally vended there as well as issues of employment. There's a huge body of law targeting retail and all of it anti-customer, anti-thief, anti-clerk.