Posted on 03/11/2011 7:51:18 PM PST by Daffynition
Shopping cart?
Tell the cashier to tape or staple receipt on box.
Problem solved.
Sounds like a lib jerk wad.
Anyone who would browbeat a minimum wage store clerk just to feel superior is pretty scummy. I put myself in their place and imagine having to deal with obnoxious customers all day, then I treat them with as much respect as possible.
I have shopped at Wal-Mart for years and no one has ever asked to see a receipt on the way out the door. Maybe his store is in a bad neighborhood or something.
Walmart doesn’t have the freedom to control product loss in their store?
Wrong. WM policy is that the only people allowed to detain you is Loss Prevention and only then when the LP has witnessed you select the merchandise, retrieve it from the shelf, conceal the item (not applicable in this case) and then avoid the final point of purchase and then exit the store without offering to pay for the item. If the LP loses eye contact at anytime during his observation he/she is not to even talk to you let alone attempt to prevent you from leaving the store.
As to the door greater, WM policy strictly states that they are never to ask you for a receipt or try to prevent you from leaving the store unless the EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) is activated. At that point the Door Greater can ask you for a receipt only to find out which register failed to deactivate the EAS device. However, if the customer refuses to offer the receipt the door greater must allow the customer to leave.
“My mom says at her Wal-Mart in Mississippi the receipt checker will only ask people who are not of her race.”
Hmmmmmm. And your Mom votes.......democrat? I suspect your Mom is spewing bravo sierra.
Happened to a lawyer friend in FL. The cashier was rushing off duty and forgot to give him his receipt (as shown on security tape.)
Store detained him at door for more than 10 minutes.
Settlement was low 5 figures.
I wouldn’t mess with Bruce Willis. He’ll kick your @ss.
He wasn’t being a jerlk and they were in fact wrong. Also in Tennessee you don’t have to put up with it either. I never have and never will. I had one guy follow me to my vehicle LOL.. You know when that alarm goes off {when I don’t even have any purchases} I’ve thought about grabbing my chest and falling to the floor in a fit yelling “turn it off turn it off” LOL...
While the libertarian streak in me usually sides with people such as this fellow, this does seem a bit extreme. What does it hurt to wave your receipt at an employee as you walk out the door with a high ticket purchase? Everyone knows its a loss prevention measure to prevent shoplifting, not some insidous scheme by “the man” to deprive you of your liberties. While I don’t doubt the fact that he was legally in the right, there is a time and place to pick your fights, but this isn’t it.
I guess this was due to it not being in a bag because I buy things at the back and walk out the store with no trouble. Surely, they could have put the receipt on the box. When I buy drinks at my grocery store, I ask for a sticker to be placed on the bottle.
The receipt checker or the customer?
I doubt it.
Years ago I was resistant to receipt checkers as the concept was foreign to me. One checker at CompUSA, I got to follow me into the parking lot to check my bag and receipt until he realized that he had deserted his post and ran back into the store.
I’m better now, but if a line forms at the exit as the checkers are so slow, I will continue on past them with my receipt raised up high and I have never been stopped doing that.
If the Wal*Mart Tyrds have an issue with customer’s not willing to show proof of what they’ve legally purchased, they can re-design their stores to make impossible the egress through the store to an exit from a section where they made a purchase.
I applaud his stand on principles. Too bad many FReepers have either no principles or are incapable of appreciating those who do.
I have worked as a cashier for a number of years, you would be shocked at the nerve of shoplifters. They will walk out the door with televisions just as casual as can be. A customer even “shopped” all around the store till she filled the cart to the top, then she tried to casually walk past the service desk and out the door. Fortunately, she was stopped before she could make it through the door.
This guy is just a self-righteous jerk making a big stink over a “principle” that doesn’t exist. I hope his next job is working with the public, then he will know what it is like dealing with morons like him all day.
You forgot ...it’s *senior* citizen Tuesday. ;D
Not according to the State’s law.
Should they have the right to inspect the contents of your car before you leave the parking lot?
LOL! At least you didn’t make excuses. Love it.
What does it hurt?
Where YOU draw your line is your business. Where the writer draws his is his.
At least he drew a line and didn’t allow others to define his parameters for living in a free society.
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