Walmart doesn’t have the freedom to control product loss in their store?
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?
Not at the expense of a customer, no.
Everyone on this thread who thinks differently is absolutely wrong legally (and morally).
The person on this thread who says this is how our freedom dies, by paper cuts gets the gold star. This is conditioning. No one should let the Receipt Nazis do this to them. No one. But this is 1950 anymore, I guess. People are made of mush now.
Don't forgot the Department of the ReichsFatherland cooperation Walmart is engaging in. That alone disqualifies them from any 'benefit of the doubt'.
It is an illegal search (and or detention) because WalMart is not private property in this regard. It is open to the public.
Sam's club is different, at least on the face until tested, as their membership agreement allows inspection of goods.(I'd argue that since they don't refuse membership to anyone that the same rules apply, and state law STILL Applies.)
Further the vast majority of shrinkage is from employee theft. Not customers.
Essentially you are being harassed to make sure their own employees are honest.
Not my problem.