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The Wal-Mart Posse
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| October 18, 2006
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Posted on 10/18/2006 5:18:01 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
I'd rather see the Teamsters organize Wal-Mart.
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:15:25 AM PDT
by
em2vn
To: metesky
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:15:55 AM PDT
by
Gabz
To: CrawDaddyCA
I have to ask a question of my fellow FReepers...when you go to Wal Mart, does the 'Greeter' (aka Wal Mart Nazi) stop you demanding to see your receipt for the goods you purchased? This is to keep the employees from helping friends steal stuff. Run the TV near the scanner while scanning a different UPC - ding - $1.99. Run a couple of DVDs over the security disabler but cover up the UPC while scanning - ding - free. The store is just doing a quick check to make sure that what's on the receipt looks like what's in the cart on your way out.
I've never seen it in a Wal-Mart, but it happens in Sam's every time I go.
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:21:44 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(I fear that we are the RINOs. The real Republican party is the big government Dem-lite party.)
To: CrawDaddyCA
I live in three states and shop at WalMart in four different localities. In the Baton Rouge and Chicago area they ask to see your receipt if you are shopping at a WalMart which services areas where the crime statistics are high. They never ask in low crime statistic areas such as rural Wisconsin and rural Illinois. To some that would appear to be racist but it is based upon crime stats and their own internal loss stats. They will ask to see your receipt anywhere if you seem to be taking stuff out of the store without going through the checkout.
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:30:28 AM PDT
by
vitaman
To: Pablo64
If by some odd chance they didn't get one of their anit-theft tags de-activated at the register and it set off the alarms on the way out I would just continue on my merry way. The receipt in my hand says that what I have in my shopping bag is my property and, unless they have a police officer there with a properly obtained search warrant, they have no business looking through my personal property. Please consult with an attorney before following that course of action, you'll save yourself a whole lot of trouble.
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:33:15 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: CrawDaddyCA
Yes, it happened for a week here at the Super Center Wal*Mart in North Little Rock..
My checker explained to me that the theft rate was UP and flat screen TV's and other such high ticket items were "walking" out the store..
I don't mind, since it keeps the theft and costs down..
sw
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posted on
10/18/2006 6:38:21 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: CrawDaddyCA
..........we shop at two Wal-Mart stores in Virginia; never had it happen yet..... maybe other stores in high-crime areas or stores that have had experience with shoplifters or dishonest employees check receipts, but have never had it happen to us.... and, really; is it fair to call a Wal-Mart employee who is only doing what his or her supervisor has asked them to do, probably for minimum wage pay, a "Wal-Mart Nazi"? Knowing what we all do about the horrors of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, that is really demeaning. And as much of a Rush Limbaugh fan as I am, and as disgusted as I am over much of the "feminist movement", I really don't like to hear Rush constantly using the term "femiNazi," too........
To: Gabz
Even the Walmart bashers will have to recognize that the union scum has been behind these phony organizations all along. The truth hurts.
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posted on
10/18/2006 7:20:33 AM PDT
by
bfree
(Liberalism-the yellow meat,)
To: Gabz
"But what they don't disclose is that this entire get-Wal-Mart campaign is a political operation led and funded by organized labor."
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! *WINK*
Will be going to Wal-Mart tomorrow to spend a few bucks just to irritate the libs. :)
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posted on
10/18/2006 7:32:57 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: bfree
Oh, they'll recognize it alright-------and avoid this thread like the plague :)
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posted on
10/18/2006 7:53:43 AM PDT
by
Gabz
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
10/18/2006 7:54:11 AM PDT
by
Gabz
To: CrawDaddyCA
So you abuse the person doing his job? Never worked a hard day in your life right?
Whenever people act like that over being asked for a receipt you know 2 things.
1. That they don't have a decent bone in their body.
2. They've never worked a hard day in their life.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I'm going there eating KFC wearing a fur coat and with various Republican bumper stickers on my car.
To: CrawDaddyCA
Another person who thinks they are above everyone else thinking abusing employees at Wal Mart is okay.
Every time I see a scumbag abuse a greeter I feel bad for their kids and spouse.
No decent human being does this.
To: ashamedtobefromparkridge
1. That they don't have a decent bone in their body. 2. They've never worked a hard day in their life.
You know nothing about me, so keep your opinions to yourself.
And I work offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The work I do would probably make you cry like a little girl.
If you don't like the way I treat people who are basically accusing me of shoplifting, I have one word for you...TOUGH!
So, buzz off.
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:09:37 AM PDT
by
CrawDaddyCA
(Tancredo/Paul 2008)
To: Thunderchief F-105
Here in Milothian,Va they check but only if the security scanner goes off. Usually its because the DVD's didn't get their security RFID's deactivated properly. I have no issue with it personally!
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:13:35 AM PDT
by
mdmathis6
(Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
To: ashamedtobefromparkridge
Better be armed, if you're going to go THAT far, LOL!
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posted on
10/18/2006 8:56:25 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: CrawDaddyCA
If you don't like the way I treat people who are basically accusing me of shoplifting, I have one word for you...TOUGH! So, buzz off. Paranoid?
Do you also refuse to shop Costco?
With those large high dollars items it is hard to deactivate the security devices in them. And very easy to let high value items walk out the door with out simple precautions.
Theft loss comes out of the employees annual bonus. They are doing their job, not trying to embarrass or get a black helicopter to follow you home.
Bet your a real nice person all the way through the store to deal with.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:33:14 AM PDT
by
wanderin
To: CrawDaddyCA
You've got a seriously bad attitude.....and if this is an example of how you conduct yourself in public, well, I can actually understand you being stopped.
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posted on
10/18/2006 10:58:04 AM PDT
by
Gabz
To: 1rudeboy
I believe that a FReeper attorney outlined exactly that course of action on a similar thread quite some time ago. That's where I remember first reading about that way to handle the situation. I also know that nobody (except an arresting officer) has the right to lay a hand on you. That is simple assault.
That being said, I don't expect it to ever become an issue.
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posted on
10/18/2006 3:54:41 PM PDT
by
Pablo64
("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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