[cynwoody]

Are we really at the point where any mistake made by a store must result in some kind of a lawsuit, simply because a customer had cause to be angry until the mistake was rectified?

The most Walmart had a right to do in this case was to refuse her cash. If her story checks out, she's due a LOT more than $200.

[zencycler]

The most Walmart had a right to do in this case was to refuse her cash. If her story checks out, she's due a LOT more than $200.

No, because from the store's point of view, the issue isn't the suspected attempted use of fake money as much as the attempt to take their merchandise by paying with fake money, which is tantamount to attempted shoplifting.

So if the store is allowed to temporarilly detain someone on the suspicion of shoplifting, they should also be able to detain them for suspected counterfeiting, so either one can be properly investigated, since either act, if successful, would have resulted in the theft of the store's merchandise.

We are going to bankrupt our businesses, the Walmarts and the Mom and Pops alike, if juries keep handing out large awards anytime a customer is aggravated or inconvenienced because of the stupidity of a store employee or manager - not to mention encouraging the con artists to come out of the woodwork and start creating victim scenarios to enable them to sue. Heck, why jump in front of a speeding car and risk serious injury or death, if all you have to do is spend a couple hours standing around in the department store. I'm sure this lady wasn't a scammer. But make her rich over this, and the scammers will and con artists will descend like the vultures they are.