[Leaning Right]

I get what you’re saying. I’m not a fan of being stopped to show a receipt when leaving a store. Mainly because I just like to be left alone.

But I always do it kinda cheerfully for two reasons.

1. I respect property rights. If that’s the store’s policy I will respect that policy or shop elsewhere.
2. The poor slob who is checking the receipts doesn’t make the rules. He’s just trying to earn an honest living.

As with most things, your mileage may vary.

[gunnut]

I just say no thanks and keep walking. If you respect property rights consider that once you pay and they give you the receipt, it is your property (items purchased and the receipt itself) and they have no right to demand to see it.

Maybe get some actual cashiers working again instead of self checkout and many of the issues would go away.

I am a Costco member and I do show the receipt there because I have agreed to their terms when I became a member.

[cyclotic]

So you’re cheerfully capitulating to someone infringing your 4th Amendment right to be secure in your “persons, houses, papers and effects?” If you’re in Rio Linda, effects is your property. You own the goods you’re removing legally from the store. Forcing you to prove it is another step sliding down the slippery slope to tyranny.

In our legal system, we are innocent until PROVEN guilty. It’s the stores job to prove your guilt, not your job to prove your innocence.

[null and void]

1. I respect property rights. If that’s the store’s policy I will respect that policy or shop elsewhere.

Enough people here did that, a 20 mile round trip to the nearest Home Depot, that the local True Value went out of business.

Good riddance.