Doesn't bother me.
I look at it this way, if they can cut down on theft, they can pass on the savings to me in lower prices. I read somewhere that 10% of the price of an item is to make up for theft, and the majority of that theft is by employees.
At Sams Club, all they do is count the number of items and check it against the receipt. That isn't like a strip search.
At costco, they don't put your stuff in a bag, implying privacy. Your purchases are lined up in a cart so the person can do a count.
Maybe the insult is the implying of items in a bag being now mine, and they want to look at them...
At costco, the shoppers just take like the new shoes out of the boxes, put their old ones in the box, and walk right out of the store.
I know this because I have gone to purchase a box of shoes and found someones old ones inside.
You said: "At Sams Club, all they do is count the number of items and check it against the receipt. That isn't like a strip search."
And on at least 2 occassions they have found that the checker forgot to put an item in my cart that I had paid for.