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To: Brilliant; All
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? I used to live in La., and it's common practice there, so much so that my wife wouldn't let me go with her to the store anymore, because I always refused...vocally.

I now live in Fl., and so far this has not happened.

3 posted on 10/18/2006 5:32:18 AM PDT by CrawDaddyCA (Tancredo/Paul 2008)
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To: CrawDaddyCA

Sams Club stores stop everybody and check and mark their receipt. Walmart? Only if you set off their security system.


4 posted on 10/18/2006 5:35:23 AM PDT by listenhillary (Islam = Religion of peace. If you say otherwise, we'll kill you!)
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To: CrawDaddyCA
On occasion, my receipt is confirmed.

I recognize the need on their part, and admire the contientous effort to keep prices low.

7 posted on 10/18/2006 5:43:02 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: CrawDaddyCA

It happens from time to time to me in Florida.

At Costco, they won't let anyone out the door without showing their receipt. They even look over what you bought to make sure it's all listed.


8 posted on 10/18/2006 5:44:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: CrawDaddyCA
I've only had them check my receipt on the way out at Sam's Club. The only time I've had them check a receipt as I came in at Wal-Mart was when I was bringing merchandise for return or exchange (which I don't have a problem with).

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.

9 posted on 10/18/2006 5:44:49 AM PDT by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: CrawDaddyCA

All the time. I have no problem with this.


13 posted on 10/18/2006 5:54:13 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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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.

23 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.)
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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.
24 posted on 10/18/2006 6:30:28 AM PDT by vitaman
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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

26 posted on 10/18/2006 6:38:21 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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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........
27 posted on 10/18/2006 6:44:58 AM PDT by Thunderchief F-105
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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.


32 posted on 10/18/2006 7:56:51 AM PDT by ashamedtobefromparkridge (Sweeeeet LOOOOOUUUUUU!)
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