Don't forget that this is after the cashier carefully does the same thing and insists on putting the rung-up items in your cart for you. And if you buy anything expensive, they won't even let you put the item in your cart. You have to pay for it at the register and then stand in another long line to pick it up (only to have it checked against the receipt on the way out the door).
Wow! Where do you live? I have never experienced any of that. When I exit, I have my receipt in my hand and just keep right on going.
“They won’t even let you out their door without some minimum wage “security guard” checking your cart. “
Costco does this, too.
I don’t have that problem. It’s usually glance at the ticket, glance at the cart, glance at the ticket again as they swipe it with the marker. If you hand it ahead to them, keep moving slowly, and reach back, you usually don’t have to even come to a complete stop.
And they don’t take bank cards, either.
Costco does this too. I always assumed it is done to make sure all your paid-for items are in the cart. I once bought a huge cartfull of stuff at Costco, and the basket checker discovered that a shirt I had paid for was not in the cart. I was impressed that he could have found one item missing, without even taking anything out of the basket.
Well after having just witnessed two women, not together BTW, pulling fast ones at a local Wal-Mart, I wish they would be a little more suspicious too. The amount of thievery at these stores is mind boggling.
Every thing you point out here is the way the Costco stores in my area used to operate. I don’s shop at Costco any more so they may have changed things a bit. BTW, Wal-Mart used to use the guy at the door to check your cart but in my area people complained so much about it that they stopped doing it.