Stay Out the Walmart!
Posted on 09/11/2019 10:54:00 AM PDT by real saxophonist
Recently Walmart banned a man from all of their stores' nationwide for open carrying in a Kentucky Walmart after someone called the police to say that an armed man was inside the store acting suspiciously.
If he repeats he can be charged.
No court order needed. Manager tells the police they want the person trespassed and police put it in their system. Next time the police find out he is on Walmart (or any other property) they arrest him for trespassing. Happens all the time. It's how they deal with shoplifters and anyone else they don't want in their store.
Just curious.
I never understood this. How do they ban you from all the stores? I’ve read of various establishments doing this when people shoplift.
If this happened in one state how do they know you if you go across country to another WM who you are especially if you pay bycash?
Is this just lip service and not enforced?
I’m guessing they have facial recognition built into their security cameras.
When I lived in the Seattle area, the Wal-Mart was a pit. The women’s clothing section looked like a sloppy teenaged girl’s bedroom. i.e. clothes all over the floor. This was in Renton.
But Wal-mart was one choice shoppers had out of hundreds. i.e. only the riff-raff shopped there. Which is why I only went there a couple of times and never actually bought anything. It was just too depressing.
I now live in rural Kentucky, where they are really the only modern choice. This means everybody shops there. And guess what? It’s a very nice place to shop. It’s clean. The people are friendly. The staff speaks English fluently, etc.
What - he was shopping?
Stupid people. Stupid, triggered snowflakes.
I’m guessing they have facial recognition built into their security cameras.
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I am in a ‘small town’ in Virginia and someone passed some phony bills and after surveillance of the tapes, had ID him and some accomplices and had them tracked from the time they got out of their vehicle, every section of the store they were in and to the time they drove off.
All that from the picture of the dude passing the bill.
Oh, crime is basically zero in the area, never see cops at sporting events etc and it sometimes ‘shocks’ visiting teams when they see no (official) Police at games.
So if that kind of surveillance in ‘Mayberry’ what do you think the big cities etc have?
Walmart has the resources to afford top-notch technology, which I suppose they do.
Walmart shopper: “There’s an armed man inside the store acting suspiciously...”
Police dispatch: “What is he doing?”
Walmart shopper: “Picking out some potatoes”
Police dispatch: click
Most states allow businesses to prohibit firearms on their premises. But most have specific laws about what must be posted and where to prohibit carrying a firearm.
This is 2019. Facial recognition is very good now. The security cameras watch everyone coming into their store. The program alerts security, who then directs the identified person to leave.
“Why open carry and scare people? That is not very smart.”
There are those that claim just because it’s legal that they can and will do it as it’s a 2nd A right. I fully agree with them. But I also agree with you in that it’s not very smart. It’s inviting trouble and unwarranted attention. Which is why I suspect this guy did it, to get attention. If that’s not the case, then like you said, “not very smart”.
Carrying concealed keeps one from getting unwanted attention while maintaining an element of surprise for a potential dangerous attacker.
I am always armed. What advantages are there to carrying your weapons in the open?
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I agree...go through life with both eyes open and one hand ‘reasonably’ free, let ‘them’ figure out who is who.
The ONLY place I don’t carry is where I know they have detectors etc, don’t drink so restaurants and bars no problem (for me). I ‘ignore’ the no weapons signs using the theory that concealed means something and if one is to find out I am armed, chances are they will be thanking me for saving their hind parts.
You sound like a snowflake safe space libtard.
Can I CC Openurmind on this? Both your views make sense to me, but I don’t have the business experience to resolve the differences of thought here.
Openurmind says from ownership experience that he cant prevent public access unless he closes his store. At that point he can have police remove a problem person. That is part of his business license agreement.
AlaskaErik says you can put the undesirable on a ‘trespass’ list? Sounds a little like a ‘red flag’ but again, I don’t know.
Please keep me in the reply list if you guys hash it out as I am interested in the answer.
I visited a Walmart 15 or 20 years ago. Definitely can live without it.
Privare property can tell you no guns or ccw only.
Idiots swat people for all sorts of reasons, and lies.
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