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Posted by Drew458    United States   on 06/02/2006 at 07:50 AM   
 
  1. About 50% of my shopping at WalMart is for bulk ammo. I love it when they search my bags LOL

    Reactions can be priceless.

    Posted by tuffbeingright    United States   06/02/2006  at  08:15 AM  

  2. Skipper:
    This is a standard practice at Fry’s Electronics. You don’t have them there. They won’t let you out the door unless and until they check your bag and receipt. This is also the same store chain whose lack of customer service is legendary, and is the best example of Caveat Emptor I have ever experienced.

    Posted by Macker    United States   06/02/2006  at  08:51 AM  

  3. Costco does the same thing.  Check the receipt.  I was stopped at Wal-mart the other day after the checkout clerk failed to deactivate an inventory tag.  It was not enough to just check the receipt.  She had to wand the dang thing until it finally deactivated (I was already through the electronic thingy) write down the number, find out the cashier’s number, etc.  The only thing that saved her was the fact that she was an extremely polite elderly lady who reminded me a lot of my late Grandmother.  If it had been a pimply-faced teenaged moron it would have been a different story.

    Posted by John C    United States   06/02/2006  at  09:29 AM  

  4. Costco is a membership store, so if the membership rules say one must stop for a bag check, so be it.
    A store like Walmart or any other non-membership retail store can call the police. Meanwhile, I’m going to my car.

    Posted by dick    United States   06/02/2006  at  11:01 AM  

  5. The neighborhood grocery has gates at each door. The gates are supposed to sound an alarm whenever somebody walks through them with a stolen item. The gates have gone off when people walk into the store. It’s gotten to the point where whenever the alarm goes off, the response is, “Don’t worry about it, have a nice day.”

    It’s gotten to the point where petty theft really isn’t worth bothering with. Police won’t come out in response to a petty theft call, and it’s rather unlikely the courts are going to prosecute such a case. We simply don’t have the resources to handle it. So it gets included in the cost of business, and we get higher prices.

    Posted by mythusmage    United States   06/02/2006  at  11:23 AM  

  6. We have those at the store I work at too, they’ll go off sometimes because of a cell phone or even car keys of people walking in.  People don’t stop when they’re leaving and those things go off because they know nobody will chase them.  We had 3 loss prevention people at one time, that got cut to 1 just recently.  He’s only at work 8 hours a day 5 days a week, doesn’t take a genius to figure out that we don’t have any security a good amount of the time.  Fortunately the general public doesn’t know this, only employees and the people we tell.  Anyway, nobody stops for those things at the doors, we don’t have the staff to have someone who can check on the alarm when it goes off.  If someone does stop, they get pissy about it.  If you didn’t do anything wrong, you’ll ignore it.  If you are leaving with stolen crap, you’ll walk right on by.  Stores have things like that in place because they think it’ll help with security, all it really does is stop little kids from taking shit because they actually still believe they’ll get caught.

    Posted by Elliott    United States   06/02/2006  at  12:57 PM  

  7. Under Texas law (don’t know about elsewhere) a store employee/security guard has the right to detain anyone on the premises for the purposes of a search for stolen goods.  Of course, should no stolen goods turn up, said employee/security could then technically be charged with some form of unlawful detention and sued civilly on any number of grounds...this is why loss prevention has become a very dicey affair for businesses.

    I would never be mistaken for a small or timid man, in person.  As a result, I do not get many people at Wal-Mart asking to see my receipt and at Costco they look almost embarassed to ask me.  I don’t mind letting them “check my reciept”...I don’t see it as an issue to make a fuss over.  However, should some “security” ever decide to “detain” and/or “search” me he/she will be given one warning to not touch.  Should they continue to try to “detain” or “search” me, they will be left wondering whether their job is worth pain, prosecution, and ligitgation...as I will forcefully subdue them, file a subsequent criminal complaint, and then civilly file suit against the person and the company.

    Posted by shinjinrui    United States   06/02/2006  at  02:01 PM  

  8. You just reminded me that was also going to mention that very same point.  Yeah, I don’t see these little “recipt checks” as being oriented very closely to a customer friendly attitude by the business that conducts them.  Try putting on an angry or malevolent demeanor (or start “yelling” at your kids about something) the next time you leave Wally World and see if they try to approach you then.  cheese

    Posted by shinjinrui    United States   06/02/2006  at  02:22 PM  

  9. What REALLY pisses me off is when the checkout lady doesn’t swipe the DVD very well over the magnetic gizmo and I get beeped at the door and have to go through that bullshit for a DVD that has just been debited to my bank account to the sum of $20 and THEN ... when I get freakin’ home it takes thirty minutes of frustration and fingernails to get through the three sticky tape layers of “shoplift prevention” that encase the damned thing.

    It is almost enough to make me mad enough to fire up a newsreader and go to alt.binaries.dvd and download the stupid movie for free just to get even. Oh wait .... I didn’t really say that last. Kindly ignore.

    LOL

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   06/02/2006  at  02:29 PM  

  10. I was talking about this topic with a friend of mine a little while ago.  After a few minutes of discussion, I mentioned that the business he worked for did not have the security beepers at the door.  We had a real good laugh over it simply because it would be a little difficult to shoplift a grand piano…

    Posted by John C    United States   06/02/2006  at  02:55 PM  

  11. I haven’t had the joy of being checked at Walmart but I have had run ins with those jumped up jobsworth wankers at the airports. I appreciate they have a job to do but I find it insulting and demeaning to have a rub down search in front of other passengers. Still at least I can relax in the knowledge I get paid a lot more than those schmucks!

    Securicor pah! These are the bums that started taking over escorting prisoners to and from jail when the government privatised parts of the prison service. They seem to lose them on a regular basis. Personally I dispute the findings as respect is all but non existant in Britain nowadays. Teachers have no powers to discipline students and the kids have an army of lawyers available to ensure they get their “human rights” The police used to be able to deal out the odd clip round the ear. Not any more, they would be up on a charge of assault.

    The way it is in Britain now the scumbags do as they like. As an example the police have brought in traffic cameras everywhere. They can now search a license plate database and within a very short time tell whether or not the car has insurance (a legal requirement) and road tax (anywhere from $150 to $250 per year) so all the criminals do is make up a plate themselves. They use the number from a legitimate car. Somewhat like in the US where cons make license plates. Only here in theory it’s ilegal to sell plates without checking the vehicle details are genuine. They avoid paying hundreds of pounds in insurance and tax and are unlikely to ever get caught. So in effect the law abiding pick up the tab. If they were caught they are unlikely to do jail time as the prisons are full and our leaders subscribe to the “prison doesn’t work theory” despite the evidence that crimes are going ballistic.

    Better stop now before I blow a gasket!!

    Posted by LyndonB    United Kingdom   06/02/2006  at  03:13 PM  

  12. But Lyndon, thats going on all over the world, skip how many DVDs did you get away with till they captured you, LOL from the store not downloads. smile

    Posted by bulldog    United Kingdom   06/03/2006  at  02:21 PM  

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