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Pretty much this explains why I pay taxes. Only the inconvenience in that case is men with guns will come jail me or shoot me if I don’t pay up.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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March 5th, 2015 at 6:51 pm
I just breeze by and say “Sorry, I don’t do that.” as I leave. There is no requirement or need to stand there and debate the issue.
Just leave.
March 6th, 2015 at 12:20 am
I worked Lawn and Garden at Wally World during summers in college. They didn’t have any fixed policy on who to stop, and it was usually the old folks working as greeters who checked the receipts, but I did it sometimes when they went on break.
If we saw the person checking out in Lawn and Garden, we didn’t bother looking–only checked if they came out having checked out at a register inside like Electronics or Tire and Lube.
The main thing they wanted us to look for was the date and time stamp because there was a huge problem with people who would go in, buy a bunch of DVD’s or a TV and take it out one entrance, then try using the same receipt to get the same items an hour or even days later. The better policy at other stores in the area is to just mark the receipt with something which prevents this trick.
I get the Wookie reaction, but I figure other people have the right to protect themselves and it’s a requirement they put on me coming on their property and doing business with them. If I don’t like it I can take my business elsewhere.
March 6th, 2015 at 3:27 am
Utlaw, do guests like it, when you check them for silverware, as they leave your house? Really, how could they object?
March 6th, 2015 at 3:56 am
“Pretty much this explains why I pay taxes. Only the inconvenience in that case is men with guns will come jail me or shoot me if I don’t pay up.”
Unless you have the word “Reverend” in front of your name.
March 6th, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Allen,
I get your point, but let’s look at it for a second. If I did want to start a dickish policy like that, would it not be within my rights? Or maybe another policy like saying “No guns in my house but mine?”
Of course, it would also be the right of my friends to say that I was a dick and that they wanted nothing more to do with me.
As a practical matter, however, the relationship in your hypothetical silverware shakedown of an invited guest is a bit different than the relationship between a store and the members of the general public coming there to do business.
This doesn’t change the rights involved, but the different relationship does make being a little less trusting prudent.
If you think the occasional receipt check is too much, you’re free to tell them so and not shop there just as we’re all free to let restaurants and businesses with “No Guns Allowed” signs know that we’re not going to patronize them until the policy changes.
I just don’t find that the receipt check is too big a concession to make to do business with them. If they started asking to see go through my bags, or look in my satchel, I’d tell them they’d lost my business too.
Do you have a suggestion for a better way for them to prevent reuse of receipts or other shoplifting such as the folks that carry things out in the bags from their last trip? Would you prefer that they did away with all the other registers inside the store so that they didn’t have to worry about this? It would remove the issue we were watching for at the store I worked at, but it would still cost you time and convenience. Or maybe you have a better suggestion I haven’t thought of which better protects the rights of both parties?
March 7th, 2015 at 2:15 am
UTlaw, as a matter of fact, I do have a suggestion, call the cops.
You don’t want to? Why not? Don’t you want to protect your employer? Do you want a thief to escape justice?
Why won’t you call the cops?
March 8th, 2015 at 11:13 am
The products are the PROPERTY of the store, just as my silverware is my property. Why would you possibly object to someone protecting their property from theft? The thing is, my silverware is less likely to be lifted by a visitor to my home under my supervision than is a DVD Or Flat screen TV at a store, where supervision is not so close. Bad people steal things; it’s gone on for millennia and not likely to stop. Why should we have to call the cops every time, though? Just put up a little barrier. Fry’s and Costco want to check your receipt, and I fully understand.