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9/30/2008 1:54:17 PM

lol i was hoping someone would fight me on the credit card minimum too

9/30/2008 3:53:11 PM

Over half the time the people checking receipts don't even look at your items, they just mark your receipt.

I've gotten where I just ignore them, seems to work well enough. When I shop at Best Buy (rarely), I've had a few of the yellow shirt dudes try to look at my shit, I just walk by and they don't do anything. I even smile back at them to show I'm not being rude. I think it confuses most of them.

They only place I shop where I do let them check the receipt is SAM's Club, because it's a membership requirement I do believe, so they could just revoke your membership if you don't. And hell, at SAM's they actually check your shit if they aren't terribly busy.

9/30/2008 4:10:51 PM

the K-Mart on Western has started doing the check the receipt thing... which really pisses me off. I almost always wait an ungodly amount of time in line (since they never have more than one register open, if they even have one open at all - I've been in there when the only place I could check out was the jewelry desk), and then the receipt checker, who has watched me stand there for 15 minutes, still wants to check. Many many s

9/30/2008 4:15:47 PM

Why doesn't everyone just do what I do and scribble dirty pictures and words on the receipt before you exit. "TAMPON DICK SHIT" is a personal favorite of mine.

9/30/2008 4:29:53 PM

LOL!

9/30/2008 5:12:17 PM

i'm sure the employees checking receipts want to do so, and thats okay you probably saved 2 seconds of your time while she probably just got yelled at by her boss

cool story horrible bitch

[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM. Reason : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_ravA2niM]

9/30/2008 5:35:29 PM

when they ask to see your receipt, shove it down the front of your pants and thrust your pelvis at the security geezer suggestively

9/30/2008 7:34:00 PM

This thread is lulz

9/30/2008 9:02:54 PM

The vast majority of theft in a store is committed by the employees themselves. Which is why you see a shit ton of camera domes at the registers and fewer elsewhere in the store.

The receipt check policy is designed to make sure dishonest employees didn't "forget" to scan an item and let their friends have it.

If stores have a problem with their shady employees, deal with it, and leave the customers out of it.

9/30/2008 9:35:16 PM

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"why are the fat ones always the bitchy ones "

9/30/2008 9:57:54 PM

I just went to Wally World

9/30/2008 10:46:34 PM

this shit needs to be bumped.

I'm totally apologizing to everyone i said STFU to about this situation. i had no idea that it was this bad.

Saturday in concord. i wanted to buy a CD player so i could listen to the radio while tail gating for the race. picked one out and had some more shit i needed to get so i though i would just pick up a cart while i was thinking about it..............no

well you cant leave the electronics department without paying first. i thought that was shitty but i was in a good mood so i just said okay whatever.
well got everything i needed, and paid at register up front. STRAIT SHOT for the door. so i have a case of beer in one hand and a CD PLAYER and other shit in a bag in my other hand.

of course this old hag was like i need to see your receipt. i said "look at my hands" and kept walking. well as soon as i get out the door the fucking alarm goes off. so I'm like WTF, i dropped my shit and wasn't even listening to what she had to say i was so fucking pissed. so of course my change was wrapped up in my receipt so when i pull it out of my pocket change goes everywhere and I'm like see what i did there. she just said some other shit that just pissed me off. and on top of that shit didn't fucking look at anything. she just fucking touched it with a highlighter. and wasted my time. SO FUCK YOU WALMART. as i will not fuckin support this shit any longer.

sorryambrosia1231

and now i have come to realize how fucking rude everyone is that works there as well

10/13/2008 4:05:24 PM

u mad?

10/13/2008 4:08:21 PM

10/13/2008 4:15:12 PM

not now but i was mad. well come to think about it im pissed just thinking about it

10/13/2008 4:18:04 PM

Damn. I wish I would have saw this thread when it was originally posted. Ragged really made himself look very very stupid on page one several times.

I didn't read the rest of the thread. I assume someone put him in his place?

edit: well now that I see who bumped it, I guess he realized what an idiot he was being.

Carry on.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Reason : win/win]

10/13/2008 4:29:22 PM

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"Ragged really made himself look very very stupid on page one several times"

well thanks i really didnt know how serious this recepit checking shit is cause i only buy one or two things when i go in that shit hole and no one said shit to me in the past. so i manned up and said OH shit i was wrong. but FUCK WALMART

oh and on another note, FUCK ROCKOLA in asheboro. fucking redneck non knowing how to take an order or run your food slut. thats another thread for another time

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 4:46 PM. Reason : n/m]

10/13/2008 4:44:57 PM

I wish I could make myself able to do that, but I just hate confrontation. I could tell myself all day that I'm going to refuse before I go, but then there I am walking by the person and I'm just a wuss and get out my receipt and hand it over. I need to grow a pair.

10/13/2008 4:48:42 PM

well if it wasnt for the alarm going off that the failure didnt take off the box of the CD player i would have kept walking cause sure enough as soon as i did get out some old fucking security guard came stolling up in on his segeway and i just laughed and said REALLY. but if there is a next time.......... im fucking out

10/13/2008 4:51:25 PM

a few more posts closer to change!

10/13/2008 4:53:18 PM

I just read the rest of the thread. ThatGoodLock lays down a bit of stupid on page 3 as well.

Someone needs to clue him into the fact that BJs/Sams Club/Costco/etc are membership clubs and one of the things you sign away when getting a membership is your legal right to not be searched when you leave the store.

Bottom line, yes in most stores you can walk right out without showing a receipt. In those stores you cannot.

10/13/2008 4:54:43 PM

i've never been asked to show a receipt at walmart

and i shop there a lot. it's in my genes.

10/13/2008 4:55:45 PM

This thread is full of

10/13/2008 4:58:01 PM

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"i've never been asked to show a receipt at walmart and i shop there a lot. it's in my genes. "

No, in this case, it's in your jeans.

10/13/2008 4:58:59 PM

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"well if it wasnt for the alarm going off that the failure didnt take off the box of the CD player i would have kept walking cause sure enough as soon as i did get out some old fucking security guard came stolling up in on his segeway and i just laughed and said REALLY. but if there is a next time.......... im fucking out"

but she'll call security and it will take even longer

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"NeuseRvrRat All American 3618 Posts user info edit post i've never been asked to show a receipt at walmart and i shop there a lot. it's in my genes. "

they only ask you if its not in a bag

10/13/2008 5:00:36 PM

Ambrosia was perfectly within her rights to refuse to show her receipt. Ironically, Wal-mart would have been perfectly within their rights to refuse to sell her anything every again or to have had her trespassed and barred from the premises with legal repercussions if she chose to come there again.

As a shrink control measure the whole receipt checker, greeter system goes it's pretty ineffective, it's a minor deterrent at best for casual shoplifters. Most of your shrink due to theft (a fairly low amount to begin with) is internal, the external theft is primarily done by professional shoplifters (you'd be surprised how many and how well organized shoplifting rings are) who don't give a shit about things like store security.

However, you all are incorrect about being able to reasonably detain someone. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that I can cuff you and throw you into the cooler, but if I observe you in the act of stealing I can detain you until law enforcement arrives. You're welcome to bring suit against me or the store, but you'll lose unless I did something totally unnecessary. Most places have policies against this due to possible liability, but it's not at all illegal to detain a thief.

10/13/2008 5:04:52 PM

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"they only ask you if its not in a bag"

A false, but popular, misconception.

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"However, you all are incorrect about being able to reasonably detain someone. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that I can cuff you and throw you into the cooler, but if I observe you in the act of stealing I can detain you until law enforcement arrives. You're welcome to bring suit against me or the store, but you'll lose unless I did something totally unnecessary. Most places have policies against this due to possible liability, but it's not at all illegal to detain a thief."

I would like a source for this.
Because it goes contrary to everything I have ever heard on this subject.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 5:07 PM. Reason : ljkd]

10/13/2008 5:05:03 PM

http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-72.1.html

10/13/2008 5:08:59 PM

^^ never been asked any other time and that is there policy, and reason they give when you ask why

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : d]

10/13/2008 5:09:42 PM

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"^ never been asked any other time and that is there policy, and reason they give when you ask why"

1) their
2) Just because that's policy doesn't mean that's what's actually done

10/13/2008 5:10:35 PM

Like I said, it's generally frowned upon (like, you usually get fired if you physically lay hands on them), but it's mighty damned hard to win a suit against a store if you're shoplifting or they reasonably suspect that you are.

10/13/2008 5:10:51 PM

Well, that, and a lot of folks are overzealous: they want to detain you not for stealing, but for being difficult. (i.e., refusing a receipt check)

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 5:12 PM. Reason : want like]

10/13/2008 5:11:54 PM

True, sometimes folks are overzealous, as it sounds like they were in your case, but they don't necessarily need for you to steal, they just need to reasonably suspect that you are. This is a vague and nebulous thing, intentionally might I add, and it's questionable as to whether or not refusal to show proof of purchase is cause for reasonable suspicion. There's considerably less burden on them than there is on say... a police officer who wants to search your car.

10/13/2008 5:15:05 PM

so what your saying is "hey mother fucker im an old lady you are stealing and show me your shit"

i dont get it

10/13/2008 5:25:39 PM

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"I just read the rest of the thread. ThatGoodLock lays down a bit of stupid on page 3 as well. Someone needs to clue him into the fact that BJs/Sams Club/Costco/etc are membership clubs and one of the things you sign away when getting a membership is your legal right to not be searched when you leave the store."

lol, someone needs to clue El Nacho into the fact that i only named Walmart and Best Buy specifically. I never once mentioned the club membership stores. Your sort of generalizing mentality is what leads people to think "well this store does it, so it must be allowed at all the stores". I also gladly allow security to pat me down before panther games because it's part of their policy and because it's directly related to my safety. Most stores have no business broadening such claims of safety and theft prevention to every single customer

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 5:43 PM. Reason : i just reread my post and i can tell where he misunderstood the argument]

10/13/2008 5:40:08 PM

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"i just reread my post and i can tell where he misunderstood the argument"

It wasn't a case of me misunderstanding a god damn thing. If you're not capable of following the conversation, don't blame me for your shortcomings. Jrb599 said "Pretty sure you agree to that when you purchase from there" in reference to "costco, BJs, and the like". Then you said "lol im 100% more sure that once i have the receipt on my person, there is no more obligation from myself or from the store to provide any service...thats actually the purpose of the receipt"

Which is 100% incorrect in reference to those stores.

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"Your sort of generalizing mentality is what leads people to think "well this store does it, so it must be allowed at all the stores"."

Are you retarded or just plain stupid? I specifically said "Bottom line, yes in most stores you can walk right out without showing a receipt. In those stores you cannot." If you would have bothered to read the rest of the post that you quoted you would see that I addressed this "generalizing mentality" specifically.

My cock. Suck it.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:32 PM. Reason : ThatGoodLock pwnt. Stay home.]

10/13/2008 6:27:42 PM

I haven't read this thread yet
and yes, I know it makes no sense that I'm on this page

but having said that, this post ^ makes me want to read it when I get back home in a couple of hours
it has gotten me interested

10/13/2008 6:32:04 PM

thats uncalled for, what are you like 14 again bro

10/13/2008 6:32:06 PM

now i'll admit that i only read the beginning and end of the thread...but from what i HAVE read, i dont see what the big deal is. seems to me that people are making a fuss just to prove a point. sure, part of that point is that they dont actually even check anything when they "check" your receipt, but is it REALLY that much of an inconvenience to keep your receipt in hand when you're leaving with something you bought that wasn't bagged? true, it's the shitdick shoplifters that lead to this mess, but how hard is it to give someone 5 seconds to read your receipt? i dunno, i shop at walmart all the time (ends up being once every week or two) because it's the closest store i can get what i need in this podunk town im living in. but i have never found myself greatly inconvenienced when asked for my receipt. IMO, the biggest inconvenience is the fact that they only keep 3 or 4 of the dozen or so lanes open, and all the people who shop there line up with billions of things in their carts...then their gatorade rings up for $0.15 more than it was labelled, causing them to have to do a price check, which has to wait for someone to walk out to check the marked price....blah blah blah.

so yea, shopping at walmart isnt fun for the dipshits, both customers and employees, you have to deal with, nor is it fast. but i just dont get the big deal about the receipt. pointless, mostly but not completely. a huge inconvenience? not IMO.

so going back to the first words of this thread, "this is something tiny, and like many things blown out of proportion," but you arent going to prove a fucking principle to some dipshit checking receipts at the door of a fucking walmart.

10/13/2008 6:37:25 PM

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"You're welcome to bring suit against me or the store, but you'll lose unless I did something totally unnecessary. Most places have policies against this due to possible liability, but it's not at all illegal to detain a thief."

Quote the NC Statute please.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:46 PM. Reason : I want to see this.]

10/13/2008 6:46:21 PM

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"REALLY that much of an inconvenience to keep your receipt in hand when you're leaving "

yes when they give you change and are to lazy to put the shit in the bag for you so you cram it in your pocket. and walk out with arm loads of bags

10/13/2008 6:47:58 PM

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"1) their 2) Just because that's policy doesn't mean that's what's actually done "

1) ok thanks i made a grammar mistake .... no calling you out in general but wtf people make mistakes... i hate how people fix that shit all the time... i know my theres theirs and they're... so what if im in a hurry and use the wrong one... but damn it annoys me when people fix that. might as well fix every spelling/grammer mistake in a post. lol sorry but it really doesnt matter if its wrong if your get the point damn. and i hate hate hate when people say ugh thats just my pet peeve... no its not ... just shut up. again i dont mean you i mean people in general you're typing that there ( not their or they're) just made me think of it.. and how i hate when emo kids say that shit

2) if your experiencing that situation then You are the only one i personally have ever heard have that problem at a walmart.... never heard of or seen anyone get stopped for something in a bag unless the alarm went off in that case id say something to a manager so they got the person set straight on the policy

but besides that did you write a complaint.... theres a survey with the reciept ... im thinking im going to do that, and see what happens, and if you did, any feedback?

10/13/2008 6:48:35 PM

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"Quote the NC Statute please."

It was already linked.

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"but you arent going to prove a fucking principle to some dipshit checking receipts at the door of a fucking walmart"

Please note what else I also said: I'll show my receipt when I damn well want to

I am under no illusions that I am going to change anything. Much like receipt checker Max should be aware that he will not make me want to show my receipt.

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"might as well fix every spelling/grammer mistake in a post."

^You make a LOT of those errors. It seems like half the time I notice a post of yours, it's got an error like that. Anyways, it's not that hard to not make the mistakes in the first place - then you never have to worry about FIXING them.

No, there wasn't a survey attached. Fuck, I've never even heard of CS surveys at WalMart. Partially because they don't give a damn
And what good would a complaint do? If I'm lucky, get me a 'response' that simply reiterates company policy, and if I hit the jackpot, one that explains said policy. Which, if you read the thread, has been addressed thoroughly.

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:53 PM. Reason : lkajs]

10/13/2008 6:50:04 PM

^ Where is the link?

10/13/2008 6:51:28 PM

^^^That post was fuckin hilarious.

It's like this long ass rant about how she's knows the difference between their they're and their.

Then two words into the next thing she says she gets the your/you're thing completely wrong.

10/13/2008 6:52:16 PM

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"^ Where is the link?"

On this page.

I assume that this:

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"but it's not at all illegal to detain a thief"

Is what you want to see a link on, yes?

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM. Reason : ^as well as completely missing the point.]

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM. Reason : doesn't she date slowblack96, anyways?]

10/13/2008 6:54:31 PM

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"as well as completely missing the point"

well it's not like I actually bothered to scan the rest of the post for actual content.

10/13/2008 6:55:47 PM

Yes

[Edited on October 13, 2008 at 6:56 PM. Reason : ^^]

10/13/2008 6:55:57 PM

That place is full of god damn fail, and I cant wait to return the shit i bought THERE.

10/13/2008 6:56:43 PM