'Treated as a criminal': Walmart receipt and bag checks anger customers. (news, household)
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Walmart employees, except for security, are not allowed to stop shoplifters per store policy. In fact, they have fired employees for doing it. Too much liability if they are wrong.
That may be true, for now, but I've seen store policies shift over the years. Given enough time the pendulum may swing back in the other direction, when shoplifting has gotten entirely out of hand. Kind of like the way Walmart did away with the easy refund policy of 'no receipt, no questions asked'.
Why do you folks shop at Walmart if you don't like it so much?
But if I had the problems you all do at Walmart .....I would be asking myself 'why do I keep going ack?"
People shop there because sometimes its the only store to buy food, clothing and household items near their home. That doesn't mean customers have to like being treated like a criminal every time they shop at Walmart.
You just got checked out, blew a wad of cash, then someone rummages through your bags and scrutinizes your purchase. Yeah, nothing bothersome about that..
the first time I went to WalMart, being middle-class, law-abiding and all, I surely was annoyed at the thought. But from then on, I knew they checked receipts and bags.
I know every time I exit Costco, they're checking my receipt. I go there 70x a year. They often don't really check my membership entering, but every time, they check my receipt on the way out.
I don't mind it either as I'm not a thief and nothing to hide. However, and unfortunately there is a lot of theft going on in stores these days and I understand why it's done.
At our local Walmart there are a lot of locked cabinets now. Every time I need something under lock and key I have to use the buzzer to get an employee to unlock the cabinet and get it for me. They then take it up to the check stand for you to retrieve later. They even scan it for you in those self-checkout lines as a safety precaution. Welcome to today's world. Too bad that it's come to this but I don't have a chip on my shoulder about it as I know it's nothing personal about me.
You’ll have to forgive me if I do not find a three-second bag check to be a violation of my rights. I save my outrage for really important things that actually matter.
I live in a small town, Our only other grocery store has a limited inventory and it is 60 miles to the next town. Walmart has run most of the small stores out of business.
I'm not an SJW, and I just walk right out the door. I don't care what they want to look at, unless you have suspicion that I committed a crime, leave me alone. Not that I go to Wally World all that much - maybe 10 times in my entire life, but each time, I walk right on past them.
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