Website review: Dont Let Walmart Check Your Receipt...
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•231 reviews since Apr 10, 2008
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thesavage rated 8 weeks ago- My outlook is --once I have payed for and the items are in my cart -- they are my goods and no one else has a right to touch them. when I am asked for a receipt, I say no and keep right on walking.
- dulnar rated 2 months ago
- What the thumbs down people don't seem to understand is that, yes, you walk into a store and you're supposed to agree to their security policies. And yes it would be absolutely fantastic if you COULD just not bother going into the store. Unfortunately, this guy explains in his article that he doesn't just have a problem with Wal-Mart or Costco. It's all retailers that are a necessary evil in our lives. However, writing letters has rarely done anything to change policies anytime anywhere. Demonstration is the proven way to create change and that's all he's doing. He's not actually stealing anything, he's just disobeying certain policies that he deems unnecessary and he's not doing it violently or irrationally. It's a corporate type of civil disobedience and I fully support the idea. If you haven't done anything wrong; if you've checked out and paid for all your items; and if you're tired of being beckoned by a rent-a-cop whenever you try to walk out the door and hear that beeping, then do something about it and leave.
- anticompany rated 2 months ago
- After you make a purchase at a store...there exists absolutely no legal obligation to remain there, and the store has no right to detain you (in order to check your receipt).
- MoshJosh rated 2 months ago
- I hate being stopped just as much as you do, but consider this:
You are entering private property. You have agreed to THEIR terms. Shopping at a retailer is NOT a right.
Also, Florida stumblers beware-- "Resisting a Merchant" is against the law, and you can be arrested.
Would they have you arrested? Probably not. Would you be issued a "No Trespass" warning? You bet your $.99 bag of Fritos and $3.99 pink glittery flip-flops, it will be issued.
By all means- Start a PR campaign to force Wal-mart to change its policies-- I'll help! I HATE being stopped. . . However . . until their policies change, by walking onto THEIR property, I agree to abide by their terms.
- I hate being stopped just as much as you do, but consider this:
- Bhagwad rated 2 months ago
- Very interesting view. I didn't see it that way before. But I CAN understand that things like checking receipts - though they may sound reasonable - can be very insulting when viewed dispassionately. As an aside, I've managed a retail store myself for 10 months, and happen to know that 80-90% of all shrinkage (read theft), is internal by store employees.
- huckle rated 2 months ago
- Damn, this was meant to be a last quick stumble before bed. Unfortunately I ende up reading the damn thing twice AND laughing at his sinus infection - twice. I was once stopped by Tescos staff because I walked through one of their silly barrier things the wrong way, holding a school textbook I had carried in with me. Wow am I the big scary shoplifter type. TangMonkey, it is the organisation's fault, and the employees are part of the organisation. Tough Titty.
- TangMonkey rated 2 months ago
- [[[ People, the company is at fault, NOT the employees, this guy is an asshole for mistreating employees instead of fighting the company. End of story ]]] To the author: Seriously, if you have a problem with store policy don't take it up with the minimum wage paid receipt checker, take it up with the corporation that legislates these rules. I'm usually a pretty open minded guy, but in all honesty, sir, what you're doing is pure harassment. I feel sorry for the elderly man you made run to the back of the store. Yes, the receipt checking may be an indirect way of insinuating that you may be a shoplifter, which you probably aren't, but you are indeed guilty of another crime which is punishable with jail time. If you did end up ever having a police officer show up, he would have every right to place you in handcuffs for disturbing the peace, and/or trespassing (what I'd get you for if I was a manager in such a store under such circumstances). Your article is purely Anarchistic and abusive. You are on private property, and as such the owners of said property also have rights. You feel that because you spend hundreds of dollars and look down on Wal-Mart and their customers you deserve to pay on your own terms. Does that mean that when you take out a loan, since you're paying so much money, you get to pay back the loan in any interval and amount at your leisure? There are repercussions to your self-righteous behavior. I can already see you in the news headlines "Man Defiant To Show Receipt Strikes Employee At Wal-mart". You aren't a saint, you probably aren't very intelligent, and the day when you get a little too opinionated and strike the middle aged woman desperate to keep her job who refuses to let you leave the store without checking your receipt comes...well I only hope the jail time you'll serve will soften your standoffish behavior. I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, I'm saying your approach is.
- siqtictorn rated 2 months ago
- Good work, author.
- Dummies102 rated 2 months ago
- Love it. Don't be inconvenienced by mega-stores' loss prevention policies.
