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i am being cheeky but in all seriousness i think that retailers who want to inspect your receipt are fucking bullshit
CostCo has low prices and pays their employees a living wage. The last time I checked their shrink rate was miles below the competition. You agree to show your membership at the door, the register, and your receipt at the exit. If you feel this disproportianately infringes upon your liberty, there are many other retailers that are less intrusive and you don't need to sign a membership agreement to use them.
for a membership store i can accept that it is their right to revoke my membership if i refuse to play by the rules - that doesn't change my stance that i disagree with them on that point
stores like fry's who have no membership and still do ticket checking can suck a bag of dicks
I can get behind this. Also, if I don't need something IMMEDIATELY, I treat Frys and Best Buy as basically Amazon's Showroom.
i don't think a company spying on me in my own home through a webcam and a company asking to check my cart against my receipt when i leave their store are within miles of the same ballpark
not even the same league.
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
Basically I would have broken both his legs.
Then left him in the storm drain.
Costco doesn't have a reasonable belief. Not really. Sometimes that line to check receipts gets backed up worse than the god damned line to get checked out. I've WANTED to blow past everyone before countless times. It's infuriating sometimes.
You walk out of Costco with nothing in your hands and they won't ask you for your receipt nor will they detain you because there is no reasonable belief.
You walk out of Costco with a cart of merchandise and refuse to show your receipt. I'd bet money they have reasonable belief/probable cause.
That sounds dickish to assume I'm a thief without seeing me steal or set off the shoplifting alarms. I won't shop at Costco.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
I should probably get a costco or sam's club membership, they are both kinda on my commute home.
remember that sam's is walmart and thus an embodiment of pure evil
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
So is receipt checking a routine thing in 'murica? Anecdotally, I have never been asked to show a receipt ever.
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
Oh brilliant
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kaleeditySometimes science is more art than scienceRegistered Userregular
costco suddenly has install sensors like other retailers when jncos make a comeback because someone then might be able to actually fit something from costco in a pocket
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
So is receipt checking a routine thing in 'murica? Anecdotally, I have never been asked to show a receipt ever.
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
it is at a few stores but not really the norm overall
costco suddenly has install sensors like other retailers when jncos make a comeback because someone then might be able to actually fit something from costco in a pocket
is that seven hundred packets of mayonnaise in your pocket or are you happy to see me
I should probably get a costco or sam's club membership, they are both kinda on my commute home.
i have a costco membership
i don't go all that often because it's in everett and that means driving (strike one) and the only way to get there is to go through the worst traffic circle in the boston metro (strike 2).
but they have honestly the best value in butchering in the city. great meat, reasonable prices
Costco doesn't have a reasonable belief. Not really. Sometimes that line to check receipts gets backed up worse than the god damned line to get checked out. I've WANTED to blow past everyone before countless times. It's infuriating sometimes.
dis has never happened when i haf been at costco, whack
poo
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kaleeditySometimes science is more art than scienceRegistered Userregular
So is receipt checking a routine thing in 'murica? Anecdotally, I have never been asked to show a receipt ever.
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
I have been waved out of more stores in this fashion than I have had to have receipts checked
don't think I've ever seen a guard in a retail store tho
Costco doesn't have a reasonable belief. Not really. Sometimes that line to check receipts gets backed up worse than the god damned line to get checked out. I've WANTED to blow past everyone before countless times. It's infuriating sometimes.
You walk out of Costco with nothing in your hands and they won't ask you for your receipt nor will they detain you because there is no reasonable belief.
You walk out of Costco with a cart of merchandise and refuse to show your receipt. I'd bet money they have reasonable belief/probable cause.
That sounds dickish to assume I'm a thief without seeing me steal or set off the shoplifting alarms. I won't shop at Costco.
The thing is emnmnme, if you exit any department store with a cart of merchandise and the security guards don't see you go through a register, they'll probably assume you're a thief.
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
One time when I was young my dog ran into the road and got hit by a car and they sued my parents because it cracked their bumper.
this is horrible
where did this happen?
In NH when I was like 12 or 13. We lived in the middle of nowhere and I don't remember if there were any leash laws or not, so our dog was outside. I think my little sister was getting home from school or something and the dog was excited to see her and ran into the road.
it would have taken a whole lot of forebearance not to just set the dude's car on fire or something
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Sam's IS walmart and receipt checks. But wal-mart does too. I HAVE walked past the wal-mart receipt checker.
Old Hag SAW me check out. SAW my empty buggy. SAW it be filled with scanned goods by the checker. Fuck you, lady.
One time when I was young my dog ran into the road and got hit by a car and they sued my parents because it cracked their bumper.
not to be terrible, but to be terrible, apart from being kind of a twattish thing to do I don't see how they were in the wrong about that
EDIT: "Kind of a" is a sarcastic understatement, here.
Pet insurance (here, at least) usually has a public liability component for precisely this reason
Although interestingly enough only usually for dogs, as it is generally accepted that a dog should be under its owner's control in a way that other animals are not expected to be
it is a little less casual and dress uppy than GW2, which are big points against it
but it makes up for it by being a much better game in every other department
i am on strike against anything from japan
sry james i am hardline anti-weeb these days
this world is frayed, its iniquities manifold, all light blinding, confusing
he hates the weeb, but the weeb orders his day, the weeb and the weeb like
in absence of them, hatred for weeb grows stronger
a hate that hurts no one because the hated do not exist, and the hatred does not exist, not really
it is just the way we order ourselves, love does not bring us together any more
there is no other, no us. we're all alone. except for sephirothguy538, he's going to run a dungeon with me later today maybe if he doesn't have too much homework and his mom lets him on the pc
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
So is receipt checking a routine thing in 'murica? Anecdotally, I have never been asked to show a receipt ever.
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
So is receipt checking a routine thing in 'murica? Anecdotally, I have never been asked to show a receipt ever.
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
Cash and Carry type places usually do it. Builder's Merchants, too.
Costco over here does, as do Makro.
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TehSlothHit Or MissI Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered Userregular
I should probably get a costco or sam's club membership, they are both kinda on my commute home.
i have a costco membership
i don't go all that often because it's in everett and that means driving (strike one) and the only way to get there is to go through the worst traffic circle in the boston metro (strike 2).
but they have honestly the best value in butchering in the city. great meat, reasonable prices
I should probably get a costco or sam's club membership, they are both kinda on my commute home.
remember that sam's is walmart and thus an embodiment of pure evil
But the savings, Chanus ...
Costco is tempting, haven't actually been in one since it's across the street from the Sam's Club and the Sam's Club used to be slightly easier to get into parking wise but that is no longer the case due to construction.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may be detained in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable time by:
A merchant or merchants employee who has probable cause for believing that the person has committed theft of property of a store or other mercantile establishment; or
all the cases I have quickly googled seem to have ruled in favor of whoever claims wrongful arrest
so it looks like it's hard as fuck to prove that you actually have probably cause!!
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
Has brad Pitt ever played a villain
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
Costco doesn't have a reasonable belief. Not really. Sometimes that line to check receipts gets backed up worse than the god damned line to get checked out. I've WANTED to blow past everyone before countless times. It's infuriating sometimes.
You walk out of Costco with nothing in your hands and they won't ask you for your receipt nor will they detain you because there is no reasonable belief.
You walk out of Costco with a cart of merchandise and refuse to show your receipt. I'd bet money they have reasonable belief/probable cause.
That sounds dickish to assume I'm a thief without seeing me steal or set off the shoplifting alarms. I won't shop at Costco.
The thing is emnmnme, if you exit any department store with a cart of merchandise and the security guards don't see you go through a register, they'll probably assume you're a thief.
Oooh, so now they're uniformed security guards and not receipt checkers. And they saw me not pay for my cartload of stuff. Well then!
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
Other than (do I really have to spoil this)
fight club
but even then I don't think it really counts
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
used to be the video rental store's tags would set off the alarm at the kroger next door to it
so people would steal stuff and walk out and when the alarm went off just wave their movies in the air like omg i know these movies right so annoying for you i bet
I don't think destruction of property is in the same league as rape but they're both wrong
well, to be fair, i don't think receipt checking is wrong
i do think spying on me in my own home through a webcam is wrong
What about spying on what you're doing with the leased product instead?
This is the only real parallel I can draw because you're "still in the store" even though it's your property in the cart, without going into crazy federal government spying on you territory. "If you're innocent, why are you so worried about my invading your privacy looking for wrong doing" kind of vibe.
To be honest, there's no reason checkout can't be doing this shit. Receipt checker's are superfluous to this process. Don't let people out the in door, do a cursory glance as they go out. Hell, get some red stickers and slap them on products so you know this person has at least stopped by checkout. That way they can be doing the "you bought all this stuff" motion without needing staff to do receipt inspections.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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I can get behind this. Also, if I don't need something IMMEDIATELY, I treat Frys and Best Buy as basically Amazon's Showroom.
not to be terrible, but to be terrible, apart from being kind of a twattish thing to do I don't see how they were in the wrong about that
EDIT: "Kind of a" is a sarcastic understatement, here.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
not even the same league.
Then left him in the storm drain.
That sounds dickish to assume I'm a thief without seeing me steal or set off the shoplifting alarms. I won't shop at Costco.
remember that sam's is walmart and thus an embodiment of pure evil
Like, I have set alarms off before, and shrugged at the security guard and he waved me away, is how little fucks the UK seems to give over potential shoplifters.
it is at a few stores but not really the norm overall
this is basically terrible, awful bullshit
i can see myself dipping into savings to countersue if presented with this situation
just go fucking scorched earth on that guy
esp a huge-ass warehouse store like a costco or sams or whatever.
like, they have a reasonable and justified interest in people not stealing shit
i guess yes there's a balance to be struck, but i feel like receipt inspection is on the okay side of that line
is that seven hundred packets of mayonnaise in your pocket or are you happy to see me
also costco is the best and high quality and cheap and has the best return policy and treats its employees well and is the anti-walmart so who cares
note: i have not read any of the context to this discussion
But the savings, Chanus ...
well, to be fair, i don't think receipt checking is wrong
i do think spying on me in my own home through a webcam is wrong
i have a costco membership
i don't go all that often because it's in everett and that means driving (strike one) and the only way to get there is to go through the worst traffic circle in the boston metro (strike 2).
but they have honestly the best value in butchering in the city. great meat, reasonable prices
dis has never happened when i haf been at costco, whack
I have been waved out of more stores in this fashion than I have had to have receipts checked
don't think I've ever seen a guard in a retail store tho
unless you count walmart greeters
The thing is emnmnme, if you exit any department store with a cart of merchandise and the security guards don't see you go through a register, they'll probably assume you're a thief.
it would have taken a whole lot of forebearance not to just set the dude's car on fire or something
Old Hag SAW me check out. SAW my empty buggy. SAW it be filled with scanned goods by the checker. Fuck you, lady.
I got a "Sir......Sir...."
And that's it
damn right you didn't stop me
Pet insurance (here, at least) usually has a public liability component for precisely this reason
Although interestingly enough only usually for dogs, as it is generally accepted that a dog should be under its owner's control in a way that other animals are not expected to be
this world is frayed, its iniquities manifold, all light blinding, confusing
he hates the weeb, but the weeb orders his day, the weeb and the weeb like
in absence of them, hatred for weeb grows stronger
a hate that hurts no one because the hated do not exist, and the hatred does not exist, not really
it is just the way we order ourselves, love does not bring us together any more
there is no other, no us. we're all alone. except for sephirothguy538, he's going to run a dungeon with me later today maybe if he doesn't have too much homework and his mom lets him on the pc
On the black screen
Point of difference. At Wal-Mart you have not consented to showing your receipt as a condition for you being on their property.
Cash and Carry type places usually do it. Builder's Merchants, too.
Costco over here does, as do Makro.
Costco is tempting, haven't actually been in one since it's across the street from the Sam's Club and the Sam's Club used to be slightly easier to get into parking wise but that is no longer the case due to construction.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
so it looks like it's hard as fuck to prove that you actually have probably cause!!
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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Bypassing an internal control and making an old lady feel powerless.
Boo-urns.
Oooh, so now they're uniformed security guards and not receipt checkers. And they saw me not pay for my cartload of stuff. Well then!
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
so people would steal stuff and walk out and when the alarm went off just wave their movies in the air like omg i know these movies right so annoying for you i bet
danny boyle such promise.
like, he's had a pretty good career but honestly i don't think he'll ever match the vitality of trainspotting
What about spying on what you're doing with the leased product instead?
This is the only real parallel I can draw because you're "still in the store" even though it's your property in the cart, without going into crazy federal government spying on you territory. "If you're innocent, why are you so worried about my invading your privacy looking for wrong doing" kind of vibe.
To be honest, there's no reason checkout can't be doing this shit. Receipt checker's are superfluous to this process. Don't let people out the in door, do a cursory glance as they go out. Hell, get some red stickers and slap them on products so you know this person has at least stopped by checkout. That way they can be doing the "you bought all this stuff" motion without needing staff to do receipt inspections.