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Ok so here is my story in a nutshell…
I always have hated having them stop me to ask me for my receipt and treat me like I am a criminal. Especially since I have obviously just came from a register a few feet from them and all my things are in bags. Anyway one night my g/f and I went to walmart to get a “personal item”. We got said item and went to the furthest register to the left which happens to be right in front of the door. The two fascists that were working the door were right there and nobody was really coming in or going at that moment. They actually looked at us while we stood there checking out and my g/f has pink hair so we definitely stand out enough for them to remember us. Anyway we checked out and our item was placed in a bag with our receipt.
I had decided early on that I was sick of their harassment and that as a paying customer who pays their paychecks I would no longer put up with it. This is AMERICA after all. Not Nazi Germany.
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So on my way out the door with my g/f in hand the older of the two “checkers” was busy harassing someone for their receipt. So I just walked around them and went to go out the door. He immediately turned his attention to me and was yelling after me… “sir! sir! siiiirrr!” and I just kept walking since I had no reason to talk to him. Then the younger and more ghetto of the two decided to come after me. He followed me out of the store and kept yelling “sir! Sir the man asked for your receipt!! Sir!!” I just kept walking to my car and was complaining to my g/f that I was sick of this treatment and that I was about to flip out.
Anyway I get to my car and the guy catches up to me and is next to me screaming at me and trembling saying that the other guy asked to see my receipt. I said so what? And he said well he asked you. And I said I have no reason to show him. I’m not a theif.
He looked perplexed for a minute. Then he started threatening me. saying he was going to call the cops and I said go for it. I have committed no crime and have no reason to be treated like a criminal. He used the whole… I’m just doing my job line on me. And said he was going to call the cops.
My g/f actually got mad enough when the guy threatened us with the cops to scream at him to leave us the fu*k alone and that we had done nothing wrong.
Anyway I was a little worried it was going to escalate further but I got in my car and drove home thinking the cops would stop me and give me a hard time etc. but it never happened. I actually felt pretty accomplished.
It was a while after that before I went back to the store again. Next time I was in there the same younger guy was working the door. Not sure if he just didn’t remember us but he didn’t say a word to me or my g/f.
This also happened to me at a Tiger Direct store once. They have a hired guard that stands sentry at the door. I went in to exchange my motherboard for a different one and he stopped me as soon as I went in and took the item from me. He gave it to a cashier and I waited in line to do the exchange. All of this is right in front of the guy. Anyway I’m there and he is watching me the whole time and watches them do the exchange for me and what seemed to be his releif (another security dude showed up) and was there to relieve him from work. They were standing there facing me joking around etc. anyway after all is said and done the cashier hands me the new item in a store bag with my receipt in it.
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The 2 guards were harassing someone else who was trying to leave so instead of waiting to be illegally searched or bothered I walked past them and out the door. I got almost all the way to my car before I heard the one running behind me screaming “sir! sir! sir!”. I just kept walking and didn’t even acknowledge him. I got in my car with my heart pumping and turned it on. When I pulled out I looked back and saw him and the other guard outside looking so baffled and confused that I didn’t respond. I think he was yelling “can’t you hear me sir!” at one point too. lol.
Anyway stand up for yourselves and don’t take their crap. They have no right. I don’t care if it’s a “policy” its my policy not to be treated like a criminal without merit. And they have no governing control over us.
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March 30th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Dear Big Robby,
I understand how you seem to feel that your civil liberties have been violated, how you feel that people may be misjudging you by thinking you are a thief. But, listen to your own words “more ghetto of the two” and think about who is judging now. This is what we call Prejudice, or to pre-judge. Maybe you don’t have enough life experience yet to know the difference, or maybe there is something deep inside you that troubles you even more.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I’m sorry, I guess I didn’t clearly say that I personally do not write these stories. These are the stories of people who submitted them to my website over the course of 2 years. I’m just here to give them a voice. Thanks for you comments.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
whether you write them or not you are as you say giving them a voice and allowing their ignorance to perpetuate itself.
It is important when using terms like fascism to understand what they mean. To liken walmart employees to fascist regimes really cheapens the people who suffered under their suppressive policies.
I would also like to point out the misuse of harassment within this article as well.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hey Ryan. Why should he censor, what the others have written in?
August 7th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Ridiculous. Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by posting an ignorant semi-incoherant rant from a socially misfit punk who apparantly is incomfortable with anyone who has a different appearance from his own or a job. It certainly can’t be gaining much support for whatever your point is anyway (pro-shoplifting?).
September 12th, 2009 at 2:29 am
I see ignorance from posters on both sides of this topic, so I can’t see where any one person should be ineligible to voice an opinion or story simply because you think he/she is less intelligent than you believe yourself to be.
That said, the phrase “more ghetto of the two” is perfectly understandable to me. Whether or not I would use the phrase myself is a moot point- what’s relevant is that it conveyed the OP’s thoughts to the reader adequately. Maybe it’s a regional thing. Furthermore, I do not see how an individuals choice of descriptive words (or age, or hair color…) confirms his employment status or social skills.
Regarding the receipt checkers…
I shop at Walmart. It’s convenient. I can get my cat food and cutlery and anti-freeze and printer ink all while shopping for milk and bread. AND I can do it all at midnight if I so desire.
I do HATE the receipt checkers, though. Oddly enough, I’ve grumbled about the practice for years and didn’t even know that websites such as this even exist until today. Another interesting, yet accidental, web-find!
I’ve never refused to show a receipt when asked. I even go so far as to keep the receipt in-hand until I’m out the door in hopes it will be good enough to get waved on through. I’m not sure if it works or not. There seems to be no real rhyme or reason to when I get stopped. What is always a definite is that the checker only draws a quick mark on my receipt without so much as a cursory glance in my basket, much less into the actual bags. This only serves to anger me further. It’s obvious that the practice serves no purpose other than to possibly keep me from re-using a receipt. But honestly, if that is the purpose then wouldn’t it be in Walmart’s interest to just have the checker draw a line on the receipt as soon as I’ve paid and it’s pulled out of the register? Heck, let’s take it one step further and suggest that said checker also takes a quick glance at my cart when all of my items from the belt have been scanned to make sure my cart is empty. THEN take my money, THEN draw on my receipt, THEN let me be on my way. There is no merchandise between the cash registers and the door for me to steal. There are detectors at the door I have to walk through to catch me if I sneakily shoved a $5 t-shirt in my back pocket…
I think this would be sufficient. Don’t you?
I have commented to the sometimes elderly, sometimes decidedly young receipt checker that I am, in fact, NOT a thief and that I don’t appreciate being treated as such. This is met with silence as well as the mandatory Yellow Line on my receipt. Sometimes I get a Yellow Circle. I think this must only happen when the checker is early in his/her shift and not yet burned out on the 6-hours-of-standing deal. Maybe I’ll tell them no next time, just for kicks.
But honestly. It really is no different than the “socially misfit punk” judging the receipt checker as the “more ghetto of the two”. Walmart (mis)judges me a thief just about every time I go there. Or, shall I say– every time I LEAVE there?
@Dale–I think what you may have meant was “semi-incoherent”
September 12th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Or rather, “semi-coherent”