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March 23rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Or you could just stop shopping at Walmart.
March 24th, 2009 at 4:24 am
I agree, that is a possibility for some. But for me, I live in a small town, and Walmart is the only store within 30 miles that can provide me with what I need. What option would you present to someone, and the many others like me who don’t mind shopping at Walmart, but don’t want to be called a thief?
March 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
What is their receipt checking policy?
March 25th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I just want to say that the fourth amendment has nothing to do with WalMart, as it is not (well, maybe pragmatically, but not legally) part of the United States goverment or a government of a state or locality. The reason they don’t have the right to search you is because touching you without permission is assault and preventing you from leaving without sufficient proof of shoplifting for a citizens arrest is kidnapping/unlawful detention.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Big Robby:
Drive 30 miles. Wal-Mart has no reason to change their policies, regardless of public approbation. The only thing that will change their policies is the knowledge that said policies are hurting profits. No petition will provide them with that proof. Less customers in their stores and less profits will. Even in this recession, Wal-Mart is showing growth.
Petitions to private companies are as effective as shouting at the wind. Even if the wind stops, you shouting at it had no impact.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Walmart, in many locations, requires you show a receipt at the door to prove the items in your cart we’re purchased. Essentially their method is to assume everyone is stealing, to catch the ones that are.
March 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I agree that the 4th amendment wasn’t designed for Walmart. But I also understand that Walmart employs local police in larger areas to assist with the receipt checking policy. Therefore, when a police officer requires you comply with the 16 year old or 100 year old door checker’s request to ‘prove you didn’t steal’ that IS a violation of the 4th amendment. Agreed?
March 25th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
An important consideration, I thank you for your insight. Unfortunately driving 30 miles is not an option for me, nor for many others. Walmart will have to make a change if enough people make a stink. I think your attitude about this is the same reason Walmart get’s away with this, not because we all shop there. Think about it. If we shopped there, and instead of showing a receipt you used the pass you can print on this website, it would become a subject of discussion for the big-wigs in their cushy offices. So far I have been able to get this website in several media outlets (Abc, NBC, Smart Money Magazine and several other regional papers), have hundreds of thousands of unique visitors who feel the same way, and 500+ stories by people as pissed as I am. If you’re ok with it, that’s ok. But don’t tell me or any of the other people here we’re wasting our time when any change that is ever made is by people just like us trying to make a difference somewhere.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Someone needs to seriously illustrate to you, or you need to thouroughly experience what injustice is and how this does not qualify as one. This falls under the same category of injustice as using THEN instead of THAN in a sentence. The reason you’ve gotten that big press recognition is purely for the “check out this foot-stamping infant going on about jack piddly” factor. You’re creating less discussion with the bigwigs in the corporate office than how Jane Q. Secretary has her hair arranged this week. The fact that 99.999999998% of other customers have zero inclination to raise a fuss over the matter had best be an indicator, and soon. This is nearly identical to wearing a ski-mask and brandishing with a plastic toy combat knife and shouting that it’s an injustice to be perceived as a criminal since it’s not technically illegal to wear a ski mask or carry a plastic toy combat knife.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:57 am
ablestmage-
I think everyone can agree that it does not qualify as an “injustice” as the crimes in Darfur do, or the genocide that happened in Rwanda. I don’t know what you think needs to happen for an event to be considered an “injustice”. However, it does qualify simply in that it is not fair, or just, to treat all customers as potential shoplifters when a majority have committed no crime, where Walmart is perfectly aware of that fact.
I agree that Walmart exec’s probably aren’t worried about this little “revolution” right now, and agree with an earlier post that no changes are likely unless profits somehow become affected by the movement. However, the ideas on this website aren’t exclusively about changing Walmart’s policies. They are mostly about informing consumers that they are not legally obligated to show the receipt while leaving. I found much pleasure in this fact alone.
What is your beef about this? Your comments and illustrations are completely unfounded, I found them childish and asinine. Why make a big fuss about it if you don’t agree with what’s going on here? What reason do you have to support Walmart’s receipt checking policy over this website’s mission?
April 5th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Because this is a damned joke. If you live in a small town and have no other options than shopping at walmart. Make friends with the receipt checker, if it is the small community that you claim, why not establish a friendship with people who are forced to work mundane jobs for little or no livable compensation?
I guarantee you if you make an attempt to learn their name and build rapport with them, instead of labeling them as “fascist nazis” they will not need to check your receipt because they will have developed a mutual respect for you.
The fact is that they are not supposing you are a criminal, that is something that your mind has associated with the practice of having your receipt checked. That is an internal problem to you people, likely because you have no other concerns to get angry about.
The practice of receipt checking is a deterrent.
When I go to the police station to file a police report, I must walk through a metal detector. Is this unreasonable? Why do you people not claim this is unreasonable? Is it because there is a safety element here? In all places where I should be allowed to take my gun, the most likely place I will have one pulled on me, I am not allowed to take my gun. Not that I even have a gun, but if I did.
The logical argument you have established to justify your cause is without merit, and lacks validity.
What really makes me worried for the future of the American people is not their inability as one commenter said, “to stand up for their rights”, but the fact that like one here says, “They are mostly about informing consumers that they are not legally obligated to show the receipt while leaving. I found much pleasure in this fact alone.”
As an American citizen it is your responsibility to have an understanding of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, National, State, and Local laws. It is your responsibility to understand how the Federal system works, the power sharing between the National and separate State governments. How to influence those laws through referendum. These are your rights, nay responsibility as a citizen, not whether or not you feel victimized by going to walmart.
Not be informed by a website what you are and are not legally bound to do. Taking legal advice from internet experts is a risky venture, although I am thankful I have seen no suggestions here that would lead to someone being incarcerated.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I am disgusted and highly offended by the treatment I received from Wal-Mart today. I purchased 2 items (roughly $11) and checked out at the 10 items or less lane. I then walked 10 steps to leave and was asked for a receipt. Not wanting to cut in front of the 9 other customers that were lined up down the front end of the store (waiting to get out), I went to the end of the line. Congratulations Walmart! You now have people lined up to get OUT of your store. Great marketing concept! Let’s temporarily imprison your latest paying customers.
I can understand the need for loss prevention and I could understand the need to check a receipt if I had a $1,200 TV, but these Gestapho tactics are petty, degrading, and offensive. I resent the idea that I change from a “valued, paying customer” into a “shop lifting suspect” between the time I check out to the time I get to the front door.
In the past I’ve seen them let me walk out (anglo), then they stop a hispanic lady with 3 kids. A little profiling going on here?
Walmart Sucks!
April 18th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I’ve worked at wal-mart for 10 years. We hired a cop at Christmas time to be the door greeter/ security. He wasn’t even allowed to carry his sidearm, even as a concealed weapon because of Wal-mart’s stupid policies. One night, a guy came in and commited armed robbery, the cop, Bob, decided to stop the guy with his bare hands and ended up getting suied. That’s redicoulos!!!! Wal-mart is retarted
April 24th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Just walk out the door. I’ve never had this happen at Walmart, but at Home Depot I have, the guy was checking receipts at the door, I was late in a huge hurry and just kept going. He said something to me, and I just flipped out on him, “if you think I stole something call the cops, then I’ll sue you and your store when you realize your stupid mistake” He surely tucked his tail between his legs and walked right back inside the store. I have got there numerous times since this day and no one has ever said a word to me. I wish he did call the cops because I would have sued because I don’t steal from stores.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I will also tell you, I was in Kmart one day and I swear I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, a guy walked out the door with a 25″ tv in his cart, he didn’t pay for it, and when the plain clothes loss prevention morons confronted him, he started screaming in the parking lot that they were harassing him, and if they continued to follow him to his car he was going to sue them for harassment. Funniest thing I have ever see, the sec. guard was so scared with the threat of a lawsuit he just stopped and went back inside and called the police without even continuing to follow the guy and get the license plate #. I almost died laughing at these people.
May 8th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Hello all I work for Wal mart loss prevention and I must say I know how annoying the receipt policy is but it is in place for the company! We have so much merchandise walk out our doors on a daily basis! This policy is in place to protect our assests! If it wasn’t and we just let it walk out the door then prices would go up, stores would close, people lose their jobs! I would think honest people wouldn’t mind! It’s annoying as hell I know I get checked too but it has it’s reasons! I wanna keep my job thank you! I do not speak for the company but as someone who sees these crimes everyday day in and day out! Stand up against the criminals not the company protect it’s assests!
May 11th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Shame on you, Ryan. You should – and do – know better.
You are an articulate and formidable debater, but your posts are littered with sloppy fallacies and careless non-sequiturs. Let’s begin with your first point: Befriend the receipt checker and he or she won’t need to search you.
Newsflash: No one’s advocating anything but polite refusal of these voluntary searches. When the greeter asks to see my receipt, I reply “No, thank you. Have a good afternoon.” There is nothing confrontational or adversarial about exercising your right to decline the inspection. You were asked a yes or no question and can choose the latter as easily as the former.
Receipt checks are a deterrent, yes, but a voluntary one. As I’m sure you’re aware, no one can search your personal property without either 1.) your consent; or 2.) probable cause to believe you’ve stolen. Absent both of these, there is no way to search a customer without unlawfully detaining him, risking arrest for false imprisonment, simple assault and/or kidnapping.
You, Mister Intellectual, scold another poster that “(t)he ogical argument you have established to justify your cause is without merit, and lacks validity.”
Strange, then, that your own comparison is illogical, invalid and wholly without merit.
A receipt check or bag inspection is an exit search. Walking through the metal detector is an entrance search. In the latter case, consent to the search is an established requirement of entering the establishment, and you can choose not to participate by deciding not to enter. Receipt checks and bag searches, of course, are the opposite. You’ve already entered the establishment and bought your merchandise. Then, there’s an apparent barrier between you and the door.
The obvious difference is this, Ryan: Private businesses can deny admission to anyone for any reason, but they cannot detain someone and prevent them from leaving without legal justification. That’s why your comparison is so poor. Metal detectors at the door? Fine. Keeping you from leaving until you submit to a search of your personal property? Illegal.
I look forward to your response. Debating you directly would be a pleasure.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
The ONLY time WM has checked my receipts is when I have something that isnt bagged. And in many cases I go ahead and show it to them just to make the door checked who is only doing HIS JOB feel more at ease that Im not making out the door with something I didnt pay for.
My wife works in retail and just the other day four people including a woman walked out the door with an ENTIRE cart full of stolen merchandise.
I have no problem showing my receipt at the door. It really ISNT that big a deal…
July 6th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Im not a big walmart fan, but if ya dont like WM ya dont have to shop there…know what I mean ?
If ya cant steer clear of WM then its your own fault if you get checked at the door.
July 20th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Big Robby 30 miles is not that far to travel to go to a store that you like. And if it was such a small town, you would know everyone. And why would wal-mart be in a tiny town. Doesn’t sound right.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I don’t understand the illogical argument of “well just stop shopping there”. That doesn’t help with the problem. There are so many illogical analogies that I could use to highlight this, but I don’t want to waste time. What Walmart is doing is wrong and they know it. That is why every manager, when confronted with a customer who is complaining about the policy, is quick to apologize for the inconvenience and reiterate that a customer does not have to stop–they would just like you to. That is why when you call corporate to complain they apologize and say that you don’t have to stop. They would just like for you to help keep prices down by cooperating. My suggestion to them was to get bags for all of their items so they wouldn’t have to stop people. But that would allow people to see that they are lying about only checking non bagged items. My brother-in-law worked in theft prevention for another large chain similar to Walmart and he has told us what they can and cannot legally do. I do not nor will not show a receipt for a purchase I made. I am innocent until proven guilty—I will not prove my innocence. I know it would be easy to do so, but it is the principle of the matter.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Shirley, you must be getting your info from yourself. First of all if you buy a TV and don’t show a receipt when asked, you are not taking it out the door. Thats the way it should be.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
nice post i actually had alot of aguements with the walmart staff over some of their policies so i can see where your coming from
September 20th, 2009 at 9:44 am
My son and I were arrested for shoplifting at the Walmart in South Hill Virginia last night! It was revenge for wearing tea party t-shirts and standing up to an angry gay man about 8 months ago. I was wearing an anti-Obama shirt with him as the joker and I am a minister and do not steal period! Somehow chicken and pork chops and a dvd were not on the receipt? They were in bags and I purchased about $200 worth of groceries.
Everyone at walmart that was involved was black and I overheard to female black employees referring to me and my son as a racist? I have been stopped every single time I shop at this walmart and to check my receipt and I complained to the store manager Judy Utley about the comments by the gay male employee and the black employees calling me names for protesting Obamas policies and the manager said the employees have the right to treat me nasty?
The items were in bags and I do not know how they were not on the receipt all I know is they have been trying to get back at me for wearing political t-shirts they do not like!
When doing receipt checks they crush my chips and finger my pizza and make a mess of my bread everytime and this is sad because I did not think of walmart allowing this type of behavior from employees.
I saw the casher handle the chicken and the pork and bag it! I also offered to pay for the items and still they made sure I was charged with shoplifting! The police officer was rude and look at me with disgust as he charged me! He was black also and he appeared to be offended by my shirt
They used the receipt checker as a weapon to falsely charge me with a crime! I never intended to steal anything and they know this but still I was charged with a crime for my freedom of speech/expression!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I used to work at Walmart and our store had a .89 million dollar loss thanks to the scum who shoplift. Maybe if America would stop being such a liberal country and cut shoplifters hands off then we wouldn’t have to check recipts. I’ve seen people try to leave the store with meat hidden under their babies car seat. That’s how honest the shoppers of walmart are!
September 28th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I know what will make them change their policy; as soon as you’re accosted with this intrusive request, let them know that you’re tired of being insulted by being treated like a thief, turn right around and go back to the cashier and say, “I don’t want your stuff, give me my money back!”…make sure you say it loud and clear for people to hear it. They will have to return your money. Walk out and you can always go to the next store and re-purchase your stuff. I guarantee you a couple of these incidents and they’ll be having meetings to see what else they can do instead; like maybe pay a little money for in-store undercover security people if they really have a big problem with theft. They can’t stand the idea of losing profits; this will definitely do the trick.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am
What’s worst and funny, too, is how a few of these receipt checkers get on a little power trip when they walk toward you they get this look of “look what I can do to humiliate you and you can’t do anything about it!” It’s the only time they’ve probably every had any type of miniscule authority in their whole life, so they get pleasure out of it. You want to say in response, “okay, you got me, I was planning to go to the nearest Pawn Shop next and get money for these Cheerios, Tampons, and Hemoroid medicine”.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:11 am
I live in a small town. I drive 30 miles to get to this other town, and have no choice but to shop at Wal-Mart. I have been getting stopped for like the past 4 years. This ruins my day every time! If you are going to stop us for not having something in a bag, then you’d better get bigger bags. Come on! Toilet paper, Paper towels, Cat litter, just to name a few. That’s bull! I could understand if nothing was in a bag, or something is on the bottom. I ask them if they are accusing me of stealing. When they tell me “No” then I say “No” and I leave. I’m going to just start asking them for a ton of those big bags. If I have to I’ll cut and tape the dang things on my “big” purchases!
I think they need to start looking more at the employees. Come on how does a 52″ big screen TV “walk out”? And the shop lifters don’t have the stuff in the cart you morons!! It is illegal to accuse someone of stealing when they are still in your store. And it seems to me that the checkers are the one that monitors all that is in the cart. You can look at the cart to make sure that it all is rung up!
I for one can’t wait until the class action law suits start. I’ll be in line!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I agree that the shills at Wal-Mart should not detain you or force you to open your bags if they do not suspect you of shoplifting (if they do suspect you, well, you are toast).
That being said, your flyer that says you invoke the 4th amendment is not correctly applied. See Wikipedia on the topic:
“The Fourth Amendment only applies to governmental actors. It does not guarantee a right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures conducted by private citizens or organizations.”
November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 am
I have just gotten back from Walmart and boy was it a show. I purchased a $55 TV Stand for my office, a laptop table, a video game book and a Disney DVD for my 2 daughters. Now, I didn’t get a cart so I had this TV Stand in my one hand and man did it get heavy fast. All in all I spent around $109. Cashed out and proceeded to walk out the door. Well, an old man tried to stop me as I was walking out the door asking for my receipt. I replied “If you think I stole something call the police” The man then started calling me a “smartass”, “prick”, and something else I dont want to type. Well, it was not this guys night because my wife is a Sheriff. I loaded my purchases in my car then went right back into Walmart to talk to a manager. I’ll call tomorrow to see if anything was done. And might I add, my hometown is about 20miles from this Walmart and the Walmart there does not check recipts. But it’s also all white. Every Walmart I have ever gone to remotly close to a black community has receipt checkers.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Just ran into this at my local walmart and was so incensed,, I should have said, ” you want to check my receipt? Come right over here to the customer service counter with me, check it as I return each and every item on this receipt..” I had my infant with me though..
1. Where is this policy, are people being made aware of it before entering the store? I know sams club and Bj’s have something in thier club membership fineprint. I signed nothing regarding agreeing to anything for walmart. Im so mad right now!! I hadnt seen this for the longest time, and they caught me by surprise, so now Im in the ” I should have,,” stage..
2. Explain this: I bought a tote and some other stuff. 5 items in all. The cashier put the items in the tote, but the candybar I bought was left out. I put the candy bar in my pocket, and headed for the door. The woman stops me, “checks” my receipt, by looking at it,and the 3 items in the tote ( tote = item 4) big bold letters on the reciept -5 ITEMS-,, and says ‘youre all set.” This idiot stopped me for no reason..
Next time they ask, Im saying no you may not see my receipt and keep walking.. I didnt sign anything agreeing to it.. Big Lots is right down the road anyway.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
A clerk did not give me a receipt today and when I went to leave I could not find it. I had to prove I purchased the items by going to the clerk. I was so embarrassed by the whole matter that it ruined my entire day.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Do you also get so upset when you stand in line at the exit door at Costco so they can go through your items one by one and check your reciept?
December 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
If you allow them to check you, and the cashier screwed up and didn’t swipe something correctly, what then?
And, I’ll tell you what then, they will ruin your life by charging you with shoplifting and you will likely be convicted.
I have, in the past, complied with this maltreatment (Checking at the door), but won’t in the future. If they report me to the police, I will bring suit on them for slander or libel or whatever is available in that jurisdiction, and I pray they lay hands on me, I always wanted to be rich.
If a cop (off-duty or not) tells you you MUST submit to a search, ask him what his probable cause is, he has to have it to direct a search. If he’s just suggesting a search and not ordering a search, that’s different and you need not comply.
People have died repeatedly for our freedoms, and if we don’t have the guts to defend them, we will lose them (as we have many already) and deserve it. To anyone who goes along with the “if you have nothing to hide, why do you mind a search”, Ben Franklin said “Those who would give up liberty for security deserve neither” (not sure if that’s exact).
WalMart hires old people and cripples to do thier dirty work, because those people work for less, and the public will generally not be as nasty to an old person or a cripple as WalMart deserves.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Mother and I have been shoppers at the Wal-Mart Charlotte, Michigan since it opened nearly 20 years ago. We have never and will never shoplift. We are decent good people. Mother is a frail, 95 year old on oxygen . She is less than 5 foot tall, weighs about 90 pounds and has poor eyesight. She is confined to a wheelchair. On October 13, 2009 as we entered Wal-Mart the alarm sounded. We stopped but the greeter did not approach us. We went directly to the pharmacy where Mother submitted several new prescriptions to be filled. We spent the next hour shopping around the store. We picked up prescriptions and paid for them. . We proceeded to the check out and showed the cashier the medications which were already paid for. As we left the store the alarm went off. This often happens because of the metal in wheel chair and oxygen tank. The greeters have always smiled and waved her through. NOT this time, although we briefly stopped no one approached us. As we left a greeter suddenly appeared and shouted loudly ” YOU are suppose to come back in NOT keep going. ” We complied and re-entered the store. She was already in the middle of the front of store and again loudly demanded for us to “get over here. ” Soon two cashiers also surrounded us with their arms crossed. We were visible to everyone checking out and entering the store. It was very intimidating. We thought prescription bag was the problem. We quickly provided the sales slips and opened our shopping bags. The greeter searched our bags but said that was not the problem. She groped around Mother in the wheel chair, checking out her oxygen tank carrier and her coat. Mother asked if her medical inhaler could have caused the alarm. The greeter said that was not the problem as she also has one.. Then she TOOK MOTHER’S purse away from her , walked several feet away to the check out and ran it though the scanner. Apparently something caused a ping sound . She said “there did you here that?” She never explained what caused the problem. Her only comment was ” I know this was embarrassing ”
It was much more than embarrassing, Mother was violated , scared and humiliated. This harassment was very public. The greeter ACKNOWLEDGES SHE HEARD THE ALARM when we walked in, but she did nothing.
My main concern was to get Mother out of the store quickly without upsetting her more. She has high blood pressure, breathing and heart problems. Any stress could literally be fatal. The next day I called Wal-Mart and spoke to the manager Terry Lantaz . I told him what happened and asked how we could prevent the problems of the alarm next time. We told him we were very upset with the treatment we received. Instead of offering help in solving the problem he told me if was “my choice to come in Wal-Mart or not .” He continued to be loud, confrontational and belligerent. He abruptly ended the conversation by yelling “Linda you are rude, don’t ever come into this store again.” then he hung up on me.
IS THIS WAL-MART POLICY?– We cooperated fully in the store . Yet they took Mother’s purse. They intimidated and treated us as if we guilty of shoplifting. There are legal questions involved with the detainment and searching of personal property . This was a horrible incident! Because of her handicaps Mother does not get out much. She had looked forward to this shopping trip. She is horrified to go into the store again. Instead we were put on public display and treated like criminals. We have told many people about the treatment we received at Wal-Mart. Everyone agrees it was wrong and reflects poorly on the greeter, the manager and Walmart in general.
WHAT CAN WE DO, WHAT ARE OUR LEGAL OPTIONS– its all on their camera!
December 14th, 2009 at 3:27 am
I had problem today at Wal-Mart’s. I bought paper plates, napkins, foam pieces for craft’s, glitter pens and glitter tubes, a dog bed, a snowflake punch, 5 cans of Boyardee, white card stock, stocking kit, 2 boxes of christmas cards, rinestones the alarm went off as I was almost already through other people were passing by and through the door greeter says show me your receipt in a hateful manner I told her no I have been here long enough waited in line long enough go ahead and leave. She runs out the door and says she is going to call the cops and get the licence number of my car. Absolutely nothing I had bought had strips and nothing I was wearing or had in my purse. I am sick to death of being harrassed. My sister works as a door greeter there and my Mom retired from there last year. There is nothing in that store that is worth stealing. I hardly ever shop there but it was closer than going to Chilicothe to Jo Ann’s Fabrics. We are going to have a Christmas party for my Grandson, his cousins, and his friends. They are going to be making foam Christmas tree ornaments and making Christmas Cards for the soldiers that are stationed overseas. So now I am worried about this. What has happened to this country? The founding fathers would never put up with this! I have worked retail and asking for a receipt is legally accusing you of shoplifting.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:36 am
I have decided that today I am going to return the dog bed and the stocking kit. I will see how it goes.
December 20th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I and my mother routinely shop at several Walmarts here in Houston. We have no real problem with showing a receipt but it’s how it’s asked for. At one store which is near an expensive subdivision the alarm rings and only then does the greeter ask politely for your receipt and even then only for large items that are likely targets for shoplifters. The other store though where we go is the opposite. The greeters stand there like Nazis and demand “receipt!?!”
More than half of the greeters speak little english so it’s difficult to understand them and be understood as well. There’s one man especially who irks me in his demeanor and I wrote to the Walmart customer service about him for his being obnoxious. He’ll watch us go through the checkout and as we pass him he’ll still demand “receipt!” even if we have only grocery items. I usually walk right by him to his dismay but he asks nearly every time just the same. I have watched this guy prevent a shoplifting incident one time by standing in front of a person who had a cart full of electronics, but for the most part he’s just rude. I complained to Walmart via their website and I must have struck a chord since he’s now only working the “in” door and I haven’t seen him on the “out” door in a few weeks.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
First off, there is no violation of the 4th amendment. In order for there to be a violation, there has to be a reasonable expectation to privacy. Since you just checked out and all of your items were in plain view in the cart, going across the belt, in the hands of the cashier and are even visible through the plastic bags, how can you expect privacy? Moreover, perhaps this goes beyond a theft-deterrent role. How many Walmarts are their in the U.S and how many are employed at each Walmart? I’d argue Walmart’s policy helps the economy by providing more employment opportunities. Stop complaining about bullshit and thinking people are always out to get you.
January 28th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
The purpose of showing the reciept is not just too see if someone is stealing. Sometimes a cashier may forget too ring something up or thought that it rung up because it beeped like it did. The door greeter is only doing their job. Sometimes people take it the wrong way.
February 4th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
To solve this problem would be….
SHOW YOUR DAMN RECEIPT! god people…come on…just flash that white strip of paper, they mark it..and your off to bitch at another store.
It’s people like you that make going to walmart such a awful experience, bitching all over the store, “I need this”, “Why dont you have it”…blah blah blah. Showing you receipt ain’t gonna kill you.
it may even help you cause you may have forgotten a bag and you didnt even notice, until you got to the door.
February 26th, 2010 at 2:59 am
I went to Walmart today to do my grocery shopping like i do every week, sometimes inbetween, and as i was leaving i was asked for my receipt…i simply said no and continued out the door when the “greeter” stepped in front of my cart … full of food products… and said i would give her the receipt or would have to go talk to a manager about my problem, so i gave her the receipt and told her i felt like she thought i was stealing. During this time 3 other customers walked out the door and nothing was said to them, WHY? Is it because i had my very tired, screaming kids with me, or was it that my cart was full! It’s my job to make sure everything is on the counter for the Cashier and NOT my job if “they” don’t scan everything. I am more than willing to let you see my receipt for ELECTRONICS but for food? If this is gfoing to be a “NEW POLICY” then I think that it should be posted at the register to keep your receipt “handy” just like Sam’s Club. When i called the manager, Jody, she said that she has not heard of this “NEW POLICY” and that they are working on the problem…. We have the right to say NO and there is nothing you can do about it, and employees CANNOT search personal items without customer’s permission!