POLL: Receipt - show or not?

[FrizzleFried]

When I walk by I rarely am confronted... though from time to time I am and I am very respectful and say "Sir (or Maam),  with all due respect, I will not show you my receipt.  Have a nice day." and I walk away.  I have yet to be chased down.

I will admit to bowing to pressure from the wifely unit...when she is with me I bust out the receipt.  She isn't comfortable with any kind of confrontation and has given me ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- for just walking by in the past...it is much easier to simply comply and show the receipt than to have to listen to Lisa bitching for 10 minutes afterwards...

 

[ChadTower]

The issue with being a smartass in training, though, is that as far as your employment goes that is a law.  Break it and they can fire you.  So the differentiation, if you like being employed in that company, doesn't mean anything. 

I don't see the point in scowling at the poor receipt checker guy.  I just walk past him like he's doing some job that doesn't affect me - he could be collecting carts for all I care.  If he says something to me I just say "no thanks" and keep going.  His job sucks enough that I don't feel the need to bark or glare at him to make myself feel bigger.

[JackTucky]

I want the receipts to be smaller.  I bought a can of polish at an auto parts store and the receipt was 18 inches long.  That's a big receipt, I don't care what color you are.

=J

[ChadTower]

Everything is longer in Polish.

[shardian]

I want the receipts to be smaller.  I bought a can of polish at an auto parts store and the receipt was 18 inches long.  That's a big receipt, I don't care what color you are.

=J

Oh yeah, that is definitely a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when I buy one little thing and it takes 10 seconds to print out 2 feet of receipt tape. It's all junk info too. Some places even throw an advertisement onto the receipt.

[ChadTower]

Free emergency toilet paper.

[shardian]

Free emergency toilet paper.

I prefer the curse word infractions from Demolition Man.

[ChadTower]

The first time I saw the Demo Man pin I spent ten minutes trying to find the three seashells.

[shardian]

The first time I saw the Demo Man pin I spent ten minutes trying to find the three seashells.

You don't know where the three seashells are? ::snicker snicker::

[ChadTower]

You just got me three verbal code citations, asshat.

Four.  I hate this.

[saint]

This is timely....

http://consumerist.com/consumer/unlawful-detention/walmart-tries-to-steal-shoppers-baby-298694.php

[Ed_McCarron]

This is timely....

http://consumerist.com/consumer/unlawful-detention/walmart-tries-to-steal-shoppers-baby-298694.php

Well,  if she didn't have the receipt for the baby...

[boykster]

This is timely....

http://consumerist.com/consumer/unlawful-detention/walmart-tries-to-steal-shoppers-baby-298694.php

Well,  if she didn't have the receipt for the baby...

Funny (scary)...I often joke about kids in carts -> "What aisle are the toddlers on?"

 

[shmokes]

Jesus . . . that's traumatic.

[Ed_McCarron]

My wife was in a local club store (BJ's) with our then 2 year old son.

He managed to escape, and by the time she turned the corner chasing him he was gone.

She searched for a minute, then went up front to ask for help locating him.

They locked down the store and called a "Code Adam" over the PA.  Wouldn't let anyone with a 2-ish year old boy out.

10 minutes later, he turned up - he had climbed inside a dog house in the aisle next to where she was.

I'm sure someone bitched that they had to wait those 10 minutes to leave.  Apparently they wouldn't let anyone with a kid that met his description out - receipt, ID, or anything.

Kinda scary the lengths they have to take in the name of liability.

[ChadTower]

That's not a liability issue - it's a public safety one.  Stores don't have to do that as I don't believe there are laws saying it must be done (if there are some, please point them out, I'd like to read them).  No one wants a kid to be snatched by some degenerate - not a store employee, not a stockholder, nobody.  The security in this instance clearly executed the Code Adam poorly, which is the real problem, not that they executed a lockdown.  You're not supposed to seize children that match the description, you're just supposed to "detain" them.  I'm not sure if you can even really do that, as if she was determined to leave the store, they can't lawfully detain her.  The whole concept is based around voluntary detainment - please cooperate with this, since it's not your problem, but we have a missing child that matches your child's rough description.  They did it badly and freaked out the woman when all they had to say was "please understand, there is a missing child just like yours, so until that child is found no infants can leave the store.  Have a seat by the Customer Service desk.  Here is some juice for the baby."

Some stores even go so far, according to policy, as to lock the doors to everyone.  Can't say I've seen that happen in person.  I 100% guarantee that even though they can't detain her lawfully, had she left the store with the baby, she would have had Police searching for her within minutes if the missing baby didn't turn up immediately.  Leaving the store after being asked to remain would have been just cause in that time critical a situation.

[FrizzleFried]

I have no problem if they would have just stopped her...explained the situation...asked her to stand by...and NEVER ONCE attempted to TAKE the baby.   All that would have been prevented.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, that's where they really screwed up.  What exactly would someone expect when they demand a woman hand over her baby?  Most women would die first and not a single person would defend the employee.

[shmokes]

And, IIRC, there was no report of a stolen baby in that Wal-Mart.  If a Wal-Mart employee reasonably believed that a baby had been stolen and the perpetrator was currently in their store, no court would hold them liable for detaining people with babies.  But didn't this security guard see something on a MySpace page about some stolen baby?

[saint]

I understood they were under a Code Adam?

[shardian]

Fortunately for that security guard, the daddy was not with the child. Else he would be eating thru a straw right now.

[ChadTower]

But didn't this security guard see something on a MySpace page about some stolen baby?

Where did that come from?  The story says there was a report of a missing baby and mentions nothing of Myspace.

[shmokes]

A Walmart security guard demanded a woman hand over her baby at checkout, thinking it might have been a baby that was reported missing in the store, according to a Myspace post by the mother, Stacy Arrington of Parkville, MD (pictured)

LMAO . . . yeah, I might have misread certain elements of that sentence.   

[atarihomestar]

It's never even crossed my mind to refuse to show my receipt.   Actually, I rather like it.  I'm fairly paranoid that I think people are watching me as I leave a store, wondering if I stole something (which I never have in my life.)