AN ANGRY shopper has revealed he started avoiding going to Walmart after the company appeared to double receipt checks.
According to a social media post made by the angry shopper, he tries to avoid Walmart “like the plague.” due to anti-theft countermeasure.
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“I avoid Walmart like the plague, but if I actually have to go and pay at self-checkout while they are literally staring at me, I always ignore them,” Javier Esquivel grumbled on Facebook.
“When they look at the receipt… like, bro, I know you just watched me pay for my stuff, so falter.”
The complaint resulted from several people expressing their anger at the superstore for requiring visitors to show proof of purchase.
One user spoke out against others who defended the checks, stating that they had nothing to fear if they had been good and followed instructions.
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“If you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s the harm in showing your receipt,” Jessica Kern he wrote adding that it “takes seconds”.
“You know this is probably going to happen. You know you’re shopping in a store where so many people are shady that the products are locked in cages… why not take advantage of the second one and recognize that you can be a decent human being.”
“It’s really not hurting anything and yes, yes, our rights, our rights… but maybe I would prefer to shop somewhere where the products aren’t caged like criminals,” she continues.
According to Kern, she rarely shops at the store, but when she does, she shows the receipt to the cashier, who lets her go without question.
“Why everyone always has to be rude and fussy over something so trivial is beyond me,” she concludes her post.
Walmart has borne the brunt of many attacks on social media due to its controversial policy.
Legality of receipt and detention checks
In an effort to reduce retail crime, stores are increasingly turning to checking receipts as customers leave.
Legally, stores can ask to see a customer’s receipts, and members-only stores have the right to demand such checks if customers agree to the terms and conditions authorizing them.
Many legal professionals have evaluated and reached similar conclusions, warning that all states have specific laws.
Generally speaking, stores have Retailer Privilege laws that allow them to detain a person until authorities arrive when there is reasonable suspicion that a crime, such as robbery, has been committed.
Refusal to provide a receipt is not in itself a reason for a store to detain a customer; she must have additional reasons to suspect a client of criminal activity.
Due to the recent nature of receipt checks, there is little concrete legislation regarding the legality of the practice, as it takes time for the law to catch up with technology.
Setliff Law, PC states that “there is no definitive case law specifically relating to the refusal to present a receipt for purchases.”
For stores that misuse the Retailer Privilege, they may face charges of false imprisonment.
“The primary law that applies to these types of wrongful arrest cases is called ‘False Imprisonment,’” the local Hudson Valley attorney explained. Alex Mainetti.
“Of course, you are not literally arrested, but you are detained by a person who does not have the legal authority to detain you and/or wrongfully detains a client.”
It is likely that as store altercations over receipt checks continue, more lawsuits will occur giving clearer definitions and limits to the legality of receipt checks.
Several Walmart shoppers even abandoned their potential purchases when they realized they would have to deal with the brand’s ATMs.
“@Walmart Why are half the cash registers closed everywhere I go??? and half of the cash registers will be card only/no cash back,” Little Miss Pretty (@kalynwydd) he wrote in a post in X.
Another shopper said he left his cart in the middle of the store when he realized what was waiting for him at the checkout.
“I will not use self-checkout. I went to a Walmart that didn’t have a single breath checker, just helpers in the self-checkout line,” Roger Douglass (@RogerDouglass83) he wrote in a post.
“I left my cart there and left”, they concluded.
The post was a response to a social media thread asking users what the worst part of grocery shopping was.
Target has also come under fire after limiting the number of items a person can scan at its self-checkout kiosks.
Under the new policy, all self-checkout lanes have become express lanes, meaning only people with 10 items or less can use them.
In addition to the express line change, the cooperation higher-ups gave individual stores and their management the ability to completely close self-checkout registers depending on store traffic.
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