Legal discussion

[Ron61]

Tru,

We have a couple of stores that do that to keep shoplifting down. It seems the only time the darned detectors go off is when a person has paid for something and the cashier didn't get the alarm tag canceled. The shop lifters just rip the tags off. I really don't mind as it only takes a second, but I don't know if it is legal or not.

Ron

[Wayne Maybury]

If Best Buy would set up their checkout system better, they wouldn't have to check you at the door as you would have no way to get past without paying. This is what 99% of retail outlets do.

The one that gets me is Costco where they also check your bill before letting you out. I think that all that does is to add one extra salary to the overhead.

Wayne

[Ron61]

Wayne,

Costco here also checks everything anyone has in a basket against their receipt. All I ever get there is my medicine but I hate waiting in line while they check some business persons two big baskets of stuff to be sure everything is on the receipt. They should have a place for people with just one item to go past this as the store here does an unbelievable amount of business.

Ron

[95CobraR]

It is legal since you are a guest on their property.

Nonetheless, it doesn't bother me one bit for them to check me. When a business loses money due to theft, honest people end up paying more for items.

I remember all of the controverary over wiretaps. If my family can live in a safe place, I'll all for trading some my right of privacy for family security. Of course, I would feel sorry for anyone that would have to listen to my boring phone calls or read my silly emails (cars, blah, blah; girls, blah, blah; cars, blah; guns...; blah, blah).

[SP01715]

Well, from my days in law enforcement if I were called to a store where this had happened there would be nothing I could (or would want to) do about it. It definitely is not a criminal situation to walk out of a store with something you have payed for. That said, I don't mind showing my receipt when I leave a store.