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Stores are making record profits while complaining (discuss.online)
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[–] 57 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Self-checkout or not, minimum wage is not even remotely enough to expect cashiers to be anti-theft enforcement.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Doesn't stop some people from trying to. Lady at Smiths insisted on seeing my receipt after telling her twice that yes I was sure I correctly scanned all of the 6 items in my cart, thank you.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I don't know what "Smiths" is, but unless it's a club like Costco that can impose it as a condition of membership, they have no right to demand your receipt or stop you from leaving.

    If they stop you anyway, they had damn well better have probable cause (and no, refusing to show a receipt doesn't create it by itself) because otherwise that's a false arrest.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    One of ours does this. I object, so I just breeze past the security guard without listening or making eye contact.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Me too. Unless you are going to lay hands on me (after which you have a bigger problem) I am just going to walk right by you and ignore you if you try to force me to do anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Just a standard regional grocery chain. They dont have memberships but im not gonna make a scene over $40 worth of groceries i knew I had scanned properly so I just let her realize her mistake and decided not to shop there anymore.

    Just saying that the lack of pay doesn't stop people from appointing themselves as volunteer loss prevention.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    You don't make a scene, you ignore them and walk past them and through the door. You don't have to prove you own the things you bought. Pretend you don't speak English or just are confused and keep moving.

    I will say though I'd probably show them the receipt instead of call the cops, but that says more about what I think the cops might do than anything else.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Pretend you don't speak English or just are confused and keep moving

    I just either ignore them entirely or say "no, thank you", declining it as the request it actually is rather than the demand they try to imply it to be.

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