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IKEA Starts Checking Receipts
@LeChiffre: You've missed my point entirely. And you've missed the law entirely. Your rights don't disappear when you enter a retail establishment. Store policy does not trump law.
Any violation of your privacy without your permission is comparable to someone forcing you to have your purse searched or receipt checked against merchandise in a bag. It's all the same right being violated. That's my point.
IKEA Starts Checking Receipts
@SabreDC: You must have misread what I wrote. I did not say you don't have the right to show your receipt. I'm saying that the store doesn't have the right to check it, unless you've given the store permission.
IKEA Starts Checking Receipts
@Stephmo: Every single response I've seen supporting receipt checking says something along the lines of "it doesn't hurt for me to do it." They are all willing to do the bidding of a stranger to avoid inconveniencing that stranger, even if they don't know why. They are like sheep being directed by a shepherd. And it isn't "all I have to fall back on." I was arguing a point--it came after the part you've fixated on.
I am not getting talking points from anyone, nor am I carrying out the will of a stranger. I am thinking for myself, and as a supposedly free citizen in a free country, I'm calling bullshit on people who think receipt checking without permission (such as that you give to Costco) is o.k.
Why is calling someone a McDonald's reject rejecting his or her humanity? There are people who are not qualified to work at McDonald's. Many of them line up at the security guard training storefront in my neighborhood in the early morning, hoping to get a seat in the next class.
I'm not showing a false sense of anything - I don't think I'm better than people who check receipts. I just don't think they have the right to paw through my stuff. Once I buy it, it's mine. They actually, really, truly, do not have the right to look through it, unless I've given them permission.
Baa.
IKEA Starts Checking Receipts
@Nicole: Nice attitude--you wouldn't have any idea what "a person like me is like." But I'm guessing people like you are why people hate shopping retail.
Whether or not it takes two seconds or two minutes to check my receipt, it's none of the store's business. My examples were an attempt to say that you wouldn't let strangers violate your privacy in other ways--why would you when you're shopping?
IKEA Starts Checking Receipts
This IKEA has been doing it for over a year. I resisted when we were there and they instituted it, but we had a hungry, fussy newborn and my wife was like "do NOT cause a scene."
All of you who don't have a problem with this are sheep. They have no right. Why give up your right to privacy? Would you let a security guard pull you over in your car? Would you let Microsoft into your house to check whether your software licenses are up to date? If IKEA suspects you of shoplifting, they can call the police. But they don't suspect you of shoplifting. The majority of store theft is by the employees.
Costco has the right because it's a membership club, and as a member you grant them the right to check your goods and the receipt. Office Max, IKEA, Circuit City (ha ha), none of them have been granted the right to have a McDonald's reject check your receipt.
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Target Bungles Wedding Registry, Won't Exchange Duplicate Gifts Without Receipts
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Crate and Barrel tweaked their online/offline registry system so gift recipients won't get duplicate gifts 10 YEARS AGO. It's not a trivial job, but it's completely feasible.
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