video
This security footage from a BJ's Wholesale in Florida shows a man trying to
steal two computers, and the store's elderly greeter/receipt-checker giving chase. Almost all the good stuff happens off screen, so you'll have to imagine the awesome karate moves that probably ensued. It's retail crime fighting in action!
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assault
Robby didn't feel like showing his receipt to the
Walmart receipt checker, and when the guy came after him, Robby ignored him. That's when other shoppers started closing in on him, and why he started running.
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walmart is your god now
Walmart can try to spin itself as being on the side of good all it wants, but if it ever
suspects you of shoplifting, you may find that you're powerless to fight back. In the case of a couple accused of shoplifting some Bic lighters in Niles, Michigan this past August, Walmart detained them, the police came and cuffed one of them, their two kids were taken to a security room, and—after a review of security footage proved the couple's innocence—they were banned for life from all Walmarts. To top it off, Walmart's legal team has sent the couple a letter asking to be reimbursed for 10 times the value of the lighters, even though the police determined no shoplifting had taken place.
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receipts
Rather than make up some line about needing to make sure customers receive everything they paid for,
Home Depot is now openly treating its customers like shoplifters.
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ikea
Party time is over at the
Red Hook IKEA where, taking a cue from their big-box brethren Walmart and Home Depot, the Swedish maker of flat-packed furniture has instituted some intense
receipt checking procedures.
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breastfeeding
The IKEA in Red Hook, Brooklyn is the latest retail establishment that needs reminding: Yes, women have the right to breastfeed their infants in public. No, you cannot banish them to the restroom. Yes, people will get angry when word gets out.
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receipt checking
Lisa says a Walmart greeter grabbed onto her cart and and wouldn't let her leave because she refused to let the greeter check her receipt. That, my friends, is not legal. Sure, it would make life a lot easier if people just acquiesced to the receipt-checking, but it's not the law. It is against the law, however, to unlawfully detain a customer. Here's Lisa's account:
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receipt checking
Remember the
Walmart greeter that got attacked by a cop during a receipt check? Well, he's suing for $21 million, says Chattanooga's News Channel 9.
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bad consumer
Earlier this month, we
wrote about a Tennessee police officer who shoved a 71-year-old Walmart greeter to the ground after he tried to check his receipt. He originally wasn't going to face charges; now
he's been suspended and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into it.
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funny
As part of our unrelenting curiosity about all manner of things consumer and shopper, we've posted a number of reader stories about how they were illegally detained by stores and local police for refusing to stop and show their receipt. It's finally paid off, we've been immortalized
in a Married To The Sea comic.
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