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Self-checkout or not, minimum wage is not even remotely enough to expect cashiers to be anti-theft enforcement.
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.
Agreed, there is always at least one worker at these places who has a strange sense of misplaced loyalty.
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.
One of ours does this. I object, so I just breeze past the security guard without listening or making eye contact.
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.
I understand the desire to do this but I know these people just from seeing them often. I can’t imagine giving people a hard time for this where I live.
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.
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.
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.
Its sort of funny, if they catch someone shoplifting its the same thing. They will request you come back to a room and wait for the police but they can't force you physically.
But how many of them were actually bananas?
Now I want to goto a self checkout and ring up a dozen bananas individually while blocking the camera