Anyone get stopped leaving stores?

[ToadHill]

The bank I deal with for credit card purchases had a picture ID put right on the front of the card. The good news or bad news depending on how you look at is is the wife can't use my card.

 

[Bedlam]

Check this out. This is the biggest theft
Wal-Mart worker, customer charged with rollbacks - Yahoo! Canada News

Im SURE that most cashiers aren't like this.Willing to bet this one doesnt check ID's

 

[dgl24087]

There was a rash of unpaid gas drive offs around here but it was proven later that the customers actually did pay. I always take the receipt now, just in case that bug hits the machines again, so I will not have to be detained until I reach my credit card company.

Sheetz stores in my area used to very bad about reporting gas drive offs to the police when people used credit/debit cards at the pump. A friend of mine was pulled over a few times, different stores each time. The last time it happened, the cop asked him to come back to the store with him and he would take care of the problem. My friend complied, showed his receipt to the clerk and manager. The cop informed the manager of the store that he was to give my friend a free gas card or he would be arrested for filing a false police report. Even though it is an inconvenience and defeats the purpose of paying at the pump for me, if the pump is out of paper, I always go inside to get my receipt.

 

[2manyrocks]

Wonder how much gas was stolen in the days of full service gas stations?

 

[Bedlam]

Sounds like the cop is bored with his job.
Just by the cop telling the employee had to give a cash card he could be thought of using an extortion tactic???but perhaps he suggested that to charm the customer.?

I'm sure by all appearances it was legit.He should have dealt with and been done with it. So often they loose touch with just what they are hired to do.And I would hope if he did charge the clerk that in court they would find that the clerk acted in good faith.
Obviously.
I don't really understand, because around my parts you have to swipe the card to pay and it only allows you to pump after the credit is approved. If you pay any other way you have to go inside.

 

[dqdave1]

Check with Visa, or other card companies; putting "check ID" on "signature" line is wrong. Cashiers are to check signature line on card to signature you just made on receipt. A card that has no signature is invalid, according to terms of card holder. That is why it always says " sign card before using"

 

[JohnDeere4300]

I guess the only time i have ever been stopped leaving a store or
(CHASED TO MY TRUCK) was when i went to gander mountain to buy a boat motor. I called the day before to make sure they had it in and they said yes, but please let us know when you plan on picking it up so we can put oil in it, the propeller on and check out other things and start it, i asked chad is tomorrow alright, he said yes.

This was just last spring, so i drove 73 miles one way just to get there, i went to marine department and asked for chad and they told me that he has the day off, so steve asked me what was you needing.

I told him i was there to pick up a boat motor, and he said chad did not say anything about it, and you would need to come back maybe in the morning because its not ready, so after telling him about what
chad told me and the miles i drove then he said it would take about an hour to get it ready.

So since there is so much there to look at me and my wife just looked around. So i picked up a new fish finder and a couple other things. After waiting over a hour and half on the motor they finally got it ready, they showed me everything about it and i had to fill out a form about the warranty. I had to pay for the motor back there in the marine department, and they said i could pay for the fish finder and our other items back there also, so i did.

Steve told me to bring my truck and trailer around to the back of the store to get it loaded, (HE ASKED ME IF I COULD HURRY)

So we had to go back out the front of the store and when we went through the door the alarm went off but didn't pay much about it because (I WAS TOLD TO HURRY) and then at my truck i heard someone SHOUTING SIR SIR, and i said what, we was told to come back in the store since the alarm went off They checked our bags and could not figure it out, they walked us back through the door, the alarm went off.

Finally after about 15 minutes of talking they asked me where did you check out, i said in the marine department, so they scanned the fish finder and the security tag had not deleted and that was what set it off. So after i go around back there is the motor, still on a motor
stand and not it the shipping crate, I told them put it back in the crate so it won't get damaged on the trailer, so off came the propeller
to get it back in the crate.

So after loading i went back around the front to go inside, sat down
with the manager to tell him about the crate, and what a bad day this
has become. He said i am very sorry wait here just a minute, well after about 10 minutes he comes back and hands me a $100 dollar gift card and said i am very sorry, i asked him could i just please get out of here without wainting anymore and without the alarm going off, he said have a nice day. i looked at him with a face.

Next time an alarm goes off i will just go to the manager to see what
kind of gift card they offer.

 

[Bird]

Check with Visa, or other card companies; putting "check ID" on "signature" line is wrong. Cashiers are to check signature line on card to signature you just made on receipt. A card that has no signature is invalid, according to terms of card holder. That is why it always says " sign card before using"

You're right, of course, but the credit card companies just did not keep up with the changes in technology and society, so it's really silly now. You use the card online and at gas pumps, maybe ATMs, etc. with no human to check the signature and nothing to sign anyway. Then the electronic "pads" you sign will accept anything you scribble, whether it's actually a signature or not. And if they expect what I scribble on one of those pads, or even on a scrap of paper they use for a receipt is going to look like a signature I do sitting at my desk at home, they're badly mistaken. And finally, the so-called handwriting experts are just guessing and make mistakes; no way a clerk is going to be able to tell whether two signatures are the same or not.

 

[JB4310]

You're right, of course, but the credit card companies just did not keep up with the changes in technology and society, so it's really silly now. You use the card online and at gas pumps, maybe ATMs, etc. with no human to check the signature and nothing to sign anyway. Then the electronic "pads" you sign will accept anything you scribble, whether it's actually a signature or not. And if they expect what I scribble on one of those pads, or even on a scrap of paper they use for a receipt is going to look like a signature I do sitting at my desk at home, they're badly mistaken. And finally, the so-called handwriting experts are just guessing and make mistakes; no way a clerk is going to be able to tell whether two signatures are the same or not.

I never signed the back of any of my credit cards, or wrote check ID, never had a problem or denied use, I thought by signing them it would make it easier for some one to copy your signature, just checked my wallet and I see now my 2 major cards are signed, which surprised me cause like I said I never use to sign any card in the past, I think some one told me it's safer to sign them now? My Home depot and Lowes cards as well as a few gas cards are still not signed.

As far as those scribble pads go, I just make a line or an X or just a dot, but the last time at Radio Shack the pad rejected my scribble and the girl said they're getting more sensitive and require more recognizable characters, she said that since they got the new pads a month ago they have been rejecting many customers "marks"

JB.

 

[ragkar]

You disgruntled guys are getting profiled. As I got older, I found that I get less and less 'special attention' from the store associates. One time a long ago, I had a clerk follow me all over a book store to check if I was going to shoplift. I amused myself by going from one side of the store to the other. Needless to say I didn't buy anything and I'm happy to say that the store went out of business a few months later.
I'll bet if we surveyed the guys that had trouble in this thread, they were a little disreputable looking when they shopped.
This is somewhat similar to what women who look like Mrs. PoorHousewife go through when they shop in a classy joint. If they come back all dolled up, the salespeople fall all over themselves to wait on them. Do you remember what happened to Julia Roberts in the movie "Pretty Woman'?

 

[ultrarunner]

Check with Visa, or other card companies; putting "check ID" on "signature" line is wrong. Cashiers are to check signature line on card to signature you just made on receipt. A card that has no signature is invalid, according to terms of card holder. That is why it always says " sign card before using"

Maybe it's new?

The 3 Corporate Cards we have at work are only imprinted with the company name...

On the back it says to record Driver's License after verifying.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You disgruntled guys are getting profiled. As I got older, I found that I get less and less 'special attention' from the store associates. One time a long ago, I had a clerk follow me all over a book store to check if I was going to shoplift. I amused myself by going from one side of the store to the other.

Years ago, before all the video camera coverage, I loved playing games with the loss prevention undercover shoppers.

 

[MossRoad]

They do not have the right to check my bags without a search warrent.

Search warrants only applies to government, like police, not private, like a store.

 

[Ronbo]

Search warrants only applies to government, like police, not private, like a store.




Exactly, they have no right to search my property, what I have just purchased.

Ron

 

[Taylortractornut]

Im not sure how thses buzzer things work but for about 3 months I would set ever stinking one of them off entering and exiting, one night when Amy and I had just gotten engaged I set the buzzer off at TSC The flunky patrol rushed up telling onthe radio that they had a situation up front. I got POED The workers that had done it were trying to impress the pretty new manager. Well It was croweded and I handed my phone though my shoes and my shirt then started unzipping the shorts They never asked that again. I have a rod in my leg from an auto accident and I had helped work on the local scrap yard magnet. Every time I work on it I lean my leggs against it It causes the buzzers to go off. Walmart I back handed a stock boy once It was rainging all day and I had been under a dozer part of the day wet and cold and rough looking. On my way out the buzzer went off I stepped back in and got the go ahead from the manager. On way out again the thing went off i nthe entryway, I have trouble hearing if Im not facing someone when I got to the ramp in fromt someone tackled me with a bear hug I whipped around and slapped the dogcrap out of the stock boy. I was really about to unload and saw he was about a 16 yearold. He hadnt seen what went on the inside and had heard the buzer 2 times. His girlfriend was there and to impress her he ran me down and grabbed me. Bent my glasses to that was what really griped me. Ireally dont like being made a point out if and If my wife is there it doesnt phase me either.

 

[aczlan]

Well, we went back tonight (mainly to see if said person was around to get his name), but he wasn't so I will have to write a letter with just his description and complain. nobody tried to stop us and see the receipt, but if I had seen him near the door I would have put something on the bottom rack of the cart just to see if he tried to pull a stunt like that again.

Aaron Z

400 posts in under a year... I spend too much time on here.

 

[jinjimbob]

I get checked sometimes leaving Walmart, have done ever since I can remember, its normal. They check the receipt.

No big deal, they are keeping prices down by checking for thieves.
How is that a bad thing in anyway?

 

[jinjimbob]

What gets me is when they make me show ID to buy spray paint.

This is a good law, it cuts down on the taggers. I wish they did this in WA. In CA they keep spray paint behind a locked cage door.

 

[MossRoad]

...... It was croweded and I handed my phone though my shoes and my shirt then started unzipping the shorts They never asked that again. .....

That's pretty good. I'll have to remember that!

 

[Taylortractornut]

Needless to say Amy has learned alot being married to me. The best way to get results with a stubborn clerk or manger or helper is to draw as much attention to that one spot as fast as you can within reason of being decent and that doesnt last long. I bought this house from my dad after my parents divorced. I went to the power office and to get the power bill sent here dad went with me they wanted 600 to change the name on the bill. Too much then dad suggested that they just do it like a rental property send the bill to my house leave it in his name no way had to be changed over. Amy went in and she came out I went in and had a come apart and I got results lol. I was building a cage from hog pannels to make a stock trailer and went into TSC the I had backed my traler close to the gate and paid for my 2 panels and wait 30 minutes for an associate to open the gate. no such luck he and the manager were talking about the race that evening. I got impatient and showed them the order then I went out there and slid them inder the fence. about that time Impaloompa and 2 com running out hollering to stop so I chunked them onto the truck and back whipped out my ticket and made a spectacleI reminded them on how long the wait was and that racing wasnt part of their job. When dads younger brother came back from Vietnam he was way skinny and his clothes didnt fit when dad and his youngest brother went to get him they stopped at a store to buy him some new clothes when the sales lady kept eyeballing them and trotting down each isle right behindthem like convicts. Dad said his youngest brother had been on that Jack Daniels and pickled eggs run the night before. He looked be hind him and this little lady was about 3 feet a way and my Uncle (edit: you can imaging what happened). Dad said the clerk put it in overdrive and left them alone.