Anyone get stopped leaving stores?

[JB4310]

they'd ask for ID. My wife wasn't happy with me, but twice I refused to show my ID and walked off leaving all the items they had rung up and bagged.

Wow Bird that's kinda harsh, but everybody has there own comfort level when it comes to what they perceive as an invasion of there privacy. I also feel somewhat insulted especially if I feel like I'm being singled out, But as someone else has stated they prefer to have there ID checked.

If showing your ID gets your feathers ruffled your gonna love this one, A couple of years ago I was in one of our local banks to cash a check that was drawn on that bank, I didn't have an account there so OK I know the routine, 2 forms of ID, no arguing there, license and major credit card, then the teller flips open an INK PAD AND TELLS ME THEY NEED A RIGHT THUMB PRINT ON THE BACK OF THE CHECK!!!
I was more shocked than defensive so I just did it, walked out of there feeling like a criminal with an ink stain on my finger. Now I had been fingerprinted before so it was nothing new but I was thinking there are people that go thru their whole lives without ever being finger printed, wonder how they would feel.

I see now even Bank of America has a pad at all the tellers counters, it's some kind of invisible ink I think, haven't had to use it since I'm a regular there.

Lowes always asks to see the card after you swipe it, which is a pain cause after I swipe it I put it back in my wallet then she asks to see it again, even for a $10. purchase, so now I just give it to them and make them do it.

For a while Home Depot was experimenting with not requiring signatures for card purchases under $25.00, which was fine with me, not sure if they're still doing that.

JB.

 

[SnowRidge]

Lowes always asks to see the card after you swipe it, which is a pain cause after I swipe it I put it back in my wallet then she asks to see it again, even for a $10. purchase, so now I just give it to them and make them do it.

I bought something in Lowes yesterday. After I swiped the card, signed the pad, and put the card back in my wallet, the clerk asked me what the last four digits of the card were. I realized I actually knew that off the top of my head, so I told her. She said, "That's right," and handed me the receipt.

Is that their security check now, asking you the last four digits on the card?

 

[actionaj]

Not to hijack this thread. But I hate going to a store were they want you to use the self check out lines. I totally refuse to use one. I was at newly opened Wal-Mart one morning and there was only one casher lane open and their where about ten or twelve people in this line. Then I guess it was the manger came up and asked each one in line if they would like to try the self check out line. I think only one person went to try it and the rest said no. When it got to my turn being asked I told her that the only way I would try it would be if I got a 20% discount. Then someone else said they would do it for a 10% discount and another said 5. So the manager just walked away. I feel that these self check out lines just knocks someone out of a job. What ever happened to service.

p.s I also hate bagging my own stuff at stores to.

 

[tallyho8]

When a clerk asks me for my id for a liquor purchase I always say "Gosh, I didn't know there was an age limit on alcoholic purchases. How old do you have to be to be overage?" As I leave we are usually both chuckling.

 

[SnowRidge]

Not to hijack this thread. But I hate going to a store were they want you to use the self check out lines. I totally refuse to use one. I was at newly opened Wal-Mart one morning and there was only one casher lane open and their where about ten or twelve people in this line. Then I guess it was the manger came up and asked each one in line if they would like to try the self check out line. I think only one person went to try it and the rest said no. When it got to my turn being asked I told her that the only way I would try it would be if I got a 20% discount. Then someone else said they would do it for a 10% discount and another said 5. So the manager just walked away. I feel that these self check out lines just knocks someone out of a job. What ever happened to service.

p.s I also hate bagging my own stuff at stores to.

I have never caught a cold from a self checkout machine, but I've sure caught a few from sniffling checkout clerks. My wife and I avoid stores that don't have the self checkouts, when we can. Self checkouts are faster, often have no line, and you can bag your stuff the way you want it bagged.

To each his own.

 

[LMTC]

Re: the thumbprint/ID.....years ago our business took a check from a customer...a certified check in fact, drawn on a local branch of a regional bank. Probably around $8,000.00 or so, so big, but not a lifetime fortune. I wanted it cleared asap for cash flow reasons, so I went to that local branch. We had no account there, so I took multiple forms of ID, and they would not cash it without writing my SS# on the back by my signature. I refused, did not cash it, and took it to the customer (with whom I had a good relationship) and told him as far as I was concerned, his bank refused to cash the check. He went to the bank and they wouldn't reverse the process and refund his money. I think they lost him as a customer too. Ultimately I think I deposited it in our bank (signed, but no SS) and from that day on I will not take a check drawn on that bank...and I am happy to explain why to customers. If you look in the sky at night you will see the thing(s) for which that bank is named.

RE: ID when using a cc, I am happy to do that, as it protects me. Never yet had anyone want to write down my SS#, just confirm that I am the person named on the card. We shop Sams and Costco, and the whole receipt checking thing doesn't really bother me (even though I am very private re: personal info) because I know it saves me money in the long run, and I can choose not to shop there if it bothers me.

We accept CCs for parts and small purchases (we really have to to properly serve our customers, as we ship most parts), and for those of you who have not been in that position you have no idea how many times people try to scam you with a card. Most times they don't want the part (they will try to order something very inexpensive), but what they are doing is checking a stolen CC# to see if it is still being accepted....then they will run to best buy or whatever and get what they want. So far I think I have spotted virtually every one of those. Used to try to report them to the issuing banks, but learned they don't care enough about one card/transaction to take my calls.

 

[Bedlam]

I have no troubles with the license check if its not discriminatory.
And that was my main point here.I couldnt walk out becasue they had already done the sale, and she couldnt cancel it.
Just like the time that an item was scanned wrong at the supermarket.
They couldnt adjust it right at the checkout I had to wait awile longer in line at the service desk as the ice cream melted lol
I agree with Bird 100 percent.
And a fingerprint??? No thanks I will retain my rights lol

 

[shvl73]

I see now even Bank of America has a pad at all the tellers counters

Odd that Bank of America asks for prints when they would extend credit and mortgages to people with false SS #'s.

 

[dfkrug]

You must not belong to a Sam's Club or B J's Wholesale............ as they stop EVERY customer and make you prove you are not stealing anything on the way out.

Yes, this policy is part of the agreement you signed to be a member and
buy from these club stores.

As for other stores, checking your stuff before you leave the store will
continue as long as customers put up with it.

The proper response when leaving is to smile and say "no, thank you" to
the clerk at the door. No one has ever come after me and accused me of
stealing.

The biggest abuser of this obnoxious store policy is Frys Electronics, IMO.
I remember when they were one small store that sold food and electronics.
They were the only one except the club stores checking at the door. Now
I just walk by the long line at the exit, wondering why customers put up
with it.

 

[Wayne County Hose]

Walmart started selling beer and wine and when I bought a bottle of wine and the cashier asked for ID, I asked if she really thought there was any chance I was under 21. She said it was store policy to ask everyone. The next time it was a male cashier and when he asked, I told him it must be terrible to have to work for a boss who thought he was too stupid to know that I was over 21. And I've never asked again in any Walmart.

If you leave the store with alcohol and don't have ID and get checked by a cop, it's the store that gets in trouble, it doesn't matter if you look 90.