Anyone get stopped leaving stores?

[Ronbo]

I too will only use the self check if it is too big to scan or has to be looked up in the book. There is always someone working the little desk. I once went to Home Depot to purchase $1000 of decking. I asked the helpers 3 times to use the forklift and carry it out to my trailer. They insisted on throwing it onto a lumber cart. I was so interlocked it ould take 3 or 4 people to offload it onto the trailer. I rolled it up to the checkout and asked for the manager. I informed him what had happened, including the names of the helpers, and told him he can have them put it back on the rack. I was going to Lowes.

As far as checking my reciept at walmart, it does not happen. The want to check mine while the hoodlems with the baggy clothes and sweatshirts in summer walk on by. No thanks. I just tell them that I have it and do not even slow down.

I do not wait in line at Frys either. I walk right past it. They can run me down and I will show it, only because they have 100% check. Walmart does not. I also do not mind the check at Costco, they too have 100%, but do not expect me to wait in line.

We forget the when we pay for the product, ownership is transfered at that time. They do not have the right to check my bags without a search warrent. That also goes for the tag that sets off the alarm. I own it and do not want it modified in any way after ownership is transfered. I am just funny that way.

Ron

 

[mjarrels]

The gas pump thing using CC or debit cards or pay first before pumping? It is my understanding that most of the profit for these stores is made by getting people inside to buy cold drinks and snacks... milk or bread! Pay at the pumps keeps folks OUT of the store... bad idea but it happens here too! If I buy only fuel, I never go inside... If I want a newspaper after buying fuel, I will pick up a newspaper and maybe a sweet treat too!

mark

 

[Bird]

This is hilarious timing. As I've mentioned, I've rarely been asked for ID at Walmart, but today, I swiped my card through the machine without even looking, and when the cashier finished, I looked at the machine and it said to swipe your card. I'm not sure what I did the first time, but I swiped the card again, and then the cashier asked to see the card and ID. She's just a kid and brand new I suspect. At least I'd never seen "Amber" before. I got to laughing and said, "You gotta be kidding" and handed her the credit card. She took a quick look at it and handed it back and never asked for any other ID.

 

[LBrown59]

Wonder what would happen if you owned the item they accused you of shoplifting?

 

[aczlan]

Wonder what would happen if you owned the item they accused you of shoplifting?

IIRC they have to prove that it was theirs, generally they have to have camera footage or an eyewitness from when you picked up the item till you left the store, if there are any lapses in that you can say "it was mine and I set that one down", if they don't have that they probably wont accuse you of shoplifting (in front of a cop), too easy for you to say prove it (you know the whole innocent until proven guilty thing that we are supposed to have in the US), if they lose you can file charges of kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment against them.

Aaron Z

 

[txdon]

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.

 

[aczlan]

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.

I take mine and write the mileage on the odometer on it, then I can enter that and the number of gallons used in a spreadsheet and I have the mileage of my car over the last 5000 miles.

Aaron Z

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When Sams first started checking receipts years ago it bothered me, but I got over it. It actually saved me once, where the cashier had double scanned an item and the checker caught it. Unfortunately a lot of theft is also done by the cashiers or the cashiers and a buyer working together.

I will not use the self checkouts at HD or Lowes, unless it's like 1 item in a box that the scales will detect. Just too many things at a hardware store that won't fit in the bag or on the scales that makes a self checkout impossible to use.

Even today at a grocery store I had a problem with the self checkout, but fortunately a person came over quickly and resolved the problem. I have gotten frustrated enough with self checkouts to just leave everything and walk out. I try to avoid when at all possible.

I've noticed a lot more stores checking credit cards lately, which is good. There's just too many credit card thefts, and it's easy for the thieves to duplicate cards, so if there's no visual check of the card it's too easy to use someone else's card. I worry about the new wireless credit card machines stores are now using. I've read that the largest theft of credit card info came by hackers breaking into a wireless machine network and obtaining all the customers credit card info, all while the thieves sat in a vehicle in the parking lot.

 

[Bird]

I take mine and write the mileage on the odometer on it, then I can enter that and the number of gallons used in a spreadsheet and I have the mileage of my car over the last 5000 miles.

Aaron Z

I've been doing the same thing for about 16 years now. I also enter the money and category information in Quicken, so I alway know what my outstanding balance is (or should be).

I traded off our 2001 Ford Windstar a week ago today with 101,195 miles on it. We bought it on December 26, 2002, with 27,087 miles on it, but in the 6 years we had it, it averaged 19.555 MPG and including insurance, tires, oil, filters, repairs, even wash jobs that I didn't do myself, it cost us $.44 a mile to operate.

And it was still in good condition and I had no intention of trading anytime in the foreseeable future, but my wife saw another old car on the dealer's lot that she wanted. I told her it was a bad idea and I didn't want to do it, but I know she really wanted that old car, and since she doesn't ask for a lot, I had to do it.

 

[Runner]

I had a good laugh at Wally World the other day. I needed to buy some replacement blades for my electric shaver and still had the cardboard package from the old ones as a model reference, etc. Apparently it still had the magnetic tag on it and it set of the alarm when I came in the door. Since they don't expect anyone coming in the door to be setting off the alarm, I just kept walking to see what they would do. They were running around looking at all the people leaving, trying to decide who to stop. Pretty funny.

Of course, it also went off as I was leaving, so I had to show it to them, but still funny.

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


As for the pay at the pump deal, it kind of hurts my feelings that they don't trust me anymore. It also makes it inconvenient for me to buy gas, plus something else, like a paper. So, whenever I have to go in to buy something like a pack of gum, I ALWAYS use my credit card to pay for it. Just to make it a little more inconvenient for them and cost them a little more money.