Re: WalMart search

["Ronald O. Cunningham Jr." <rocapl@mail.gcsu.edu>]

>> If they have done both of these you will have a hard time fighting it. The
>> main thing is that, is the policy posted where everyone who enters the
>> store can see it or not.
>
>I agree with you on both counts. Do you have any insights into mandatory
>outside package check-ins where you leave your valuables at a counter?
>I don't like em because once I forgot I had left something at the counter
>and went back the next day and it was gone. I had no proof that I had left
>anything there because the receipts were in the bags. I only go into
>stores like this when there's something I need and can't get anywhere
>else.
>

This is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't, situations.
If you have ever parked a car in a parking garage you have no doubt seen
the "Not responsible for... Etc." signs they have posted. Leaving your bag
/ purse / briefcase / whatever at a counter carries the same liability in
that the store and its employees are not responsible for any loss or
damage, but if you don't leave the item at the front you can't go in. And
no most places do not have a "coat check" type of service for items.

Unfortunately this is again a problem that has occurred due to the decline
of a polite society. If shoplifters didn't try to steal stuff by hiding
them so often in bags/purses/etc. they brought in we, the honest shoppers
wouldn't have to be subjected to infringements on our personal freedom.

A case in point: Certain, shall we say, nefarious individuals were (still
ARE) going around outside of malls and shopping centers digging through the
trash looking for receipts people had just casually thrown away. Why, you
ask? (A) They could then walk in grab a coat/shirt/vcr/etc. and either
"return it" for exchange / refund or put it in a store bag they brought
with them and show "their" receipt to the clerk on the way out (B) Get the
credit card number and other info and run up lots of charges to someone
else's account (Why do you think they have such high fees and interest
rates; to cover their losses). Me, I have a cross-cut shredder that makes
wonderful confetti out of old bank statements, pre-approved credit card
applications, old receipts, whatever else I don't want someone to get ahold
of.

I used to think I was paranoid about shredding documents until a friend of
mine got a phone call from his credit card company asking him if he had
really purchased for himself about $3200.00 worth of items in one day; he
hadn't. The crook was caught and he had done the aformentioned "dumpster
diving" to get credit card info.

Personally, I think if stores were allowed to hang the dead bodies of
shoplifters they had caught and executed, from poles outside the stores, it
would cut down on shoplifting overnight.

Ron

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