I’ve never stolen anything from any store, ever.
That being said, I could walk out of Wal-Mart with a plasma TV, flash a receipt to the 95-year-old lady at the door, and walk away with a free TV.
Does it really matter if they check your receipt? I have friends who have worked at K-Mart, Giant Eagle, Rite Aid, etc., and store policy is to never try to detain anyone in question of theft. Contact the manager, who will then contact the supposed thief and police. However, the managers are also not allowed to detain anyone. From what I’m told, if they (workers) would approach a person that they suspected of stealing, but did not see them stealing, and the person was not in possesion of any stolen items, the person can sue for harassment (or some such thing.)
I fully understand why he did it, but I don’t agree with it. There’s bigger battles to be fought. Some elderly person checking to make sure I only have 2 bags of chips and not 3 isn’t going to make me go home and say “Man, Wal-Mart is really fucking with my civil liberties.”
Just my .02.