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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
My first pet peeve is that Sam's treats all of their customers as theft suspects. I hate that I have to wait in line for an employee to pretend to check the amount of items in my basket against my receipt. One of these days, I am just going to go around the line and not show my receipt and see what happens. I believe that they have no recourse except to come out to the parking lot and accuse me of stealing something, in which case I could tell them to call the police. Since they have no probable cause to stop me, I don't believe that they would even bother to stop me. I don't believe that the would call the police nor do I believe that the police would respond.
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Having worked in retail security in another life I can tell you that the purpose of Sam's Club checking receipts is not to catch the customer stealing merchandise. The purpose is to catch (or prevent) the cashiers from under ringing merchandise. The scam is the cashier has a friend go thru the line and he or she does not ring all the merchandise. However, with self scanners they are checking for customers not scanning all their purchases. Yes, they do prosecute for this.
BTW my pet peeve is people talking on cell phones in the grocery store.