wylde007
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True story.Sams, BJs, and Costco are all membership warehouse clubs. I believe it is in the membership contract you sign that they can check your purchases before you leave.
True story.Sams, BJs, and Costco are all membership warehouse clubs. I believe it is in the membership contract you sign that they can check your purchases before you leave.
And at ANY TIME you decide you DON'T want to wait to have it checked, you can LEAVE. (Their only recourse is to cancel your membership)Sams, BJs, and Costco are all membership warehouse clubs. I believe it is in the membership contract you sign that they can check your purchases before you leave.
I've renewed my BJs membership several times over the years, I've never seen any wording directly about receipt checking. It probably falls under some sort of acceptable behavior broad brush.Sams, BJs, and Costco are all membership warehouse clubs. I believe it is in the membership contract you sign that they can check your purchases before you leave.
Did you read through the earlier posts in this thread? Apparently if the alarm goes off, they are legally allowed to assault you to get you to stop until they figure out what happened. I never knew this, and for the life of me, as often as these things give false alarms, I can't figure out how this passed the General Assembly.I'm just curious why you feel the need to stop when the alarm goes off? It's not my problem there is a malfunction somewhere. I don't stop.
If the alarm goes off there is reasonable suspicion of a crime occurring.I'm just curious why you feel the need to stop when the alarm goes off? It's not my problem there is a malfunction somewhere. I don't stop.
Christmas time Wal Mart posted a senior citizen at the door to check receipts. He said, "Excuse me, sir, I need to check your receipt!" I said, "No, you don't." and kept walking. I kinda felt sorry for him - it looked like he just had no idea what to do.
And at ANY TIME you decide you DON'T want to wait to have it checked, you can LEAVE. (Their only recourse is to cancel your membership)
It is illegal to seize someone's person or property because the had the ability to shoplift, you have to have seen them take something(or other RAS).
It is also illegal to seize someone's person or property because they break a contract with you.(leaving without being checked)
As for the Wal-Mart people- I never stop unless the alarm goes off. I've yet to have a checker stupid enough to try and stop me. (Wal-Mart doesn't even allow their loss prevention to TOUCH a person, much less detain them, even though legally they can do so for shoplifting.)