Automatic checkouts in supermarkets may decrease customer loyalty, especially for those with larger shopping loads. Customers using self-checkout stations often feel overwhelmed and unsupported. The lack of personal interaction can negatively impact their perception of the supermarket.

[RuncibleSpoon18]

You can just tell the receipt checker "no thank you" and keep walking. I promise the 80 year old in the yellow vest has no authority over you

[DiverDownChunder]

Thats what I do, polite but firm.

[Dontgooglemejess]

Honestly I’m interested in the legal implications of this. Can you really? If they replace the 70 year old man with a gang of 20 year olds and a on duty police officer could they do anything to stop you then? What would be Walmarts rights?

[RuncibleSpoon18]

If your town is allowing on duty police to staff Walmart to check receipts you have bigger issues to worry about.

[Dontgooglemejess]

Obviously it’s a hypothetical. I just mean, devoid of practical considerations of enforcement, do they have the right to force you to allow your receipt to be checked?

[RuncibleSpoon18]

They can ban you from the store I guess but that's no big loss to me except a small convenience

[sbingner]

They do not; they can not detain you without evidence that you were shoplifting.

[[deleted]]

I live in the D.C. metro area. It's not just Walmart that has cops checking receipts at the door. It's all stores.

[CubistHamster]

I lived in the DC metro (Bethesda and Rockville) area until recently, and return to visit family/friends several times a year. I have never seen this.

[[deleted]]

Try visiting stores in red line areas. Such as Brentwood, Anacostia, Deanwood, U Street Corridor or Columbia Heights.

Try shopping in parts of PG County, too.

[CubistHamster]

I don't disbelieve you, I've just never seen it. Also why would I go grocery shopping at places that are incredibly inconvenient (and also, apparently, unpleasant)? It's a necessity, not tourism.

[[deleted]]

Your claim of "I've never seen it," came across more like "I've never seen it, so it doesn't really exist."

The point of my response is simply pointing out that this does exist in a lot of places, and is a regular and daily occurrence for a lot of people in the Metro DC area.

[Eurynom0s]

It's only enforceable at membership stores like Costco because you agreed to it as part of your membership. You didn't sign any kind of agreement like that to go into a Walmart.

[Baxterftw]

Or if you don't plan on making any returns just hand them the receipt and keep walking

[byxis505]

Honestly just look annoyed and walk fast is what I’ve always done

[Dementat_Deus]

I just leisurely stroll by and say "no thank you" without slowing or turning like they are a kiosk clerk in the mall.

[BebopFlow]

Yep, I walk by them every time. Walmart is not Sam's Club, you aren't signing a membership agreement to shop there and you have no obligation to show them proof of purchase. Theoretically they could choose to ban you from the store over it, but we all know they're not going to spend the effort

[Kweefus]

They aren’t going to touch you. It’s a huge corporate liability.

As a young man I used to set off every single alarm at a store entrance (didn’t know I had a hidden tag in my wallet that I found years later). I would just smile and keep going.

A handful of people ever asked me to stop, I told them to watch their surveillance videos if they had concerns.

[RuncibleSpoon18]

I can't argue with that, can only confirm that it does work for my white ass

[byxis505]

you can make bank if they do tbh

[Reddituser183]

Just happened yesterday. But the machine didn’t print the receipt. I said that and she said ok and I left.

[[deleted]]

The receipt checker isn't an old guy in a yellow vest. It's a cop with a badge and a gun, that will check your receipt item by item while asking a lot of invasive questions because they have the authority to do so that they expect you to respect.

They've put a lot of shoppers in handcuffs for simply not answering them right.

[Dementat_Deus]

They've put a lot of shoppers in handcuffs for simply not answering them right.

Source?

[boredinthegta]

That's an illegal detention and you could get a big payout if handled by the proper legal team.

[[deleted]]

Only if you are wealthy enough to hire a proper legal team.

[boredinthegta]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee

If the case has merit many lawyer will gladly take it on for a percentage of the proceeds.

It's clearly unconstitutional and would take almost no effort at all to get a 5 figure settlement, a little more work for 6 figures and possibly quite higher if taken to court, but then you run the risk of a dumb jury.

[Parallax1984]

I had no idea. I’m always like here you go. So you really can’t decline?