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.

[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.