Walmart Pre-Crime Treats All Customers Like Criminals
TRUTHstreammedia · Published on May 25, 2014
...but won't/don't stop real shoplifters.
Gone are the days of "Thank you, come again (we appreciate your business)."
Instead, today's box stores target average customers as potential criminals, subjecting them to post-checkout screenings.
Because... somehow, RFID-tagged & tracked merchandise, ubiquitous security cameras from every angle inside and outside the store, security personnel, police officers and metal detectors at the door just aren't enough.
No... places like Wal-Mart ALSO feel the need to put customers -- who spend their hard-earned money on their goods -- through the inspection of a semi-retired minimum wage greeter -- an employee whose job used to be to tell shoppers "Hi" or something snappy about the current sales, but who is now used to boss around shoppers after they've already paid, and match up their receipts against the items in the cart... while everyone waits.
Why shop at a place where you are presumed guilty until proven innocent? That's where the commerce goes when smaller stores go out of business and those with the least means go where the prices are cheapest -- despite the ethics of the place, respect for the individual or the customer service.
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- Thank you for shopping. Now drop your merchandise, interlace your fingers behind your head, stand with legs apart with your receipt firmly between your teeth. If you have no teeth, they're on sale now in Personal Care products, Aisle 19.
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...that he interviewed, who said ''if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about'' -- is exactly the place where Police States desire to be. Compliant citizens who neither question nor even know they have a right to question those who are tacitly, ''their servants.''
Walmart's policy of checking bags and carts is nothing less than an invasion of privacy. It's a policy of: ''Guilt until proven innocence.'' And no one's yet called them on it because in a fascist state, the government sides with the corporation.
Creeping authoritarianism is the way to go if you're a New World Order trying to get things setup. The despots and dictators of old left a legacy of failure not because they weren't ruthless enough, but too much. And they didn't analyze what they were doing wrong. But that is not now the case. Computers have captured us in more ways than most can imagine.
- And so the world that Edward Bernays help design and usher in, has now been achieved:
But it didn't get that way overnight. I took my first plane ride on an American Airlines DC-6 in 1966 and we drove up to the terminal in my Dad's big Buick and walked directly into the airport check-in, the door of which behind the counter is where you walked straight to the plane.
- Then something happened and we ended up here:
...so that everyone knows what to expect. And that would be limited to anything observable such as in an open cart. You're still on their property, but everything in your cart is YOUR property now, and they have no right to detain anyone, without cause.
Once they begin pawing through your personal stuff or demanding to see inside something of yours such as a handbag or inside clothing, then they've crossed the line.
If they force the issue or have private security do it, sue their asses off is the phrase for the day. Because they become liable when they don't find anything.
Things don't ever get this far, because everyone complies. And the nail that sticks up (too much) gets escorted off the property.
- I don't want to sound smug, but I don't shop in Walmart or Sams. Not everyone agrees with me though (including family members who are addicted and impervious to my pleas). Just think what things would be like if they did agree with me......
* Not a lawyer either.
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No receipt check no membership - if they feel like pushing the issue.
I get really annoyed at Home Depot when I have to shop there for business. I'll be the only one at the register 8 feet away from the receipt checker. He watches me check out and pay and waits for me to walk 5 steps to him only to stop me and ask for a receipt. 
PC much?
I didn't particularly care for the term's use, but then I don't control what comes from people's mouths, either. Everyone's not as sophisticated as you and I. Realizing this can make life so much happier, you should give it a whirl!
On the whole I thought the story was right-on!
And it's indicative of how the creeping totalitarianism you seem so comfortable with, has gotten as far as it has. I'm sure Big Brother appreciates your disdain for anyone who criticizes the ''You Stole It Unless I Say You Didn't'' system.
Why is this one-failing business model important to discuss? You really asked this?
- If I may ask, why are you here?
He referred to her as a Walmart employee and an old lady. Really, people need to get over themselves.
And I'm not angry, just straight and to the point.
- Besides, everybody loves me! Ask anyone!!!
now they do it at walmart ho hum..
nothing to see here.. just agism in the article 
- Oh nothing really. Nothing you'd miss, I guess. ''To each his/her own,'' I always say. And yet it appears that we may also need to add the words: ''visionary prophet'' to de Tocqueville's resume'......
They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the greater number; .. But it would seem that if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd.
The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
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