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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Mon May 26, 2014, 02:00 AM May 2014

Walmart Pre-Crime Treats All Customers Like Criminals [View all]



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.

Former Walmart District Manager Accuses Company of Widespread Inventory Manipulation

Wal-Mart losing $3 billion a year from thefts


- 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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this is nothing new.... chillfactor May 2014 #1
Costco does it Flying Squirrel May 2014 #2
Actually the way Costco does it is a joke tularetom May 2014 #4
Yeah, Costco is real jokesters... bayareaboy May 2014 #14
I got stopped at Costco - and I felt like a criminal PumpkinAle May 2014 #15
Costco and Best Buy does this too 951-Riverside May 2014 #3
de Tocqueville and Orwell both foresaw this: DeSwiss May 2014 #5
Circuit City Enrique May 2014 #16
Best Buy has always done that. RebelOne May 2014 #20
Another ploy at some mall stores suzanner May 2014 #6
The response of the woman shopping..... DeSwiss May 2014 #7
Idea: Don't shop at their stores zebonaut May 2014 #8
One reason people accept this as norm, is SmittynMo May 2014 #9
Yeah I know. DeSwiss May 2014 #10
*I'm not a lawyer* In my limited knowledge of the law... Taitertots May 2014 #11
Not unless they post it at the entrance in clear wording..... DeSwiss May 2014 #12
My understanding is Costco requires it as a condition of membership. Hassin Bin Sober May 2014 #17
Actually the cameras are for the employees... lame54 May 2014 #13
Not surprising at all. DeSwiss May 2014 #23
You Lost Me When "old ladies" Was Uttered. tea and oranges May 2014 #18
So now calling an old lady ''an old lady'' is a pejorative? DeSwiss May 2014 #22
Call Workers "Employees" or "Workers" if you're trying to make a point. tea and oranges May 2014 #24
I believe he used both terms. DeSwiss May 2014 #25
my local grocery closed... they sucked anyway OKNancy May 2014 #19
so after 20 yrs of doing it at sams club PatrynXX May 2014 #21
I always tell anyone who wants to check xfundy May 2014 #26
If everyone did that, it'd stop. DeSwiss May 2014 #27
Sam's club has beeen ddoing this for at least 16 years. Nitram May 2014 #28
So what? DeSwiss May 2014 #29
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