Ravenwood - 10/03/03 06:30 PM
This guy still shops at CompUSA. Call me ultra-nitpicky, but I stopped shopping at CompUSA because of their stupid insistance on checking my receipt at the door, which is usually just 5 feet away from the register.
My last conversation with a CompUSA door nazi involved him rather rudely trying to grab my receipt out of my hand, and me telling him that it was mine and to keep his hands off. He never even identified himself as a CompUSA employee.
I stopped shopping there, mainly because I felt that the next time might include a punch in the nose, and me trying to explain to the cops that I thought he was a mugger.
I had a similar experience at Sam's Club, whereby my father and I each walked out with our purchases. The guard asked us to stop, so that he could mark our receipts. Dad stopped, whereas I just kept on walking. Outside, my dad questioned me as to why I just walked out without stopping, and I quite flatly told him that it's my damned receipt and he's not getting it.
Beautiful wife and I stopped at Sam's Club this very evening, and we had a cart loaded with a $200 computer monitor, a $70 chair, $30 in Guinness Draught, some bottled water, and a couple boxes of small foodstuff miscellany, and when we reached the door, the woman took our receipt, did not look at it, and then poked among the small boxes of bagged nuts to ensure we weren't walking out with a package of gum for which we didn't pay.
Not that she would have known; as soon as she finished inspecting our meat, she drew the stripe down the receipt and handed it back without ever determining whether or not we had, in fact, paid for anything.
I think the brazen survive, which you've proven by not stopping. No sanction, so if you hadn't paid for your goods, you would have gotten them gratis.
Posted by: Brian J. at October 3, 2003 11:34 PMIf they see me steal something, they should arrest me for stealing. But my transaction is over when I walk away from the cash register, and I am not going to let them rummage through my things.
Posted by: Ravenwood at October 4, 2003 2:28 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014