Do I have to show my Costco membership card to get in. I mean I paid for it. It’s mine. Why should I have to slow down or stop to use my membership if I already paid for it
They do have someone checking for membership card at the entrance. Not sure why, especially since by law anyone can shop at the pharmacy (I think). Besides, they check again for membership ID when you pay at the register.
Correct, if you are buying prescription drugs you just tell them at the door to gain entry and you do not need a membership; This is also true for buying alcoholic beverages in California and Hawaii. If you try to buy anything else, the transaction will not go through.
No you don't have to stop. What if you don't stop? Security personnel need to be very thoughtful before they place their hands on someone.
This has been tested by off-duty law enforcement, Walmart.
You paid for it. Feel free to walk out the door. I have tested this at Walmart. I usually stop and allow store personnel to check my stuff. Sometimes, I don't have time and I have said I don't have time for this nonsense. No one arrested me. No one tackled me.
Because they’ve not hire a Terry Tate Checkout Linebacker yet.
1) File a class action lawsuit against Costco or stfu
2) Concerning Walmart- its usually older folks either looking to get out of the house or make ends meet. Being courteous to them, while they do their "job", is a 10-20 second undertaking that pays off much more than the investment.
3) Waiting for the self-checkout crowd that doesnt want to scan their 2 boxes of twinkies and can of ravioli.
Probably not. You know how movie theaters say that you can't bring outside food into the movie?
They have no legal right to do that.
What a f"ing dolt!
Any Private business can refuse service for any reason. Try to enter with your 32 ounce Big Gulp and they can tell you to kick rocks, they don't even have to give you a reason. Your cousin Vinny is clueless as are you.
A private business CANNOT refuse service for any reason! Try putting up a sign saying “This business is for white people only” and see what happens.
Please remind me to not ever hire you as an attorney if I ever need one.
Any Private business can refuse service for any reason. Try to enter with your 32 ounce Big Gulp and they can tell you to kick rocks, they don't even have to give you a reason. Your cousin Vinny is clueless as are you.
A private business CANNOT refuse service for any reason! Try putting up a sign saying “This business is for white people only” and see what happens.
Please remind me to not ever hire you as an attorney if I ever need one.
You're not that smart.
"they don't even have to give you a reason"
Which means they can refuse service to you for any reason.
Any Private business can refuse service for any reason. Try to enter with your 32 ounce Big Gulp and they can tell you to kick rocks, they don't even have to give you a reason. Your cousin Vinny is clueless as are you.
A private business CANNOT refuse service for any reason! Try putting up a sign saying “This business is for white people only” and see what happens.
Please remind me to not ever hire you as an attorney if I ever need one.
Equating bringing food into a movie theater to racism is an insane comparison. Federal law prevents discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Pretty sure there's nothing on your "right" to bring outside food into a privately owned establishment. It's policy and they have a right to refuse you service if you violate the policy. It becomes trespassing if you refuse to leave after being asked.
A private business CANNOT refuse service for any reason! Try putting up a sign saying “This business is for white people only” and see what happens.
Please remind me to not ever hire you as an attorney if I ever need one.
Equating bringing food into a movie theater to racism is an insane comparison. Federal law prevents discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Pretty sure there's nothing on your "right" to bring outside food into a privately owned establishment. It's policy and they have a right to refuse you service if you violate the policy. It becomes trespassing if you refuse to leave after being asked.
the poster calling himself Law stated that a private business can refuse service for any reason. I correctly pointed out that that is not the case, just picking one example to make my point. Now smoke on that one for a while.
A private business CANNOT refuse service for any reason! Try putting up a sign saying “This business is for white people only” and see what happens.
Please remind me to not ever hire you as an attorney if I ever need one.
Equating bringing food into a movie theater to racism is an insane comparison.
Equating it to taking your own property out of a store is just as insane a comparison. The fake lawyer has too many of you fooled. Private or not, no organization can lay a claim to your property if you try to exit its premises without a receipt.
Whether or not you agree to a "receipt check" in a contract, there are no legal grounds to dispute your ownership of the items in your possession. You may have, for example, walked in with them. In order to claim the property, the store has to have witnesses that you
a) picked up the item from inside the store b) failed to pay for it c) attempted to leave with it in your possession
Checking a receipt is a psyop, intended to deter people who think it could actually mean something. What it really means is they don't have the loss-prevention personnel to witness everything needed for a shoplifting charge. Stores that do have this in place don't need to punish everyone with "receipt checks," they just grab anyone they catch and charge them. So, receipt or not, it all boils down to will the store kick you out for not playing along. Any store that would is not worth going to in the first place.
As Costco employees check to make sure what's on your receipt matches up with what's in your cart, they are searching for a few key pieces of information.
Equating bringing food into a movie theater to racism is an insane comparison.
Equating it to taking your own property out of a store is just as insane a comparison. The fake lawyer has too many of you fooled. Private or not, no organization can lay a claim to your property if you try to exit its premises without a receipt.
Whether or not you agree to a "receipt check" in a contract, there are no legal grounds to dispute your ownership of the items in your possession. You may have, for example, walked in with them. In order to claim the property, the store has to have witnesses that you
a) picked up the item from inside the store b) failed to pay for it c) attempted to leave with it in your possession
Checking a receipt is a psyop, intended to deter people who think it could actually mean something. What it really means is they don't have the loss-prevention personnel to witness everything needed for a shoplifting charge. Stores that do have this in place don't need to punish everyone with "receipt checks," they just grab anyone they catch and charge them. So, receipt or not, it all boils down to will the store kick you out for not playing along. Any store that would is not worth going to in the first place.
More strawman and still the inability to read. Costco will not "lay a claim" to your property if you don't want to show your receipt, they will very calmy let you walk out and they will very calmy cancel your membership. Everything you are saying is completely irrelevant and a bunch of pseudo-legal mumbo-jumbo from an idiot suffering from delusions of grandeur. You have no idea what you are talking about.
They can check your receipt, it's in your contract... deal with it. Don't shop there, no one cares.
Equating bringing food into a movie theater to racism is an insane comparison.
Equating it to taking your own property out of a store is just as insane a comparison. The fake lawyer has too many of you fooled. Private or not, no organization can lay a claim to your property if you try to exit its premises without a receipt.
Whether or not you agree to a "receipt check" in a contract, there are no legal grounds to dispute your ownership of the items in your possession. You may have, for example, walked in with them. In order to claim the property, the store has to have witnesses that you
a) picked up the item from inside the store b) failed to pay for it c) attempted to leave with it in your possession
Checking a receipt is a psyop, intended to deter people who think it could actually mean something. What it really means is they don't have the loss-prevention personnel to witness everything needed for a shoplifting charge. Stores that do have this in place don't need to punish everyone with "receipt checks," they just grab anyone they catch and charge them. So, receipt or not, it all boils down to will the store kick you out for not playing along. Any store that would is not worth going to in the first place.
It's absolutely not just as insane of a comparison. Racial discrimination is not in the same stratosphere as you signing a contract with a private company to receive access to their warehouse to purchase goods.
A receipt check is not an organization "laying claim" to your property. It's not even them trying to catch potential thieves or anything related to loss prevention. From the Costco website:
"We do this to double-check that the items purchased have been correctly processed by our cashiers. It’s our most effective method of maintaining accuracy in inventory control, and it’s also a good way to ensure that our members have been charged properly for their purchases."
There's no psyop, Big Costco isn't out to get you by taking ten seconds to check the receipt and compare it to the items in the cart. The millions of people who shop at Costco don't seem to have an issue with it. Kinda wild to get one of those "constitutional rights auditor" types on a running forum. You must be a fun person to hang out with!
No you don't have to stop. What if you don't stop? Security personnel need to be very thoughtful before they place their hands on someone.
This has been tested by off-duty law enforcement, Walmart.
You paid for it. Feel free to walk out the door. I have tested this at Walmart. I usually stop and allow store personnel to check my stuff. Sometimes, I don't have time and I have said I don't have time for this nonsense. No one arrested me. No one tackled me.
I'm guessing your skin color is not of the African-American kind.
How upset I get with my receipt being checked at the door depends way more on context. If it's some old person or a mentally handicapped door clerk just checking, I don't sweat it. If I'm the only one walking by or I see other people in front of me having been checked, I don't sweat it. But if I'm following someone carrying out a flatscreen TV in a box and some 5'6", 300 lb. door decoration in a vest lets the person carrying a $500 item pass without a check but then wants to audit every item on my receipt when I'm carrying a reusable bag full of $35 in groceries, yeah...then I do think "WTF, dude...?....".
They are building a new one a few miles from here. My life is stressful enough without having to put up with all of this BS. My wife and I don't need to buy massive quantities of stuff. The last time that I was in COSTCO, I managed to lose my receipt between the register and the door. Yes, I'm a dumb ass. But this caused lots of stress. Like I said, I don't need this kind of thing. I'm happy with Walmart and Publix (only a mile or so from my house).
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