[Copernicus]

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Guys, does everyone realize that the purpose of the reciept checking at Circuit City is not to deter shoplifting by the customer from the checkout counter to a few feet away at the door?

Next time your in-store, check out how much shit you could conveivably grab from checkout to door and you'll see there isn't much in the way of pluckable merchandise.

The purpose of the checking of the reciepts is a self imposed company policy to check their own employees...ie...make sure the checkout girl isn't stuffing tons of shit in a friends bag posing as a customer, and then ringing them up for a fraction of the total.

They are asking you to comply at their request to QA their own employees, and deter their checkout employees from the temptation to under-ring items for friends...knowing another employee is cheking on the way out.

At absolute worst, if a LP employee argues that the failure to show a reciept establishes probable suspicion (which I don't think it does in and of itself).....but either way, even if it could be established that it does constitute probable suspicion, it would be suspicion of the checkout employee, as defined by their own company explanation of why they conduct reciept checks in the first place.

Attempting to detain the customer once out of the building should have resulted in a criminal arrest of the LP employee, with charges pressed by the customer... once the customer provided sufficient evidence that he did not steal anything, and that no probable suspicion existed to detain him outside of company property.

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I dont buy your explanation that the sole purpose of checking receipts is undercharging by cashiers. It has nothing to do with proximity to the door, because the warehouse stores check receipts far away from the cashiers.

WRT detaining him outside the store, he didnt provide that proof until he was outside the store AND the police came, at least in the versions of the incident that I read.