Do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores

[nero_bolt]

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Do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores?

Do you object to staff asking to inspect your bag? (they are only doing their job) 

Will you shop at a  store that asks to inspect your bag or will you go elsewhere? 

Do bag inspections and security checks help to stop shop lifting and keep prices down?

If you object WHY?

Do you think that objecting to a bag inspection makes a person look guilty or they are guilty? 

Rememer that its a condition of entry at just about every major /medium/small store in Australia 

[lakeland27]

bag checks are a bit pointless, most of the stuff is jammed up jumpers or down trousers anyway . .

one night a security guy tapped me on the shoulder in the car park (a bit too hard for my liking) anyway when he got up i asked him what it was about 'you have some games in your trousers' he said. i dropped my trousers, pulled them up again got into the car and drove away.

[cherry*135]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

I have no bjection to having my bag checked - but I do have an issue with people who say 'if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't object. It is a fatuous and insidious coment that can be used - and often is - to justify almost any invasion of privacy.

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I said that in specific relation to stores checking bags on departure. The stores are legally able to do the bag checks.  The staff member do not have to justify why they are doing the bag checks. The bag checks aren't done to invade privacy of their customers. 

Signs are required to be displayed prominently in all stores that do bag checks so customers know when they enter the store they could be subjected to a bag check. Their choice whether they go in the store.

If you are asked to open you bag, why object? IF there is nothing in there you have stolen, and you are aware the shop has a bag check policy?

[donnashuggy]

I agree hawk, business wisdom dictates that it is smarter to accept the small incidence of loss over a large scale resentment and backlash, there are a lot of posts indicating that it does not bother people but most people I speak to it does, I have seen it on numerous occasions.

[purple_haize]

A lot of the shops that I go into have a sign up saying we check all bags this big & give a size..........which is usually a shopping bag and not a hand bag.

I object to anyone looking in my handbag as it is only small and I couldnt hide anything in there, even if I wanted to.

[bluecat*dancing]

Years ago, I used to feel offended when a checking of my bag/s was requested because I felt that it inferred that I was a thief, but, nowadays, I don't care and quite often show my bag automatically, out of habit.

[donnashuggy]

Well that is as humiliating as it gets, I feel the same way if someone looks in my bag, my children are not allowed to go to my purse.

[the_hawk*]

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@mugssy65 wrote:
If you don't allow them to look I believe they can request you go with them to an office and the police will be called to compel you to reveal what's in your bag. What's the big deal? In my bag I have... 1 purse, 1 mobile phone, 1 set of car keys, 4 old recites, 1 packet of gum, 1 lipstick, a small roll on deodorant and a hair brush.

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they have no special powers, they could make a citizens arrest but that would get the company sued for unlawful detention (false imprisonment ) and a number of other things for many tens of thounsands of $$ when they found nothing.

[**meep**]

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@purple_haize wrote:

A lot of the shops that I go into have a sign up saying we check all bags this big & give a size..........which is usually a shopping bag and not a hand bag.

I object to anyone looking in my handbag as it is only small and I couldnt hide anything in there, even if I wanted to.

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If your bag is smaller than A4 paper, it should not be checked so you would have every right to object.

[mugssy65]

That's true too Lakeland, my O-H is quite partial to a drink of Gentleman Jacks occasionally, in our local bottle shop it's kept behind the counter, when I asked why she explained that the bottle is the right shape to slip down ones pants and that she didn't think I would want to buy a bottle that had been there!!! Too right I wouldn't.
Oh by the way the bottle is sorta book shaped.

[donnashuggy]

I think there is a difference between checking a myer bag when leaving david jones to someone looking in your handbag.