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 

[acacia_pycnantha]

Is this your point? You would like people to start thinking as you do and refuse bag checks?

Not at all . . . but I would like people to start thinking, and to think about why they are so compliant with what is an essentially humiliating practice, when a simple refusal is their right.

(and to anticipate a reply . . . it is humiliating to have one's bags checked, because the implication is one of being suspected of theft, otherwise why are the checks even made in the first place?)

[azureline**]

I am not humiliated............... I am a business owner (we don't do bag checks, we have CCTV) and I know they are trying to stop shoplifting, why would I refuse?

[cherry*135]

I don't see why anyone would be humilated when a store bag checker takes a few seconds glance in their shopping bag?

Goodness they don't take the items out of the bag and wave them around for the rest of the stores customers and staff to see.

I think it was explained early on in this thread the stores check all customersbags so they aren't seen as discriminating.. if they only checked little old ladies bags or teens with backpacks or mothers with prams then those people could claim they are being discrimnated against.

Therefore we non objectos don't see ourselves as beng treated as thieves, it is just a process, everyone and anyone may be asked.

You are casting doubt on the intelligence of posters in this thread. Also you are enforcing your own opinions of why you think they comply.

No matter how many people say they comply because it is their choice (which they have if you read back) you still want to make out they are being forced to do something they don't want to or need to do. Or that they don't know their rights.

People don't care, If asked to show their shopping bag they do, then they forget about it a nano-second later and will continue to do so as long as shops exist.

[purple_haize]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

I see you mean I feel too uncomfortable to refuse.

No, I didn't say that or even imply it.

I just asked a question of all the posters here . . . How many of you would feel too uncomfortable to refuse a bag check if asked by the shop assistant?

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They can look in my shopping bags..........but I draw the line and stand up for my rights when it comes to my handbag, whether is is bigger than an A4 or smaller, I refuse to be walked all over by people who demand I show them what is in my handbag. I learnt along time ago, to stand up for what I believe is right and I do........whether people like it or not......

[cherry*135]

Has anyone ever demanded to look in your handbag purple?

I can't understand such angst over something that hasn't happened and is most likely not to. Do you get asked often to open your shopping bags.

[azureline**]

PH, how is it walking all over you? have you refused to open your bag? I really don't get it.

Sometimes little stuff needs to stay that way.

I have to do a big shop tomorrow as I have 4 grand daughters coming for a weeks holiday, showing the opened bag will be a doddle.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

When I repeat mysellf my husband says I am doing laps.

Funny thing is, it happens all the time here on CS 

[**meep**]

(and to anticipate a reply . . . it is humiliating to have one's bags checked, because the implication is one of being suspected of theft, otherwise why are the checks even made in the first place?)

Not at all.  It is just and extra step to prevent theft.   Shops would usually already have other measures in place such as surveillance mirrors, cctv, having more expensive items locked in cabinets.  It is NOT against the Law for shops to have Conditions of Entry.   It is NOT against the Law for those condition to require bag inspections. Shoplifting accounts for up 40% of reported shop losses each year.  It is not only responsible but strongly advised by the Police that store owners should do whatever they can, to prevent theft.   I completely understand and appreciate  that and have absolutely no problem with co-operating.   I do not feel my freedom or privacy is in any way compromised. 

[happyroo_bunji]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

I just asked a question of all the posters here . . . How many of you would feel too uncomfortable to refuse a bag check if asked by the shop assistant?

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Knowing my rights, I would have no problem with refusing a bag check

[acacia_pycnantha]

Thanks to those who have answered . . . and for those others, at least my question should give you something to think abaout and to consider.

meep . . . I must respectfully disagree . . . it is humiliating, but maybe some people don't feel that way because they remain unaware of the humiliation being heaped upon them. To ask to check a person's bags is to imply that the person is suspected of shop-lifting.

if it is a store policy to make that request, then that implies that the management of the store makes that assumption .