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 

[polocross58]

I've owned and managed reasonably large stores and yes, some people are watched very carefully by staff as result of those people having proven beyond doubt that they are thieves

Staff have proved to be more brazen thieves however.  And storemen

Worst instance was when we opened a new branch.  We were still following a no bag-check policy.  High school girls from a private school descended en masse several times and almost cleaned us out of new seasons swimwear.,  In the end I spoke with the headmistress.  She and I decided I should ban all uniformed girls from the school in question

On a number of occasions, security staff from nearby department stores discovered our ticketed stock amongst other stolen possessions after they'd apprehended someone.  Very often, shoplifters work together in twos and threes.  After being caught, they tend to leave the area for a time at least.  Very probably they move to another suburb

Some steal for gain.  Others for thrills.  Some are simply of low intelligence and can't resist grabbing whatever is not nailed down

Retailers learn to remember faces, staff not so much as they have less to lose

[cherry*135]

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@punch*drunk wrote:

So does anyone think the stores have a wall of mugshots somewhere so they remember who to not let in the shop? I guess its pretty unlikely that they'd really exclude someone from entering.

I do wonder how those that object would react if they were actually prevented from entering the major supermarkets and department stores?

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A few years ago (when you could get a refund without a receipt from stores like T) some shoplifters would steal goods from one particular T store and then return them to one in another location for a refund.  I think there was someone from CW that worked in T  as security who posted about it

Those people caught I am pretty sure were banned from T. after that.

I think stores do ban people...ones who have caused some sort of trouble repeatedly.  Shops like T have a service desk at the front entrance, so staff working there could have the details/photos of who is on the banned. 

Or people who cause trouble in malls can be banned from the whole mall as it is private property.

Our local HN had a big board with security photos of people shoplifting items in stores. They had to take it down though as it wasn't allowed.

[*ibis]

meep your ufo pic deserves a whole thread. or at least pointed out to ufo investagator

[mugssy65]

Here in WA it's all bags, we have no size limit, yes handbags, they are not allowed to touch inside but they can ask you to remove stuff so they can see. Like I said I don't have a problem with it.
Going back to airport checks, someone said that it was different, I bet those people blown up in the underground in England a few years back wished bag checks were done!

[cherry*135]

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@polocross58 wrote:

Someone wonders aloud why 'some people' even go to stores

Strange

I would have though people go to stores now for the same reasons they went to stores throughout history

All so strange

Can't imagine what would make someone spend their vital moments of life online getting testy about people discussing the unprincipled methods used by multinationals to overturn many centuries of tradition and shared respect

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Hello, I am someone.

You missed the point.  The point was there is an option to do your shopping without going to an actual store.. online shopping.

No chance of anyone requesting to look in your bag there or putting you in a 'cage' to do your shopping.

That should save all the problems a few have or imagine they will have with shopping in a real store.

This thread asks.. do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores. It doesn't ask who does the most shoplifting in stores..customers or employees etc. What major multi-national corps are doing etc.

[punch*drunk]

A few years ago (when you could get a refund without a receipt from stores like T) some shoplifters would steal goods from one particular T store and then return them to one in another location for a refund.

I had someone try that trick on me in a small family owned shoe store, by the looks of it they had stolen 2 display shoes from another store, maybe Myers or similar, and tried to claim we'd sold them an odd pair and wanted a refund. No receipt, no box or anything so I dont know how they thought they'd get away with it, but they'd knocked off a style that we didnt stock anyway......shame we didnt have cameras, I could have put them on Worlds Dumbest.......wonder if they smuggled them out of Myers in an unchecked bag?

[cherry*135]

Some people are too dumb to be rip-off customers.

[**meep**]

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@*ibis wrote:

meep your ufo pic deserves a whole thread. or at least pointed out to ufo investagator

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that's what i reckon too......

[*ibis]

ive been dying to talk about that pic

i was banned when it came out

when i saw the ufo my heart stopped

[*ibis]

i was zooming in on the alien when i saw it