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 

[bright.ton42]

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@purple_haize wrote:

They dont do any bag checks at any of the Aldi's that I have been too. There are no notices up to say that they do.

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Interesting.   .  Though to be fair St Kilda where I shop at Aldi does attract a lot of layabouts in the area  , though I don't see many in the store,   and I'm pretty sure I don't look like a layabout, lol, or others whose bags have been checked.  A lot of them are very well dressed.  I haven't seen any object though. It's clear that it's a random thing.   However now I know if there's not a sign there they can't do it, it's getting up my nose a bit.  

We all seem to be repeating ourselves here, me included.  .  

[*ibis]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Ha ha read this:

http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/archive/index.php/t-452258.html

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ok i read it

whats  funny and whats your point?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

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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.

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I think ion those cases it is a court order instructing the person not to enter the store. Doesn't necessarily prevent them from doing so, but if they get detained for something else, it will show up and then they'll get a slightly harder slap on the wrist.

[donnashuggy]

Ha ha is my point

[cherry*135]

another one from the link:

Rant away, OP, but it doesn't mean everyone will agree with you :)'  - I think that could be a useful comment to reuse sometimes.

The point is Donna found 'one' single complaint online about ALDI bag checks from nearly two years ago.

I don't think she read the replies to that person though..

[donnashuggy]

I did read the replies, it is similar to the replies here, nothing of substance and missing the point I made initially in the other thread which was " I don't like the way Aldi treats it's customers like thieves"

I'm allowed not to like it I think 🙂 It's my view and I am sticking to it lol

Comparing it to airport security or being breathalized is plain silly 🙂

I don't care how many signs they have either, not that I have ever seen one, it is completely irrelevant to me.

[cherry*135]

:giggles:

This thread asks:  Do you object to BAG INSPECTIONS at stores.. that is what people are responding to not some other thread they probably haven't even read.

[acacia_pycnantha]

donna . .  the signs I have seen read like this.

It is a condition of entr"y to this store that you present your bags for inspection if requested.  or . . . please make your bags available for inspection on request."

Ok, I have presented my bag when asked . . . I was asked to open it and I refused as I had, by presenting my bag, complied with the signs.

I told the assistant "if you have the legal right to open my bag, then please go right ahead". . . she said she didn't have that right, so I left.

Iread the words on the signs and take them literally.

[*ibis]

I did read the replies, it is similar to the replies here, nothing of substance

ok

[bright.ton42]

Yep, you've now told us that 7 times.