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 

[*crikey*mate*]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

Meep . . my statement was in regards to an earlier post which was making comparison with nazi Germany.

It's one thing for the govt to make rules and quite another for private retail establishments to do so.

and, as we have established, the stores have no legal right to open a shopper's bag. they are not even allowed to touch it.

what they do try to do is to imply that they have this right, by posting conditions of entry signs and their hope is that most people will think that they do have such a right.

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you're missing the point, the stores cannot open the bag, but you are required to present it for inspection if asked, if that was a condirtion of entry into the store.

[donnashuggy]

No, I don't feel like that at all, I feel that it is a personal thing whether you get offended or not. I don't like it, I feel uncomfortable, I feel it is bad business.

Others don't mind lining up like sheep opening their handbags to prove they have not stolen anything, that is fair enough too 🙂

[*ibis]

and, as we have established, the stores have no legal right to open a shopper's bag

and, as I have established, the stores have no legal right to open a shopper's bag

FTFY

[*ibis]

Others don't mind lining up like sheep 

ok

[acacia_pycnantha]

you're missing the point, the stores cannot open the bag, but you are required to present it for inspection if asked, if that was a condirtion of entry into the store.

No, I don't think I'm missing the point.

I have "presented my bag for inspection" in compliance with the signage re conditions of entry.

I have been told by shop assistants that they don't have the right to open my bag. And I refuse to open it for them.

I have told them "here is my bag, if you have the legal right to open it then please go right ahead. they all (so far) have declined.

[cherry*135]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

anyone else feel like this?

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Sure do, if shoppers feel they are treated like thieves, don't want to open their bags fine with me.. rant on.. don't expect anyone else to agree with you though!

Donna's own threads must be lacking some oomph.. all the cool people are in this one!

I have never seen people line up to get their bag checked at store exit. If one person is having their bag checked by the one staff member at the door, anyone else exiting just walks out the door.

[bright.ton42]

Haha, 8 times.  Be careful   I'm counting.     

[acacia_pycnantha]

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@*ibis wrote:

and, as we have established, the stores have no legal right to open a shopper's bag

and, as I have established, the stores have no legal right to open a shopper's bag

FTFY

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No, not fixed. "we" are the people who have gone to the websites posted above and read the rules and posted that information here.

FIFY 😉

[cherry*135]

There is not a lot of outrage in this thread, it is very limited to a few posters who keep repeating the exactly the same outrage over and over again.

Also by their own admission, they have never even been asked to open their personal handbag by store staff!! That's the silly bit imo.

[donnashuggy]

The real outrage is that people are outraged that others are outraged 🙂