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 

[cherry*135]

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@debra9275 wrote:

sorry I didn't know what you were talking about I haven't read all the posts, too many pages for me lol

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No problems, not worth reading anyway lol.

[cherry*135]

I am disturbed (and insulted) by these comments:

People who have no issues about showing their shopping bags on exit must be:

Unable to stand up for themselves

Don't know their rights

Must feel humiliated when showing their bags, as the store is treating them as if they are a thief.

Are the people that make these comments mindreaders? They know what every other customer is thinking when they have their bags checked?

[acacia_pycnantha]

The 'sensitivity' of some is laughable really ....... plenty of other far more important things to concern yourselves about in the real world.

If a person remains insensitive to the fact they are implicitly being suspected of being a shoplifter when asked to open their bags for a check, then I think that they are insensitive.

It's normal to feel a little put out when being accused of theft, isn't it?

[cherry*135]

Define normal.

You are trying to project your opinions and thoughts onto others.

If others don't feel like they are treated like thieves why should you want to convince them otherwise?

You haven't convinced anyone so far, that they should do the bag checks your way and start refusing to open their bags.

[acacia_pycnantha]

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@am*3 wrote:

I am disturbed (and insulted) by these comments:

People who have no issues about showing their shopping bags on exit must be:

Unable to stand up for themselves

Don't know their rights

Must feel humiliated when showing their bags, as the store is treating them as if they are a thief.

Are the people that make these comments mindreaders? They know what every other customer is thinking when they have their bags checked?

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Aren't you being just a little too sensitive here, am*3?

I think your deductions are erroneous. or perhaps you have not thoroughly understood the arguments presented?

Anyway, your conclusions are mistaken and your logic needs a little work.

[cherry*135]

I disagree with all the comments in your last post.

[**meep**]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

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 .

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With all due respect, I am not sue why you are trying to convince me  that it  has to be a humiliating experience.    The intent is not to humiliate.  .   The intent is to deter shoplifters.    The intent is to reduce shrinkage.   The conditions are  not intended to humiliate  because they are not limited to specific groups based on age, gender or race.   I can't deny that some people do feel humiliated, I can only suggest they should not.

Some of the WH&S laws may be seen as an insult to the intelligence of a reasonable person.  They are still in place as a duty of care to cover all.

Am brought up a good comparison earlier with airport security.  

[acacia_pycnantha]

Well, meep, whatever word is used to describe the feeling of implicitly being accused of being a possible shoplifter, that feeling is not a pleasant one.

I don't feel under any obligation to feel concerned about a shop's problems with shoplifting. That is their concern and none of mine.

I do feel concerned that one of their solutions is to routinely ask to look in shoppers' bags, thus implicitly making an accusation of suspicion of being a shoplifter.

(lapping here, I feel)

[mtnlane]

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

It's normal to feel a little put out when being accused of theft, isn't it?

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I hardly think (what I consider to be) your overreaction could be accurately described as 'a little put out'.

As far as what you consider 'normal' I make no comment.

[cherry*135]

No-one has a problem with you feeling like that acacia. It is you telling others they should feel the same or assuming they do feel the same that I don't get.

There was a thread here recently ... What's your first world problem you had today (or words to that effect). Getting aggro about a store bag check would have been appropriate in that thread. Most people have bigger, more important, more real things to worry about.

A lot of people enjoy shopping (maybe you don't?) stopping for 30 secs on rare occasions to have a bag check is not important to most. It is not going to make shoppers feel humiliated and ruin their trip out.