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]

icy - I must have mentioned at least a 100 times I have no objection to opening a shopping bag should store staff require me to do so, when I am still in the store though!

A summary of the thread for you.. the majority of posters don't mind complying with store bag check policy.

[azureline**]

I have never been asked in a store to open my handbag. I have never witnessed anyone being asked to do so either, except my sister and her massive bag.

[cherry*135]

I wonder why people get so aggro at the thought of having to open their personal  regular sized handbag then, when it hasn't even happened to them and it is not even likely anyone would ask them  to.

In NSW, if it is smaller than an A4 piece of paper, no one will be asking them to do so either, most likely...if they do, point out the conditions and say No.

[purple_haize]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I think there is a difference between checking a myer bag when leaving david jones to someone looking in your handbag.

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they are all bags

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How many posters here that carry personalhandbags (say under A4 size) have been asked to open them by store staff.

How many posters here have seen other customers being made to open up their personal handbag of that size and under?

I don't think being asked to open personal handbags is a big issue.

I have never had to open mine nor have I seen anyone else having to do so. Only shopping bags carried by hand and backpacks.

Az- I guess if people don't like others  looking in their handbag then they won't go on flights that security xray/scans are  a pre-requirement for.

Lets not mention body scans either.

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Sorry AM*3 I have been on numerous overseas flights...........that is completely different I have had xrays of baggage and scans done at airports...................shops wanting to do the same is not right, there is no law that says you have to show bags on the way out of a shop, shopping bags yes, I agree to that, but not my handbag..........what is in my bag, is my personal items, not for showing other people that have no right to look or touch...........

I am within my right to say no.......they can call the cops, they come and find nothing, and if I could be bothered I could sue.........simple as that.....

But we live in Victoria......so probably different here, as my daughter said, no one stops and wants to look in her bag, no matter what shop she has been to...............

Not saying any more, but I know my rights.

[**meep**]

I am within my right to say no.......they can call the cops, they come and find nothing, and if I could be bothered I could sue.........simple as that.....

if the shop owner could prove they had sufficient probable cause to suspect you of  shoplifting, than your claim would be dismissed,  as was the case in one of the links Hawk posted.

both consumers and traders have legal rights.  you need to understand all of them.

If you say "No", after agreeing to the Conditions of Entry to open your bags for inspection, the shop owner can revoke your rights to enter the premises.   The shop owner would be legally allowed to do that. (private property)   The only options you would then have would be to never shop there again or take it to court and prove discrimination.

Did you know that?

[cherry*135]

I don't see any difference in an airport security person scanning our handbags and a store person glancing in them.. the airport security person would see more. That is if women are claiming their handbag contents are private and they don't want anyone else to look in them.

Apart from the fact stores don't or shouldn't request customers to open their regular size handbags anyway. Moot point.

Why fear something, get wound up about something that has never happened and not likely too?

[**meep**]

I don't see the difference either, if the main objection is privacy.

[cherry*135]

I had a neighbour who was going to sue someone just about everyday.. the council, the owner of the house next door.. etc

[bright.ton42]

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@purple_haize wrote:

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

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@daydream**believer wrote:

Yeh, sorry but i dont believe that story at all

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Neither do I. I suggest to that poster -   get over it.  He might object strongly to bag checking but most of us here don't.  It seems our self esteem is not threatened by it as some.  

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The shop people do not have the right to go through or touch your bags........simple as that.......

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Did I say they have?   I'm talking about  checking bags -     like - looking in them for 2 seconds which I think most of us are talking about.    I have been asked to several times -  yes I'm obviously a very suspicious looking type,lol   -  but   i don't feel like a thief, I don't feel intimidated,  I realize they have a job to do so I let them do it so I can get out of there quickly.  I still say it's about self esteem , but that's just me.  

[acacia_pycnantha]

I bet there are many shoppers who do feel too intimidated to stand on their rights and refuse a bag search.

and . . in answer to am*3's question on a previous post asking how many people here have seen a shop assistant looking through someone's (less than A4 size) purse/bag . . . . I have, I saw it today at a Big W store . . and it wasn't just looking, it was a full-on hands-on and hands-in rifling through the contents.

Ok, so a question of my own to all here . . . How many of you would feel too uncomfortable to refuse to open your bags for the shop-assistant when asked?