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@donnashuggy wrote:

I don't think you have to comply at all, call in the gestapo 🙂

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yeah, you do. If it is a condition of entry.

LOL

If they want to search your bag they must think you are stealing?

Why else? lol

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I don't think you have to comply at all, call in the gestapo 🙂

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yeah, you do. If it is a condition of entry.

 

LOL

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Sorry, but you are wrong, crikey.

You can present your bag for inspection, but they are not allowed to open it and you are within your rights to refuse to open it for them.

They might decide to ban you from the store, but I doubt they would do that.

I don't understand all the outrage.

No bag inspector has asked to inspect my personal handbag at a shop in the last few years.

If I have other shopping bags with stuff I've bought in other shops, I hold it open for the bag inspector to look at as I walk past them.

My present personal handbag is a medium sized, brown, goat skin satchel (#humlebrag) so perhaps they don't bother asking to inspect it because it's not large enough to shove stuff into? 

If I have other shopping bags with stuff I've bought in other shops, I hold it open for the bag inspector to look at as I walk past them

And why do you do that?

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

If the government makes some rules, that is quite different. when retail establishments want to invade our privacy, then that's another matter.

 

 

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According to the Government, stores' policies such as having conditions of entry which include bag searchers, are not in breach of privacy.    In fact, Government Departments strongly suggest traders take such steps to reduce shoplifting.

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I don't think you have to comply at all, call in the gestapo 🙂

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yeah, you do. If it is a condition of entry.

 

LOL

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Sorry, but you are wrong, crikey.

 

You can present your bag for inspection, but they are not allowed to open it and you are within your rights to refuse to open it for them.

They might decide to ban you from the store, but I doubt they would do that.

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ya really want to get literal?

If they have a sign, and you refuse to open you bag for inspection when asked, they can detain you until someone with authority arrives to undertake such an inspection.

You are right, you can refuse to open it, and they are not allowed to put their hands inside it (the general store assistants), but they can insist that you provide your bag for inspection, they do not say, by or to whom.

If they have proof, sufficient to detain you, then they are in the clear.

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.

Nobody asks to look in my handbag when I shop online (my preferred venue) 🙂

The other thing is that I don't fight with customers or assume they are lying when their parcel hasn't turned up.

It would be counterproductive.

anyone else feel like this?