WalMart Shoplifting

[buckeyefarmer]

Not much chance of that here... I think the entire county of millions has fewer than 300 Conceal Carry and those are occupational for the most part.

The newspaper has published all the names and addresses from time to time in the public interest.

Im surprised your state hasn't outlawed cash registers and locked doors.

 

[ultrarunner]

The SF Bay Area is a Special Place...

85 smash and grab car break ins each and every day in San Francisco...

I read 11 arrests out of 81,000 break ins... don't need to be smart to realize the odds on getting away... besides... virtually no one can do anything to stop you unless they are a Marshall Arts Pro...

 

[RSKY]

One of the big banks within walking distance from work has a chambered foyer to get in and out... just like the local jail.

You open the first door and walk in and it closes... they you tell the guard what you want and the second door opens to let you in... same to go out... I refused to bank there.

A small bank (since bought out and closed) near us had been robbed so many times they had a phone installed in the vault so they could call for help when locked in it. Finally they installed a lock system on the front door. You had to walk up and push a button, they would look at you on a TV screen and if you were by yourself they would let you in. Wife's uncle was the banker and when somebody complained about it he would say they could come to work as a security guard and look down a gun barrel a couple times a year if they wanted to. But he was tired of it.

The back door also had a wide angle video system installed and they wouldn't leave if there was a car parked in the back. The banker would go out the front first and look it over before the three women would leave. This was years ago before the security systems came down in price and the system was expensive.

Little country bank only had six bad loans in something like sixty years. That number may be off but that is what I remember Fred, the banker, telling me. They had to know your family back for two generations before they would loan you a penny. When sold it was rated as the most financially secure bank in the state. They had depositors from the other end of the state that kept large sums there for years.

RSKY

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Most of my credit union branches use a tube system like a drivethru, in the lobby. You see the teller on a screen, no direct contact. I prefer the branches with the drivethru.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Mike, maybe they do things differently up there than down here. I've been in Walmarts just about all over the country except in the northeast, and I've never known of an instance in which they challenged anyone except when a customer is going out with something fairly valuable and too big to be bagged; i.e., things such as TVs, microwave ovens, etc. While I'm sure it's probably happened, I've never personally known of them to check anything in a bag.

Of course, I'm certainly not saying that everything Walmart does is "reasonable"; only that you aren't protected by the Constitution from their "searches".

I've been known to be a bit of a "jerk" with a few of their other policies myself. After having been a regular customer in quite a few Walmarts, there was one (and only one) in which the cashier would ask to see my drivers license about every third time I was in there. No other Walmart had ever asked for other ID when I used a credit card. So I just wondered why, since it only happened occasionally, never when buying anything that cost more than a few dollars. So I sent an e-mail to Walmart's headquarters and a day or two later a fellow who identified himself as the manager of that store called me. He first told me they "always" asked when a credit card was used; a very obvious lie and I told him so. Then he told me they had to do it on every 5th customer; another lie. A couple of days later, a different fellow called and also identified himself as the manager of that store. He told me the computer randomly selected people to ask for ID. So the next time a cashier asked to see my drivers license, I said, "No" and walked out, leaving the merchanise sitting there (I hadn't yet scanned my credit card). No one in that store has ever asked to see ID since.

But then a brand new Walmart opened closer to our house, and lo and behold, the second fellow who called from the other store became the manager in the new store. So, sure enough, about the 3rd or 4th time I was in there, the cashier asked to see my drivers license. I told her, "Call your manager." So I got to meet him in person, and was never again asked for other ID.

And then Walmart started selling beer and wine. And they had a policy requiring ID of anyone who purchased any alcoholic beverage. Now I'll be 68 before this month's over, so I asked a couple of cashiers if they really thought I could be under 21. And when they told me of the policy requiring ID of everyone, I told them it must be tough to have to work for a boss who thinks you're too much of an idiot to know that I'm over 21. The policy now is to require ID of anyone who appears to the cashier to be under 40.

We were at Chili's a while back and my wife wanted a Marguerita and the waitress asked for an ID. Wife said "your kidding?" Waitress said no, manager required them to check ID for all alcoholic purchases. WIFE IS 70 YEARS OLD!!!! I didn't raise a stink with the manager only because we were with some friends. If we were by ourselves, I very likely would have approached the manager and not to politely told him how stupid he was before we walked out.

 

[ultrarunner]

Most of my credit union branches use a tube system like a drivethru, in the lobby. You see the teller on a screen, no direct contact. I prefer the branches with the drivethru.

Can't remember seeing a functional drive thru for banking in years...

Across the street they just took it all out... had not been used in 20 years.

 

[tcreeley]

Most banks in Maine with a parkinglot big enough have functional drive thru's.

 

[k0ua]

Can't remember seeing a functional drive thru for banking in years...

Across the street they just took it all out... had not been used in 20 years.

Interesting. Here all banks here have drive thru's, and that is all I use. I never go inside.

 

[ultrarunner]

Too many window robberies I guess?

The same bank with branches in the SF Bay Area and Washington will have very nice Washington Branches and Drive Up tellers... I always attributed it to Washington Weather?

 

[Norm W]

A friend of mine was buying a six pack and the cashier asked for proof of age. He was 77 at the time. He asked her if she wanted to get married. He told her if she thought he looked like he was under 21, she would probably miss the rest of his failings.