HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 01:36 PM
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Woman arrested after pushing 100-year-old Wal-Mart greeter
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By Ryan Haggerty of the Journal Sentinel
A 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday on allegations of pushing a 100-year-old woman working as a greeter at a Milwaukee Wal-Mart, a police spokeswoman said Monday.
The customer apparently became upset when the greeter tried to make sure she had paid for water bottles as she left the store at 3355 S. 27th St. about 6 p.m., police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said.
The greeter was treated at a hospital and released, Schwartz said. The Milwaukee County district attorney's office is reviewing the case, she said.
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rogressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 01:38 PM
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1. Thank them for their concern and then walk past them
there is no requirement in most environments to tolerate them.
Kirk (158 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 01:58 PM
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20. Are you saying
the customer was within their rights to ignore this woman who was most likely asking to see the sales receipt for the item she was walking out with?
AlabamaLibrul (612 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 05:11 PM
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58. Not only was she within her rights, but **** greeters, generally speaking
I shop at my damn walmart every week because there's no other grocery store here that's cheap enough (seriously, I checked) and EVERY TIME I leave that place the old bitty wants to harass me over my receipt, checking every item. I don't even deal with them anymore.
I think it's because I'm not a 90-year old white guy that can barely walk like everyone else that lives here.
Any leftist asshole had better hope that I am not around when someone bullies an elder.
kas125 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 02:05 PM
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25. Absolutely within her rights! We do not have to show them
our receipts and I refuse to do it, too. The last time I was in a Walmart, probably two years ago, I bought two weeks of groceries which included a case of beer. At the door the greeter asked to see my receipt. I said, "what for?" She said it was her job to stop anyone who had an item that was not in a bag and make sure it was paid for. I then asked, "Are you accusing me of being a thief?" She said, "Oh, no, honey, certainly not." Whereupon I said, "Well, okay then." and walked away. I will not ever comply with that request. When I've paid for my items and gotten a receipt, my transaction is over. If they suspect me of wrongdoing, arrest me for shoplifting. If not, leave me the hell alone and stop treating me as if I have done something wrong!
When I worked at the Home D'Pot, they just let shoplifters skate! They might try and keep them outa the store if they can identify them, but for the most part, they are more afraid of law suits if they get it wrong. One employee stopped a guy from stealing 2 chain saws and got fired for his effort!
I sure hope one of these asshats gives me crap when I become a Wally World greeter! I have no doubts I will become one, either! The way O'bumbler and his minions have set the country back, I'll be workin' until I'm a 100, too!
I'll knock the snot out of 'em with my cane, then shove the business end up their ass so far they'll think it's a tongue depressor!!(http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9571/zot2.gif)
The only times the greeter has asked to see a receipt was if there was some box too big to be bagged, or if the alarm goes off.
I sure hope one of these asshats gives me crap when I become a Wally World greeter! I have no doubts I will become one, either! The way O'bumbler and his minions have set the country back, I'll be workin' until I'm a 100, too!
I'll knock the snot out of 'em with my cane, then shove the business end up their ass so far they'll think it's a tongue depressor!!(http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9571/zot2.gif)
Any leftist asshole had better hope that I am not around when someone bullies an elder.You said it brother. :wink:
Wait a minute, I though something was strange about these posts.
I thought that liberals don't shop at the hated Walmarts?
I heard the Walmart CEO made a visit to the White House today. We all know how much unions wanted to make Walmart unionized. Let's hope this didn't happen or is about to happen.
and EVERY TIME I leave that place the old bitty wants to harass me over my receipt, checking every item.
Any leftist asshole had better hope that I am not around when someone bullies an elder.Ditto that! I happen to love the one at my local. He's my uncle so I pity the fool that pulls some shit like that when I'm around.
I sure hope one of these asshats gives me crap when I become a Wally World greeter! I have no doubts I will become one, either! The way O'bumbler and his minions have set the country back, I'll be workin' until I'm a 100, too!
I'll knock the snot out of 'em with my cane, then shove the business end up their ass so far they'll think it's a tongue depressor!!(http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9571/zot2.gif)
I had a greeter ask me for a receipt once at Walmart, I said sure and showed it to them, I had nothing to hide, and I also have to show my receipt at BJ's.
Same here --BJ's and Wally World? You been stalking me?
I look at it this way. I, as an honest person, have nothing to hide, and have no problem with the extra five seconds that a greeter is going to take to make sure nothing OBVIOUS is walking out the store. They've never gone over my purchases with a fine tooth comb, never given me the TSA treatment, and if they were to do so, I would say something to their supervisor/manager, not them.
LOL!
I'm used to it at BJ's but it was the 1st time it ever happened at Walmart, not sure why they wanted to see my receipt but maybe for some reason they decided to check a lot of people out that day, maybe they had a rash of shoplifters, the greeter was a senior and very nice, so what am I supposed to do? be rude to them? even at my age my Mother would smack me if I was rude to someone who was just doing their job, and especially if they were a senior. I was raised to respect my elders and you NEVER argue with them.
ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-29-10 03:02 PM
Response to Reply #37
41. Then there is Wal Mart policy, which basically states that they will not chase or restrain anyone. I had an incident some years ago with one of their loss prevention bubbas which ended with Wal Mart firing him and apologizing to me for it.
kctim (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-29-10 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #12
13. No, its a story of a 100 year old woman being assaulted
Seems like they have been doing that receipt check thing for the last year or so. They do it at Sam's too, so I thought it was part of their policy. They do it at Best Buy and Fry's as well. I just show them my receipt and they highlight it. Why does everything have to be such a big friggin deal???
In other words, Ballygrl, you and me were raised RIGHT (in more ways than one!)
:II:
So being asked for receipt upon leaving a store is an assault upon humanity but being naked scanned or sexually assaulted by the TSA is okey dokey?
They really are idiots and deserve to go to the camps in 2013.
I'm beginning to lean more toward sausage grinders and dog food.
Most don't, and since Target entered into a deal with Walmart and Haliburton to build underground detention centers in their new stores, they take their business elsewhere when possible.Teh Rove is one helluva marketing/business manager...
Sometimes, it just ain't possible.
He was probably fired because he wasn't suppose to go after the thief in the first place. I work at Macy's at the fragrance counters, right next to the lower level mall entrance. I am not allowed to chase someone down for stealing something. Loss Prevention does that. If we, as employees, see someone acting suspicious, we just call LP and they send in their "undercover" employees (wearing plain clothes, blending in with shoppers) to observe the potential shoplifter(s). LP chases down the shoplifters, not me. And if I were to "play the hero", I could be fired.
When I worked at the Home D'Pot, they just let shoplifters skate! They might try and keep them outa the store if they can identify them, but for the most part, they are more afraid of law suits if they get it wrong. One employee stopped a guy from stealing 2 chain saws and got fired for his effort!
I saw something of that policy in a New Jersey HD a few years back, and there are some dirtbag mofos in NJ that will steal anything that isn't welded in place (After dark, even welding wouldn't work). Guy tried to push a loaded cart of big ticket stuff out and it set off the alarms, the register crews hustled over and confronted him about a receipt which he of course didn't have. After a short bit of shucking and jiving on his part about having paid for it (somehow), they took charge of the cart but just let him wander off clean, without calling the cops and despite there probably being somewhere north of 7-800 bucks worth of gear in the cart.
AlabamaLibrul (612 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Nov-29-10 05:11 PM
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58. Not only was she within her rights, but **** greeters, generally speaking