You're the Sheep If You Won't Show Your Receipt at Walmart - Lehto's Law Ep. 5.76 

Steve, not sure if you answered this, but what if a business put up signs that reads, "YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SHOW YOUR RECEIPT AT THE DOOR FOR ALL PURCHASES". Would that then give the store a legal "right" to check receipts because customers "consented to it" when they made a purchase??

@@cryogeneric Yes, if there are posted signs at the entryway that say 'you are required to show your receipt at the door for all purchases' and you still walk through those doors you are agreeing to abide by that rule. When you see that sign and you do NOT want to show your receipt, you can go shop somewhere else. Its just like having a sign in a business that says 'you are being recorded on these premisis' even though it may be a private entity, because they have given you posted notice, you are electing to stay and be recorded, you are electing to shop in this store and reveal your receipt.

What if I simply immediately throw my receipt away when purchasing things I have no intention of ever returning... or don't even grab it off of the machine? It's not as if they trained me to use the equipment or that I am legally required to keep it and throw it away after I leave... also my bank has a record of how much I paid them using my card so it can all be worked out if they want to arrest me for theft and investigate the matter fully.

@@JROTCLyons tell them that you ate the receipt.. and it was delicious.. if you pay with a bank card you can have your proof when you go to court.. both for the criminal and the civil case

@@cryogeneric eat the receipt in front of them.. that would be hilarious.. as soon as they ask for it just chow down on it.. but make sure that you pay with a bank/credit card if you are going to do that so you ultimately have proof of how much you paid them and when

You came late to the party.

Yep Walmart kills small communities and local business.

I totally agree with supporting local businesses. But I once went to a local hardware store to buy a new commode, and it was $400, whereas the same model was at Home Depot for 200. I could not support local that much, so I went to Home Depot to buy it.

@@DarthVader1977 Thank you. Edited.

Yes Matt. Thank you for bringing that to the table. ^5 Most people don't know anything about Civil Asset Forfeiture. I talk to people about it all the time - and they never heard of it.

Varth Dader the gram-error Nazi who's trying to turn this country socialists. 🙄🤣😬

@@marko6695 Nah it's good. It's important to be clear and concise. Words matter. I typed it on my phone and without my glasses. All good.

@@mclyker Your perfect in my world Matt!

STUPIDER?

Yeah. Even if you meet tons of new people daily, it really takes a long time to find someone where you stop and think, "Wow, this person's got a brain between their ears!!!"

I lost all interest in George Carlin's material once he eventually got so cynical that his comedy routines started being so consistently angry and preachy. Now that I am older, I totally understand why he got that way: Stupid people. It's so disheartening to see how abjectly worthless humanity is. The general stupidity level of supposedly "intelligent" human beings is so great, it's harder and harder to find any value at all in the species.

Carlin was an optimist.

Another 48 self check-out lanes backed up with sheeple doing a union job (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union/UFCW=Kroger, etc) checking/bagging themselves out for free thus putting other Americans out of jobs and being a slave working for no compensation.

Johann Schultz that’s so damn true

@@addagwenlyn9662 great, I love self checkouts, I can check myself out faster and I do not have to wait behind people still writing checks, I also love shopping at Amazon, they have what ever I want and in more options than any local store could ever offer me for a cheaper Chinese price.

This was the originally reason I stopped shopping at Walmart, when Target across the street has people standing at the end of the isle asking if i'm ready to check out.

The store I worked at had 28 registers. They are now down to 8 registers and a lot of self checkouts. They have also installed gates at the front entrance where you can only go through them to get into the store, but you can't go through them to go out of the store. I understand what it's for, but to me it just says we don't trust any of our customers.

These are the steps taken to weaken the sheeple. Be happy now. Very sad later.

That makes two of us.

my brother worked there for 6 years. heres the thing, one night he was going by the produce and took one grape and ate it. he got fired for 1 grape. ONE GRAPE!

@@captainmoretokin2172 well the biggest lost in retail theft is by employees🤷‍♂️

Bingo. Who is or is not a sheep is at the end of the "really don't care" list.

@P. Spit hahaha.. those videos are hilarious.

Totally Agree

Exactly. Just tell the receipt checker “no thank you” and move on

@throathammer1 sounds awesome please post all the videos of .. " ITS GO TIME "

Or they need a job as they have too much time on their hands. Perhaps they should go work at Walmart.

@@ki5aok I hear they're hiring receipt-checkers.

@@DaddyBeanDaddyBean Now, you know those jobs are only reserved for the senior citizens..the ones who can't read the receipt because of vision issues. :-)

They are working at Walmart saving up to buy their new eyeglasses and their first hearing aid (heavy metal concerts) - usually once they get the hearing aid they soon quit not liking the "potty mouth" comments coming from exiting receipt check deniers.

Well, clearly, they have no sense for proportion.

Or maybe he can focus on whatever he wants :)

The point is that is what Walmart and some other stores do. If you don't like it, then shop at stores that do not ask you to show your receipt when you leave.

You also have no right to shop at Walmart either, funny how that works. They can just as easily trespass and ban you for not showing a receipt, as you could just not shop there if you don't like the idea. Save everyone the idea and don't. You're a sheep if you shop at a place that constantly annoys you is his point. It's the same as the people who scream when Starbucks doesn't make their coffee right, but go back the next day for another one.

He is saying you support the institution (walmart) that you have issues with. This attorney is right.

Mike Valliere poor baby. You might have to wait a few minuets. There is no law, that says. Walmart has no right to see your receipt. They do it to catch shoplifters and mistakes by cashiers. This helps keep prices down. So grow up.

LOL !!!!

@@robinkuruda5249 Some day he'll wake up to the reality that Wal-Mart doesn't sell widgets.

Widget ganggg!!!

@@charles2241 That wasn't the point. So Walmart doesn't sell widgets. If that's all you got out of what he said then you need to watch it again. Baaaaa!

Mostly because I cant make said "item" for less than I can buy one, how have I lost anything ?

Sheep...... 🤣

Mike Parker exactly

@@jeffclymer2250 , you and your buddy, Mike, are lacking in listening and comprehension skills. Let me make it short and simple for the both of you. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOP AT WALMART; BUT YOU DO, BECAUSE YOU ARE CHEAP ASS HYPOCRITES. Instead of being a tough guy with some senior citizen who's just trying to hold on to their meager earnings and health care benefits, why don't you both take your asses to Target? Then, you won't have to wait in another line, and you won't be contributing to the overthrow of America. THAT was the counselor's point.

@@traeucity6087 exactly. Well said 👍

Shop at smaller ma and pa stores. Boycott Wal-Mart!!

ploo If Walmart is in fact the only store in town the residents of that town need to move or do their shopping in the next town down the road. However, I feel sure that Walmart is not the only store in town. If we are talking about the Southern US even small towns have at least two Dollar General stores and I would survive off of Dollar General before I would set foot in Walmart.

If Walmart is the only option in a town it is because the residents put all the others out of business by only shopping at Walmart

I don't shop at Walmart because they don't exist in NYC. The closest one is in Nassau county in Long Island. They can't do business in NYC because they are not Union.

D S Not necessarily so. I have heard a big places like Walmart telling distributors if they sell to the small shops and they wont carry them at the local Walmart. For example, a Walmart gets built in some small town, They tail Coca-Cola if you want us to carry your product you only sell to us, you can’t sell to the mom-and-pop store down the road anymore or we won’t carry you . And they do that with multiple products , they put the store out of business before they even open their doors at Walmart. It’s happened all across the country .

Yes! What really bugs me is that Walmart is so big now that they really don't care if you shop with them, nor do they need your business. They've cornered the market.

Americans are conditioned the accept "show your papers" authoritarianism. I'm sure Walmart did a ton of research and found that customers like receipt checking because it makes them feel more secure shopping there because there is a visible security theater. Its not like this useless show actually will prevent theft because they cannot stop or detain you, cannot touch you, and if you don't stop they will not know who you are. So the whole arrangement is entirely for "optics."

njål sand that’s how most people view it here... not the junk this guys making it sound like everyone considering it the lead in to socialism. It’s just an unnecessary thing people choose to not partake it. It’s not some grand stand like this dude makes it out to be. “Touch me an I’ll blow your head off.” Yes, he actually used this as an example.

I think in Norway you'd just have to pay such a person more and it wouldn't be worth the cost.

Not all stores in USA do this only a select few that I know of, Walmart being one of them

One of the best replies yet

No actually & that's the point. Showing your receipt is & has never been a requirement. If it was a requirement than yes your argument within the context of your comment would be valid.

No, it's not selling your freedom, because you get to buy your item, save your 5 dollars and walk out the door. No requirements, no problem.

No

No, not at all. Choosing to shop at WalMart is just a choice. I've never been forced to shop at WalMart.

I love this comment.

How about: "I practice law, and I've been accepted at the bar."

*judgment*

The presumption of innocence is the legal principle that one is considered innocent until proven guilty. In many states, presumption of innocence is a legal right of the accused in a criminal trial, and it is an international human right under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 11. Wikipedia google is a wonderful thing isn't it :D

Sounds good in theory....in practice not so much in many places located here, in the good I'm US ofA

@@jackasshomey It's not. "Presumption of innocence" is the principle that the prosecution in a criminal case, or the plaintiff in a civil case bares the burden of proof. You can be presumed innocent, and jailed for months prior to a months long legal case which you are required to attend.

They aren't the government. When your on someone else's property you follow their rules.

@@jackasshomey Stores aren't the government. When you're on someone else's property they get to set the rules. Ask yourself, If some stranger came to your front door (legally) and then you saw them leaving with something that looks like your property would you just let them leave or would you ask to see the item to make sure they didn't steal it?

Shoplifters appreciate this!! I now sneak in my own Walmart bags, shop for a few items & walkout, because no receipts required!!

@@seemetrollin326 Correct. Unless you have been witnessed committing a crime, you are innocent until proven guilty, and secure in your person and property from unreasonable search and seizure. As a shoplifter, you have the same rights as everyone else until you get caught. That is the risk you take with shoplifting. The argument that you should be stopped because you may have committed a crime is absurd.

@@chocobitties2595 even if they see you steal you are still presumed innocent until proven guilty.. or pleading guilty.. but it will affect how they treat you.. if they have proof then they are not nervous at all about it.. if they have no proof they have to tread more carefully to avoid being sued

tell them that you ate the receipt.. if you paid with a card and can later show how much you paid.. or throw it away immediately and make them dig through the trash for it

same

Lol

Lol

BAAAAAAAH Who has your one HUUUUUUUNDRED dollar bill?

Exactly. It's not like they actually read the receipt anyway. I just walk by and no one has ever said anything

🤣🤣

You are a sheep because you signed employment forms to work at Walmart. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Do you feel the same way when you use an atm or pump your own gas? You are doing the attendant and tellers job then.

What they do is take the customer back to the register to pay for the item,. I was sitting at the Subway by the door & I saw it happen.

It's actually illegal to approach someone for shoplifting unless they've actually shoplifted. I know this because employees have gotten in trouble in the store my wife manages for this reason. Unless they KNOW for a FACT that the person stole (SEEN THEM, on camera of with their own eyes), they are instructed to just approach the customer and offer assistance if they THINK they stole, then 'work on stuff' (follow them) around the customer to make sure they don't take anything else.

This 'receipt checking' thing must be something they do up north, because, I can't recall the last time I was 'checked' the door, or greeted for that matter, at a WalMart down here.

@@uploadJ If they do not put yellow line through an unbagged object, you can take an object you pay for out, then come back inside and get another and go out another door. IF the alarm goes off, hey you have a receipt. This is why they check the receipts if you have a large item mostly. They can't see all you have in your bags.

George Savoy.... AMEN BROTHER!!!! Thank you for a great statement, Sir!!!!

You are under surveillance more than you probably know. Start with your cell phone. GPS is always working. Your camera and mike can be remotely turned on even though your phone appears off. How to bypass: take your battery out, unless you have an IPhone (all phone companies are moving toward un-removable batteries). There are satellites that can read the date off a dime from space. Many communities have cameras and some have microphones everywhere. You do not have privacy, it has long been a myth. We all must deal with it as it intensifies. Even this is being watched by Google. Do you own a Romba, how about Ring, Siri? Any of these and more knows more about you than your neighbor.

@@theodoreroberts3407 And this is relevant to this video how, exactly?

Walmart no longer is cheaper. Their food costs the same and sometimes more than Foods.Co.

If only we were all lawyers and could purchase out widgets anywhere we wanted with our three figure hourly wage...

@@SignedDiamond Amen to that..

That wasnt his point.

I forgot, yes you can wave an old receipt actually. At Christmas they look at the receipts. They mark the items with a yellow marker, so you can't come back in and grab another item. IF you can get out with a clean receipt, you can go back in and get another item of the same, then return the 1st with the bar code and get your money back and still have the item.

I do the same thing. It's in their face and they say...its ok you can go....lol

There only supposed to check if you have items not in bags .

Well why didn't i think of that becore???? THANKS for the tip and micro lesson in scamming Wal-Mart...

@@inspire734 Good thing receipts can't be forged...

There’s no honor amoung thieves.... Is what I would say if I cared

Internet tough guys, I bet they actually show their receipts.

@@InnocuousRemark It's always a Glock, because they don't actually have any guns and don't know the difference between them. Just spout off what they have heard the most. Total windbag keyboard warriors.

Minimum wages state/municipal - www.laborlawcenter.com/state-minimum-wage-rates/

Yeah I agree mmmpisghetti. This was very interesting and put together well.

+InnocuousRemark, as a long time Smith and Wesson fanboy, it's because we're smarter the Glock people. Same reason we pay half as much for a gun that's twice as good.

Libertarian 7211 - and you’ll have to show your receipt to return the items... And they can also defend against “return fraud” which is a huge problem in retail establishments...

Libertarian 7211 that policy will change quicker than you can say “I wonder if target is open?”

I worked as an ap host at our local Wal Mart for a time. You wouldn't believe all the scams and thefts that occur on a daily basis. Did the person with the vacum cleaner under the cart really forget is was there? You can't always blame the cashier because we had one couple who went through the register then went to a display of electric griddles and placed one under the basket on the bottom of the cart. When the receipt was scanned the item wasn't on it of course. They decided they didn't want it. Having someone at the door deters some from just walking out with the item(s) they are stealing. One guy had the bottom of the basket covered with beer. He was waiting for the door to be unattended so he could walk out. These are not rare occurrances. They happen every day. And many are people you would never expect. If you purchase a large item in a box it has to be opened because some thieves will empty a carton, fill it with stolen items and tape it back up. Looking to get out with only paying what the barcode calls for. The list goes on and on. I used to be offended by having my purchase inspected. After all I had worked there ten years. But that passed quickly. I would approach the person at the door and say, "Here. Harrass me." And we would laugh

I've been absolutely prepared for years to do that if anyone insists. so far i've been able to walk by without incident.

@@juniormoore2047 I've changed my mind recently to agree with you and Steve on this that you should just show your receipt on the way out, if you shop at Walmart. What i still don't agree with is Walmarts "policy" which is not stated at the store entrance that you will be asked for a receipt to prove you bought that box; obviously the novelty wears off if you have been to the store more than once and you know the process so it goes back to Steves point of being the sheep. If they scanned or asked for everyones receipt like Costco that would be one thing but since it's pick and choose creates another matter.

Stephen Sprenger 💯💯💯 You beat me to it. They have a huge shrinkage problem. It’s not personal at all.

i have a friend worked at target years ago and that TV stealing was a big problem...back when plasmas were really expensive.

exactly! it's true, giving up our rights IS a slippery slope, but we don't really have a 'right' to not have to show a receipt at a store. don't want to show it? say no thank you & keep walking. just pretend you're at Target!

Actually, no. I think it's evenly split. I'd say plenty of the receipt complainers actually worry about a lot and want one less thing to actually worry about. Some of it's entitlement. Some of it's a misunderstanding about their liberties and rights, etc. I personally show them the receipt. I see plenty who don't, but more who do. Perhaps we should just be happy we're alive and even able to worry about such things. Today's got enough going on as it is, just show the dang receipt, so tomorrow isn't a bigger mess. It's really just hate for hates sake. Selfishness to the nth degree.

Must be nice to just be assumed as a thief

Lol no, they are told to stop, they just dont listen. Walmart greeters arent goons or security and even a security officer is not allowed to physically detain you. That is actually a violation of rights. If you shop at walmart to save a few bucks, dont ironically complain about the policies that are aimed at asset protection that helps keep them low. Otherwise, dont shop there. It's really not that hard

Well said, Eric.

Amazing how many people will argue with a person who is educated and experienced in a profession and reveal their ignorance in the process......

MsTaly99 Exactly. I word assets protection for Target for 5 years and the rule there was, you must maintain 100% visual contact with a shoplifter in order to stop them once they exit the store. If you break the visual contact for even a few seconds do not stop them, just let it go.

Let’s not overstate things here. Only the “state” or government can technically deprive citizens of their constitutional/legal rights which would interfere or even prevent “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” which the colonialists from the 13 British colonies had said in the Declaration of Independence (not the Constitution or its precursor) were each person’s inalienable rights that were given by their creator (in principle) and the reason that they were willing to sacrifice their lives and treasures to protect and preserve. After winning independence, the Founders hammered out the Constitution which spelled out in more detail what that means in real life, especially *keeping government’s role and power in check*. Stores are private and their employees, including staff in charge of loss prevention/asset protection and security. In a free enterprise system like ours in the U.S., businesses usually work off the mantra “customer is king” (used to be “the customer is always right”) and aim to provide “good customer service,” as seen in all the ratings for just about everything now in the Digital Era. In other words, it’s bad and dumb to treat customers poorly since the store will lose sales and customers. The prices they charge already has built into them the likelihood the extra cost of ~5%+ from loss/theft and damage/waste. Now there’s a BIG problem when store employees take a customer into their office and hold them for longer than necessary just to determine if there is proof of theft or criminal activity , at which point they must turn the matter over the law enforcement/government (IF they choose to pursue the matter further, from getting police to issue a no-trespassing order to actual arrest and prosecution). Stores and individuals have been sued in civil court and paid big time when they lose for “false imprisonment” since that clearly violates various Constitutional rights. Other torts/civil damages that involve them paying monetarily can include physical and emotional injuries, such as getting beaten up by store staff or in some cases the trauma and even the public embarrassment/humiliation suffered when one did nothing wrong but was subjected to a very public spectacle-which would NOT come close to “defamation of character” at all (it’s an extremely specialized area of law and commonly misunderstood).

No, the law says "life, liberty, and property". The "pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration, which is NOT part of US Law. The right to detain suspected shoplifters is recognized by the courts as "shopkeeper's privilege". If no other harm is done to them, the matter is settled to the court's satisfaction by their simple release. Court's are reluctant to adjudicate any civil harm for detainer, even if physical. This is because store's need some way to determine ownership of merchandise still on their premises. That's WHAT YOUR RECEIPT IS FOR!!

I get checked about half the time when I go to wallyworld, and I've never stolen from them. Maybe their policy used to be only checking those who they were certain had stolen merchandise, but that's no longer the case.

If you talked about it in the presence of your phone that might be why. Your phone is always listening, and ads/content are tailored based on captured audio.

Google tracks where you're phones location, as well as listen to your devices

Because you were at Walmart....

You scan your recipe when you left the store?

@@wtfpwnz0red #Not true learn your facts take it from a veteran programmer for Samsung

Are you always in Walmart with no time to spare?

Wow, you must be *really* important!

You cant spare 2 or 3 seconds...poor, lame excuse!!

@@christophermorris2635 I have better things to do. Since it is a request and not a requirement I don't see the problem.

JelliedInfant 100% agreed. My time is valuable

Exactly 👍

Hint: prices will only go up, companies see you're willing to pay it, so they take it. Does it not cross your mind how the execs always get their millons, along with bonuses, even when there is no profit and they sight the need to increase prices and/or lay off employees due to "losses"? Or am I just in the one profession where if you don't perform or if you just flat out fail to do your job, you are told to kick rocks?

Hat Tip to you, my friend.

I can just hear your comment on the Bud-light commercials! Here's to you Mr. paved the road to no receipt checks at Wal-Mart! LMAO

Um, it's still not. You can choose to be a dick if you want, but why want to? Take your meds and relax.

But I bet you send your fat wife to shop there and bring home your juicebox! 😋

I think you will find that they do not trust the imposters that pretend to be customers in order to steal goods this would make more sense as an explanation for them simply asking to see the one thing that customers have but imposters don't than suggesting they don't trust the people that do have receipts (customers). Now if they were strip searching everyone at the door or something maybe you would have a point but this video is about stores checking who is a customer or not as they try to leave the store with goods which is hardly different than scanning your ID pass when you show up at work so that the company can make sure only trusted employees have access and not imposters.

Seraphina S imposters are a very small Percentage of customers. Creating policies to stop Imposters is not worth sending a bad message to 99 Percent of the other customers

@@MrSnazzy682 The imposters are not customers that is the point, customers are people that buy things, people that remove goods from stores without authorisation don't fit in this category. Also the vast majority of people walking into an office are genuine employees and visitors how exactly does that make it wrong for them to protect themselves, their employees and their customers from unauthorised persons any less than it is for a store to protect themselves, their customers and their employees from unauthorised persons that are trying to steal from the company and indirectly their employees and customers? You do realise that right, that those who attempt to steal from the store are in fact attempting to indirectly steal from the stores customers and employees that suffer higher prices and lower wages or even risking redundancy all because someone doesn't want to contribute like everyone else?

@@MrSnazzy682 You pay for the theft, it's built into the prices of your goods purchased. Go ahead, shop somewhere that doesn't try and stop theft, you WILL be paying for it.

David B You mussed my point. Your cyclical attitude and emotion is making you an irrational person

This is an example of what philosophers call a fallacious argument. Etc Etc (See how easy that was?)

Aitor Bleda - Right on! Please also vote with your feet and at the ballot box (as appropriate). Thanks!

Exactly Aitor. Amen.

You have to vote with your money so make each one of those dollar votes count, also vote in the local, state and federal election at every opportunity, and when a company or an elected representative disappoints you let them know of it.

Yes, that may be, but still put your shoulder to effect at the state and local level and when proposition ballots arise. You may think that boulder is in a field or creek gully and near immoveable but sometimes it's on a hill crest and only a small push is wanted. It's the first two cases where you need to join up, organize and think through solutions to clear the boulders from your path - peaceful now.

Everybody offended by every little thing these days. We have turned into a nation of assholes, giving the honest working person at Walmart a hard time over showing a receipt. Got to be a real asshole to do that.

I struggled with what to use as a "Wdiget." It needed to be small enough to hold up but unusual enough so that your brain wouldn't say, "That's not a widget. That's a [whatever]." Plus I think the ingot is cool.

@@stevelehto Now, can you show us a sprocket? George Jetson can get you some from Spaceley Sprockets! Love your work. You're the only attorney I can stand!

madeconomist, well to be honest, people do not really have much of a choice. one has more choices the wealthier or smarter they are and those do not necessarily equal. but it is funny to hear people who say that people do have choices and fail to see where they really dont.

@@anthonymaestas4863 Wealthier and smarter are two different things when evaluating whether people have choice. It is true that wealthier people have more choices, I'm not sure how to evaluate "smarter" in that context.You could argue that maybe smarter people understand the choices they have better, I guess? In terms of shopping at Walmart, I would think that perhaps the greatest factor limiting choice may be whether someone lives in a rural or urban environment. Or perhaps, if you are in a urban area what your transportation options are. I know in some rural areas, Walmart is the only choice for many miles around. Whereas, in urban areas, such as mine, Walmart is often not easy to get to if you use public transportation. However, I think that generally speaking, for most people in the US, even those of ordinary means, there are usually several choices when it comes to day-to-day shopping.

well, I actually go with determinism but was using choice as that is a hard concept for people to grasp or accept. I referenced smarter as a reference to social standards as I also think that it a concept that is based on ones relative situations. can think of how to word that better right now. I somewhat detest how we can be at the mercy of corporate entities, but I also understand that they are following their nature and do not harbor much ill will against them or the people who have to do commerce through them.

You have been geographically discriminated ! That is a clear case of northenderism.

there needs to be a law against that