Do you show receipt at Walmart? Man detained.

1. I don’t shop at Walmart. But if I did I would not like having to show a receipt and that would probably lead me to no longer shopping there

2. People walk out without bags all the time here

I am only an infrequent Walmart shopper. I have been only asked once to show receipt out of last 4 or 5 visits and that was around Thanksgiving last year. Earlier this year I went to 3 different Walmarts in one day. I was never asked to show receipt to person at door.

I never have items in a bag at Walmart. When I shop there I am only there for a specific item.

With all the shoplifting and theft going on these days I don't mind showing my receipt at all. It only take a couple of seconds. No biggie.

The walmarts I go to, have receipt checker(s), but they don't check every persons receipt. Nor do they go over the receipt and compare the items in the cart to the to the items on the receipt, unless it's a pricier item or it's an a not bagged item.

I won't stand in a multiple people long line to show my receipt, I go around the receipt checker. 
If any store wants to check every single receipt, then they better hire enough staff to do the receipt checking.....to make it a quick departure out of the store for the sake of the customers. I refuse to stand in line for that, because my time is valuable to me. 

The one I frequent does have a door checker. I always bag my stuff, they don't charge for bags. I have no issue showing my receipt but I do think it's silly if they are going to have so many self-checkout lanes. You trust me enough to allow me to check myself out but you still want to see the receipt? And like previous posters have said, they don't do a good job at it.

When asked at Wal Mart, I respond with, “are you accusing me of shoplifting?” They say no, so I keep walking.

I once read that it violates our right to privacy. Interesting take on it.

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Sometimes I just say no thank you and they look at me confused.

I seldom shop at Walmart, but would be fine with showing my receipt. However, I have never been asked to show it.

There was a news story about this not too long ago and someone asked how is this different than Costco/BJs. At Costco/BJs you are buying a membership and have to abide by the warehouse rules one of which is show your receipt on the way out. I think consensus was that, technically, you are not legally required to show your receipt and Walmart employees have no right to detain you. However if it escalates and the police are called you can either be ticketed or arrested if the situation deteriorates.

If Walmart wants to institute this policy, they need to be consistent across stores and there has to be people specifically trained to deescalate if needed. But that isn't going to solve their theft problem. The people stealing full carriages of goods aren't even going to skip a beat when they blast by the receipt checker. A receipt checker is not a deterrent to these people.

I don’t go to Walmart that often but when I do I’ve noticed that if you have your receipt in your hand they don’t ask. Even if they did it wouldn’t bother me.  

It’s not unusual to see see people walk out of the grocery store with unbagged items. What mystifies me are the people that have a full cart. They unload it for checkout, load it back in the cart then unload it in their car. That’s a lot of work to save a few pennies on bags.  

At the Walmart I frequent they have always have a Nazi type person at one entrance/exit who insists on checking everyone's receipt. Now at the other entrance/exit it is hit or miss if someone is there and if they actually ask to look at your receipt.


About 2 years ago DH and I went through the self checkout and got stopped by an older lady manning the door. She asks to see our receipt which was annoying, but fine. At the bottom was listed the case of water we paid for and the case of water that accidently scanned twice and was removed by the man supervising the self checkout area. So there was the case of water at the bottom of our cart and a deleted item on the receipt. That woman for the life of her couldn't figured out the receipt. She couldn't seem to decide if we had actually paid for the case of water in our cart. We tried to explain the receipt to her, but she dragged us over to customer service. There the lady working looked at the receipt and declared yes we had paid for our case of water. As we were walking away I could still her declaring how she just didn't understand the receipt. DH who tends to be more patient than me even said if you are going to work the door you better be able to understand how to read a receipt.

I think it depends a lot on the Walmart. There is one near me in an upscale area that is the nicest Walmart I have ever been in. They don't check receipts and don't have many products locked up. I've been in others that are the complete opposite.

A few years ago I flew to another town to meet with a client and needed to bring back a lot of documents. My associate and I went to the local Walmart in full business suits to buy a suitcase to transport the documents back to our office. They looked at us so suspiciously and went through every nook and cranny of that suitcase at checkout and again at the door.

I expected them to check the suitcase, but it was funny how thorough they were. Usually, I get better treatment in a suit--but maybe it was suspect in this circumstance?

Anyway, I don't really care if they check receipts as long as they aren't slowing me down.

I just keep my receipt out and offer it to the door checkers. Sometimes they look at it, sometimes they don’t. But it’s their job and I don’t feel like being rude to them is good practice even if I don’t agree with having them there. I’m sure they get plenty of harassment on a daily basis.

I almost always have my son with me and he loves to hold the receipt and hand it over, so I let him do it. They always draw a happy face on the receipt like they do at Costco. If I’m alone I don’t usually stop to show them my receipt and I’ve never been hassled or detained.

I buy the take and bake pizzas pretty frequently and never put them in a bag. I don’t want my pizza going sideways.

I doubt it’s about the money. I bet is about the environment and waste. It is for me.