In article , "nana"
wrote:

It is a condition of entry and there will be a Notice somewhere stating the
fact. If you do not wish to comply, then don't go in. Since you want to kick
up a fuss, they can ban you from the store.

How? Not sure how they'd even know who I am. If I don't stop for them to
check my receipt, I'm sure not going to stop for them to take down my
name and information for future banning purposes and there's no law that
says I have to.

I understand all these "what if" scenarios, but WHY would you want to make a
complete ass of yourself, make yourself known as a troublemaker, get
yourself banned from these stores and besmirch your reputation?

Because it's just one more damn line to stand in. Shopping at Best buy
this past Christmas, I stood in line to get to the register for over 30
minutes, then when I finally get there and pay for my stuff, I walk
toward the doors only to find another line 20 people deep waiting to
have their receipt checked. At that point, I'd had enough of it and just
walked around it and out the door.

The clerk guy didn't catch up with me till I was already at my car and
said he had to check my receipt. I said, no he didn't because if I
hadn't paid for what I walked out with, the alarms would have gone off.
Since they didn't, I don't need to be searched. I got in my car and
drove off. I broke no law so there's nothing they could do. [And they
had no clue who I was so it's not like they could "ban" me, either. Of
course, I don't even live in that city so even if they did figure a way
to ban me, so what?]

And how is that going to "besmirch my reputation"? It's not like the
whole world is going to know I decided to rebel against the receipt
search policy and even if they did, how that makes me look bad such that
my reputation is besmirched, I'm not sure.

Somehow I think I could live with the "shame".