Nice.

No one ever called me a sweetheart. This being said, the quality of security varies greatly by airport. I've found LGA, BUR, SAN to be reasonably polite and professional -- LAX, PHX, EWR and IAD seem to be on the bad side, JFK is middle of the road.

I've been shopping Costco and Sam's Club for years. We buy all our necessaries in bulk as it's a long ways to the store. Once a month or so. Costco has been checking receipts in our area for at least a dozen years. Big deal. There are lots more interesting things to get all puffed up about.
I read a thread somewhere, was it here?...about some *****head who decided he didn't want to show his receipt at a WalMart and caused a big scene, stalling the line at the door for all the poor schmucks behind him. What a fool.

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You still working as a high school guidance counselor?

Every time I fly to Phoenix I try to fly United because they use the old terminal. The folks at security there are delightful; perhaps because it is so much less busy.

Terminal 4 at Sky Harbor should be avoided by any sane person and the security there is about as sultry and grumpy as can be.

Sultry security guards? Makes me wonder if people go there just to get a good frisking.

I'm at PHX two to three times a month, US Air, Hawaiian, United/Continental, so that's 4,3 and 2. Never really noticed a difference in TSA demeanor, however I know the drill so to speak; never wear a belt, all loose change, phone and keys in my briefcase, slip on shoes, magnetometer neutral, ID out of wallet . . .

I've bought exactly two plane tickets in my 33 years on this planet. The first was before 9/11. The second was three years ago when I needed to get to Atlanta in a hurry for a funeral. I do subject myself to commercial aviation when my employer is buying the ticket. I don't like it, but I put up with it.

That being said, I got a pat down from a young and very attractive female security guard at Tokyo-Narita once. It was the highlight of the trip.

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Why do you feel as if you have the right to say how business will be conducted in their store?They apply the same assumption when they ask for ID if you pay by check or by running your credit card through that validation thing. It's a matter of degree, I suppose.I don't understand that. The people checking the receipts didn't set the rule, why embarrass them in front of their employer by refusing to take a second or two to show your receipt?

So now we're supposed to endure any indignity to avoid "embarrassing drones who are just following orders?" Would you consent to a pat-down and strip search, too, if it were store policy?

Will it be performed by a hot little Japanese woman?

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Not any indignity, but I don't consider showing a receipt to be much of an indignity. And those people are not drones. They are obviously not as debonair as yourself, but they are people, believe it or not.No, I wouldn't. I guess it's a line drawing problem. On one side of the line is being required to show a receipt so that the person at the door can do his or her job. On the other side is a strip search. Since showing a receipt causes you some sort of injury, I guess you prefer to prevent that person from doing his or her job. The unpleasantness of your approach seems like a net loss to you, but to each his own.

If their store makes the assumption that I am guilty of shoplifting prior to any evidence of same, I absolutely have a right to contest that position. I contest it by not proving to them that I did not steal their merchandise.

That being said, I may accede to their wishes if the time involved is minimal and the potential to limit an altercation is great. I'm not strongly principled regarding the position if practicality would rule.

I find it disturbing that folks like you will simply take their position, one assuming dishonesty on your part, and accept it as the norm.






A bit of a difference. They wish to be sure that the bearer of the card or the check is the actual individual who signs the check. This is simply good business practice and I have no issue with it. Anybody could possess another person's card or checkbook with relative ease. If I do have an issue with it (I do because of the time........), I pay with cash.

Let's look at "embarrassment", shall we?

How would the people who check receipts be "embarrassed" if I decline to show them the receipt? They might be angered, but they certainly cannot be embarrassed.

If you feel that I should not cause them this anger due to the actions of their employer, I accept that that position. And, I will not cause them this anger, provided that the time spent to eliminate this anger is less than 10 seconds. If a line were to develop to prevent departure from the store, their anger takes a secondary position to my time.

It all depends on how much you wish to bend to accommodate the stupidity of society. Clearly, you have more capability in this regard than I do.

I realize this is a old post but damn the OP's post is the most asinine thing I have heard in a while. The responses by some are nearly in the same category.

First off, were I a manager of that store and he spoke to one of my employees in that manner, I would promptly refund his membership, tear it up and tell him he is no longer welcome in my store. Such behavior is truly juvenile and as far as I am concerned completely uncalled for.

I have shopped at Costco for over 11 years. It's pretty much the only place I shop because it is convenient, the customer service is the best that I have experienced and the prices over all are the best I can find.

I have a friend who works there and I asked her about the door checking.

Shrinkage is an issue and sometimes they do find items that were not scanned or items that were scanned more than once. I have had both happen to be on various occasions.

Costco does not know you. They do not know if you are trying to sneak something out. Why people think that because you say you have never and would never steal that the company is supposed to know that is beyond me.

Another reason they ask for the receipt is to prevent double dipping. At the cost co I shop at they put a hash mark on the receipt so that you cannot go back in the store get the same stuff and walk out the door with the same stuff two or three times.

As others have said, if you don't like it go somewhere else. Having to wait a minute or two longer to leave the building is not a big deal. If it is, you have other issues you need to deal with as far as I am concerned.

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How this policy is interpreted as a personal attack on ones honor or honesty is completely beyond my understanding. I do not know if it is paranoia or arrogance or what but I just don't get it. I am glad I don't go through life with that mentality.

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