How do you feel about this?

[Ralf001]

22 hours ago, CallumWK said:

There are a few large shops here, I'm sure you all know which ones I have in mind, where you pay for your purchase, then right after the checkout there is someone who want to see your receipt and compare with everything you purchased.

So either they don't trust their cashier, or they consider their customers to be thieves. I think it is the latter, and I hate it to be treated like a thief. I then also will only visit those particular shops if I have no other choice, like they have a product I can't get anywhere else

I always tell them, check your cashier if you don't trust her, not your customers. Once, I even have gone to the extent that I returned my whole trolley for a refund, so at that point they were 100% sure that I had paid for everything.

So what is your feeling about this. Are you also annoyed by it?

 

 

 

I find that mildly irritating.. I just grunt and tell em to feck off.

[georgegeorgia]

19 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

I find that mildly irritating.. I just grunt and tell em to feck off.

I had to look at the poster and of course it's Ralfy 

Disgusting gutter behaviour 

Please Ralfy you are not a bogan 

[Ralf001]

2 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I had to look at the poster and of course it's Ralfy 

Disgusting gutter behaviour 

Please Ralfy you are not a bogan 

You get in my face and you too will be told to feck off.

[SAFETY FIRST]

23 hours ago, CallumWK said:

So either they don't trust their cashier, or they consider their customers to be thieves

You are thinking too much. 

 

It's neither. 

 

It's a numbers thing, if you see the staff checking customers at the exit, it will deter want to be thieves. Its mind games for the less educated, the brainless, it works for Makro. 

 

Don't let it bother you, just enjoy the experience and low prices. 

 

 

Edited October 9 by SAFETY FIRST

[Cardano]

The question is; are you legally required to show them the receipt? Afer all you've already paid for the items so they are legally your property along with the receipt. Be interesting to see what they would do if you refused.

[couchpotato]

6 minutes ago, Cardano said:

The question is; are you legally required to show them the receipt? Afer all you've already paid for the items so they are legally your property along with the receipt. Be interesting to see what they would do if you refused.

Their store/premises, their security...

 

Personally in these places I just throw the receipt on top of the items in the cart/box/bag and they can look easily if they want.

[JAS21]

Hell it bothers you …I just hand the receipt to the guy … about 15 secs later he gives it back to me and off we go ..

 

[CallumWK]

12 minutes ago, JAS21 said:

Hell it bothers you …I just hand the receipt to the guy … about 15 secs later he gives it back to me and off we go ..

 

 

Different strokes for different blokes. Yes it bothers me, but there maybe other things that bother you, but I couldn't care less for.

[NoDisplayName]

22 hours ago, CallumWK said:

 

Of course they do it to everyone, so you think it normal they don't trust their customers?

 

People steal.  Thieves have all sorts of tricks to slip things past the POS, and then act indignant at security staff checking for ill-gotten booty.  Preventing shrinkage helps keeps costs down.  You like low, low prices, right?

 

Simple solution - if you don't like it, shop elsewhere.

[AustinRacing]

If this bothers you, you may be in the wrong country. 

[CallumWK]

10 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

You like low, low prices, right?

 

I indeed like low prices, but for that don't have to be in Makro anymore since long.

Most of the products I use are cheaper in Big C or Lotussss

[john donson]

always try to check my rugsack , but it has my keys, money and phone

 

so I just ignore them

 

women with large handbags have no problem

 

villa market (upscaler), tops, don't do such silly things

 

weird makro thing

 

I am more upset when there are long lines and nobody has a brain cell to open a new one, while sometimes 2 people check your groceries + a few security guards doing nothing...

 

that's life...

[couchpotato]

16 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Different strokes for different blokes. Yes it bothers me, but there maybe other things that bother you, but I couldn't care less for.

3 pages of this idiotic topic, and you are still bothered. Maybe time to give it a rest.

[georgegeorgia]

12 hours ago, couchpotato said:

3 pages of this idiotic topic, and you are still bothered. Maybe time to give it a rest.

Oh my...and you call the OP idiotic yet you take time to write a post ..laying on your couch.

Please go to to the gym that's all I ask surely thats not too much to ask 

 

[NoshowJones]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:04 PM, CallumWK said:

There are a few large shops here, I'm sure you all know which ones I have in mind, where you pay for your purchase, then right after the checkout there is someone who want to see your receipt and compare with everything you purchased.

So either they don't trust their cashier, or they consider their customers to be thieves. I think it is the latter, and I hate it to be treated like a thief. I then also will only visit those particular shops if I have no other choice, like they have a product I can't get anywhere else

I always tell them, check your cashier if you don't trust her, not your customers. Once, I even have gone to the extent that I returned my whole trolley for a refund, so at that point they were 100% sure that I had paid for everything.

So what is your feeling about this. Are you also annoyed by it?

 

 

I don't mind the way Makro does it but if I was pushing my trolley with goods in it away from the store and someone approached me and asked to see my receipt, this has never happened, but they would be told in no uncertain manner to get lost as he is accusing me of theft.

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, jippytum said:

I don't mind the security measures. 

Shoplifting costs the consumer in the end. 

 "Shoplifting costs the consumer in the end". No it doesn't, if shoplifting was completely eradicated tomorrow, prices would still keep going up by the same amount, there is capitalism and greed everywhere.

[newnative]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:42 PM, CallumWK said:

Maybe you are right, though I never shop at Tops, and I'm sure you also know which shops this topic is about

    Not maybe, he is right.  We have them in Pattaya, too.  As for the thread, it doesn't bother me in the least.  As dear old Dad used to say, don't sweat the small stuff, and lots, like this, is small stuff.  

[BigStar]

21 hours ago, fittobethaied said:

 a cashier who has just scanned every item in the basket less than 10 meters from the checker. There's absolutely no way to shoplift.

 

LOL. The naivety. Checked your bank account lately?

[BigStar]

2 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

 "Shoplifting costs the consumer in the end". No it doesn't, if shoplifting was completely eradicated tomorrow, prices would still keep going up by the same amount, there is capitalism and greed everywhere.

 

Cf. the result of legal shoplifting in San Francisco.

[BigStar]

16 hours ago, Cardano said:

The question is; are you legally required to show them the receipt? Afer all you've already paid for the items so they are legally your property along with the receipt. Be interesting to see what they would do if you refused.

 

Do it and let us know what you find out. Now you could of course initiate a lawsuit.

[BigStar]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:04 PM, CallumWK said:

Once, I even have gone to the extent that I returned my whole trolley for a refund, so at that point they were 100% sure that I had paid for everything.

 

A storewide ban to stop you from entering, like airlines have for unruly passengers, sounds like a win-win.

[NoshowJones]

6 minutes ago, BigStar said:

 

Cf. the result of legal shoplifting in San Francisco.

What does Cf mean? Why not just stick to texting on your smartphone if you are too lazy to type words?

[BigStar]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:57 PM, CallumWK said:

 

Then they should check on their cashiers, which I'm sure they do already with the camera above each checkout, and not put the inconvenience on their customers

 

That's by no means enough.

 

No question the exit check helps prevent shoplifting, which is a good thing. It's an opportunity to joke a bit with the girl doing the checking. And be sure to salute the guard on the way out.

 

[Will B Good]

 

 

I can't see how you would steal something between the checkout and the exit???

 

To my mind it's a check on the cashier to avoid mistakes and to prevent family enjoying the perks of having a relative on the till.

[BigStar]

19 minutes ago, NoshowJones said:

What does Cf mean? Why not just stick to texting on your smartphone if you are too lazy to type words?

 

Looking up, and then learning, abbreviations commonly used in educated written discourse is left as an exercise for the reader.

[EVENKEEL]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:37 PM, CallumWK said:

 

There are no self check outs in Thailand, so I guess you are even not here. And of course it is the cashiers job to scan everything in your trolley.

I'm sure others beat me to this but self check out is done at TOPS.

[EVENKEEL]

On 10/8/2024 at 9:06 PM, Dan O said:

It would be very easy for a cashier and a "customer" to work together and steal things. Its done all over the world.  They are checking more that the staff scanned and registered each item in the cart.  

No they can't possibly check all items so quickly. I leave with 2 carts, they take my bill, give it a thoughtful glance and tag it. What you described probably does go on. 

[ChrisKC]

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

Looking up, and then learning, abbreviations commonly used in educated written discourse is left as an exercise for the reader.

Would have been easier to tell him!

 

Tell me as well, I don't know it. I have seen c/f which is "carried forward"

[georgegeorgia]

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

Looking up, and then learning, abbreviations commonly used in educated written discourse is left as an exercise for the reader.

Oh please !

I realise Bigstar your not the academic like most of us but please get with the times ....it's 2024 not 1964 

[ChrisKC]

23 hours ago, couchpotato said:

3 pages of this idiotic topic, and you are still bothered. Maybe time to give it a rest.

Quite right!!

 

I wonder how these people would react when something was actually important enough!

 

I have my moments of mild irritations every day, they go away and I forget all about it - no fuss, no bother and no need for whinging on this forum!