‘Not my problem,’ laughs Walmart shopper who had perfect response to unnecessary receipt check – greeter was fuming

A SHOPPER had a hilarious response to a store employee who asked to see his receipt.

The Walmart customer was leaving the store after being stopped by a greeter who needed to check his receipt.

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Instead of refusing, the man happily let the employee check it.

He also let him keep the receipt .

The shopper posted on Facebook describing the encounter.

“I go to the self-checkout in Walmart,” the man wrote.

“I get the receipt for the door person. I’m walking out.”

“I give the receipt to the door person. He checks my two items, and I tell him he could keep the receipt.”

“I don’t need the extra paper. He gets mad, and tried to throw it into my cart as I’m walking out.”

“He misses. Now he can pick it up as I’m walking away.”

The shopper concluded the dramatic recounting with, “Not my problem.”

Big chain retailers are increasing security measures as a way to prevent retail theft .

These new measures include receipt checks , locking items up, limiting items allowed to be scanned at self-checkout, and, in some cases, eliminating self-checkout altogether.

Retail theft in 2023 cost companies over $121 billion, and is expected to rise to $150 billion by 2026, Capital One Shopping reported.

Although these changes may seem necessary to the retailers, customers have voiced their hatred of the new policies all across social media.

Social media users question why stores don’t hire more people to man registers if self-checkout machines are being taken away and urge others to refuse receipt checks, and keep walking.

“So the Walmart near me hires a security guard FROM a security company to check receipts every night after 8,” one Walmart shopper posted on Facebook in 2020.

“The last few times I’ve gone I just say ‘no thanks’ when he says he needs to see my receipt.”

Top 5 receipt checking tips from a lawyer

Camron Dowlatshahi, a Los Angeles attorney, spoke to The U.S. Sun about receipt checks and customer's rights and options when it came to being asked to show your receipt.

1. There has been a lot of debate around the legality of a retailer asking to see your receipt, but if it is within the store, it is completely legal. “There’s seemingly nothing illegal about that. You’re still on the company’s premises and their reason to do it is to prevent thefts,” Dowlatshahi confirms.
2. However, if they are chasing you out of the store, that changes things, Dowlatshahi said. “Location matters,” he explained. “If you’re outside of the store you’re in the parking lot and they come and start accusing you of theft and that you have to show your receipt, I think that’s a bit of a different situation because now you’re on your way.”
3. While customers are allowed to say no to receipt checks, it may cause issues if you do and the store suspects you of stealing. “You can say no, maybe it creates an unnecessary hassle for yourself because now you may have the police come to your house and follow up,” said Dowlatshahi.
4. If you are being barred from leaving a store because you refused a receipt check, you could have a legal case — but the store must have held you for a long time. “Let’s say it’s for hours, that’s certainly false imprisonment, and they didn’t have any impetus for doing so,” Dowlatshahi explained. “If a customer has been emotionally traumatized by being held for false imprisonment, I would definitely encourage [them] to sue.”
5. “I would say, show your receipt,” he concluded. “It’s just a really simple thing to do. If you didn’t steal anything, it’s relatively simple to do,” the lawyer advised.

(According to Camron Dowlatshahi , a founding partner at Mills Sadat Dowlat LLP )

“And I’m DEFINITELY not giving it to him when he stops a line of 6 people with carts to check their receipts.”

“Anyways, last night I checked out at self-checkout, balled up my receipt as tiny as I could make it, then proceeded to walk by him and a customer he had ‘detained.’”

“He says ‘SIR I NEED TO SEE YOUR RECEIPT’ I say ‘here you go’ drop the pea-sized receipt in his hand, and walk out.”

Legally, customers can refuse to show the employees of non-membership-based stores their receipts if they are not suspected of shoplifting, but lawyers recommend showing it anyway.

The US Sun previously spoke to Camron Dowlatshahi, a Los Angeles attorney, about customer’s receipt rights after checking out.

“I would say, show your receipt,” Dowlatshahi said.

“If you didn’t steal anything, it’s relatively simple to do.”