You dont’ seem to understand my point. You’re offering several reasons why it helps the store out for me to show my receipt, (admitted), and ways it might indirectly benefit me (sure. )
That doesn’t change the fact that I don’t have to show my receipt, and that I am helping the store more than it is helping me by doing so. If I think the benefit to me is enough, I’ll do it. If the cost is low enough, I’ll do it. But nothing of what you say changes it from my choice to my obligation.
Yup. It’s something they ought to want to do. The store is better off from preventing theft. I am not, directly.
Doesn’t make me obligated to help them out. The store is certainly not obligated to pay me the benefit they get.
Yup. they’re entitled to raise their prices if they want. They won’t–it will probably hurt them against their competitors. But it doesn’t matter–it doesn’t make me obligatedto help the store out.
And that is my problem because?
Not my problem. I may feel like doing them a favor. I often do them a favor. But I have no obligation to do so.
First of all, that’s five extra minutes–five minutes I wouldn’t otherwise spend there. It doesn’t matter if I spend three hours in the store–that’s my choice. If I choose to spend another five minutes, that’s fine. If the delay is something necessary (like checking out), that’s fine.
If someone else makes me spend five minutes doing something I don’t have to do, and don’t want to do, that’s not fine. They can ask me to do that–but I don’t owe them the five minutes. If they want to demand it, they can pay me for my time.
Furthermore, I’m not telling you you should value your time more. That’s your call. You don’t get to tell me to value my time less. I have stuff I’d rather do than taking five minutes to help the store out. What right do they have to make me choose to help them out rather than do the stuff I’d rather do?