I find making eye contact makes them less likely to stop you. Maybe just my imagination tho. YMMV.
Well yeah, if you scowl at them, of course they’re going to avoid you. 
Grrr!, I smile. I’m nice like that:):):)
You’re aware of the irony involved with that statement and your username, right?
Sam’s Club doesn’t get any special powers from its membership agreement, it just has an easy means of enforcement. Walmart could also ban people who fail to stop for a receipt check, it would just be difficult and time-consuming.
I had this happen at a Walmart when visiting California. I’m fine with checking receipts st Costco, apparently I agreed to this when joining. I’m not fine with it anywhere else. So when they asked if they could see my receipt, I answered “no”, and kept walking. Unsurprisingly, exactly nothing of note happened subsequently.
Costco always checks receipts - but it’s an incredibly cursory glance and a quick scribble with a black marker. A real waste of time, IMHO. Though once, 25+ years ago, they actually checked carefully and found an item that was either overcharged for or had not been rung up, I forget which. Cashier error, for sure. At Costco, it’s possible a single item just might be costly enough to make that pay off.
I ran into a WalMart receipt checker for the first time ever a couple weeks back. We had bought about 250 dollars worth of stuff for my son at the store in his college town. I’m quite sure the cursory glance would not have uncovered any misdeeds.
Or are you stealing the electric shopper?
Come to think of it, just how easy would that enforcement be? The receipt checker has no idea who you are, and they do not have any legal authority to detain you. So if you blow past them, how are they going to identify you for the purposes of revoking your membership?
It would be rather easy if they wanted to enforce it.
30 seconds before blowing past that receipt checker you were at a cashier, where you gave them your member number. Look at a couple seconds of security video to see which lane you checked out of & then look up your name/membership from that register’s checkout history. They could know who you are before you finish loading your car in the parking lot.
Or if you paid with a credit/debit card at Walmart. All those self-checkout registers have cameras; didn’t y’all notice the video on the screen with your purchases ringing up?
And once facial recognition software hits, it won’t matter if you’re a member or if you pay with cash: the system will know who you are.
To be honest, if I was the receipt checker at the door, and you were coming towards me carrying just a large kitchen knife, band aids and a mop, I wouldn’t stop you either.
I would be thinking you might have some nefarious plans for the afternoon, and I wouldn’t want to be part of them! :eek:
A little while back I was stopped while carrying a single unbagged item that I’d paid for at the self-checkout. What were they checking for? That I’d bought two things and left one behind?
Or perhaps she thought you already had enough problems, given what you were buying…
My guess is that she saw your hands were full- and kitchen knives , band-aids and mops are not the items receipt checkers are looking for. They’re mostly looking for cashier “errors” of the sort that will not be easily seen on a video - they aren’t looking for the TV that wasn’t scanned , they’re looking for the TV where the cashier manually entered an absurdly low price. And if the cashier can’t manually enter the price of a TV, there’s also baby formula or laundry detergent or razor blades or …- cashiers have to be able to enter some prices manually wen the scanning isn’t working. There’s a black market for lots of items carried in Target/Walmart/Costco and it’s not only big expensive things.
Oh and part of the idea is not only to catch it when it happens, but also from discouraging it from happening to begin with.
I haven’t used a cashier at Walmart in years. They typically have approx 12-15 self checkouts and a few regular checkouts in operation and they have ZERO regular checkouts during late nigh/early morning (the only time anyone I know really goes there) hours.
So, if they are checking the “cashier,” the cashier IS you in many cases. I guess to make sure you scanned everything.
As far as stopping on your way out, I wouldn’t unless they request it. Don’t think i’ve ever been asked unless I had unbagged items in a cart, though I don’t have a bag ban in effect. Also, with the WalmartPay and other apps, they shouldn’t really count on people having paper receipts, especially as heavily as they push those apps.
As it happens, I went shopping at Walmart today. It wasn’t too crowded so as I was leaving, and as she ran the scanner gun over my receipt, I asked, “is the purpose of this check to test my purchases of the accuracy of the checkers?”
She paused, and looked at me in a serious way and said, “it’s for both of those things, yes, but something else more important as well. It’s a dark, evil world we live in”.
That’s a true story, make of it what you will.