I Was Stopped at a Local Supermarket!

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The place was my a favorite supermarket. Not a high priced, nor a low priced. A good medium priced with well stocked shelves. Been shopping there for I don't know how long.

Check my stuff out with cashier, normally I do self checkout but felt lazy. Taking the cart out to my car, and whole god damned lights and sirens go off. What the fuck? I was keep pushing the cart, but the wheels locked. I didn't even know those grocery carts were monitored with motion stopping device. Then a freaking rent-a-cop comes over with his hand on his gun, and ask me to stop. He was too close to me for him to draw before I would hit his neck, but I degrees. Probably though old fart with walking stick. Dumb ass.

He asked for my receipt, and I showed it to him. He counted the items and said "thank you. Sorry for the inconvenience", and unlocked my cart with a fob.

Isn't technology great? They can disable shopping carts! Was annoyed, mildly surprised with those carts.

 

[Servant King]

They can disable shopping carts!

Thank God SP.com doesn't do that. Otherwise we'd all be fairly well screwed.

 

[wolflarsen]

Sounds entertaining to me.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I hate being treated like I stole something at Walmart. Half the time I just keep walking. They say, "sir, sir, sir."

I've had an old lady reciept checker follow me way out into the parking lot.

It's my stuff, I just paid for it.

 

[MisterBadger]

The place was my a favorite supermarket. Not a high priced, nor a low priced. A good medium priced with well stocked shelves. Been shopping there for I don't know how long.

Check my stuff out with cashier, normally I do self checkout but felt lazy. Taking the cart out to my car, and whole god damned lights and sirens go off. What the fuck? I was keep pushing the cart, but the wheels locked. I didn't even know those grocery carts were monitored with motion stopping device. Then a freaking rent-a-cop comes over with his hand on his gun, and ask me to stop. He was too close to me for him to draw before I would hit his neck, but I degrees. Probably though old fart with walking stick. Dumb ass.

He asked for my receipt, and I showed it to him. He counted the items and said "thank you. Sorry for the inconvenience", and unlocked my cart with a fob.

Isn't technology great? They can disable shopping carts! Was annoyed, mildly surprised with those carts.

I sometimes have nightmares of a dystopian future in which the world will have reverted to a sort of feudal system based on the rule of a few supermarket chains gone global. Loyalty cards will be mutually exclusive. You and your family will belong either to one megagrocery store dynasty, or another. Meanwhile, if I can find an independent trader to do business with instead, I use them. I really don't like the way this is all going. Imagine having to purchase your tobacco only from Walmart.or Kwik-Save...

 

[Grangerous]

 

[Hillcrest]

I hate being treated like I stole something at Walmart. Half the time I just keep walking. They say, "sir, sir, sir."

I've had an old lady reciept checker follow me way out into the parking lot.

It's my stuff, I just paid for it.

That poor little old lady !

 

[BingBong]

Why can't shopping trolleys be prevented from ending up in canals and such? Misapplied technology.

 

[SmokeyJock]

There was a very interesting lecture on how to hack these, presumably someone could theoretically have a lot of fun messing with all the trolleys in the shop this way

Glad they don't seem to be a thing in Scotland so far

 

[rakovsky]

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He asked for my receipt, and I showed it to him. He counted the items and said "thank you. Sorry for the inconvenience", and unlocked my cart with a fob.

Isn't technology great? They can disable shopping carts! Was annoyed, mildly surprised with those carts.

I had an experience where I bought a few drink bottles at a big grocery store in a city. At the counter after paying at the auto-pay machine, I tossed my receipt in the trash. Then I tried to get the bottle open, but it was stuck. So I went over to a manager and asked her to open it. Then she wanted to see my receipt. I told her that I threw it out. By that time alot of people had paid for things and I didn't remember which of the many counters I was at. She took me to security to check on the videos whether they could see me paying for the bottles. The security guard was very slow in checking the screens. Finally I went over to one of the trash cans and luckily fished out the right receipt.

 

[MisterBadger]

I had an experience where I bought a few drink bottles at a big grocery store in a city. At the counter after paying at the auto-pay machine, I tossed my receipt in the trash. Then I tried to get the bottle open, but it was stuck. So I went over to a manager and asked her to open it. Then she wanted to see my receipt. I told her that I threw it out. By that time alot of people had paid for things and I didn't remember which of the many counters I was at. She took me to security to check on the videos whether they could see me paying for the bottles. The security guard was very slow in checking the screens. Finally I went over to one of the trash cans and luckily fished out the right receipt.

First they sell you inferior goods unfit for purpose, then instead of providing the simple remedy requested, they detain you and force you to prove a negative, viz. that you were not a thief. Wonderful customer service.
:-(

 

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First they sell you inferior goods unfit for purpose, then instead of providing the simple remedy requested, they detain you and force you to prove a negative, viz. that you were not a thief. Wonderful customer service.
:-(

Something's wrong when proven guilty until prove innocent is becoming normal.

 

[Python 357]

" Protected and Served"