[TriLUG] security goons at TigerDirect in Raleigh: "No, thanks!"

[Kevin Flanagan]

Back to the original thread....

Generally I just say "no thanks" when they say that they must see the
receipt and keep walking.  I think that if you are going to push a button,
you do need to do as Magnus said.  Walk slowly, speak clearly, so that there
is no room for miscommunication.

BJ's say that they do require you to show it, but I've not been stopped when
I just keep walking.  I do keep the receipt out so it's kind of obvious.

I also use every opportunity to tell all employees two things.  I do take
specific care to say that the line worker should tell their management, and
I know that it's not their doing.

- I find the receipt check business offensive, and am inclined to not shop
in places who do it.

- I find self checkout registers annoying, if I'm getting a discount for
their not needing as many cashiers I'd do it, but otherwise I won't.  I'm
paying for someone to ring me out.  I just go up to the "overseer" of the
self checkouts if that's all that's available.  I almost always get comments
back like "me too, but I can't say it, I work here"



Kevin


On 5/31/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Warren Myers wrote:
> > It is legal in many parts of the state. Unless there is a sign on the
> > establishment indicating you cannot carry, or you're entering any
> government
> > building (even an office building that has *ONE* gubmint office in it),
> or
> > on school grounds, etc. Notice, though, that if the weapon is *at all*
> > concealed, it's *not* legal.
>
> Yeah there are limitations.
>
> But oddly enough you have more liberty in where you can go with an
> openly displayed pistol and no permit than the other way around.  Banks,
> for example.
>
> > What irks me more than the idiotic carry laws is the fact that you have
> to
> > apply to get a purchase permit, and then apply again (after taking a
> class)
> > to get a *concealed* carry permit.
>
>
> Actually if you have your concealed carry permit, you can use that in
> lieu of the purchase permit now.  That law changed 2 or 3 years ago.  So
> once you're licensed to pack, no more asking "mother may I buy a pistol"
> (except the dreaded background check that criminals usually don't go
> through themselves)
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