How many times have YOU been asked to show your receipt after purchasing merchandise?

As for me, it's never happened. Maybe that's why I'm mystified by all the excitement over this seemingly rare occurrence.

Once they found that a checker had forgotten to put an expensive item into the box, so I'm no longer that annoyed by it.

I've never been asked anywhere else.

The policy that infuriates me is the one that confiscates all bags (including handbags) when one goes into a store. I will turn on my heel and walk out of those places. I hate that.

It takes two seconds. It's not as if you're being cavity searched.

Also Bestbuy checks receipts on the way out the door as well, at least they do at the one near my house.

unless they suspect theft.

Costco I can sorta understand, they are a private membership club and can do as they like. Best Buy has accumulated a host of other practices that make it an unpleaseant shopping experience for me (asking me at checkout if I want to sign up for a 100 different magazines. :grr: )

before you can leave the store. They put a mark on the receipt to show it was checked. I'm not sure, but I think if you don't allow the store to do that you can't return the mechandise.
Personally I think it's a pain in the ass but a small pain and one I deal with without getting my panties in a wad over it.

we had an unusual request for receipts a few years back. An airline (I won't say which, unless you drag it out of me) lost my husband's luggage. Weeks and indeed months went by and they were never able to find it. Alas, it wasn't just a weekender bag. We were moving to a new city, and my husband preceded me to start his job, while I stayed back to sell our house. He had packed a large suitcase with virtually all his office clothes: every dress shirt he owned, most of his neckties, some business suits, new shoes, etc. It was devastating.

At any rate, we had to put in a claim of what was in the suitcase and the value of each item, and came up with a pretty accurate list. The airline came back asking us to substantiate each item with a receipt! Does anyone keep receipts for clothing already worn, be it for a few months or years? We got a settlement eventually, but it nowhere near covered the replacement value of that clothing.

At COSTCO, they mark the receipt with a check-mark, to prevent THIS sort of thing...

Former Bush Aide Charged in Felony Theft
Claude Allen had recently resigned as White House domestic-policy adviser.
By Rachel Shteir
Updated Friday, March 10, 2006, at 5:44 PM ET
http://slate.msn.com/id/2137895/


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Do DU'ers RESENT having to give name, address and phone # to Store Clerks when You Return Items You
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Anyway, other than stores that check everyone, the only times I've ever been asked, is when the clerk forgot to remove an anti-theft tag, and the alarm went off.

No biggie.

too large to fit into a bag or if an anti-theft device hadn't been removed and the alarm went off. No big deal.

It was cold it was the winter and if i wasn't carrying much i would jam the food in my pockets as i left the store. I got stopped every so often, particularly by one nasty woman who really thought she had busted a master criminal. I remember her look of triumph as I pulled out some cheese from my pocket and her disappointment as I pulled my receipt from the other pocket.

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