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 From: spamsucks@crazyhat.net 
  
 In message  gapope@vcn.bc.ca wrote: 
  
 >DevilsPGD  wrote: 
 >D> I usually counter their request for my bag with a request for the 
 >D> equivalent cash to what I'm carrying, otherwise why should I trust them 
 >D> with my properly? 
 > 
 >How about how they have a sign at the customer service counter(where you're 
 >supposed to leave your bag(s)) that says, "We are not responsible for items 
 >lost or stolen"(!!) Which basically says, "We've given our employees carte 
 >blanche to root through your stuff and take anything they like -- it beats 
 >giving them real benefits that __WE__ have to pay for!" 
  
 If I wear a sign that says I'm not responsible for anything I steal, 
 think I'd get away with robbing a store blind? 
  
 Just because that's what the sign says doesn't mean it would hold up. 
  
 >D> So far no stores have been willing to take me up on that deal, nor have 
 >D> any refused my money.  A&B sound did have someone follow me around for a 
 >D> while, which worked out okay, at least there was a sales drone nearby 
 >D> when I had a question. 
 > 
 >*LOL* Way to stand up for yourself!  That's all that's needed -- not to 
 accept 
 >their simplistic(and strictly-self-concerned) version of things, by enough 
 of 
 >us, and they'll stop it! 
  
 The neat thing about being self-concerned is that it works as long as 
 everybody takes care of themselves and stands up for themselves. 
  
 The way I see it, there are two options, either the store will want my 
 money or not.  If not, they've done no worse to me then I would have 
 done to them by voting with my dollars -- I can go elsewhere. 
  
 However, so far I have yet to see a store that was more interested in 
 enforcing their policy, they pretty much always seem to end up being 
 more interested in my credit card. 
  
 >Considering it's NOT lowering prices at all by having this policy, I fail to 
 >see the value in it, except to them, as an experiment in customer 
 >maniupulation/control ("how far can we go with these sheeple?") 
  
 In general I suspect it does reduce shoplifting, and at least in 
 principle, shoplifting will either raise prices or reduce the company's 
 profits. 
  
 Since they're in business to make money, I don't begrudge them for 
 wanting to make money. 
  
 -- 
 God must love stupid people; He made so many. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)