Costco receipt checking

[DRZ]

And is that illegal after being given permission? Please answer yes or no.

You can't ask a loaded question and get away with it here

You are bleating about the sale of goods act but as far as I can see you don't understand that or any form of contract law.

Generally speaking, title of goods passes when both parties intend it to pass. I don't have my copy of the Costco T&Cs to hand but I suspect that a condition of the completion of the contract will be once you have passed through that last step where they check you have everything you are supposed to have (and nothing more).

Contractuals aside, they of course cannot 'detain' you unless they suspect you are committing a criminal act by leaving - which they were as you had a trolley full of goods with no proof you had paid for them. If you had protested your right to leave, the Police would have been called and again if you had no proof you had purchased those goods you may have been arrested.

As it happens, the other member of your party had the proof and when it was shown you were allowed to leave. I do not see the problem, at all - other than you being an internet whingebag of course.

 

[csmager]

As Costco is a paid for membership, when you sign up you agree to the terms and conditions associated with that membership. One of the conditions is Costco reserving the right to check the property of members before they leave the premises, it's on the membership form and on their website.

It would appear Buddah is correct:

Costco reserves the right to search member's belongings and purchases.

http://costco.co.uk/Membership_home/Terms_conds/terms_condition.htm

 

[gambitt]

Great. I'm going to go shoplifting then. No one can ask me to prove I'd paid for them on the basis that would be against my human rights.

Unless they can prove you have stolen an item (CCTV, witnesses, security tags etc) .

 

[csmager]

Unless they can prove you have stolen an item (CCTV, witnesses, security tags etc) .

I'd be long gone by the time they've checked any of that. They're not allowed to detain me.

 

[Pez]

I didn't forget any receipt. Another person had it as I explained.



Sale of Goods Act.

Please point me towards the exact point the SOGA stipulates that store staff cannot check your bags while on their premises.

As another poster has said, it's in their T&C's of membership. And before you bleat about them being T&C's, not law - that doesn't matter, providing there is no law that stipulates that they are explicitly not permitted to check your bags.

 

[gambitt]

the Police would have been called and again if you had no proof you had purchased those goods you may have been arrested.

Wrong. The onus of proof is on the accuser. The concept of innocent until proven guilty is getting lost these days

 

[Duke]

All this fuss over having things checked?

 

[JBuk]

Tbh I have never came across this practice anywhere I have shopped and I find it quite strange really

I can appreciate it can be helpful to have the goods checked but once you have paid for goods they are yours, I would have thought that you would be entitled to disallow anyone to search through them?
Does a storeworker even have any legal right to search through a customers bought goods?

 

[gambitt]

I'd be long gone by the time they've checked any of that. They're not allowed to detain me.

Read further up:

You do realise it's illegal to detain someone without reasonable grounds?

 

[DRZ]

Wrong. The onus of proof is on the accuser. The concept of innocent until proven guilty is getting lost these days

You are there with goods you cannot demonstrate you have paid for - the burden of proof only applies in court which is why you can be arrested on suspicion of an offence.

 

[orderoftheflame]

Wrong. The onus of proof is on the accuser. The concept of innocent until proven guilty is getting lost these days

Whut?

So if you walk out of a store with items that you haven't paid for. If somebody stops you and asks for a receipt that you can't product, you still think your fine because they can't prove you haven't purchased them.

lols.

 

[gambitt]

All this fuss over having things checked?

Today it's having YOUR goods checked - tomorrow it's having YOUR handbags and pockets checked, all by other members of the public.

 

[Duke]

Tbh I have never came across this practice anywhere I have shopped and I find it quite strange really

Are you talking about wholesalers? They do operate quite a bit differently to other shops.

Today it's having YOUR goods checked - tomorrow it's having YOUR handbags and pockets checked, all by other members of the public.

Stop being so melodramatic. Just sounds like you got caught out not having the right receipts ready and just got embarrassed about it.

 

[InvaderGIR]

Today it's having YOUR goods checked - tomorrow it's having YOUR handbags and pockets checked, all by other members of the public.

lololololololooloolool

 

[DRZ]

Today it's having YOUR goods checked - tomorrow it's having YOUR handbags and pockets checked, all by other members of the public.

What?

ITT: the ramblings of a paranoid nutter.

 

[gambitt]

You are there with goods you cannot demonstrate you have paid for - the burden of proof only applies in court which is why you can be arrested on suspicion of an offence.

So the police arrest you, realise they can't prove anything and let you go. Or they charge you, then the CPS realise can't prove anything and they let you go... The result is the same, the police will not waste their time unless they have something to use (CCTV, eye witnesses etc).

 

[Jonny69]

Having now read the whole thread I have decided to come back and quote this:

I honestly wonder how people like you make it through life.

 

[johnny6]

Having done several big shops in Costco, I find they just count the goods in the trolley and don't bother placing them all on the till belt. Therefore I can understand why they have a secondary check to make sure the right goods have been paid for.

Anyways I don't see what all the fuss is all about, providing you have the receipt it literally takes 30 seconds for them to check.

Also with the amount of abandoned trollies full of goods you have to walk passed to get out. As people have decided they want food after they've paid and theres no way of queuing with your trolley for your hotdog and soda. I imagine it stops people just walking in and walking off with a trolley full of stuff.

 

[JBuk]

Are you talking about wholesalers? They do operate quite a bit differently to other shops.
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yep


Like the op I would question the legality of someone performing a stop and search with no reasonable suspicion, the Police have strict rules about this and when it can be performed, the store seems to be in the practice of suspecting everyone without justification.

 

[gambitt]

yep


Like the op I would question the legality of someone performing a stop and search with no reasonable suspicion, the Police have strict rules about this and when it can be performed, the store seems to be in the practice of suspecting everyone without justification.

THANK YOU! Finally a man who knows the law.