Showing receipt

Zinger549

If you get stopped by the security guard outside a supermarket and they ask to see your receipt do you have to show it to them. You have paid for your goods and the alarm didn't go off.

sekrapa

Not everything is security tagged, so if they suspect you have an item that you have not paid for, it would make common sense to show a receipt to say that you had paid for it - no more problems. If you do not want to show the receipt, then you have no proof that you have paid for the items and they would think that you had unpaid items in your bags.

Why make a tense situation worse by refusing to show a receipt, unless you did intentionally take items without paying.

Zinger549

Well I did show them the receipt. I was just wondering that's all.

BBQ141

There is no legal requirement to show the receipt to anyone (least of all some SIA "trained" bod). Their position as a security guard conveys no additional authority over that of a member of the public.

wealdroam

You don't even need to keep your receipt until you leave the shop.
Leave the receipt at the till if you wish.

Actually, generally speaking, stores do not even need to offer a receipt.

markdebby

At Makro they check your receipt before leaving

BBQ141

markdebby wrote: »

At Makro they check your receipt before leaving

IIRC, Makro is a private members type establishment and that is one of the conditions of becoming a member?

bris

markdebby wrote: »

At Makro they check your receipt before leaving

No they don't and not for a long time now. At least not at the branch I use.

It's true that you don't have to show your receipt but then they can detain you for the police to deal with it, if they have grounds to suspect you.

PlymouthMaid

There is a bit out of town store near me which treats every customer as a potential shoplifter. Everybody has to show their receipt to a burly chap on the door to leave the place if they have any shopping bags about their person.

paulsad

Punch the security guard in the face and run... or just show the receipt as he doesn't know you've paid till he sees it could be you resemble the serial shoplifter that frequents the store.

BBQ141

bris wrote: »

It's true that you don't have to show your receipt but then they can detain you for the police to deal with it, if they have grounds to suspect you.

Providing they have grounds they can carry out a S.24 PACE arrest (any person powers) otherwise known as a "citizens arrest".

Just refusing to show your receipt is not enough grounds to arrest you (no such thing as detaining someone unless you're a police officer or other law enforcement official with search powers).