DO YOU WANT YOUR RECEIPT..........

Undisputedtruth

I always ensure I have a receipt for my goods. So when a security guard asked to search me then I always say no to them. Nothing much they can do about it. These days I use the Aldi Shop and Go service. No annoying security guards, no tills and you get your receipt by email and online.

Rosa_Damascena

Undisputedtruth said:

I always ensure I have a receipt for my goods. So when a security guard asked to search me then I always say no to them. Nothing much they can do about it. These days I use the Aldi Shop and Go service. No annoying security guards, no tills and you get your receipt by email and online.

It wouldn't occur to me not to co-operate.

YoungBlueEyes

No me either Rosa. I almost want to be stopped now so I can say no ha haa!

Undisputedtruth

There is no requirement to answer a security guard's question under SIA rules either. 

Any unlawful attempt to search can result in legal damages for unlawful search. Banning customers for refusing an unlawful search could result in discrimination damages as well. I heard a story where someone sued Tesco for £60k from a security guard. 

I had a situation where a security guard from Total Security Service was smoking his cigarette outside the Tesco Express store in South London. I was stopped by him after buying a packet of crisp using phone to pay for the goods. A receipt was placed in my top jacket pocket. Two sources of payment: receipt and Google Pay. Security Guard asked to see my receipt. I said no with the following words "once goods have been paid for then become my own property, not Tesco's. Security Guards do not have stop and search rights and asking for a receipt constitute stop and search". However, this doesn't work if you had stolen something.

I later reported the security guard for not understanding the law on stop and search and ironically his criminal behaviour for throwing his cigarette butt on the public pavement. I feel it is my civic duty to report actual criminal matter!

Farway

Undisputedtruth said:

There is no requirement to answer a security guard's question under SIA rules either. 

Any unlawful attempt to search can result in legal damages for unlawful search. Banning customers for refusing an unlawful search could result in discrimination damages as well. I heard a story where someone sued Tesco for £60k from a security guard. 

I had a situation where a security guard from Total Security Service was smoking his cigarette outside the Tesco Express store in South London. I was stopped by him after buying a packet of crisp using phone to pay for the goods. A receipt was placed in my top jacket pocket. Two sources of payment: receipt and Google Pay. Security Guard asked to see my receipt. I said no with the following words "once goods have been paid for then become my own property, not Tesco's. Security Guards do not have stop and search rights and asking for a receipt constitute stop and search". However, this doesn't work if you had stolen something.

I later reported the security guard for not understanding the law on stop and search and ironically his criminal behaviour for throwing his cigarette butt on the public pavement. I feel it is my civic duty to report actual criminal matter!

Oh my word, just how hard would it have been to show him the receipt instead of leaping on your high horse and then reporting him?

Words fail me

Undisputedtruth

Farway said:

Undisputedtruth said:

There is no requirement to answer a security guard's question under SIA rules either. 

Any unlawful attempt to search can result in legal damages for unlawful search. Banning customers for refusing an unlawful search could result in discrimination damages as well. I heard a story where someone sued Tesco for £60k from a security guard. 

I had a situation where a security guard from Total Security Service was smoking his cigarette outside the Tesco Express store in South London. I was stopped by him after buying a packet of crisp using phone to pay for the goods. A receipt was placed in my top jacket pocket. Two sources of payment: receipt and Google Pay. Security Guard asked to see my receipt. I said no with the following words "once goods have been paid for then become my own property, not Tesco's. Security Guards do not have stop and search rights and asking for a receipt constitute stop and search". However, this doesn't work if you had stolen something.

I later reported the security guard for not understanding the law on stop and search and ironically his criminal behaviour for throwing his cigarette butt on the public pavement. I feel it is my civic duty to report actual criminal matter!

Oh my word, just how hard would it have been to show him the receipt instead of leaping on your high horse and then reporting him?

Words fail me

I don't co-operate with criminals and merely asserting my rights under the law! Security guards have no special rights or powers. No do I pander to people who have no real understanding or care for personal rights.

sarah1972

As this has gone off topic and turned into a discussion regarding rights etc, I have closed the thread.