09/25/2014
What do you think? Should Costco be able to have a blanket receipt-checking policy to prevent shoplifting or is it unreasonable detention of the customer who has already purchased merchandise? Take the poll!
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/09/costco_receipt-checking_lawsui.html
Timothy Walls filed a $670,000 lawsuit last week against Costco, claiming store employees wrongly held onto his shopping cart -- full of his newly purchased items -- when he refused to show his receipt, then he broke his leg in a scuffle with them. The store has a blanket policy of checking receipts…