Comment by kevin_thibedeau
9 days ago
You can just refuse that BS in non-membership stores. After payment, your debts are settled and the merchandise is your property. If they want oversight they need to eliminate self-checkout and staff their registers.
At my local supermarket self-checkout they moan at me for removing the security tags from bottles of wine when the staff are busy. It's my wine!
That's not true in most the USA. Shopkeepers privilege allows them to confine you and/or the goods, which depending on state only requires something akin to "reasonably believed you were stealing." In my state a shopkeep can confine me until police arrive on pretty flimsy evidence, which if in the country could be a very long time. It is better just to find stores that don't do it and shop there - - I stopped shopping at walmart after I was confronted by gigantic bouncers accusing me of stealing (yes in the hood Walmart is very aggressive with shopkeepers privilege, if you live in wealthy area and refuse they much more likely to just let you go).
You could try to stop them but if they are hurt in the process it could very well end in a lengthy trip to prison.