Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Aug 11th 2014, 5:02 am
#31
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Aug 11th 2014, 6:17 am
#32
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Couldn't care less. Doesn't happen very often but when it does I simply open the bag and continue walking. I don't take it personally, I actually feel sorry for the staff having to do it. I work on the basis that there are plenty of really shit things happening around the world and to get worked up by something so unimportant in the grand scheme of things is pointless.
(Doesn't stop me getting pissed off by other unimportant stuff of course)
(Doesn't stop me getting pissed off by other unimportant stuff of course)
Aug 11th 2014, 6:30 am
#33
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Well it certainly is a first world issue, but then nearly everything in my life is. So if I applied the logic that there are worse things going on in the world, it means that I never get to object, complain or have a point of view on anything that happens in my life again.
Aug 11th 2014, 7:24 am
#34
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
I get stopped regularly when walking out of supermarkets
I keep getting asked if that is a whole salami I have stuffed in my trousers
Aug 11th 2014, 7:52 am
#35
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Saw this at JBHifi today. After seeing would not consider shopping there.
Aug 11th 2014, 10:05 am
#36
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
1. There must be a condition of entry prominently displayed at the entrance.
2. If the store forcibly conducts a search they may be guilty of assault.
3. If store has absolute belief that shoplifting has been committed, they can legally detain or search a customer; if a customer has not stolen anything, the retailer may be guilty of false imprisonment.
2. If the store forcibly conducts a search they may be guilty of assault.
3. If store has absolute belief that shoplifting has been committed, they can legally detain or search a customer; if a customer has not stolen anything, the retailer may be guilty of false imprisonment.
Aug 11th 2014, 10:07 am
#37
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
1. There must be a condition of entry prominently displayed at the entrance.
2. If the store forcibly conducts a search they may be guilty of assault.
3. If store has absolute belief that shoplifting has been committed, they can legally detain or search a customer; if a customer has not stolen anything, the retailer may be guilty of false imprisonment.
2. If the store forcibly conducts a search they may be guilty of assault.
3. If store has absolute belief that shoplifting has been committed, they can legally detain or search a customer; if a customer has not stolen anything, the retailer may be guilty of false imprisonment.
Aug 11th 2014, 10:08 am
#38
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
I never liked it as it always seemed OTT and was tantamount to assuming we were all guilty until proven innocent. Most of the time the 'search' was so cursory it was obvious those doing it felt quite uncomfortable themselves.
Aug 11th 2014, 10:29 am
#39
Daffyd Duck
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
it's a random check to act as a deterrent
Aug 11th 2014, 10:46 am
#40
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Aug 11th 2014, 1:02 pm
#43
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
I'm not at all surprised that such an awful experience coloured your view of Oz. Bloody mini-Hitlers.
Aug 11th 2014, 1:08 pm
#44
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Re: Bag checks when leaving Australian shops
Well it certainly is a first world issue, but then nearly everything in my life is. So if I applied the logic that there are worse things going on in the world, it means that I never get to object, complain or have a point of view on anything that happens in my life again.
When people say that to me (first world problem) I reply that I live in a first world country.
Without wanting to cause offence to the poster who used the phrase (can't remember who it was!), it's become one of those fashionable, convenient , throw-away responses that really don't say anything at all.
Aug 11th 2014, 7:37 pm
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