Quote Originally Posted by dirge View Post
I stand by my comment. Any store that employs someone who is willing to humiliate the store patrons runs the risk of scaring paying customers away. The issue I've encountered at this store are not that they ask for a bag check - it's more a case of the security guard will blatantly embarrass a patron for not submitting to a bagcheck (which is, from a legal POV, voluntary).

It's not the anti-theft measures that I object to, it's the tactics employed at this store.

From memory, retailers are allowed to ask if they can check your nag as you are exiting the premises, the public have the right to tell the person wanting to check said bag to bugger off. However the retailer can hit back and ban you from the store, remember it is still private property. The catch, however is that, IMO, they need to ask nicely, and not treat everyone as a potential theif