Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:05.840] Let's talk about Walmart greeters. [00:05.840 --> 00:09.840] Greeters might not be the right term because they don't seem to do so much greeting anymore [00:09.840 --> 00:13.380] as they do pestering you for a seat on the way out. [00:13.380 --> 00:19.560] Has it ever irked you that you're treated almost like a suspect on the way out? [00:19.560 --> 00:28.280] Let's talk about that. [00:28.280 --> 00:32.240] I live in a small town in southern Nevada and Walmart is the thing. [00:32.240 --> 00:34.280] We don't even have a movie theater. [00:34.280 --> 00:38.080] So while I reference Walmart as far as being pestered for a seat on the way out, they are [00:38.080 --> 00:40.280] by far not the only company in America that does that. [00:40.280 --> 00:47.720] Now before I get going, I want you to know if you participate in a membership store like [00:47.720 --> 00:50.520] Costco where you have to pay an annual fee and get a card and have to show the card to [00:51.520 --> 01:00.880] Nothing I'm about to say in this video applies to that because that is governed by your contract [01:00.880 --> 01:02.680] with the store. [01:02.680 --> 01:07.360] Everything I'm about to say applies to stores where they are open to the general public [01:07.360 --> 01:09.620] without restriction. [01:09.620 --> 01:19.280] How many of you are aware that you are not required to show the person at the door your [01:19.280 --> 01:21.520] receipt on the way out? [01:21.520 --> 01:25.680] Now I say that because I see people, and this is the part that kills me, this is why I decided [01:25.680 --> 01:26.680] to do this video. [01:26.680 --> 01:29.520] And I've done this subject on radio, I've done it on my television show, and now I'm [01:29.520 --> 01:31.880] doing it again here. [01:31.880 --> 01:41.960] I literally see people backed up lines of people with full carts waiting to show the [01:41.960 --> 01:48.560] Walmart greeter or the Walmart door cop their receipt on the way out. [01:48.640 --> 01:53.240] I literally said to one older gentleman, big guy, it was like 6'6", kind of leaning down [01:53.240 --> 01:58.120] on his car, he was like the fifth guy in line, and I just happened to be about to grab my [01:58.120 --> 02:02.920] bags off the carousel and leave, and I looked at him and I said, because he happened to [02:02.920 --> 02:06.980] look over at that moment, and I said, you know you don't have to wait in that line, [02:06.980 --> 02:10.080] you can just leave, right? [02:10.080 --> 02:18.160] And he just, and he stood there waiting in line, maybe he's retired, he has all the time [02:18.160 --> 02:19.160] in the world. [02:19.160 --> 02:20.960] I don't, and I'm not going to wait in that line. [02:20.960 --> 02:25.280] So when I say you don't have to, and I say a lot of people believe they do, what's the [02:25.280 --> 02:26.280] principle here? [02:26.280 --> 02:32.000] Okay, first of all, if you walk into a Walmart, let's say you're wearing, I don't know, a [02:32.000 --> 02:38.320] NoFX t-shirt, a pair of shorts, shoes, you've got, I don't know, you've got an iPod in one [02:38.320 --> 02:41.880] pocket, you've got your phone in the other, maybe you've got a pair of glasses, you've [02:41.880 --> 02:47.200] got, you know, a couple of bucks in your pocket, you go and you do your shopping, and on the [02:47.240 --> 02:55.240] way out, the greeter, the door cop says, maybe I should call it the receipt cop, says, I [02:55.240 --> 02:59.760] see you have a bulge there in your pocket. [02:59.760 --> 03:03.880] Show me what's in your pocket, or you cannot leave. [03:03.880 --> 03:11.360] How many of you would say, okay, or how many of you would say, hey, fuck off, because it's [03:11.360 --> 03:13.120] yours, you came in the store with it, right? [03:13.120 --> 03:19.800] You don't need to show the door, the receipt cop on the way out something that you own. [03:19.800 --> 03:23.880] That person isn't a police officer, there's no probable cause, there's no reasonable suspicion, [03:23.880 --> 03:27.640] there's nothing, and the fact that you're in a private business doesn't change that. [03:27.640 --> 03:29.760] Your rights don't evaporate. [03:29.760 --> 03:35.480] Your right of property ownership does not evaporate when you walk into a private business. [03:35.480 --> 03:39.640] So on the way out, what are they going to do? [03:39.640 --> 03:40.640] Arrest you? [03:41.160 --> 03:44.040] However, to detain you requires the same standard of law. [03:44.040 --> 03:46.600] To arrest you requires the same standard of law. [03:46.600 --> 03:50.200] So if they don't have reasonable suspicion or probable cause, they can't detain you and [03:50.200 --> 03:52.460] they can't arrest you. [03:52.460 --> 03:55.940] All they're doing is saying words at you. [03:55.940 --> 03:59.640] So here's the way I look at it, and this is what I say, here's the way I look at it, this [03:59.640 --> 04:01.480] is the way the law looks at it. [04:01.480 --> 04:06.240] So I'm on the way out, I put my stuff on the carousel or on the conveyor belt, comes along [04:06.240 --> 04:09.440] to the cash register and the cashier goes chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp, or I [04:09.440 --> 04:12.720] go to the self-checkout thing, okay, we know the drill, right? [04:12.720 --> 04:17.280] So I've got a couple bags in my cart and I'm heading towards the door, and as I approach [04:17.280 --> 04:23.000] the door, well, I shouldn't say me because I handle it differently, as a person approaches [04:23.000 --> 04:33.180] the door, the receipt cop steps forward and puts their hand out, and like Pavlovian dogs, [04:33.180 --> 04:39.020] you stop, you hand them the receipt, and you stand there, and they look at your card [04:39.020 --> 04:42.820] and they go through this little dog and pony show, make a little mark, hand you the receipt, [04:42.820 --> 04:44.420] have a nice day! [04:44.420 --> 04:47.420] So how do I handle it? [04:47.420 --> 04:49.940] I have the same bags in my cart as you. [04:49.940 --> 04:55.440] I come trundling along towards the receipt cop, and when they step forward and put their [04:55.440 --> 05:04.440] hands out, I smile graciously and I say, no, thank you, and I keep going. [05:04.440 --> 05:13.060] Now some of them go, eh, and some of them, and on very rare occasions, very rare, I've [05:13.060 --> 05:19.600] had a, sir, sir, oh, sir, all right, so let's talk about how this works from a legal point [05:19.600 --> 05:20.600] of view. [05:20.600 --> 05:24.440] You put your stuff on the conveyor belt, I'm going to use the example of a cashier, although [05:24.440 --> 05:27.960] it works just the same when you use self-checkout, there's absolutely no difference, and the [05:27.960 --> 05:32.160] cashier rings everything up and says, that'll be $20, so you take a $20 bill out and you [05:32.160 --> 05:36.600] hand it to her, she takes the $20 bill in hands you received. [05:36.600 --> 05:39.720] What just happened? [05:39.720 --> 05:45.560] What happened is Walmart became the owner of and possessor of a $20 bill that you gave [05:45.560 --> 05:46.920] them. [05:46.920 --> 05:54.200] You gave them that $20 bill in exchange for becoming the owner of and possessor of whatever [05:54.200 --> 05:55.200] it is you just purchased. [05:55.200 --> 05:57.000] Now I want to be very clear about this point. [05:57.000 --> 06:00.880] At that moment, here's the money, here's the receipt, at that moment, not later at the [06:00.880 --> 06:12.800] door, at that moment, those things in the bag ceased to be store merchandise. [06:12.800 --> 06:18.440] They became your personal property, no different than what we just talked about, perhaps an [06:19.440 --> 06:25.920] a cell phone, a couple of bucks, a pair of glasses in your pocket. [06:25.920 --> 06:29.400] Those things in the bag are no less your property than those things you walked in the store [06:29.400 --> 06:34.000] with, and there's no gradient here, there's no like, well, the stuff you came in with [06:34.000 --> 06:39.680] is your property here, but the stuff you just bought is your property, no. [06:39.680 --> 06:47.920] It's the same exact status or level of property ownership, which is total, complete, 100%, [06:47.920 --> 06:50.320] you own it. [06:50.320 --> 06:51.320] It's yours. [06:51.320 --> 06:53.200] It's not store merchandise. [06:53.200 --> 06:56.240] Now you go to the door. [06:56.240 --> 07:02.680] You no more have to prove to the person at the door that you own that merchandise, what [07:02.680 --> 07:08.280] was merchandise, that you own that any more than you have to prove that you own the socks [07:08.280 --> 07:09.280] on your feet. [07:09.280 --> 07:12.080] Prove to me those socks are yours. [07:12.080 --> 07:13.080] Fuck you. [07:13.080 --> 07:14.200] Okay, right? [07:14.200 --> 07:17.880] Same thing about, now I don't say fuck you, I'm very polite, but same thing with the [07:17.880 --> 07:23.320] merchandise, the former merchandise that is now my property that's in the bag. [07:23.320 --> 07:27.160] I don't have to prove ownership, I own it, period. [07:27.160 --> 07:29.240] I own it. [07:29.240 --> 07:32.280] I don't have to prove that to anyone. [07:32.280 --> 07:39.520] So again, I say, no thank you, and I go about my business. [07:39.520 --> 07:50.840] So other stores, there's a, in my mind, a fairly infamous story from the Guitar Center, [07:50.840 --> 07:52.840] this particular one in Las Vegas. [07:52.840 --> 07:57.000] A gentleman went into a Guitar Center, and he purchased some items, and on the way out [07:57.000 --> 08:01.520] he was asked to show the receipt, and he'd seen one of my videos, and so he said, no [08:01.520 --> 08:03.960] thank you. [08:03.960 --> 08:07.680] Now when I shared the story with you about what I do here at Walmart and every place [08:07.680 --> 08:10.920] they asked for a receipt, what did I do? [08:10.920 --> 08:13.280] No thank you, and walk on by. [08:13.280 --> 08:16.200] Okay, this guy didn't get the walk on by part, okay? [08:16.200 --> 08:18.960] The guy said, so you need to show me your receipt. [08:18.960 --> 08:25.360] Instead of saying, no thank you, no I don't, have a nice day, and walking out, he stops. [08:25.360 --> 08:28.720] I'm sure he stopped because there was some ego involved and he wanted to prove how right [08:28.720 --> 08:30.320] he was, right? [08:30.320 --> 08:34.500] So he and the store employee start having a fuck you contest, okay? [08:34.500 --> 08:40.300] And the store employee says, I'm calling the police, don't you go anywhere! [08:40.300 --> 08:43.900] And like an idiot, okay, I'm going to stay here, I'm sure his mindset was, well the cops [08:43.900 --> 08:44.900] come, what are you going to do there? [08:44.900 --> 08:47.420] Because I paid for it, huh, huh, huh, huh. [08:47.420 --> 08:52.860] Again, ego tied up in this, it is so not an ego issue, it's, you own property, move the [08:52.860 --> 08:56.920] fuck on, go out to your car, drive away, fuck that prick, right? [08:56.920 --> 09:03.340] So anyway, he waits around, the cops show up, and when the cops show up, the cops tell [09:03.500 --> 09:07.060] the guy in the store, he doesn't have to show you his receipt. [09:07.060 --> 09:09.600] By this time, the manager is now involved in the store. [09:09.600 --> 09:13.620] So the manager says to the cops, I want you to trespass him right now, he can't come back [09:13.620 --> 09:14.620] into our store. [09:14.620 --> 09:20.780] Now, I'm pretty sure that Guitar Center's corporate management would not have sanctioned [09:20.780 --> 09:22.220] that move. [09:22.220 --> 09:27.020] Again, it was ego once again, because he paid for it, everybody knew it, by that time the [09:27.020 --> 09:30.580] cops had looked at the receipt and everybody knew. [09:30.580 --> 09:35.460] So, and they've got a videotape of all this, if they want to find out whether you paid [09:35.460 --> 09:39.700] for it or not, all they have to do is follow you out to the parking lot, take your license [09:39.700 --> 09:43.660] plate number down, go back into the store and check the videotape, right? [09:43.660 --> 09:48.740] But he waited around, and he got trespassed, now, not from all Guitar Centers, but he got [09:48.740 --> 09:52.460] trespassed from the one closest to his house, okay? [09:52.460 --> 09:56.380] All because of ego, had he simply done as I instructed in the video and said, have a [09:56.380 --> 10:02.860] nice day, no thanks, and walked out, no matter what the guy said, when the people at Walmart [10:02.860 --> 10:11.500] or wherever say on a very rare occasion, sir, sir, oh sir, I just keep walking, their problem [10:11.500 --> 10:14.300] is not my problem, okay? [10:14.300 --> 10:21.260] Now, in one case, at a Target, when I was still living in Los Angeles, I had a uniform [10:21.260 --> 10:25.980] guard follow me out into the parking lot, and I just happened to be looking around, [10:25.980 --> 10:31.420] head on a swivel thing, right, good tactics, and as I looked to one side, I saw a hand [10:31.420 --> 10:38.660] coming towards my shoulder, okay, and I wheeled around, and I saw the uniform, and I realized [10:38.660 --> 10:42.540] what he was there about, because I had told the other uniform guy at the door, no thank [10:42.540 --> 10:50.300] you, and I told him straight up, you don't want to touch me, okay, and then we proceeded [10:50.300 --> 10:57.900] to have our conversation, and he got it to an extent, he didn't like it, again, that [10:57.900 --> 11:02.580] whole ego thing, but he eventually walked away, and my boys, who were, I don't know, [11:02.580 --> 11:06.540] nine, ten at the time, you know, what were you going to do? [11:06.540 --> 11:12.420] I said, well, if he'd laid his hands on me, I would have put him face down on the asphalt [11:12.420 --> 11:16.180] and explained to him why touching me when he has no legal justification to touch me [11:16.180 --> 11:24.220] is a poor decision, they were like, I wasn't going to beat the guy up, I was just going [11:24.220 --> 11:30.380] to put him in a position that his ego was in check, and then explain to him that it [11:30.380 --> 11:35.580] was a bad choice, okay, so that was one time in probably twenty years of saying no thank [11:35.580 --> 11:41.380] you, again, don't do this in membership stores until you've checked your contract, okay, [11:41.380 --> 11:45.100] but if it's open to the general public, this is all applicable. [11:45.100 --> 11:48.740] So the bottom line is, it's your property. [11:48.740 --> 11:50.660] You don't have to show anybody your receipt. [11:50.660 --> 11:56.460] Now somebody might say, well, Dave, you're just being a contrary ass, okay, well, perhaps, [11:56.460 --> 11:58.660] but I don't see it that way. [11:58.660 --> 12:05.340] We all know the frog in the pot analogy, right, where if you slowly turn up the heat, the [12:05.340 --> 12:09.020] frog does not realize it's being cooked alive. [12:09.020 --> 12:13.820] I see that as somewhat analogous of what's happening to our liberty in this country. [12:13.820 --> 12:19.100] It's being taken away, little incremental steps at a time. [12:19.100 --> 12:24.940] And I think one of the things that allows that to happen, to some extent unnoticed by [12:24.940 --> 12:32.180] a lot of people, is the mindset, what's in their head. [12:32.180 --> 12:37.180] Because the frog in the pot thing, when we talk about liberty in society, what happens [12:37.180 --> 12:42.540] is you lose track of what your liberty used to look like. [12:42.540 --> 12:44.980] So now you think liberty is this. [12:44.980 --> 12:49.500] So then when they move the line a little bit further, you don't realize that 40 years ago [12:49.500 --> 12:53.620] your liberty looked like this. [12:53.620 --> 12:55.500] Over time, our mindset changes. [12:55.500 --> 13:03.100] And to me, a retail establishment treating you like a would-be criminal, that you have [13:03.100 --> 13:08.220] to prove that you didn't commit a crime, you have to prove that you didn't steal stuff [13:08.220 --> 13:10.420] before you walk out the door. [13:10.420 --> 13:13.340] To me, that works up here. [13:13.340 --> 13:20.380] All those people standing in line waiting to show their receipt, they see no problem [13:20.380 --> 13:21.800] with being treated like a criminal. [13:21.800 --> 13:28.460] They see no problem with having to prove that they're not a crook, to having to prove that [13:28.460 --> 13:29.460] they didn't steal stuff. [13:29.460 --> 13:31.940] And by the way, here's another interesting thing. [13:31.940 --> 13:37.140] The reason they do that is not to catch you being a crook, well, partially. [13:37.140 --> 13:44.660] The main reason, the overwhelming reason, is to catch employees who are cashiers conspiring [13:44.660 --> 13:45.660] with people. [13:45.660 --> 13:51.660] So it looks good, they're passing everything over the scanner and whatnot, and fills up [13:51.660 --> 13:58.580] the cart, but the actual exchange of money is only like $20 for $180 worth of groceries. [13:58.580 --> 14:04.720] That's what they're really trying to catch because for every one incident of shoplifting, [14:04.720 --> 14:09.480] there are 13 incidences of internal theft. [14:09.480 --> 14:13.440] Internal theft is where the big money is lost by these retailers. [14:13.440 --> 14:19.400] And you can imagine somebody comes through with a $4,000 big screen TV and they hand [14:19.400 --> 14:24.440] the cashier $200, on the video, money was exchanged, it all looks good. [14:24.440 --> 14:27.480] But that theft is huge, right? [14:27.480 --> 14:30.120] The amount that was lost to the business is huge. [14:30.120 --> 14:31.120] So that's what they're trying to catch. [14:31.120 --> 14:34.480] And I have no objection to that, I support that, I don't want them to take a loss. [14:34.480 --> 14:39.680] However, whatever mechanism they put in place to catch their employees or to catch other [14:39.680 --> 14:43.200] forms of theft, should not be two things. [14:43.200 --> 14:44.600] It should not be an inconvenience to me. [14:44.600 --> 14:48.240] I shouldn't have to stop and wait in line and show my receipt. [14:48.240 --> 14:53.120] And secondly, I shouldn't be treated like a would-be suspect of a crime. [14:53.120 --> 14:54.280] I have no interest in any of that. [14:54.280 --> 14:58.780] I have no interest in being inconvenienced, having to stop, having to prove that I own [14:58.780 --> 15:04.660] what I own, and I have no interest in this diminution of liberty thing. [15:04.660 --> 15:12.700] So while I support the business in preventing the kinds of thefts that it's trying to prevent [15:12.700 --> 15:17.340] by that inconvenience, it's not my thing, okay? [15:17.340 --> 15:20.300] Mr. Retailer, you want to stop that? [15:20.300 --> 15:22.380] I support you. [15:22.380 --> 15:25.460] Stop it in a way that doesn't inconvenience every single one of your customers. [15:25.460 --> 15:30.980] Stop it in a way that doesn't create the inference that every single one of your customers [15:30.980 --> 15:33.460] is a suspected thief. [15:33.460 --> 15:34.700] Solve it, yes. [15:34.700 --> 15:39.500] Just don't involve me because I'm not part of your internal anti-theft effort. [15:39.500 --> 15:40.740] I'm a customer. [15:40.740 --> 15:42.820] That's an internal company matter. [15:42.820 --> 15:47.300] All I want to do is come in, shop pleasantly, go to the register, be treated nice, get my [15:47.300 --> 15:52.620] bags and leave without being inconvenienced because you, the retailer, believe you have [15:52.620 --> 15:54.820] an internal problem. [15:54.820 --> 15:57.180] So those are the reasons that I don't show my receipt. [15:57.180 --> 16:03.180] And I just wanted to do this video because I wanted to make sure that people understand [16:03.180 --> 16:08.100] they don't have to, whether it's Walmart, whether it's Guitar Center, anything except [16:08.100 --> 16:09.240] a membership store. [16:09.240 --> 16:17.580] But I wanted you to know that there is no legal reason for you to stop and show your [16:17.580 --> 16:23.140] receipt to anyone on the way out of a store that is open generally to the public. [16:23.140 --> 16:24.140] Take care. [16:24.140 --> 16:24.160] Talk to you in a bit.