Wal-Mart

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Walmart...good or bad ...ya gotta love it or hate it.

I vary between the two opinions.

What I want to know is other people's experience when buying from them.

In my area, they have cameras pointing in every direction, in every corner, at every cash register ( don't blame them for that one at all) and then the big booming voices at the entrances and exits if what you buy does not get electronically deactivated at the cash register. When you come in, they use hand held scanners to show you are bringing something back. To top it off, they have people standing at the door to check your receipt if you buy a case of soda pop that they cannot bag. Or if you buy a storage container.

I had an episode the other day that makes me want to stop shopping at Wally world all together. The woman at the door saw me check out at the register and she still stopped me to 'check my receipt' on a case of soda pop.

One would say ...well why would it bother you if you did nothing wrong?
The point is that I feel like I am in the Soviet Union always having to show my papers in a place where I exchange my money for a product. I feel like this place is Nazi Germany instead of being in a free land. I resent being treated like I am guilty of theft instead of our country's signature premise of presumed innocence until proven guilty. Why can't all their electronic surveillance and screaming machines do the job instead of us being accosted and what we bought "searched" before we get out the door?

All the other stores I buy at do not treat their customers this way.

Do they do this at all the Walmarts around the nation or is this just an area thing? I do not remember being treated this way in other cities...like Cordova, Memphis and other little towns across North MS.