Story of the Day...Store Receipt Checkers?

Fresh Grocer for dinner tonight. It’s a race to park, rush though a checkout line more chaotic than security at Philly Int’l and hop back to the car. Do I need to have my receipt checked as I stumble out the door juggling car keys, parking ticket, debit card? Apparently I have to. It’s a security guard with a sharpie pen.

Then I heard of this dude who left a BestBuy store I California and refused to have his receipt checked. The guy, Aaron Hopkins, claimed the store doesn’t have a right to check the receipt at the door. The BestBuy employees chased him down and even blocked Hopkins in his parking space.

The receipt check revolt continued when Hopkins wrote a letter to BestBuy. Naturally, the revolt was watered down with a nicely polished public relations masterpiece and Hopkins felt pretty much unsatisfied.
Then he got a letter from an employee of BestBuy on the front lines of receipt checking, who, as sometimes happens at multinational corporations apparently, saw the letter written by Hopkins and felt he needed to respond to it. When in doubt, blame the customer. But aren’t we all customers thereby blaming ourselves for being idiots.

http://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/epilogue.html


All this fuss leaves me with one really burning question. Why do we spell Aaron with two As?

I am as anti-establishment as they come but letting the mothers swipe your receipt with a sharpie is not having your rights violated- it’s a reaction to the American culture of fear in which we live. The fact that it bothers us, that is raises hairs or smooth droplets of adrenaline, is an American phenomenon.