Walmart employees request receipts before exiting stores, two police officers refuse to show receipts.

From The Consumerist:
A tipster has sent in an audio recording of himself being stopped at the Walmart doors for refusing to show them his receipt. He says that it's in his pocket and he just doesn't feel like getting it out. According to the reader, two of the men who stop him are sheriff's deputies. When he asks one of them their name, the man responds, "John Doe." Our reader, who says he is a cop of 20 years himself, says it took nearly half an hour of asking them whether they are placing him under arrest or if he can be on his way before they let him go.

The deputies say things like:

"Stupid what you're doing."
"You wanna play games, we'll play with you."
"You put your hands on me, I'll give you a reason... I wish you would."
"I'll let the manager decide what he wants to do with this case, damn idiot."

From KSL.com, in Utah:
On December 12th, Perry City's Chief of Police, Mike Jones, was doing some shopping at the Harrisville Walmart.

Surveillance video shows him checking out, loading several items into his cart some that were bags, but many that were not. He paid the clerk and then pushed his cart toward the exit, but that's when Harrisville Police say the Chief's trip to the store took a turn for the worse.

"One of the door greeters approached him, and just asked for the receipt because of some of the unbagged items," said Lt. Keith Wheelright of the Harrisville Police department.

The 70 year old Walmart door greeter approached Jones because she was following a new store procedure. Employees are now supposed to ask to see a receipt for items not in store bags, but apparently Jones didn't want to give it to her.

"He allegedly swore at the door greeter, walked past her without showing her the receipt," said Wheelright.

Stores cannot legally prevent you from leaving if you decide to not show your receipt.

"In general, the store can't force someone to show their receipt," Joseph LaRocca, senior asset protection advisor for the National Retail Foundation told MSN recently. "The checks at the door are really designed to be a preventative measure and a customer service measure."

One of the only times is if you've signed a contract with them where you agreed to do that, like with membership clubs like Costco.


Links:
http://consumerist.com/2010/12/man-records-himself-being-detained-at-walmart-for-a-receipt-check.html

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=13808117