It’s just I noticed in a well known International store a large notice saying.."WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEARCH ANY BAGS LEAVING THIS STORE!!",also a cusion of mine had been on a shopping trip with friends of hers they had been into this store bought items from it, and as they left she was taken to one side by two of the employees, and ordered to turn out her pockets and show her shopping bags,now my cusion is the most honest person you could come across, being the honest girl and she had nothing to hide so did as she was told,when they saw she handn’t stolen anything they told her to get lost. my cusion came home in floods of tears. Now I am under the imprestion that the only people that can search you and thats the police,and even then you have to be told why you being searched and it has to be done at a police station, is this right?
My cusions parents are now dealing with the store
Neithers to stay my cusion will not be shopping at this store again
I suspect only the police have the right to stop and search, and only if they have reasonable grounds of suspicion.
Maybe you could ask a consumer organisation, or the Citizens Advice Bureau, just to be sure.
If I saw such a sign in a shop, I’d vote with my feet, and go elsewhere, perhaps writing a polite letter to the manager explaining why.
A while ago, I wanted petrol from a garage; a sign said I had to pay first (before filling up the car). The inference was I (or any other customer) was not to be trusted. I went elsewhere.
Remember, without customers, a business will go bust. If I get treated badly, I tell as many people as I can, so they won’t shop there either. Perhaps a letter to the local newspaper would help matters.
Adverse publicity in the press will hurt these businesses where it matters; in the pocket.