Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[DRM]

One that hasn't been answered since first asked in 1961,
Who put the bomp in the bop she bop she bop, and was the same person responsible for putting the ram in the ram a lang a ding dong? will we ever find out, 64 years and we still don't know!

 

[Chris S]

Do American supermarkets really have somebody to check your receipt when you walk out?

 

[AndyRM]

Do American supermarkets really have somebody to check your receipt when you walk out?

No.

You may be thinking of places like Costco? They do that in their UK warehouses too, it's part of their T&C's

 

[AndyRM]

One that hasn't been answered since first asked in 1961,
Who put the bomp in the bop she bop she bop, and was the same person responsible for putting the ram in the ram a lang a ding dong? will we ever find out, 64 years and we still don't know!

Frankie Lymon.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Do American supermarkets really have somebody to check your receipt when you walk out?

From what I have seen it varies depending on where you are
The USA is a rather big place - which we tend to forget!

I don;t think it would work here - we have very firm privacy laws and tend to get rather awkward


I remember during Covid was went shopping on my bike and so had all my stuff in my backpack
the Self Scan thing came up with a check
so I waited for someone to come over
it turned out to be someone I used to work with when I was a teacher (she was a TA and gets more working on the ills in Tesco!!!)
I took some things out of my backpack for her to check and she said "OK"
"funny thing - I am not allowed to check your backpack as it is a closed bag!!"


also makes to laugh when we go to the cinema
if I have a backpack they want to check it
but my wife can wander in with her handbag - which is nearly as big as my backpack - and they cannot ask to check it
so we put the drinks and sweats in that!

 

[Electric_Andy]

my wife can wander in with her handbag - which is nearly as big as my backpack - and they cannot ask to check it
so we put the drinks and sweats in that!

I used to think, like many others, that you were not allowed to bring your own food or drink into a cinema. Well, it's generally not true. Most let you do this as long as it's not a curry, or steaming sardines. A bit like buses (a driver told a passenger once that sandwiches is fine but hot food like his £7 burger was not allowed due to the smell).

I don't know how they'd react if you walked in holding a bottle of vodka or a crate of beers though, I have no desire to find out. But I have seen posts on social media about people getting pizzas delivered to the cinema and taking it in. Whether that was true or not, I don't know. It's one of those things; they don't advertise the fact because they want you to spend a fortune on their overpriced sweets. But they also don't want to put up signs and state their T&Cs because they either don't want to enforce it or they don't want to put people off with strict rules.

Having said that, you can buy popcorn, hotdogs, chilli nachos etc which are all hot and all smell ??

 

[matticus]

Glastonbury allows your own food and drink in (I don't know if they enforce a limit - perhaps it's just all you can carry, as folks are there for nearly a week!):
... but many 1 day festivals do not. I had a barney with 1 organiser as they buried it in the small print.

Both events have food+drink retail opportunities inside. Weird.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Glastonbury allows your own food and drink in (I don't know if they enforce a limit - perhaps it's just all you can carry, as folks are there for nearly a week!):
... but many 1 day festivals do not. I had a barney with 1 organiser as they buried it in the small print.

Both events have food+drink retail opportunities inside. Weird.

I have seen things showing people going in with trailers full of food and drink along with their camping stuff
seemed to be accepted OK

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Do American supermarkets really have somebody to check your receipt when you walk out?

I needed to use a receipt to get out of Aldi (used self service) the other week, so much for encouraging you not to needlessly use paper, has made me think twice about using that store again.

 

[DRM]

Frankie Lymon.

He asked the question, but we still don't know who the perpetrator was, perhaps it was the notorious "Brill Building Gang"

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I needed to use a receipt to get out of Aldi (used self service) the other week, so much for encouraging you not to needlessly use paper, has made me think twice about using that store again.

The supermarkets do sometime have a reason to stop people if they think they need to

and they often ask for a receipt if this happens

last time it happened to me, I told them that I had used the self scanning thing that you carry round with you
and when it asked if I wanted a receipt, I clicked "no"
which I always do anyway

apparently they can go to the machine you used and check
but at the time I was not even sure which one I had used
so he just let me go

very seldom happens - don;t even think it has happened this year!

 

[Alex321]

I needed to use a receipt to get out of Aldi (used self service) the other week, so much for encouraging you not to needlessly use paper, has made me think twice about using that store again.

You needed a receipt in the Aldi in Cologne when I was there last year, but you could get it on your phone, to be scanned.

 

[Electric_Andy]

In Spain last year, in Aldi, you had to scan your receipt to get out of the exit barriers. I thought that was weird.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Most of which suggests that the supermarkets think we are either
a) more trustworthy
or
b) more likely to kick off is we are challenged

(or possibly the law limits what they can legally do)

 

[DaveReading]

Do American supermarkets really have somebody to check your receipt when you walk out?

IME (Texas), yes they do.