Black Shoppers sue $400 Million for being asked to show receipt

They obviously don't want to grow up.

 

they ask everyone to show their receipt. i dont mean to trivialize their complaints cuz i'm sure theres racism involved a bit, but far as I know, anyone is subject to receipt checks specially if the store is in a high crime area or they've had a stroing of recent shoplifters.

 

I'm filing a lawsuit on BestBUy. They always have someone checking my receipts @ the exit

 

Got a link to the article?

 

I have to show my receipt every time I walk out of Fry's.

 

sue is becoming more popular then ............

 

Sue 'em.

 

Yeah, Fry's, Best Buy, Sam's Club and sometimes wal-mart...WTF...

 

N***** Please!!!

"R" is for RACIST!!!!

 

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug!"

 

They need to be shot in the face.







Not only is the lawsuit frivolous and hopefully gets laughed out of court..........................







HOW IN THE HELL IS 400 MILLION JUSTIFIED BY THIS LOWLIFE?










Show em the receipt. How hard is that?

Even if it was racism, there will always be racism, always. Profiling is crime prevention.

 

I guess $100 million just wasn't enough.

 

I'm black and when I was at U of H, I was buying something at the 24 hour snack shop when a campus cop walked in. I was in the back row and I had a big trenchcoat on with some big pockets, and I already had grabbed a couple of things and was holding them to my side, near my big pockets, when the cop walked into my row, caught my eye and kind of squinted. Then a little bit later, when I walked to the counter, I saw the cop kind of dart out to the left of the counter, near the store's entrance. Also, anytime I ran into that reasonably attractive female cop on campus, she gave me the squinty-eyes.

From that day on, any time I'm in a convenience store I never hold any merchandise down on my side, I hold it up in the air, like a microphone or something. Better r****ded-looking than suspicious, I guess.

Also, any time there's a cop anywhere, I take the initiative to make eye contact and say hi. And anytime anyone asks for anything, they get full compliance, with a big old Bojangles grin.

There was another time I had just walked out of the library, when a campus cop loudly summoned me, asked for my ID, then his partner asked if I saw a black kid on the second floor with a black backpack, black jeans and "old-timey" clothes in the library "Other than me? no.."

Then there were the two polite and amusing spot ID checks. Campus cop would ask to see my ID, I would say student ID or driver's license, he'd say either one, then I'd give him my driver's license and then Kojak would ask me if I went to school there. Yeah...would you like to see my student ID?

Were I an honors student at Rice I might have been offended, but a stone's throw away from Scott Street, dressed like a tired, grumpy hobo, at the alma mater of Wig Shop Killer, I can probably understand their actions. Some of those campus crime reports were terrifying.

$400 million, embarassing. Their neuroses and stupidity is being exploited by some ambitious, scrupulous and (hopefully) non-black lawyer.

 

I remember someone challenged Fry's on their policy, and the company was forced to admit that, unless they have probable cause to suspect that you are shoplifting, they have no legal right to stop you at the door and check your receipt. You are fully within your rights to tell them "No" and walk away.

What this means is that, unless the store had probable cause to suspect these particular women were shoplifting (and being black doesn't count as probable cause), they're lawsuit might have merit.

 

I'm gonna sue Wal-mart, the old peeps at the exit always be checking the receipts from the youngin'!

 

If it's a class action, doesn't that mean that everyone in the class gets a piece of the settlement? Like all black people on Earth? Yeah, the lawsuit is stupid, but if they're suing on behalf of all blacks, then all blacks should benefit, not just them.

 

Am i missing something here or did you and the rest of the people saying this just not read the whole article.

I think the main point here is:

"The lawsuit said black shoppers are subjected to compulsory inspection of their sales receipts while white shoppers are not."

While i think the lawsuit is way over the top if the statement above is true then they have a valid beef with Toys.

 

Yeah with a class action it's suing in behalf of the class and anyone in that defined class who agrees to be part of the suit would get a share of any damages that may be awarded. I have no idea how the class would be defined but I speculate that it's anyone that is African American that shopped at that particular store during a set time period.