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In England you can't search people just because you want to.
by DanBC 7y ago
In England you can't search people just because you want to.
- alkonaut 7y agoIt’s not a search of a person’s things after leaving the checkout. It’s a manual audit taking place with a random probability. You aren’t being “searched” because the transaction isn’t completed yet. In the traditional checkout people are asksed to put their not yet purchased items on a conveyor too. I’m sure you agree that’s not “searching” them. Note: in most places such as grocery stores, customers scan items while picking them using a handheld scanner while putting things in their cart. Then you just pay for the total at the checkout, at which point the register could randomly decide to give you an audit. If you don’t agree to ever being subjected to that, your only choice is to use traditional checkout. In other places (perhaps most notably IKEA) items are self-scanned at checkout time.