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Is a worker allowed to do this to us? (Happend multiple times)?
At shopers a friend and i went in at lunch to look around, and maybe get something. (Were in highschool.. gr.10)
And we went upstairs and i noticed a worker following us around from the first few seconds we were up there, and i pointed it out. so we blatently said "Stop following us, were not gonna steal anyhing". and the lady pretended like she didnt hear and kept following us. so my friend and i goofed around with the fact. we went oppostie directions, or hid out.
15min passed of her following us, and us just looking around and she said that we "need to get out" but we werent doing anything wrong. she said we were "wasting her time" when she was the one following us around. and that we were being "suspicous" cause we came in as a "group" when it was just the two of us and we were looking around. we argued that fact we werent doing anything wrong, we even said they could check us. but she kept saying "You guys need to leave now."
so we eventually did.
Did she have the right to do this when we werent doing anything wrong? we were just looking around..
What can we argue to her next time?
Its like saying if i went in with my mom and looked around it be "suspicous". she had no legitiment reasoning.
5 Answers
- B. Milhous ObamaLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Perfectly legal, especially since you were acting highly suspicious...sorry...you were. Security has every tight to follow people around. If you don't like it, leave. A store can also ask you to leave if for proper reasons, and this looks proper.
- JamesLv 61 decade ago
The shoppers location you went to, probably has a serious history of shoplifters, so they hired extra security. The girl that "followed you" was an undercover security officer, it's her job to walk around the store and check around for people stealing, she wasnt wearing a uniform because she wants to catch people in the act. You deliberetly went into a BUSINESS and played childish games with an employee, it's considered tresspassing, and yes she had the right to evict you. However the worker was in the wrong about one thing: she stereotyped you/your friends, she automatically assumed that just because a group of you came in, that meant you were going to shoplift. You are allowed to go in and "window shop", thats your right, but it's also her right/responsibility to make sure that nobody shop lifts either. Now if you walk in there and she tells you to leave, then you would have a case. If she tells you to leave, tell her "were not doing anything wrong, we are just here to do some shopping, please leave us alone, if you don't we'll report you to your manager".
- LiddelLv 71 decade ago
The store has every right to follow you around and can ask, or demand, that you leave.
A significant amount of shoplifting is done by teens. They can protect themselves from a perceived threat.
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- 1 decade ago
I understand why that offended you, but I think that the worker is allowed to do that, legally. I'm not completely sure, but I think that a shop owner can refuse service to anyone, as long as they aren't targeting a specific racial, ethnic, or religious group.
For example, many landlords refuse to rent to students. I think that's extremely discriminatory (age-based discrimination), but I also think it's legal.
Sorry!
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