11 Jun
2003
11 Jun
'03
5:25 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Wayne M. Smith wrote:
I don't see it that way. They check everyone so that they'll
necessarily sweep in the crooks and would be crooks. Whether it's
effective is a separate question.
Well, at least you concede it's logic. 8-) My
point was
that to read
an insinuation into it you would have to believe,
in a somewhat
paranoid way, that they think everyone might be stealing from them.
Yes, I do believe that, otherwise why would they employ the
practice? The fact is, they check everyone's receipt because
they don't trust their customers. It's not my paranoia, it's theirs.
If you want to
talk about long lines, waits and delays, how
about the
DMV?
You know, in California, there's a law in the Vehicle Code
that says that no patron of the DMV shall have to wait in
line more than something like 4 minutes. It doesn't lay out
what the repercussions are if you are made to wait longer
than that time, but I haven't had a chance to test it out yet.