I can guarantee you 5x the worth of those goods he was carrying was already stolen that day. 

If he used self-checkout, it would be entirely possible for him, or anyone else, to have stolen something.

I have no issue with presenting my receipt, in fact, I offer it to the person at the door as a courtesy, sometimes they look at it, sometimes they don't.  If you've ever been a retailer, as I have, you'll know that shoplifting is a serious problem, and you will have people who just saunter out the door with items.  There are some people who view it almost as an entitlement.

true, I don't mind giving a receipt for a gaggle of goods. But I rarely go to Walley-world, anyway.

I went to Walmart on Saturday afternoon, had to offer it up. I find receipt checking intrusive and offensive. They assume I’m a thief. 
It has become an exercise in futility. While the security guy was checking to make sure I paid for the two gallons of white vinegar, four bags of cat litter, and value pack of Little Friskies, (chicken chunks with extra gravy), ten others could have disappeared into the parking lot with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise.  

I went to Walmart on Saturday afternoon, had to offer it up. I find receipt checking intrusive and offensive. They assume I’m a thief.
It has become an exercise in futility. While the security guy was checking to make sure I paid for the two gallons of white vinegar, four bags of cat litter, and value pack of Little Friskies, (chicken chunks with extra gravy), ten others could have disappeared into the parking lot with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise. 

A retailer always has to assume that a customer is a potential thief.  That said, some people "telegraph" this more by their furtiveness and peculiar behavior than do others.  But if you don't treat everyone alike, well, that grinds some people's gears.  (Or even if you do.  Damned if you do, damned if you don't.)

And some customers, even those without criminal intent, are just itching for a confrontation, so that they can make some kind of statement, and paint you, the shopkeeper, as the bad guy, and possibly even further some kind of agenda they've got, or cater to some kind of entitlement on their part.

I've been a retail manager.  I know.

Like I said, I'll show a receipt. It's somewhat annoying, but I offer it up.

You "muh merican rights" bros need to chill and have some humility.

In France or Japan, they wouldn't put up with people defying them for a hot minute.  They don't play that.

Like I said, I'll show a receipt. It's somewhat annoying, but I offer it up.

You "muh merican rights" bros need to chill and have some humility.

They just put uniformed security guards at my local grocery store - not wallyworld. It would be the more "upscale" store in my town, wallyworld being the more "rustic." Of course, it being a podunk small town in a quasi rural area, even the upscale place is not a yuppie mecca.

Anyway, the first day a little line formed while the guard was checking receipts. The woman in front of me, white and middle class, cussed him out when it was her turn. I asked him what he was doing there, but I did call him "Sir." LOL!  

Next time it was a real nice guy. He did not even bother checking my receipt. I asked him if he had been cussed out, and he said no. He did say that other guards had been cussed out. I told my uncle that I had been "profiled" at the grocery store. The guard saw an upstanding, gray haired lady and figured I paid for my stuff. LOL!!

The other day the first guy was there. He was standing right where he could see me check out my three items. The store was empty, and he would not have been distracted. But he made me open my bags and demanded the receipt. He was being deliberate in power tripping me. I say he has well earned his cuss outs. 

What galls me is that this charade will not cut down on even one stolen candy bar. Nor will it change the ubiquitous corporate policies that tell employees not to confront or flag shoplifters, even when they see them do it with their two eyes. They won't even call the cops. 

Those who pay get shaken down at the door. Those who lift get the red carpet. Just another day in the in-verse.

Like I said, I'll show a receipt. It's somewhat annoying, but I offer it up.

You "muh merican rights" bros need to chill and have some humility.

Companies have a right to read your receipt.  It's public knowledge anyway, (i.e. public between you and them).  It's a contract of sorts.  You purchased x, y and z and they charged you $.  There's no right to privacy.  It's a transaction.  Has nothing to do with govt/rights.