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> Worst case you get banned.

I would much rather stop for 30 seconds than be banned from my local grocery store.

They're not going to ban you for saying no. This is pretty well settled stuff.

I used to say no all the time at frys and never once did they say anything.

I understand I can say no but this is the only Walmart in my routine that isn’t a super center (it’s a “neighborhood market”) so I don’t yet want to get banned from there. I am planning to start shopping at somewhere besides Walmart in the near future though.

If you think about what they are doing, they are searching your personal belonging. That bag is yours. Do you want to give money to a store that thinks it reasonable to randomly search customers?

I just hand them the receipt and keep walking. Nobody’s ever said a word about it.

> Worst case you get banned

Worst case is they call the local PD who are having a bad day and want to point a gun at a black man