Apple Store employees don't like being treated like criminals

Most of their products are connected to the internet in some way, right? You'd think they would have the SN of all devices at a retail location in the system, all the SN of devices sold that day or during that shift.

Wouldn't it be easier to just look at SN registered against inventory to see if something is registered but a sale hasn't been recorded yet?

Then you know the store and could have their retail loss prevention look into it. Seems more systematic than a "bag check". They don't check customer bags right? For example in a mall location.

I don't know what's happened to this particular suit but it is going nowhere:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-co...

Regardless of public goodwill, retail is retail.

The only ambition you should have in retail is to get out of it as soon as you're able.

Worked there for a few months while in grad school. Never had my bad checked.

Can you give more details? What year? This could be more recent.

I worked in several Apple Stores in the UK and US, probably 6+ years ago now, and our bags were checked then.