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PTravel
You might want to look as well:
"A merchant may detain a person for a reasonable time for the purpose of conducting an investigation in a reasonable manner whenever the merchant has probable cause to believe the person to be detained is attempting to unlawfully take or has unlawfully taken merchandise from the merchant’s premises."
Probable cause required. It is not probable cause to say, "the person is leaving the store with a bag, so I'm going to detain the person and search the bag."
I've taken to refusing even requests for receipts. I find that that most stores don't employee enough employees to help customers. However they make sure to employ them to harass them as you leave.
OT, I flew PVG-LAX in IFC recently. Was given the Bose after takeoff. Later in flight went and asked the FA in J galley (none up front) for a power adapter. Happily was given one. Amount 1 before landing they came around and asked for headsets. Amount 20 minutes before landing I'm packing up laptop, etc and unplug the power and adapter. I then hand it to the purser who happened to be right by me. See looked at me shocked. In a very accusatory tone asked "where did you get this" like I had gone and taken it out myself. I point out I went and asked the FA for one and he gave it to me. She then proceeded to go find that FA and give him a major chewing out. Apparently he never marked it down and had forgotten giving it to me and purser had filled out paperwork for the loss.