Originally Posted by Gitangali

Thank you it's too late for me. I already signed the letter. when he asked for the ID this didnt occur to me, I thought he would just see the ID to be sure that i wasnt doing any giftcard fraud etc. When you are not aware of legal stuff before hand, you tend to give them what they ask, he was saying if I ddint sign, then they would call the cops and I wanted to avoid this rucks infront of the people and some of them may know you.

I took a picture of the letter, so isnt that an explanation? What more corporate is going to do? I called the Walmart 800 number and explained the situation, they werent much helpful other than the ban may last for a year or so etc.

Originally Posted by littlewinglet

Why would you ever sign something like that? You were never doing any of the offenses listed in that letter. Buying a GC with a valid form of payment is in no way enough to generate that kind of response. If that one store wants to ban you that's fine, but you shouldn't be committing to a ban from the whole chain.

Originally Posted by radonc1

IANAL but I think that WM can restrict anyone they want, as long as discrimination laws aren't violated.

If WM had my signature on such a document, I would not go into one, especially given the advances in facial recognition.
Getting arrested for trespassing would generate so much paperwork in my profession that WM is not worth it. Target is jiust next door.

Originally Posted by Gitangali

I live in a small town, I have talked to manager/ 2-3 assistant manager few times when the associate wont let me load or buy giftcards, this has been an issue started about a year ago, not before that. So I didnt want to take a chance that they dont have some recording or something. I just didnt want this to escalate knowing, they did tell me 5-6 times before to not buy giftcards and or load and I still kept doing it for lack of a hard warning thinking it would go away if I give it a break or dont do it a lot so it is not that visible. I thought if they call the cop and if they charge me with trespass then it is a big deal, hence wanted to get away with warning and then figure out what the options are.

I slowed down considerably at this store, was lately only buying gift card here and there and for load I was using a different walmart. I was buying my giftcards at drug stores but this was to come down like this today. the manger was saying we told you no at MC so now you are buying it at self checkout.

still, none of this amount to I signing up a paper but I just didnt know what the law is and was not prepared. The transaction at self check out failed, the manager came i thought he was going to cancel the transaction, asked for ID, I thought ok give him ID so he verifies and satisfied, instead after few minutes later handed me paper to sign.

I dont know if he saved the copy of DL, took a photo etc, I wasnt paying attention. I asked for copy for my record and he said we dont give a copy, I then said let me get a picture for my record which I did.

Originally Posted by malbik

Does anybody know what this has to do with air travel?

Originally Posted by littlewinglet

I'm no lawyer, but since you were not doing anything illegal, not disturbing the peace, exposing your weewee in public, etc. the cops probably can't arrest you simply on verbal hear-say from some yellow-vest that they supposedly told you buying GC is not allowed. That's like saying you're not allowed to buy eggs again, it's dumb.

You should have played dumb, said you never heard of them before, and left the store. This way you're banned in one place full of idiots, but can at least go to other WM.