If by bag you mean back pack, it's to help prevent you from accidentally filling it with merchandise that you later accidentally forget to pay for.
Strange policy
They allow backpacks and purses now ,before covid they had lockers so that people could not steal ,a lot of homeless pple carry backpacks and steal then leave .it has nothing to do with homophobia .
Welcome to trans/ homophobia in America! However, this Walmart is a den of shoplifting thievery and dirty dealings. You're lucky another trans person didn't try to steal your purse! Depending on it's manufacturers, I might have! Kisses misses! đź’‹
I was at the Parleys store a week ago and got attacked walking in the front door with my $600 Louis Vuitton purse. The guy freaked out on me told me to put it in the locker or I can shop there. I refused. I said they could look in my bag when I arrived and look in my bag when I left and that’s what they did also I kind of made a scene and a lady walking out help her purse up if she was walking out the door to show me he had the exact same one and was allowed to carry it in telling me how horrible it was they treated me that way and how ridiculous it was and how no one said a word to her. If you’re going to do it to one you should do it to everyone Otherwise it seems like discrimination and profiling to me. I think I’ll Walmart in general just all-around suck. They are definitely not customer oriented in anyway shape or form. I also would like to know if they could be held responsible for my purse been in their locker if something were to happen to it?
I agree. I can't tell you how many Walmarts I used to go to in California and never saw such a requirement until moving to the holier state of Utah.
They do not allow any type of backpack in the store. You may leave it in a locked locker though.
Why do they sell men's pants, shorts that you can't carry a quarter in them without it falling out. Your phone is garentied to fall out of them and break. And still we are harassed at the door. But the sale three product to us that makes it so we cannot Cary things in our pockets either
I think it is because women's purses are already full and it would be hard to put anything else in it not imposible and a man carries a backpack and its easier to put stuff in it but a woman who has a backpack has to check it in to
In its face, the policy seems peculiar, but I think they have such a huge problem with theft at that location, that they've taken all kinds of measures to cut down on crime. Mens clothing has pockets, while women's clothing tends not to, so the purse is the replacement pocket. I really dislike this Wal-Mart, and rarely go anymore because it is uncomfortable to be treated with such suspicion, however I can empathize a little. So much crime, and considering they could just shut down and leave a vacuum in the community where they are needed, well, I don't know what the solution is.
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