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John Emmons wrote:
I find that very hard to believe.

You, sir, "don't know what you don't know."

Once I pay for something, I own the
property. No one has the legal right to search my belongings without
reasonable suspicion that I've done something illegal. If the police can't
do it, I doubt very seriously that a drone working for WalMart or Home Depot
can.

You are, quite simply, _wrong_.

There is *lots* of case-law on that point.

When I say that they "can't" obviously if they're willing to make it into a
physical confrontation they can, but not legally and certainly not without
my sueing them and winning and possibly filing criminal charges against them
for battery.

"one thousand percent" wrong.

Stores and their employee's don't enjoy any more legal rights to search or
detain citizens than any other business.

*IF* they have notice prominently posted where you see it upon _entry_ to the
store, they _do_ have the *legal*right* to do so.

They have made it a condition of entry onto the premises -- their _private_
_property_ -- and you have *agreed* to that condition by entering the
premises.

The stores that have gotten "in trouble" over the matter have had trouble
_because_ of 'defects' in the posted notice. e.g. 'not sufficiently visible'.