Welcome to our store! . . . sort of . . .

Customers of this Dollar Tree store in St. Louis are greeted with the following signs located on the main entry door:

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Here’s how I interpret the above:  Welcome, honored guests, but it you rip us off, we’ll throw your ass in the slammer before you can even utter “Merry Christmas.”

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Brynn Jacobs

    Reminds me of the practice in certain stores to check your receipt as you are leaving the store. The stores say it's to ensure that you got everything you paid for, and that you paid the correct price. Customers realize it's to make sure that you paid for everything in your cart. Regardless, it's the same mentality that you point out. Expect more of this type of thinly veiled threats– shoplifting appears to be up some 8% in North America as a result of the recession.

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