I do it all the time. I've only had one person try and stop me.

Honestly lol. They usually hire to do receipt checks. Also, most of the security staff that watches the cameras usually go home after 5 PM, at least when I worked there.

I researched this a long time ago, and I found one case where someone walked past the receipt checker and kept walking when they told them to stop. Security grabbed them and held them until the police came and figured out they didn't steal anything. They sued for false arrest, arguing that under that states shopkeeper privilege statute, the store needs some suspicion that you stole before stopping you. The judge dismissed the suit, reasoning that not wanting to show your receipt was sufficient suspicion of theft.

Not all states have the same shopkeepers privilege, and the not all judges would use that bs reasoning, but it's not worth the hassle to me to ignore them anymore. Plus I don't want to hassle the person checking receipts. They're usually people who, if they lived in a fair society, would be retired.