Re cineworld : IS THIS LEGAL

I have never been searched in the cinema before and they cnat just say open yuor bag they cant do that in any retail store so why is a cinema different:confused:
 
about a year a go there was a huge thing in the news aobut drink spiking that all..... would a memeber of staff do something to someone water act of revenge of someone being awkward etc?:confused:
 
Surely that is the point though - you need to encourage these people to take an interest in what their customers think and are saying about them.

Perhaps you wouldn't care if you had heart disease and were constantly overlooked for an essential heart transplant? Would you give up on it after a fortnight because the NHS didn't give a s*it about you? Extreme analogy, but you get the point.
 
Well no, but you weren't strip searched in Cineworld either :) Perhaps if the staff member was good looking I'd not have minded if they did suggest it ..

(Sorry, just trying to inject a bit of humour into this far to serious thread)
 
The issue is with "legality". A company may impose whatever conditions they like on entry, but they may not be reasonable. And if they are not reasonable, they may not be legal.

This is one of the failings of UK law (albeit an understandable one). So many of the rights citizens have are there only if you are prepared to make a legal challenge - which is obviously difficult and potentially expensive.

Although I have previously suggested a position of non-confrontational ambivalence towarRAB CW's bye-laws, I would actually like to be challenged, just once, so I can run through the legal argument with respect to the UL card, just to see what position they take. (It may well be that right to refuse entry is already in the UL t&cs).

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So, anyone who is an UL card customer is also bound by a set of General Ts & Cs. I guess we need a copy of them...
 
Cineworld's customer services address is just down the road from me and their nearest Cineworld is a couple of miles away from their office address. So when I had a bad experience at that cinema (torn seats, some seats "out of service", terrible sound quality) I emailed them to point out that their local cinema wasn't very nice.

They didn't bother to reply.
 
It's good that they've replied (and so quickly, too). Pity it's a corporate "we're right, you're wrong" effort - I've seen an awful lot of those.

It might be interesting (whilst you've got their attention) to go back with some queries about what food & drink items, specificially, do they feel obliged to confiscate.

As a suggestion, you could ask about:-
  • Plain water (in the human rights context)
  • Healthy options (in the context that most of their food/drink is of very poor nutritional value)
  • People with allergies and other medical neeRAB (e.g. diabetics)
 
I agree wholeheartedly, i think cinemas should have retina scans, fingerprint checks, DNA testing and electronic tagging systems as well as routine blood tests, bag checks and walk-through metal detectors after you buy your ticket.

If you refuse to comply, then you are then detained in an interrogation room and questioned underneath a bright hot flashlamp by people wearing voice changer helmets and black robes with Cineworld emblazoned across them.

And if you still refuse to comply, you are subjected to hours of white noise.

Or endless Rob Schneider movies.
 
I remember a few years back going to the Odeon LSq to see a film with a group of frienRAB. We grabbed a burger before but were running late so took our unfinnished meals in with us. The staff stopped us and asked us not to bring any food in with us but one of the group who 'knew his rights' argued the toss and the staff conceded that we could keep the drink but had to leave the food. I have no idea if this is a legitimate civil right or just the staff being intimidated by a large group of people and getting half a victory. It was obvious none of us were going to buy their food or drink so keeping the ticket receipts was better than having to refund us all. I go the cinema these days almost always at lunchtime and usually take in food in a semi-clandestine manner. I would object to be stopped and searched and if this started happening I would just make sure I eat before I go.

Would people pay a bit more on their ticket price to be able to take in their own food / drink? Would have thought that would be a better way for cinemas to deal with the problem.
 
In my experience, they will refund for a wide variety of reasons. Even as an Unlimited card holder, I've previously insisted in getting a free ticket for someone else, when I've had need to complain to cinema management.

Of course, they prefer not to. My local cinema has started asking people if they are aware that a film is subtitled before printing the tickets, as I guess they've had lots of refunRAB for this reason in the past.
 
Ok, two quotes from you, both making the point that a cinema is not there for eating and drinking. Their business is films. They are not there to be making money out of snacks. It is not their purpose of business.

Like I said, if you went on to read the extrapolation of the sentance (immediately after it in the brackets), along with the rest of the post, it would make sense.

You claim that you are "allowed" to eat in a cinema, but it is not what the place is there for. If it is a place for watching films, you have no intrinsic right to eat on their property. Ergo, it is not a place to eat and drink - only a place where the owners have a right to let you, if they want.

(Note, I'm hoping you have made it down this far in the post. Without getting this far, I can well imagine how the posts I have quoted will be used to prove my first paragraph wrong. If only I could explain a detailed point in only one sentance!)

Now I just hope I don't need to explain the contents of the rest of the post where you cut off everything but the last paragraph. Those being the bits explaining why food and drink are a part of a cinema's business. Not that you even answered the paragraph you quoted; you just said it was ridiculous.

Why am I bothering? Calling me ridiculous isn't countering my posts anyway!
 
Thankyou that what I have been saying. there is no sign of search merely dont bring your own food or drink.

I must have a point they have made no effort to get back to me and they promised they would today:confused: it getting a bit late in the day.
 
They would have to be a very odd individual to have something suitable on them to spike a drink in the first place.

You could argue that spiking a drink doesn't just mean date rape and they could put cleaning chemicals or something in there, but you would notice something like that because of the colour it would turn the water, or more obviously the smell.
 
When looking in bags, the staff are either looking for:

A) Bombs.

B) Camcorders for bit torrents.

All in all, why would you go into a cinema with a bag? It's like going to a nightclub with your weekly shopping. :D
 
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