Legal Question in Consumer Law in Texas

harrassment by store personnel

I was shopping at a discount store. I paid for the plant I purchased, left the building, and proceeded to my car. I had just loaded the plant into my car and was shutting the door when this lady employee came running up to my car and demanded to see my receipt NOW! I had the receipt in my wallet but was shocked and angry at the way she was screaming at me and demanding that she did not see me pay for the plant. I was shocked and angry. As I went into my wallet to retrieve the receipt she began calling me a shoplifter. I told her she was crazy, and I left the parking lot very shaken. I was totally pissed at that point, and left without showing her my receipt. My question is, do store employees have a right to accost an innocent person at their vehicle in a store parking lot and accuse them of shoplifting? Do I perhaps have legal recourse towards the store in question? This lady was a shrew, and crazy to boot. Please let me know, I am angry. This seems above the stores rights to accost people at their car. Thank you

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