FSM HOME MESSAGE BOARD FSM CDs FSM ONLINE RESOURCES FUN STUFF ABOUT US  SEARCH FSM

LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: What sets off those store entry/exit alarms?   Last Post   Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 10:44 AM     By:   Adam.   (Member) Whenever I go to my local grocery store or Target store the "shoplifter" alarm beeps whether I'm coming in or going out. I'm not carrying any kind of electronic device such as a cell phone or Ipod/Walkman. Could it be car/house keys? The magnetic strip on my credit card? I tried asking the cashiers but no one seems to know. Are there any experts out there with an answer?    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 11:04 AM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) It could be something like that, but it could also be a product you bought and care carrying with you that has a small hidden strip inside it that you havent' found, that didn't get deactivated at the register. Some products have it hidden. You can sometimes, for example, open up the tray card jewel case section and find a strip hidden inside where you couldn't see it. It'd take anything that you have that you think is setting it off, and if you got a friend with you, have them hold all it, and pass through the detectors with one item at a time until you find the culprit. It's it's something you bought, see if they'll deal with it at a register.    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 11:33 AM     By:   mastadge   (Member) Do you carry books? Library books often have stickers in them somewhere that trigger those, and hardcovers and expensive bookstore books often have those plastic strips hidden somewhere under the dustjacket or in the middle of the book. . .    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 1:13 PM     By:   Paul Ettinger   (Member) I have had new footwear set off alarms. No one's interested when you are going INTO the store. And if the alarm is going off all the time, they aren't even that interested when you are leaving the store either.    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 1:22 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) Have you checked the nooks and crannies of your wallet for a security tag?    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 2:14 PM     By:   Yen Fai   (Member) Apparently some mid- to high-end clothing companies sew security tags right into the hem on some garments, and the employees are expected to deactivate the tag when you purchase it. Certainly they miss some from time to time. But if it's happening to you regularly, I'd agree; look at your wallet, footwear, jacket. Maybe ask a cashier to pass your belongings over their sensor deactivator for the heck of it. Where I work, we have customers who beep coming in, and the managers simply smile and wave them on as they beep at the exit. Yet it seems this would be an ideal tactic for a thief to to advantage of...    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 2:24 PM     By:   Adam.   (Member) Have you checked the nooks and crannies of your wallet for a security tag? Next week I will leave my wallet and credit card at home and carry cash in my pocket to see if that works. I'm within walking distance of three grocery outlets so I won't have a car key with me either. We will see.    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 2:38 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) My friend Natasha had exactly thr same problem and just couldn't work it out. Then it finally dawned on her; she had a car acciident age 17 and had to have a metsl rod inserted in her arm which is still there.    Posted:   Jan 20, 2013 - 2:41 PM     By:   Michael24   (Member) A couple times that it's happened to me, it's been because of something I had just purchased and hadn't had its security tag properly disabled. The store I was walking into was able to disable it for me so that it wouldn't happen at any other stores. One night when I was working at Blockbuster Video years ago, we couldn't figure out why the security alarm kept triggering whenever the manager walked through the exit area. After awhile, we discovered that he had accidentally stepped on a lose security strip, and it was stuck to the bottom of his shoe. Haha!    Posted:   Jun 21, 2015 - 2:28 PM     By:   Adam.   (Member) Have you checked the nooks and crannies of your wallet for a security tag? I did find a tiny microchip-like slip of paper in the hidden pocket of my wallet when I was looking through it. Since I removed it the store alarms have stopped ringing! I'll be darned.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2015 - 3:23 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Whenever I go to my local grocery store or Target store the "shoplifter" alarm beeps whether I'm coming in or going out. I'm not carrying any kind of electronic device such as a cell phone or Ipod/Walkman. Could it be car/house keys? The magnetic strip on my credit card? I tried asking the cashiers but no one seems to know. Are there any experts out there with an answer? It'll be those stolen goods in your poachers' pockets.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2015 - 3:53 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) Wrong-thinking.    Posted:   Jun 22, 2015 - 12:06 AM     By:   Disco Stu   (Member) Clothing has small often has white satchels with an RIFD in it. That very often sets of alarms. D.S.    Posted:   Jun 22, 2015 - 10:09 AM     By:   Chris Rimmer   (Member) I set off several alarms one day, after being searched and patted down several times, I confessed to being completely at a loss as to what was causing the problem. It wasn't until I arrived home, that my eldest son confessed to magnetizing the zip on the front of my leather jacket for a prank. Little ..........................    Posted:   Jun 22, 2015 - 10:35 AM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) Sometimes I think the stores just like to embarrass people and show everyone what the alarm sounds like, sort of like a deterrent. But when it happens to me I turn it back around on them. I freeze and put my hands up and turn around and say "okay, okay, you got me". LOL This usually makes cashiers and customers start laughing, but what's funny to me is that it makes my son cringe with embarrassment more than if it was only the alarm by itself. Ahhh... it's the little things. (For someone like me who still struggles with a pathalogical dread of being the center of attention, this is no small step forward.)     Non-Film Score Discussion: What sets off those store entry/exit alarms?    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

© 2024 Film Score Monthly. All Rights Reserved. Website maintained and powered by Veraprise and Matrimont.