Barb's Electronic Alarms Rant (was: Walmart/shoplifting)

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
> Every time I'm in a store with those doorway alarms, I hear the 
> alarm go off and nobody in the stores pays any attention; the 
> customer who set it off almost always just keeps going.  Is this 
> alarm ignored because of a high rate of false alarms, or because 
> the store's understaffed, or what?!

<rant>
I never seem to be able to get a clerk who knows how to properly 
disarm the electronic tags on the merchandise that sets off the 
alarms.  If I buy a video for my kids at the drugstore, every time, 
when I'm leaving, the alarm goes off.  I just keep moving, and no 
one in the store cares; I think the clerks know they'd have to admit 
to their boss they don't know what they're doing.

The only time I make a fuss about it is if I'm in the mall and I'm 
planning to go into more stores.  It used to be that if I was 
leaving and the merchandise for which I'd paid set off the alarm, 
the clerk or manager, knowing I was all paid up, would just wave me 
through and say it didn't matter.  I started objecting to this and I 
now insist that they do whatever is necessary to get the thing 
deactivated because if it isn't, alarms start going off when I'm 
walking INTO subsequent stores!  That's nice, really nice; makes me 
look like I'm letting them know a shoplifter has just entered their 
establishment!  Why can't these managers train their clerks to 
deactivate these devices effectively?
</rant>

--Barb

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