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KD5NRH wrote:

shootthesheet wrote:I had one once that had fallen off a package or something and stuck to the bottom of my shoe. I didn't find it until I took off my shoes.

It's a good thing nobody would ever do something like, I dunno...maybe smuggle a couple dozen active tags into Frys and leave them sticky-side-up on the floor in various places around the store.

I mean, that would be as bad as sprinkling gunpowder around parking lots that get dog-searched for guns.

...or sprinkling bong water on the canine handler's web gear...

Bong Water???

The other day a couple of fellow HD employees and I went to a community event at a Plano church and set up to entertain the kids, building little kits. On the way out we set off the alarm a bunch of times, and of course nobody paid any attention because we were HD employees doing things that looked like things we should be doing.

One of the things we took was a coupls of stacks of the orange 5 gallon "Homer" buckets and boy were we surprised when we started taking them apart at the church. Inside several of the buckets were pieces of merchandise with rf tags on them, some kind of expensive.

What we think was happening, after discussing the situation with "Loss Prevention" later in the day, is someone was pre-positioning merchandise to steal, inside a stack of buckets. The scenario presented was that the person secreting the items was doing so in an area that is not very well populated on a Saturday morning, counting on the buckets to be there for a while.

After some shopping, with a legitimate cart full of items, the last thing they would pick up would be a stack of buckets and then get into a crowded check out line and count on the cashier to not want to hold the line up by going through the buckets in the stack. When the person then set the alarm off, the head cashier would look for the signal from the cashier, and would either wave the person through, or if he was just moving on, would just ignore the alarm.

And out the door goes a couple of spare Lithium batteries, an electric screwdriver, and a few other things.

Of course a sharp cashier is supposed to: Check inside all containers; and observe if weights, sizes, and package markings don't match.

We set the alarm off coming back into the store.

I work at a Home Depot, and we are not allowed to "chase down" people stealing things, even if we absolutely positively see them doing it. I have taken pictures of a couple of them though.

We are also not supposed to carry firearms on company property. A while back I was told by another employee, who should have been in a position to know, that our Home Depot was not on property owned by HD, that the property was leased, and thus that person felt ok having a gun in the car. I have found out, since, that HD does own the property.

We get false alarms a lot at all of the entrances. There are multiple things that could cause falses, cell phones, other electronics, not just RFID tags, and we are taught to be observant so that we know the difference between someone absconding with something and a false.

A couple of weeks back I set the alarm off, so I walked back and forth shedding different things until the alarm stopped going off, it appeared to be my USB stick, but when I walked back through with it, and then with everything else, the alarm didn't go off again. Another time all I did was move my harmonica to a different pocket and the alarms stopped.

We have also been known to have a little fun with our coworkers by planting tags on them.