I bought a new edger at Home Depot. They didn’t demagnetize it correctly, and it went off as I was leaving. This was my only item. The door was right in front of the cashier, so I kept walking. I figured she remembered I had just bought it from her six second ago.
No. She called me back. The manager, who had seen the entire thing, beckoned me over. He took the edger and demagnetized it. Then I left.
How did this help anyone? The point of the security system is to let them know when I’ve taken something without paying. But both of them saw me take it and both of them know I paid for it. How did demagnetizing it help anyone?
Did you just admit to being a klepto? Is this a cry for help?
Damnnit. That kinda makes sense.
Although, coincidentally, I have more than once walked out with something in my pocket and the alarm hasn’t sounded. They need shopping baskets there. Not buckets or carts, baskets.
Because neither of them were watching you the entire time you were in the store. You could have put a box of drill bits in your pocket, and then proceeded to pay for the edger. If they demagnetized the edger, but you STILL set off the alarm, then they would know you had jacked something else.