It kind of amazes me how clueless some people are about how some things work.I remember thinking that when I was younger haha.
Some people think that the scanner when you are ringing up items, also deactivates the alarm thing. They also seem to think it's on every item.
I've had several people make comments like "please scan our case of water. Don't need the alarm going off."
Just one example I'm thinking of right now.
It's kinda crazy that companies don't have better tech solutions to fight theft. Would save so much money to have RFID tags in everything. Heck my local library even does this!
All the books are just normal books but the barcodes double as RFID tags. After scanning your library card at the self checkout machine, you just set the whole stack of books/movies down on the "table" and they're all checked out just like that.
If a store wanted to go all in on this, they could cheaply position scanners throughout the whole building and track every single item in real time. The computer would alert a human if a tracker drops off the grid or is picked up at the exit. Easy peasy.
