I’ve worked in retail, and… That’s not an actual RFID alarm sticker, and it’s not just there for the potential theives.
Some manufacturers will actually put an RFID tag on the inside of the box. These tags work exactly like the RFID stickers, and they’re deactivated the same way (usually a magnet underneath the store’s counter).
This sticker is actually a “chip away” anti-theft sticker. They frequently go on the same products that get RFID stickers, but all they do is tear apart instead of peeling off. They’re mostly an internal tool for LP to try to link thefts and fraudulent returns (that number is the store number that it came from). This one just happens to conveniently have “ALARM” printed on it as a secondary feature, letting thieves know that the item will set off the alarm without showing where the RFID tag is.
Edit: I should probably add that they also put them on high-theft non-alarmed items, but they probably didn’t get separate sets of stickers.
The items I bought didn’t have those. I never removed the items from the cart so no way for me to have them deactivate. Literally had one on a 2lter of DP.
It surprises me that the tags are deactivated instead of read by a reader and registered in a database as “sold” and the alarm system checks that database whenever it reads a tag. That way it would be impossible for thieves to just deactivate the tag with their own magnet.
To be fair, these are significantly better than the tags an employee has it remove with some tool.
Shhhhh.
Normally these things are intended for inside packaging. Clearly this is just a failure
The thing that triggers the alarm is flat and often applied as sticker. Most likely the bold design is meant to alert the cashier to deactivate it. But if you’re suggesting that you can just keep walking after the alarm goes off, I think your chances are good, unless like all the Walmarts near me, there is a police officer in the exit lobby.
Look close, they’re some kind of hired security guard dressed up to look like police. They’re not real police… which probably won’t stop them from acting like they are.
We have a cardboard cutout police officer in the lobby of some shops.
Every Walmart I “visit” has a city cop parked outside at all times
That’s fine until there is an employee aiding an outside thief.
There nothing I never took the items from the cart so they didn’t get scan over to deactivate some alarm thing. It just a fucking sticker. They placed this one in worst spot ever. An asshole did this.
Hey, can you include OC on the title? Thanks.
What if the person who took the photo really doesn’t care.
Why do I need to say OC?
Pretty sure that if those stickers weren’t deactivated at the register you’d get a surprise whenever you tried to leave 🤷
No it’s just a sticker. I didn’t get it deactivated. To do that you have to run it over the magnet thing. I didn’t do that. Never removed the items from the cart.
At self check out you can just scan the items right inside the cart.
Also they had these stickers on everything. As if they went sticker happy. There fake. I got one off the Dr Pepper it is just a sticker no hidden alarm thingys.
Can’t one just peel them off?
Yes you can one on a 2 liter Dr Pepper I bought just kinda fell off. It just a sticker no alarm nothing.
Just curious- what is the deactivation mechanism? Would a strong magnet do it?
Nothing to deactivate. I scan the items in the cart with a wand so if they had some alarm it should of gone off.
