you can hide some items in material which prevents the scanners from reaching the barcode
or sometimes you can lift the item over your head as you walk past the scanners and they won't detect the items.
1) People rip off or remove the censor
2) The alarm goes off and people ignore it and keep walking
3) Some stores do not have censors
4) Some censors are de-sensitized when someone goes to buy it, but can end up back on the floor
5) In returns store associates sometimes forget to put censors back on the clothing.
Additionally, while an associate may see someone acting suspicious or stealing, or can check the censors on their items against their receipt, they can not actually accuse a customer of stealing. This can lead to a law suit. The best they can do is call mall security (if available), and hope the security catches them.
Also - in case you didn't know - the majority of retail theft is committed by store associates, not customers.
Thousands of little shops all over the world don't have much protection at all against shoplifters because it costs extra money and lots of shops don't need it
They have little magnetic strips on items that when they go through the sensor it sets the alarm off.
Plus even with the alarms there is nothing stopping you from running? :L
I work at a store and shoplifters come in there and use a knife or box cutter,and cut the plastic off of CD'S,and DVD's and take the disk out leaving the container it came in with the alarm.Some people even put bags in their purses to steal stuff out of the meat department,like packs of steak and seafood,and walk out of the store with it in their purse! They will try anything.
i have never felt the need to shoplift,but now you mention I suppose it would be an idea to cut off the sensor if that was possible. Sometimes its not possible. because of the nature of the product.
Barcodes have nothing to do with it. It's that little plastic tag thingie...and not everyone uses those.
my friends rip off the tags of clothes, go in the dressing rooms, put the stolen clothes on under their actual clothes and keep walking.
I just saw a news headline about shoplifting. I was wondering how it happens because wouldn't the alarm go off because of the barcode?
