Walmart workers! Beware of.....

[ExArtShopSlave]

My husband's coat!

It likes to set off your security alarms! lol

(Mods, if this is in the wrong spot, feel free to move it).

For the past two visits of our local Wally World, he'll cause the alarm to go off when we enter the store and when we leave! Hubby never minds when the greeters ask him for his receipt and to check his coat. Everyone involved always laughs when it happens.

He's had that coat for two years and this has never happened before! LOL

ExArtShopSlave

[TheSHAD0W]

Next time you go, ask 'em to run his coat over the checkout. If there's a security tag hiding in the lining, that will deactivate it.

[Kogarashi]

Way back when I was a cashier during college, we had a few customers who would regularly set off the alarms even when they came in. We discovered the common link: they all had the same type of shoes from JC Penney, and the left shoe of the pair had some sort of metal something-or-other in the sole that set off the alarms every time. We even tried running the shoe over the deactivator, heard it making it's "deactivated" thunk noise over and over, and yet that did nothing to stop the problem. We just had to warn the customers that they'd probably get stopped a lot.

But I do second the suggestion to have them try deactivating his coat. There might be a security tag of some sort hiding in the lining.

[bainsidhe]

It may also be something else on his person. Cell phones are notorious.

[ExArtShopSlave]

It may also be something else on his person. Cell phones are notorious.

Thats a good point. He just got a new cell phone a couple weeks ago.

[Null Requiem]

At my previous store, there was a regular who set off the alarm every time. We eventually found a security tag in the collar of the jacket she was wearing.

[Sigulf]

I work greeting/LP at a local store for book rush & we get this all the time. Columbia brand jackets are the biggest offender-- if the jacket has a zip-out lining, look between the lining & the outer coat on the left hand side-- it's probably a grey or white tag with a scissor symbol. Cut it out close to the seam & toss it. The security system at our store(Check Point) won't go off from a cell phone.

[Crossbow]

The one that set off the detectors for me was a book of stamps. If you buy directly from a post office, there's usually a security tag on them.

[tollbaby]

My security pass from work sets off the sensors at half the stores at the mall. *sigh*

[Sparky]

I used to have a purse that set off security alarms. The thing was, the store staff never cared. I would walk into and out of stores all the time, alarms would ring, and the staff never looked up. If I stopped they'd look up and wave me on like "Oh, it's okay." But it was embarrassing because other shoppers always looked at me funny.

I finally got fed up and cleaned my purse out and went to a store and asked the service desk for help. The VERY nice clerk helped me dig through my purse. I had a tiny coin purse. It had a very tiny pocket on the side. It had a security tag in it. The clerk found it right away because she knew where to look.

[Gerrinson]

My steel toe boots used to set off the sensors if I stepped on the strip along the floor, but not if I stepped over it. It took me quite a while to figure out why sometimes I set them off and sometimes I didn't.

[Gizmo]

If its a work ID card that is setting off the sensors is it worth getting one of these?

http://www.idstronghold.com/

I don't know if they would help?