Triggering the supermarket alarm

[UTH]

This only seems to happen in Sainsbury's, and I've worked out that it's only when you buy the 'Taste the Difference' range meat, despite paying as usual etc, it triggers the alarm at the door.
It's become second nature to make sure I print a receipt and if there's the man by the door, I'm almost at the point where I show it to him as I walk out, knowing the alarm is going to go off.


But.....is there something I'm not doing that I should be doing in order to stop this happening?! Obviously with alcohol the big plastic tag needs taking off, so I'm wondering if there's something I'm meant to be doing to these meat packets that stops them setting it off? It'd be nice not to spark the shoplifter alarm every time I go shopping

[wildoliver]

Yes and no. Probably nothing you can do to stop it, I think a big magnet is used if you visit a cashier, but you can on unwrapping the meat, carefully remove the tag, wash if needed. Then place at the bottom of your wife's handbag.

[UTH]

wildoliver said:

Yes and no. Probably nothing you can do to stop it, I think a big magnet is used if you visit a cashier, but you can on unwrapping the meat, carefully remove the tag, wash if needed. Then place at the bottom of your wife's handbag.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, I am absolutely doing that now.

[vikingaero]

UTH said:

wildoliver said:

Yes and no. Probably nothing you can do to stop it, I think a big magnet is used if you visit a cashier, but you can on unwrapping the meat, carefully remove the tag, wash if needed. Then place at the bottom of your wife's handbag.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, I am absolutely doing that now.

Best one I've heard is to go back to the supermarket trolley park and stick it underneath the handle/advert on a trolley so that everyone gets a search going in and out!

[Cotty]

UTH said:

But.....is there something I'm not doing that I should be doing in order to stop this happening?

Yes. If it has a security sticker you still need an employee to neutralise it, even if you are using the self scan tills.
I bought a small LEGO set and even when the employee ran it over the counter top (assume there was a big magnet under it) it still set the alarm off and had to show the receipt. so it doesn't always work

[UTH]

Cotty said:

UTH said:

But.....is there something I'm not doing that I should be doing in order to stop this happening?

Yes. If it has a security sticker you still need an employee to neutralise it, even if you are using the self scan tills.
I bought a small LEGO set and even when the employee ran it over the counter top (assume there was a big magnet under it) it still set the alarm off and had to show the receipt. so it doesn't always work

Ok I guess that answers my question, there IS something they can do to stop the tag working, if I can be bothered to get them to do it!
Answer is no of course I can't, I'll just stick with making sure I have the receipt.

[spants]

If it is RFID - ie a label, then a magnet is not going to affect it. The tag needs to be read and 'whitelisted' for the exit or rewritten to prove that it has been sold.

[wildoliver]

spants said:

If it is RFID - ie a label, then a magnet is not going to affect it. The tag needs to be read and 'whitelisted' for the exit or rewritten to prove that it has been sold.

I only say magnet as when I have had things "cleared" in the past it involved a shop assistant vigorously rubbing them against a patch on the till. It could well be an RFID reader of course. Same remedy regardless, find an assistant or ignore.

Anyone from the shoplifting thread a while ago care to pitch in?

[UTH]

spants said:

If it is RFID - ie a label, then a magnet is not going to affect it. The tag needs to be read and 'whitelisted' for the exit or rewritten to prove that it has been sold.

I think it's these yellow stickers?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/7y1ce6/...

[alock]

I was told in Tesco last year that the human tills correctly remove the security from their steaks, but the self service ones don't.

However, last week I bought two self steaks at the self checkout, had the steaks and receipt in hand expecting the alarm, but it didn't trigger. Maybe it's been updated.

[Tye Green]

my Hyundai EV came with a "Charge My Hyundai" RFID card which would set off the alarms as you exited some Tesco stores.

[Cotty]

spants said:

If it is RFID - ie a label, then a magnet is not going to affect it. The tag needs to be read and 'whitelisted' for the exit or rewritten to prove that it has been sold.

Ok whatever it is under the counter, it needs to be rubbed over to clear it for exit.

[richhead]

I always set the alarms off, i put it down to the amount of metalwork in me, but might be wrong, i just always get a receipt in case, often i dont even get stopped.

[Master Bean]

I thought you were meant to have a punch up with the security guard.

[popeyewhite]

In my local Sainsbury's they've placed all the flowers outside the walk through alarms, so every single person who doesn't want to go through the till twice sets the alarm off. Handy if you want to nick a flatscreen, wait until someone goes to buy flowers then sneak through on their alarm.

[Gary C]

Our Sainsbury's self checkout used to go bong when you scanned a pack with a tag (almost put 'when you drop your meat on the scanner', phew).

You had to move it to just the right place and it cleared the tag during the scan then went bong.

[Mandat]

Master Bean said:

I thought you were meant to have a punch up with the security guard.

That only applies to Milkround.

[W124Bob]

Are we so woke now that even the alarms get triggered!

[FiF]

Though it's still an issue if you self scan with the hand held scanners or smart phone.

Personally only go to Sainsbury's these days for the few products we can only get there as the extent of their bag checks and security on self scan is getting irritating.

Hence buy only a few things go through manned checkout. They have lost business with us as a result, not much in the overall scheme of things admittedly.

[wyson]

Pretty sure a faraday bag will work. Pretty expensive at large sizes though.