All my life I've been law-abiding. The biggest trouble I've ever been in with the law was going over the speed limit once in a while or forgetting to feed a parking meter. So I do tend to get a little worked up when I diligently pay for my purchases at the register only to get waylaid on my way out the door by some employee demanding to see my receipt and then checking to make sure I'm not trying to sneak anything out of the building.
With video surveillance and RFID technology being so cheap, wouldn't it make better sense to go that route?
Look at this way. They do it to everyone. It is an equal opportunity thing. I work there and have no heartburn over it. It is probably more cost effective to pay someone to stand there checking receipts than to put those little magnetic things into items and then having to reshrinkwrap them.
Having worked retail for more years than I care to think about, there are many people who will take anything that isn’t nailed down. Heck, they rip open bags of candy back on the candy aisles and grab out what they want and then go on. I’ve even seen a case of some kind of cold coffee drink with one missing out of the case where someone ripped the plastic and snagged themselves a drink.
I help watch our DVD aisle. There are fools who used to stick them into a box of pampers and go right on out with them. We were losing thousands of dollars a month just in DVDs. What stopped it was putting one or two people watching that aisle all the time. Most people are used to us being there and it doesn’t seem to bother them. At least if someone has a question, we are right there to help them whether it’s about DVDs or something else.