CLOTHING ALARMS...

Have you ever bought clothes at one store that set off the alarm at another store?

I have had this problem a couple of times recently. The security strips are sewn inside fabric tags. Luckily both times it happened I was walking INTO Wal-Mart when it set the alarm off. The first time the greeter smiled and said, “You must have new clothes.” She asked for my jacket, took it to a checkout station and it beeped when she deactivated it. She showed me what looked like a normal tag in the jacket and it had the security device inside of it. I put the jacket back on and went on my way. I went home and cut all the tags that looked like this out of my clothes. There were several in each article of clothing including down the leg of the pants.

The next week I was wearing something different from the same store and went into Wal-Mart. I set the alarm off. Someone was going out at the same time with a lot of bags…so I thought surely it was not I because I had already cut two tags out of the jacket. I was just being paranoid. Down the aisle I decided to check. There it was…a third tag in my jacket. I ripped it out and muttered a few choice words.

I just wish they’d beep when you leave the store where you buy them. After all, isn’t that why they put them in the clothes?