There are magnetic strips in the package. When the cashier runs it over the barcode scanner, there is also a …thing there that deactivates the magnetic properties of the metal strip, so it will no longer activate the alarm.

And remember…stealing is a crime

Today’s ur lucky day. I used to work at Wal-Mart.

First of all, the doors are a mental deterrant. Say you walk thru the door, the alarm goes off, and you don’t have anything that would cause it to do so. The door greeter still cannot accuse you of stealing and still must let you go on the way. It’s only when you boldly have something that is not on a receipt that they can stop you. When the door does ding and the door greeter is writing stuff down, it is the number on the digital reader atop the door. Then when she asks to see the receipt she basically needs it to write down the lane and cashier number.. that way if a cashier sucks at deactivating, she will get in trouble.

So it uses shame to keep people from stealing. Now the truth.

Walmart has drastically cut down on its loss prevention program. In the store I used to work in there were THREE LP people for the whole store. Research at Walmart says that 40 percent of theft is employees. These LP people basically watch the employees. Sometimes they watch customers. Note.. you know when you see a person that works at Walmart staring at you.. they are not trying to catch you stealing. If they see you stealing they can’t do anything about it. The only way you will get caught stealing and prosecuted is A. you steal over 50 dollars worth and B. you are being watched and documented by LP the whole time. Walmart stopped prosecuting for theft under 50 dollars cause they bugged the local police left and right.

That’s about it. You see alot of theft at walmart and lots of innovating ways, but when the company does not enforce basic theft rules they get what they deserve.

There are security tages inside certain products that are ran over a grey bar on the register or deactivated with a type of gun that they can run over the tag for really large items. If a cashier doesn’t recognize these items or simply forgets then it sets off at the door. I’m not sure of the electronic specifics on how the deactivator recognizes certain items that haven’t been deactivated I just no that they just do. Don’t worry though we had cashiers many times just written up because they didn’t deactivate these items because it cost the company money.