Hear! Hear!

John Payson wrote:

> > The third I've only seen in retail. It's a small plastic strip about 1 1/2"
> > long, 1/2" wide and 1/16" high. It's also magnetically desensitized, based
> > on the desensitizer's I've seen. Ripping the sticker off seems to be the
> > only safe approach.
>
> Isn't a somewhat safer approach to hand the item to the person sitting near
> a machine with lots of buttons on top and a money drawer underneath?  Prefer-
> ably with a bribe in an amount typically marked on the item in question?  I
> have found this approach to be 99.9% reliable in ensuring that the alarm does
> not go off, and I have also found the store personnel to be quite friendly and
> apologetic on those occasions when the alarm has tripped.
>
> While your approach might have similar reliability at avoiding the alarms, I
> doubt the personnel would be as friendly on those occasions when the alarm
> sounds.



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