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The Culprit!
Not so long ago, I was shopping in a local mall and I was flabbergasted when I walked out of a store and the alarm went off! Talk about embarrassing!!! I quickly looked up to her with a look of shock that must have been so funny that she just smiled warmly and pointed to the package I was holding. It was a bag of new books from the neighboring bookstore. She asked to borrow it and passed the bag through the alarm sensors and lo and behold, it rang again. Apparently, a common culprit for false alarms are those tags for barcode scanners in books, particularly the imported hardbound ones that have those inserted alarm tags.Talk about relief!
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The barcode strips on the books should have been both item-specific and store-specific. In your case, the barcode was only item specific failing to distinguish that the item was from another store – that set off the alarm. Had the barcode strip included store reference, it would not have set off the alarm as the system would readily know that the item was not of the store’s but from another one.
wow….i didn’t know that! thanks for the info. the book i got was actually one of those super sale books that look like they came from some library in the us or something hehe. and to think….the book was only Php 49.00!
This happened to me several times. Pati pala cellphone nakaka trigger ng alarm.