Setting off alarms at stores upon entering and exiting.

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Have you ever had a problem with setting off the alarm while entering or exiting a store? I've had this happen recently. I walked into a store recently and the alarm beeped upon both entering and exiting the store. I don't know what made it do that.

You probably had some kind of anti theft tag left on your clothes or whatever that wasn't deactivated.

Yeah, I just ignore it and walk away. What ever you had when you walked in that set it off, was the same thing that set it off when you left. Or the machine could have just been malfunctioning. Any type of an electronic card or tag could set it off. The employees hear those things go off all day.

I was well aware of those alarms during my kleptomaniac days. Yes, I was a bad boy. How else was I supposed to get my hands on encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books?

Some places have a buzzer thing to alert them when customers enter & exit the store & those buzzers sometimes sound alot like the theft alarm things. It could of been the alarm too thou. When I worked at WalMart it would sometimes go off alot for customers coming out or in. When it did it for me I assumed it was because I had a tag or something on me; I did custodial stuff/floor cleaning & I picked up tags & things while cleaning. Did you bring a buggy/cart in with you from outside the place & had it when you left because that could of had a tag on it.

Shame on you!! ! I used to work in a bookstore. The reference section was my 2nd favorite hangout, after the magazines. I was too timid to swipe anything, but if I did, it would've been from there or from the art section.

I hate those doorway buzzers. I don't like sudden loud noises at all. A shoplifter was running out of a store as I was walking in when I was 8 months pregnant and I nearly had the baby.

Half a dozend times. Around here it is custom that customers, do their shopping more privately, without someone assisting you all the time, which many feel as disturbance. Because of that shoplifters would have it pretty easy, and so more expensive stuff, parfums, cloths, packaged alcohols, often have hidden markers. If the cashier is not aware of the hiding spot of the alarm-device or that an certain item is alarm-deviced, they dont remove it.

Was no prob until now, if it beeps you simply return to the support/information terminal and ask them to search for that thing. ^^ Simply moving on would not be that good, because if its about cloth, you hardly can remove the alarm-device without force, and so risc ruining the cloths.

Happened to me multiple times; once, I even set one off in a Starbucks. Leaned against the emergency exit, and things just sort of took off from there.

Years ago, this happened to me all the time. For months this was. Consistently too, every detector, way in and way out. It was so predictable I could do a little process of elimination on what I was carrying. At the time I had a habit of peeling the foil intel stickers off computers - I had a wad of them in my wallet, stuck stacked together, from the school computers. It was those...
I have no idea about the physics of it, but I suppose that plasticy conductive foil is similar to what's inside security tags.

My "badge" for work sets them off quite often. It used to upset me a bit but now I just kinda think it's silly/neat.