When you walk out of a store and the alarm goes off..do you stop?

[HipChick]

the alarm goes off when I walk in the store..

I walk out..it goes off again..

I have no idea what it causing it...


I don't even bother to stop...

[kayakjohnny]

1. Me neither.

It's their own damn fault if they can't get the technology right.

They've only had, what, 30 fucking years to work on it by now.

I don't miss a step.

[HopeHoops]

2. Most of the time they don't notice. Other times they just wave me on.

The only time I keep going is after I stop and nobody seems to notice or care.

[petronius]

3. I only stop when I'm not actually stealing something...

;)

[kayakjohnny]

5. !

B-)

[Curmudgeoness]

9. You beat me to it. nt

[Ikonoklast]

4. I'm usually running, so, no.

I like having a good head start.

[MilesColtrane]

6. I live in Texas, so yes I stop.

You never know when some off-duty rent-a-cop is going to draw down on you if you keep walking.

[sohndrsmith]

7. You carry an iPhone or iTouch? Only time I've ever had one go off w/me

is when I had my iTouch (and my daughter's iPhone seemed to set them off a couple of times, too). Aside from that - the store clerk/salesperson forgot to remove the anti-theft device which is supposed to set the thing off....

I always stop, because I don't steal and don't want to complicate my life by appearing furtive or avoidant by ignoring an alarm I inadvertently set off... :) Even though I'm not crazy about the idea of someone potentially going through my personal belongings I have on me.

Going through my shopping bags and purchased items - have at it.

But my purse contains some wacky (but harmless, innocent and fully legal) things sometimes... like a carved loon my daughter gave me... or some cool rocks I found and forgot to take them out... or a bottle of Tabasco (don't leave home without one!). : )

[HipChick]

11. Can't figure it out..

It's certainly annoying

[JVS]

8. run

[lost-in-nj]

10. actually I stop if I have a bag

from another store....
I check to make sure the security tags from the other store were taken off....
I have had that be the case.... but the alarm from the other store i left never went off....


lost

[rrneck]

12. An acronym I got from a volunteer fireman... RLH.

RUN LIKE HELL!

[Iggo]

13. Only at Target.

'Cause, invariably, the rent-a-cop is standing right there.

[nuxvomica]

14. We used to have passkey cards at work that always tripped...

...the alarm at Target, and no other store. Annoying as hell, it was.