Exactly. The only safe way to shop is to ensure that no employee touches your products and you don’t touch the screen. Which brings us back to theft.
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At Corona times the lady at our Migros was disinfecting all the handheld scanners prior to returning them to the stand near the entrance. I think they regularly disinfected the screens and other surfaces as well. But as Corona (unlike it was believed in the beginning of the pandemic) is spread with air it didn’t make much sense anyway.
I like that authentication system.
Recently I had to return something to Migros and I never keep paper receipts so I had to open my Migros app and all my purchases are listed.
That was enough proof to get my refund
Even stealing the products at the factory would too late though.
What happened to the beeping gates on the way out? You hardly see them anymore and those that are still there are apparently turned off.
The new shops they are testing - don’t remember where - automatically book every item you take off the shelf (and book out should you return it), no scanning needed. No paying either, once you leave the shop your shopping is charged to what ever pay-item you use.
It’s all done with an endless amount of cameras. What a feast for those who dislike data-protection.
edit: The idea is apparently already quite old and they do research at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (he was the founder of Migros) in Rüschlikon.
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That was a department store thing and never was deployed in supermarkets.
Not true. Migros Oberwinterthur still has them (turned off though it seems) and I remember in the Nederlands they had those in pharmacies (yes a few decades ago so don’t hang me if they took them away).
They exist in every clothing shop and in many other shops as well. And I know for sure that they are turned on. I have problems regularly with the clothing from C&A, because it beeps in H&M or Sport X.
I was trying to steal a few bottles of Moët at Denner because it was on sale - but they kept it at the cashiers.
see? You should have believed me 
The big supermarkets here still have them. It beeped the other day in Migros as a young couple were leaving and the staff checked to see what had made it beep.
I often used to make it beep and it took ages to work out that I had a security sticker tucked deep inside my purse. Bizarrely Migros was the only place that detected it.
Years ago I was stopped in Manor in Yverdon and thought the bloke was going to make me strip off to find the source of the beeping. It turned out to be a C&A security label sewn into my skirt between the actual skirt and the lining about halfway up the seam.
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Same. It beeped in Coop B&H and some other shops from time to time. But I only discovered it when I bought a new purse and was emptying the old one. I used it 10 years like that.
I also have problems wit things from C&A when I go shopping to other shops afterwards. Their device to deactivate the protection seems to be unreliable.
I applaud the security measures and am happy to submit to random searches. The alternative is to pay for those items stolen, which I am not ready to do if I can help it.
I have seen what happens when nothing is done to prevent shoplifting… just go to the the West Coast in the US and you will see shoplifters openly walking past cashiers without paying for their purchases. The police will not bother to come for any petty shoplifting and managers are too aware of violence to have their personnel step in.
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@olygirl, it is now a felony in CA. They will be prosecuted. Just so you know.
There’s more to the West Coast than California (which I am sure you know!)
Yeah, well, WA and OR will wake up soon from woke.
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It’s happened to me a few times too with stuff from C&A, you’d have thought they’d have sorted it out by now as it’s been like it for years.
I have filmed in several Milagros stores & carrying audio cables coiled up always set them off
It’s far from the west coast alone. NYC and NY, also Democrat dominated and following the same idiotic doctrine, have the same problem.
In NYC, 327 criminals were responsible for one third of the more than 22’000 (reported and accepted) retail thefts. Collectively they were arrested more than 6000 times!!
By 2023 this group’s share had increased to 44%, and no wonder.
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Washington State and Oregon are suffering from massive shoplifting as well.