On Oct 28, 7:08*am, bob haller wrote:
On Oct 28, 3:06*am, harry wrote:





On Oct 28, 3:43*am, bob haller wrote:

New Home Depot store security
I went to home depot today. searching for a employee to get some wire
cut, couldnt find anyone close by electrical.

did find the store full of a new security system. It features cameras
and tv monitors, with flashing lights, beeping constantly, and
messages you are bering recorded.

Now I dont mind security cameras or even audio recordings but dont
care to see my picture repeatedly, they literally have hundreds of
cameras with monitors all thru the store.

Unable to find help I stopped at the registers to give the store
manager my opinion of their new security system. a guy did come I
asked are you a manager? well no can i help? no i want to speak to the
store manager, no he isnt available......

Well I went on a tirade of their new system, and left suggesting they
take a photo of me a now lost customer..

I am all for stopping retail theft but this is way too annoying and
the beeping drove me nuts

I called home depot complaint line, they took my info but no one
called me back.

has anyone else seen anything so intrusiv

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the store isnt in a rough area, low overall crime rate even for
pittsburgh zip 15237.

home depot recently stopped a major theft problem.


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idiots would take a cart, load it up with high value stuff, then
return it at customer service using fake IDs. net take 70 grand. the
thieves would be issued gift cards, the thief would sell them on
craigslist for a discount..


So they netted $70K minus whatever discount they sold them for and you
called them "idiots"? Doesn't sound very idiotic to me.

Idiots or not, I'd like to know how they accomplished that. At my
local HD's (three of them) the return counter is "outside" the
security system. You can not get to the return counter without leaving
the store - or at least not without going through the sensors by the
one entrance that leads to the return counter.

If you come in from the parking lot, you can either walk straight into
the store (through the sensors) or turn left to go to the return
counter (avoiding the sensors). If you are already in the store, you
would have to go out through the sensors to get to the return counter.
In addition, there is usually a greeter handing out flyers or
something as you pass through the sensors on the way into the store.
That means that they have a visual on anyone trying to access the
return counter from inside the store. I'll bet that's why the greeter
is only posted at that entrance, not at any other one.

I'd like to know how they managed to get $70K worth of carted items to
the return desk without someone or something knowing that the items
were never purchased.


i guess home depot wants to discourage copy cat thieves........

like i said i dont mind video and even audio recordings, but refuse to
see me on every camera in the store.

today i will check out lowes, hopefully they havent done the same
thing.

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