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Pro tip: I laughed at the guy checking his groceries for RFID tags until I found one myself
My buddy Tom has been ranting for years about RFID tags being in everything from shoes to cereal boxes. I thought he was just a paranoid dude who watches too many youtube videos. Then last month I was selling a house in Phoenix and the buyer's inspector pulled out a cheap RFID reader. He scanned a pack of paper towels from the kitchen and it beeped like crazy. I grabbed my own reader from Amazon that week and found tags in a pair of dress shoes I bought at Macy's. Has anyone else actually found these things hidden in random everyday stuff?
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henry6041mo ago
Picked up a cheap RF detector at Home Depot for 30 bucks and found three tags in a Calvin Klein jacket I got at TJ Maxx, it's real no joke.
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bens8129d ago
Read something the other day about how stores like TJ Maxx get all sorts of overstock and returned items... sometimes they don't even bother to strip the security tags. Heard a story where a guy found like six tags in a coat from Nordstrom Rack, all from different stores it had been returned to before ending up there. Makes you wonder what else is floating around in those racks... probably a whole lot of stuff that got shoplifted and returned.
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