Sensors!

SENSORS! Everyone knows about them but not many understand the true nature of these objects. Although they are meant to protect our merchandise somehow they tend to do other things. Stores place these objects on their clothes or other items to prevent stealing. But sometimes they can end up hurting the wrong people. For instance they poke us. Us meaning retail workers.

On more than one occasion I have personally been poked by a sensor and it is a very hurtful experience. No one talks about how sharp they are. They only seem to mention that sensors function solely for helping the store. But if that needle happens to poke you, the pain feels like a bee sting times ten. The sensors must be removed from the clothing properly in order to prevent this outcome.
Yet despite how technology advances and the new machines which have been developed to assist in the removal of sensors, workers still find themselves stopping to say Ouch! countless times a day.

Pain does not only occur when taking off the sensors. Applying sensors can also be an ouch moment. For instance some stores instruct their workers what is the right way to put the sensors on. Sensors normally have ink enclosed in them so that they cannot be tampered with. If they are tampered with the ink will burst and destroy the merchandise, therefore defeating the purpose of trying to steal in the first place.


The basic point of this retail problem is that even though they are small, don't mess with sensors. Big things really do come in small packages in this case. Although they are small, they pack a huge punch in the form of the ink that bursts and can destroy the clothes or the sting that occurs if a retail worker mistakenly pokes him or herself with the sensor