CVS Vape Alarm

[LMS62]

Quite a few years ago my wife and I walked "into" a supermarket (don't remember the name and it's no longer there). Something in her purse caused the alarm sensor to go off. We were approached immediately and told that they would have to check us and her purse. Seriously? I told the woman, "You mean we are suspected of shoplifting "into" the store? I told her she was not going to search either of us and we were going to walk out. I said "if you intend to call the Sheriff's Office let me know and I will wait outside, otherwise we're leaving and I will never darken your doors again. We left and never went back.

This could have been handled differently. Like saying "excuse me but have you maybe brought something in from another store that might have set our alarm off, or maybe an implanted medical device?
In my city, I can't go into the Harley Davidson dealer without setting off the door alarm. I have a stent from a blocked artery that sets it off.

I completely agree that it could have been handled much better than what it was. The reason it is a concern for stores when their checkpoint system goes off when someone is entering the store, is that it is a "scam" used by some professional shoplifters.

The way it works is that a shoplifter will keep an item on their person that they know will activate the system when they enter the store, so that when the system activates upon them leaving the store, the employee will not give it a second thought.

 

[Rickajho]

Oh please let anyone at CVS tell me what I can and can't do while sitting in the drive through. It would not be pretty.

Can I help? Or at least watch?

 

[GinnyTx]

oh I vape like a fiend at their drive through..heck prior to yesterday I do in the store..it's NOT a tobacco product!

why would a vaping device set off an alarm? are you sure you didnt have a stray RFID chip hidden away in your purse?

I don't carry a purse, wallet in the pocket (motorcycle if I'm not in my car with the dogs)


maybe Ed put one in my sketchers? *lol* heck if I know..but it DID go off..

and not with a "warning Will Robinson"

 

[Sgt.Rock]

Metal detector possibly? A heavy mod would set it off.

 

[GinnyTx]

I guess..we do have a "tough" area..at the other end of the road..that's trying to be "pushed back" (Houston, no zoning, it allows for our growth but puts bad right next to really good aka "prey". *lol*)

I set it off going out too..so it was prolly just the metal detector aspect of those things by the door.

silver istick and a kanger v2 ..I did have two in my pocket though

one can't be TOO prepared to go 1 mile from your house.

 

[Shootist]

Don't know what else you had on you but a Battery Holding device for a personal vaporizer would not set off the store merchandise alarm.

 

[GinnyTx]

might've been that Bowie knife and the glock then

I only had my wallet with debit card, TDL & some cash, and my electronic key remote to my car with a mailbox key and Kroger tag *lol**shrugs*

and I was the only one that went in..I thought maybe one of those bad boys with an oozie slipped in behind me, but no.

 

[VaPreis]

The mod actuated my manhood.

Now that's funny. What sort of mod does that?

 

[GinnyTx]

This kind I'd imagine..

 

[JimmyDB]

CVS around here have been without the tobacco for... feels like well over a year. Nicotine is OK, tobacco is not. They will though, sell you VG if it's a store that carries it... and you can crush up/dissolve some of their nicotine tablets... grab a straw and an electric lighter... then vape it right there I would kind of like to do exactly this sometime when I have a number of people with cameras... but, I don't think it would be good for 'the cause'.

I take joy in their sales reports and estimates... not only have they lost 5% of sales, their competitors have gained more then what CVS lost. If this keeps up, they may need to re-think things.

The pharmacy is where these places make their money, front end is lucky to break even. When you have no other business going to a particular place for front end stuff, you have your scripts sent elsewhere too... when there is competition across the street... it's easy.

Oh well. It's their choice to carry or not carry anything (not counting their financial obligations to shareholders etc), and mine to base how I shop there on how much or little I want to cost them money.

 

[Skunkworkx]

I was inside 7-11 a few weeks ago getting a redbull and had my mod in my pocket. The lady being the counter looked at me super weird and then she said "looks like ...... kicked in".
I said what the f to her, she laughed and her reply was that I should be more discreet. I grabbed my beverage and left the store like what the f just happened. Then I got in my truck and pulled out my mid. Suddenly I put 1 and 1 together. The mod actuated my manhood. Every time I go in there and she's working, she flirts with me.

So you're saying Ron Jeremy "wood" be proud ? <pun intended>

 

[Tranquility Base]

Asked a CVS employee if they carried VG and she looked at me like I was Walter White trying to restock his lab.

 

[SpyderBite]

I have a friend who was electrocuted and luckily survived without any long term serious injuries. However she sets off the anti-theft alarms at every store she enters/exits. XD

 

[JimmyDB]

Asked a CVS employee if they carried VG and she looked at me like I was Walter White trying to restock his lab.

Sounds nearly right, I'm guessing they have heard of nitro-glycerin. It's not a big seller or otherwise a common item, unless they have re-stocked it on the shelf or had to change the price I wouldn't expect them to really know about it. I don't exactly expect much from the clerks any way, and the pharmacy people who should actually know what it is, don't stock the shelves so they may not know where it is.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I have a friend who was electrocuted and luckily survived without any long term serious injuries. However she sets off the anti-theft alarms at every store she enters/exits. XD

Are you serious? That would be a drag. Trying to explain it would be even worse.

 

[klynnn]

I was in CVS a couple of years ago. They had a sale on shave cream that my son likes. Buy 1 get 1 free. So I go in and pick up the 2 cans left but one of them had the type that says x number of ounces free. The clerk would not sell it to me because she said they weren't the same size and I had to pay extra for the free ounces. This is no joke.. I bought one can and left since the manager was not there. I called the next day and the manager said come back and get it he would counsel the employee. I have rarely shopped there since.

 

[BlueCanary]

CVS around here have been without the tobacco for... feels like well over a year. Nicotine is OK, tobacco is not. They will though, sell you VG if it's a store that carries it... and you can crush up/dissolve some of their nicotine tablets... grab a straw and an electric lighter... then vape it right there I would kind of like to do exactly this sometime when I have a number of people with cameras... but, I don't think it would be good for 'the cause'.

I take joy in their sales reports and estimates... not only have they lost 5% of sales, their competitors have gained more then what CVS lost. If this keeps up, they may need to re-think things.

The pharmacy is where these places make their money, front end is lucky to break even. When you have no other business going to a particular place for front end stuff, you have your scripts sent elsewhere too... when there is competition across the street... it's easy.

Oh well. It's their choice to carry or not carry anything (not counting their financial obligations to shareholders etc), and mine to base how I shop there on how much or little I want to cost them money.

Yeah, where we live there is pretty much a Walgreens, a Rite-Aid or a CVS on every corner, plus pharmacies inside the Target and other big box stores. I never really bought cigarettes at CVS, though I did sometimes stop in to buy my hubby a pack of cigars. When they announced that they were going tobacco free because they care about their customers' health, my first thought was "Oh, so they're going to stop selling drinks with HFCS in them, and candy and sweets that could cause diabetes, and hair dye/personal care products with ingredients in them that cause hormone disruption and skin problems, and beer and wine?" Nope, just tobacco. So, my opinion is, since my co-pay is pretty much the same at every pharmacy in town, CVS can now get 0% of my money for anything.

 

[AndriaD]

CVS around here have been without the tobacco for... feels like well over a year. Nicotine is OK, tobacco is not. They will though, sell you VG if it's a store that carries it... and you can crush up/dissolve some of their nicotine tablets... grab a straw and an electric lighter... then vape it right there I would kind of like to do exactly this sometime when I have a number of people with cameras... but, I don't think it would be good for 'the cause'.

I take joy in their sales reports and estimates... not only have they lost 5% of sales, their competitors have gained more then what CVS lost. If this keeps up, they may need to re-think things.

The pharmacy is where these places make their money, front end is lucky to break even. When you have no other business going to a particular place for front end stuff, you have your scripts sent elsewhere too... when there is competition across the street... it's easy.

Oh well. It's their choice to carry or not carry anything (not counting their financial obligations to shareholders etc), and mine to base how I shop there on how much or little I want to cost them money.

Oh goodie, so my prophecy about seeing them in bankruptcy court is right on the money! I would truly love it if they went bankrupt because they refused to sell tobacco anymore, even though I don't use myself anymore -- I just love watching karma play out, and puritans deserve it more than anyone.

When they got rid of tobacco, they should have kept the e-cigs, if they're so all-fired concerned to see people quit smoking -- but that would bother BP too much, can't have that -- like BP cares one iota if CVS goes bankrupt!

Andria

 

[GinnyTx]

Yeah, where we live there is pretty much a Walgreens, a Rite-Aid or a CVS on every corner, plus pharmacies inside the Target and other big box stores. I never really bought cigarettes at CVS, though I did sometimes stop in to buy my hubby a pack of cigars. When they announced that they were going tobacco free because they care about their customers' health, my first thought was "Oh, so they're going to stop selling drinks with HFCS in them, and candy and sweets that could cause diabetes, and hair dye/personal care products with ingredients in them that cause hormone disruption and skin problems, and beer and wine?" Nope, just tobacco. So, my opinion is, since my co-pay is pretty much the same at every pharmacy in town, CVS can now get 0% of my money for anything.

I had to get some saline for my son's sinuses and I had to get a clerk to help move this big metal cart blocking the main aisle covered in cheap wine bottles
right by the Lindor chocolates and rows of cookies & zero nutrition snack food..insulin not ten paces to the back of the store. *lol*


it's silly I know..

 

[InTheShade]

might've been that Bowie knife and the glock then

Standard issue shopping survival kit in H-Town.

Same in San Antonio, only add a machete.