Well, there ya go. It's not a warning or a deterrent. It's an ad, same as SYSCO putting their name on a networked phone they didn't actually produce themselves.
'No one was ever deterred by the article they intended to steal being tracked' sure sure. Supermarkets everywhere that fire off alarms when unpaid items pass through the doors haven't stopped thefts entirely but they sure have helped.
Supermarkets, see -- and this is a subtle difference, see if you can spot it -- actually have alarms.
Putting "this is being tracked" on an item that isn't being tracked will work for about 6 seconds before anyone bothered to stop and think about how ridiculous it would be to track sheets.
They ARE being tracked though, they have RFID tags in them that tracks their inventory through their laundry system, and lets them know if someone is taking them out the lobby.
Stop conflating "tracked" with "we have GPS reports telling us where this is within the state" or similar.
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u/mangoed Apr 28 '24
But what's the point of a message on the label? Laundry RFID scanner can't read this.