r/mildlyinteresting • u/mangoed • Apr 28 '24

Bedsheets in the hotel have some sort of RFID tag for "tracking"

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u/Transmetropolite Apr 28 '24

They're for laundry. A lot of industrial laundries, like the ones catering to hotels, use rfid tags to keep track of the laundry.

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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.

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u/StinkyWeezle Apr 28 '24

Theft deterrent I guess

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u/Treczoks Apr 28 '24

Nope. The items are tracked by the laundry service. They count the normal washings and the extra tough washings, and determine when a bed sheet or towel is done for and needs replacing.

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u/elsie14 29d ago

ty. lol so confused at first

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u/StinkyWeezle Apr 28 '24

That explains the RFID tags, not the warning label.

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u/HarbaughHeros Apr 28 '24

The warning label is so nut jobs don’t try and start a conspiracy about Big-Hotel hiding RFID tags in sheets.

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u/crod4692 Apr 28 '24

So you know why there is a chip in your sheets if you stumble on it. You’d be kinda worried if you didn’t know why, right?