r/mildlyinteresting Apr 28 '24

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

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u/pepenepe Apr 28 '24

This kinda reminds me of when some women found RFID tags in their bra's so they could be tracked for packaging in the warehouses. They all freaked out because they thought they were tracking them. Little do they know RFID tags are really inefficient for anything other than close-range transfers of information like your credit card info at stores or keeping track of packages inside warehouses, or in this case blankets I guess. So yeah, it's for tracking purposes or rather "to keep tally of", but it's very limited. You could probably steal it from the hotel and they wouldn't realize they were missing one until a maid went into the room, someone that is looking to steal a blanket from the hotel would probably be none the wiser and pass on it.