Boy, was I embarassed!

United States
December 13, 2008 1:13pm CST
I went shopping this morning at Burlington Coat Factory. I went there to get a necklace and earrings to go with my dress tonight for the Christmas party. I went in and picked out what I wanted, paid for them, and Tried to leave. As I was walking out the door, all the buzzers and bells went off and they stopped me! They checked the bag and I gave them my receipt. They asked me to walk through again, and it went off again! They had me do this about 4 times! They also waived the bag in front of the scanner by itself and it went off! By now they have me emptying my pockets in front of everyone! This store was packed full of people too! Finally the head manager comes over and checks the bag and see's that I have bought an item that has a theft devise into the packaging from the manufacturer! He tells me everything is fine and apologizes for the inconvenience! I get my bag and head out the door with it just beeping away! How embarrassing! Has anything like that ever happened to you?
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• United States
14 Dec 08
Yes I've had that happen to me more than once and yes it is embarrassing where you know all eyes are on you. I was walking out of walmart with my computer when I first got it and I had it all paid for at the regisater got the reciept tried to go through the door to leave and the alarm went off. I backed up they made note of it and I was all set and on my way. It happens to the best of us I guess.
• United States
14 Dec 08
Yup, I guess it does! LOL! Rhonda
• India
13 Dec 08
I have never had such an experience.It is really embarassing.You should have given the manager a good lecture so that nobody else faces such a humiliation. Leave it,don't think about it now.Just take it on a stride and just forget about that.Such thing can happen with nybody but we can't just keep on thinking about this all day. Hope such a situation never arises with you again.Have a nice day.
• United States
13 Dec 08
I hope it never happens again either! LOL! They should have given me the $9.00 in jewelry free! haha! Rhonda
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
13 Dec 08
Yep, that would be very embarrassing! I have had this happen before, but they never went that far as to keep having me walk threw the door over and over. I have also seen people go threw and the buzzers go off and the person doesn't even stop.
• United States
13 Dec 08
Yup, I've seen people do that before too! I guess they figure that they didn't take anything so why bother stopping. LOL! Rhonda