Home Depot fights shoplifters with required activation of power tools

[1shott]

Home depot is also going to stop all returns without a receipt

no receipt no return, no store credit nada

love it.

 

[Snattlerake]

What do you think about the deactivation/activation feature as an anti theft for the tool owners to keep thieves at bay?

Once it gets around the tools can be deactivated, job site theft could possibly be deterred.

That or paint the tools orange and black.

 

[golddigger14s]

Another trick they use is to put a high end power tool in a low end box.

 

[1shott]

What do you think about the deactivation/activation feature as an anti theft for the tool owners to keep thieves at bay?

Once it gets around the tools can be deactivated, job site theft could possibly be deterred.

That or paint the tools orange and black.

I like The idea behind it. I just hope it works

 

[1shott]

This guy stole a cart full the other day. Ran out the garden enterance.

it’s been reported so hopefully with the video and pics the guy has his partner will be caught

 

[HoLeChit]

What do you think about the deactivation/activation feature as an anti theft for the tool owners to keep thieves at bay?

Once it gets around the tools can be deactivated, job site theft could possibly be deterred.

That or paint the tools orange and black.

I like The idea behind it. I just hope it works

Milwaukee already has this with many of their tools. Allows gps tracking, usage, and locking I believe.

 

[ICanFixIt]

So I go to use my drill and discover that it has done a factory reset and locked me out of using it? No thanks.

 

[Chuckie]

I worked at Home Depot in Moore about a year ago. We had a meeting once about theft and I made clear to the other employees that their life was not worth a few hundred dollars' worth of stuff. Never get between a thief and the door.
At the macro level, something needs to change. Maybe this is the answer.
At the personal, employee level, never get between a thief and the door. Record the vehicle and person and report it, that's it.

Hmmm, seems to me that about the time the thief was exiting through the door would be about the time someone should of had an accidental discharge, you know, the kind that happens when you're fumbling to catch that gun that 'accidentally' slipped from your CC holster

 

[1shott]

Hmmm, seems to me that about the time the thief was exiting through the door would be about the time someone should of had an accidental discharge, you know, the kind that happens when you're fumbling to catch that gun that 'accidentally' slipped from your CC holster

Personally I am for hanging their carcasses off of fences like ranchers to coyotes

but that’s just me

 

[skyhawk1]

Was at Atwoods last Saturday evening, walking out with my dogfood and heard commotion behind me, employees chased a guy about 20 feet outside and caught him. Raised his arms and new boots fell out. Tried to run again but they caught him and drug him back inside store