Meat Sensors?

Over the weekend, I went grocery shopping with my husband at a large supermarket. We needed to pick up a few things for a cookout we were hosting at our house. We bought a couple of large steaks (picanha) for the grill.

When we went to check out, Roberto had to take the meat to a special station to have the sensors removed. Theft of meat must be a problem at this grocery store. These were BIG steaks; I can’t imagine that they would be easy to shoplift. I felt sorry for the cashier and the people behind us in line because they couldn’t get the sensors off the steaks and had to run to the back of the store and find others. As a result, it took us a LONG time to check out.

They had cameras all around the store, I’m surprised that they also need shoplifting sensors for steaks. Chicken doesn’t seem to be as valuable because it didn’t have sensors. It must be considered a vegetable.

Just a random observation from living in Brazil.