Comment by data-ottawa

I suppose you're right, even with auth there a risk the store would lose it and the tags would need to be trashed or manually reset. Stores aren't the most tech savvy of businesses.

On that note, I worked at a store where each department would borrow the store floppy and copy their weekly orders+sales onto it, then the store manager would read them on the office computer in one big excel file. This was in the late 2000s, so floppy was already pretty outdated, but it worked so it never changed.

I got called to the managers office one day. The store manager and assistant manager couldn't get the master spreadsheet to save and needed my computer skills. I spent like an hour fiddling with things before ejecting the disk and realizing they had hit the write lock switch on the floppy, so the spreadsheet wouldn't save.

I was the hero of the day and the manager bought a thumb drive from the photo department so this wouldn't happen again.