[ChrisMarshallNY]

I think they only started doing that, in the last few years.

The red tag has a barcode (and nothing else). They have a strip of them, next to the register.

You hand them the item, they tear off the bottom of the price tag, stick on the red tag, then scan it.

[yardstick]

So this also means you cannot return something without the red tag still intact?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I don’t know.

I suspect you don’t need the tag, but you’ll need the receipt, otherwise.