Secure and protected

I was interested to see this label, stuck firmly to my bottle of gin; a second one was stuck to the base of the bottle.  I have seen few shops during the last ten months, so am a little out of date with what happens in them.  Google to the rescue, and I find that these labels are called RF (Radio Frequency) labels; anti-theft devices that can be used amongst other things to stick to bottles of booze in supermarkets.  On further inspection, my bottle also had a 'built-in' RF label behind the regular bottle label barcode, so that one pass would check out the goods and deactivate the security label simultaneously.  The label that is shown can obviously be used for many other items, it is not intended that we microwave our gin!

The gin is sold in Aldi in Ireland with the name Corley's Gin; it is the same as the Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin that is sold in Aldi in GB, but Cromwell was no friend of the Irish.