Man's Sandwiches Kept Being Stolen From The Office Fridge. So He Did THIS.

Original: Man's Sandwiches Kept Being Stolen From The Office Fridge. So He Did THIS.

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Wed, 2009-10-21 08:56.

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thinkofthe.com

When victimized by workplace food thieves, some curse, others write threatening notes. Some might even contemplate surveillance cameras, if they're hit often enough.

Being an inventor, Sherwood Forlee found another way to fight back when his sandwiches repeatedly went missing from the communal fridge at the SoH gan selling the bags on his own Web site (thinkofthe.com), alongside a handful of other items he's designed, such as the "walls notebook," whose pages depict New York City walls, ripe for adorning with noninvasive graffiti.

Charging $10 for a box of 25 bags, Forlee quickly sold out of his first run of 2,000 boxes. With a boost from Target, which briefly featured the product on its Web site, demand has held steady, and he's currently on his fourth run.

Having since left the agency to pursue his own projects, Forlee no longer needs the bags himself. But customers report success, he says.

"People say they haven't lost a lunch since," he says, noting that others buy them as a gag gift or to use for pranks.

Forlee plans to continue selling the bags, although he has no current plans to "go mass market." For one thing, he notes, "If everyone has one, they become ineffective."

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