"But I don't think he would look with a kindly eye upon me as the detacher."

A detacher is used to remove re-usable hard tags.

The type of detacher used will depend on the type of tag.

This off-white, pin-connected tag requires a special detacher unit to remove it.

Any store that uses an anti-shoplifting system and has a detacher should take care to have it secured so it cannot be removed.

Shrug from A Detacher.

She said that the store's name was A Detacher and that the sign was being redone because she didn't like it.

If the tag is a hard, reusable tag, a detacher is used to remove it when a customer purchases the item it's attached to.

Mona Kowalska, the owner of the three-week old store called A Detacher, French for "to be detached," gave a simple explanation for her store's name: "I liked the way it sounded."