Having worn my work glove collection to exhaustion, the fanciest two pairs in a new selection came with elaborate security tags:
Finding a standard tag inside inside the fancy shell shouldn’t come as any surprise, but I’m surprised the retail loss ratio for a pair of $20 gloves can support that much hardware.
I went through the self-checkout area and didn’t do anything special, so either those lanes don’t have tag scanners or the tags are security theater.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
The tags cost pennies a piece in large quantities, so they’re worth it even on a $20 item.
The receipt suggests an $11 threshold: those gloves didn’t even have a bare tag glued onto their cardboard hanger. Maybe nobody steals cheap gloves?