Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, Victoria's Secret, and other companies are tracking shoppers' returns dating back several years and, in some cases, punishing people who are suspected of abusing their return policies.

Home Depot engages in the practice to combat return fraud, which "is believed to be feeding the opioid epidemic," a Home Depot spokesman told Business Insider.

Customers who are flagged are often barred from making future returns. Retailers say they use the service to combat return fraud.

Well at least they don't take you into a secret room and beat you, so you will stop returning stuff...