A Blind Eye – Loss Prevention Workshops

April 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Loss Prevention Workshops are a great way to gain perspective and to find someone who can remain objective when it comes to employee theft and shoplifting in your store.

A loss prevention seminar conducted by someone with objectivity, will open your eyes to details or methods of theft that you may have been blinded to. Knowing these details will help you more fully recover your losses and prevent them from happening in the future.

By attending a loss prevention workshop you gain access to a moderator who is not only objective, but is also a seasoned expert in their field. You can take their experiences and trials and errors and learn from them. Hopefully you will be able to take these lessons and apply them to your personal situations.

Loss prevention training provides one-on-one contact and brings the information to the level you need. If you are aware of the basic modes of theft, this is a chance to get a more in depth look at motives and preventative measures. If this is your first time dipping into the world of employee theft and shoplifting, the workshop can be geared towards more basic and introductory knowledge.

The workshop is the opportunity you need to have someone help you resolve your theft concerns and situations. It gives you alternate methods that you might have previously turned a blind eye to.

For more information on Loss Prevention Seminars, Loss Prevention Training, or Loss Prevention Workshop contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

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The Perfect Cup – Cheap Labels

April 26, 2013 by

My dream is to open a coffee shop. It would be quiet, quaint, and a long way from clothing security and loss prevention that I have been immersed in for the better part of the last decade.

I didn’t realize that my trials with clothing security would mirror some of the challenges I was facing with opening up a coffee shop.

For example- I wanted to give my customers the best possible product that I could find. However, no matter how good the coffee tastes, my customers simply can’t afford to pay ten dollars for a basic cup of coffee. Conversely, just because they can all afford a dollar cup of coffee, doesn’t mean that anyone actually wants to drink it.

In retail, I was faced with the same problem. Anti-theft devices are varied and many. It wasn’t always easy to find cheap tags and cheap labels that would do their job properly. Some never adhered or stayed on the clothes, and some would alarm or not alarm on a whim.

With the same dedication and research I finally found the right balance of cost effectiveness and reliability, just as I finally found my perfect cup of affordable (but not cheap) coffee.

Visit RBC Security Solutions for Checkpoint Compatible Clothing Security Anti- theft Devices that can help you protect your clothes and prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags. Our Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS Labels and Tags are not cheap they are inexpensive and made in the U.S.

For more information on how you can use Clothing Security Anti- theft Devices in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to protect your Clothes and help you prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags contact us.

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Evaluate Your Inventory- Clothing Security Tags

April 23, 2013 by

It should be no secret that you need clothing security tags to protect your merchandise. What you might not realize is that it is also not a secret as to which specific items need clothing security.

The first place is to start looking at your last inventory report. You are conducting inventories at least on a yearly basis right?

If you aren’t, you need to start. How will you ever know that you have a problem if you don’t have any way to manage or quantify your inventory losses?

If you have inventory items that you still carry that are still seeing losses of, these are the ones that need Checkpoint tags first. If these items caught your eye, then you are probably missing either high dollars or high quantities of these items. These are your top shrink or your high shrink items.

Analyze your reports further and you will find which other items are on the list of losses. These are the items you need to make a decision regarding whether they will benefit from security tags on clothes.

If you find an item that you had shrink in, but you no longer carry the item determine if you have a comparable item. If so, you may consider using clothing security tags to be proactive in reducing your shrink.

A clothing alarm system will pay for itself in approximately 5 ½ months.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

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Protection with retail anti theft devices

April 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Sometimes it takes a few losses to realize how desirable a particular item has become to the shoplifter. We cannot predict which items will be the next hot theft item or which merchandise will need our focus to prevent shoplifting.

The best strategy is to protect our most expensive merchandise with Spider Wrap, Jewel Lok, Shark Tag, or one of the many other retail anti-theft devices that are available on the market before theft can becomes noticeable.

My typical strategy after assessing price points is to focus on things that are easy to steal and easy to sell when determining which items require spider wrap. Any high dollar item with packaging that has a handle accelerates straight to the top of the spider wrap list. Expensive, small, or easy-to-conceal items are typically first on a spider wrap roster as well. Browsing local resale shops or online resale websites also helps to identify which merchandise is being targeted.

When determining the list of merchandise to shark tag, I will typically tag merchandise seasonally. I also notice the return trends for used items on specific types of merchandise. School dance seasons such as prom or homecoming are the most common times that we utilize Jewel Lok and Shark Tag.  

The Jewel Lok or Shark Tag affixed to all high dollar items deters customers from purchasing and wearing the item to their big event and then returning afterward.  Leather coats also merit shark tag to prevent seasonal wearers from purchasing an expensive coat at the beginning of the season and returning it when the cold season has ended.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti-theft devices to prevent shoplifting and increase your profits.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547. 

 

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You cannot keep criminals out of the work place without pre-employment screening

April 22, 2013 by

It can often be a daunting task for any employer to find the right person for the right job.  Pre-employment screening equips you to identify the best candidate so that you do not waste precious time and resources on a new hire that has the potential to do more damage than good.

It is the belief of background check experts that keeping an unqualified person out of the workplace is vital to protecting company assets. Employers are required to follow their state’s pre-employment screening laws.  The background check company is also governed by overarching Federal regulations.

I once worked for a company that conducted pre-employment screening on all new hire associates as part of our shortage mitigation program.  We outsourced to a background check company all employee background checks and reduced our liability.  We also required each prospective employee to complete a consent form authorizing the background checks during the hiring process.

We conducted criminal background checks for every candidate that would have access to cash or restricted areas.  The background check experts returned all background checks in a timely fashion and we were equipped with the information to make an informed hiring decision. 

It was surprising to discover how many of our prospective new hires had been convicted of shoplifting.  A significant number of prospective new hires also had a felony conviction that would have gone unchecked had we not conducted a background check.

Your business is vulnerable to infiltration by career criminals and thieves without adequate information to make an informed decision. Criminal background checks enabled us to keep criminals out of the workplace. Without a doubt, the first line of defense to protect assets and profits is pre-employment criminal background checks. 

For more information about background check experts, background checks, criminal background checks, employee background checks and pre-employment screening please contact us at the background check company or call 1.770.426.0547.

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Stealing of your profits – employee theft

April 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The most sought after item that dishonest employees like to steal is cash. Unlike merchandise, cash can be used anywhere and cash is often the easiest item to steal.  It is small and easily hidden, employees handle it all day, and cash has no sensor tags applied.

Do you know if internal theft involving cash is taking place at your business?  What are you doing to uncover this distinctively challenging form of employee theft and put an end to it?

There are a variety of situations and circumstances in which employee theft involving cash is likely to occur.  There are also a number of considerations when conducting the employee theft investigation around these losses.

The most uncomplicated scheme is simply taking money directly from the drawer.  The effect of this style of internal theft is blatantly obvious the next day when the accounting department discloses that money is missing from the drawer.

It is most effective to begin the investigation by reviewing “No Sale” functions when conducting an employee theft investigation.  Most associates do not take cash during an actual transaction because of the witnesses (i.e. the customer) present.

Instead, the employee waits until it appears that no one is observing to conduct a “No Sale” function, and then pockets the cash.  The employee wrongly believes that the absence of witnesses enables him to hide his or her actions.  In reality this type of theft is usually quite simple to pinpoint.

Another scheme to take cash is conducting voids.  This is more difficult to apprehend, but it can be accomplished with due diligence. The dishonest associate will void a transaction and take the cash in this particular form of employee theft sting.  Because the register now assumes the sale did not happen, it will then not show short since the cash “should not have been there” according to the register.

Prevention and discovery requires that the employer routinely watch for associates conducting a lot of voids followed by “No Sales”.  Since they voided the transaction the cashier has to use the “No Sale” function to open the drawer and make change for the customer.

The employer can also pull random voids and review the video to see if the merchandise stays in the store or, if in fact, the customer takes it out of the store.  The cashier is stealing from you if the customer takes the item out of the store.

There is no easy solution for internal theft; however, a thorough employee theft investigation helps eliminate problems and prevent future loss.

For more information about employee theft, employee theft investigation and internal theft please contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia.

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The Ins and Out – Checkpoint Systems

April 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Have you ever wondered how Checkpoint Security System stop shoplifting? The answer is easy once you understand how Checkpoint Systems work.

There are two main components for effective anti shoplifting. The towers, which are stationed at an entrance door, and the Checkpoint tags.

The towers flank the door and send out a signal, creating a sort of force field around your door. An audible alarm is generated any time a tag enters this field. This alerts your staff to the door to offer quality customer service to validate a false alarm, or ultimately to recognize a theft in progress. This is what retail theft prevention is all about.

Checkpoint tags and the rest of the Checkpoint Security System offer a simple for of retail theft prevention. It gives the store’s employees a cue as to what is going on. No one needs to be a great detective or to be asked to engage in a risky confrontation.

The Checkpoint System goes off and the employee politely responds to the alarm. If a shoplifter sees an alarm going off, with an employee’s response, they can assume that the same will happen to them if they set the alarm off too.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547 

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Door Guards as retail anti-theft devices

April 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Larger stores sometimes have the luxury of an employee only entrance which utilizes some type of door guard or watchman.  This system offers a huge advantage in the ongoing battle to mitigate and control internal theft. These watchmen are hired to inspect bags and check refunds as well as to sign off on employee purchases. They are also alert to retail anti-theft devices that may have accidentally (or otherwise) failed to be deactivated.

It is not that easy for most of us. Although there might be an approved entrance and/or exit, there is always a back door which is normally used for trash and receipt of deliveries.  Any security measures used at the back door are designed to prevent employee theft and not to prevent shoplifting.

This back door area offers a huge opportunity for employee theft to occur unless someone is watching this door.  Unfortunately there are many employees who are looking for opportunities to sneak merchandise out the back door.

This is where a device like Nano Gate is the perfect solution. The design is compact enabling it to hang discreetly on a wall and out of the way of damage. The big bulky EAS towers are not conducive to receiving a truck full of boxed-up merchandise. The Nano Gate is a much better fit.

Employing this extra alarm creates one more barrier that an employee attempting to steal must thwart. They are now prevented from sneaking EAS tagged merchandise out the back door and attempting to deactivate tags in the privacy of their own home. A Nano Gate absolutely reduces or eliminates high dollar items walking out the back.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti-theft devices used in conjunction with the Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help prevent shoplifting for your business.

For more information on how you can customize retail anti-theft devices and Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to absolutely deter or prevent shoplifting please contact us or call 1.770.426.0547. 

 

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Employee background checks: An ounce of prevention

April 15, 2013 by

Because criminal records are just one of several indicators that facilitate determining the suitability of a job candidate, performing criminal background checks is only one component of a comprehensive pre-employment screening program. I have listed several examples which will help you better understand how effectively pre-employment screening with criminal background checks protects your company.

Example #1:  Let’s say you are charged with hiring a truck driver that will deliver drugs for a healthcare facility. If a background check company returns unfavorable employee background check results which indicate the candidate has two previous drug related convictions, you have just saved yourself and countless others untold misery and loss.  You could have easily given the keys to a drug locker to a known criminal with a history of drug abuse without conducting employee background checks for all potential new hires.

Example #2: Let’s say you own a shuttle service and one of your employee assaults a customer while in transit to any given destination.  After the incident it is discovered that the employee has a history of violent crime. If you have not conducted a criminal background check; the record will reveal that you, as the employer, have not done everything possible to make a good hiring decision before the suspect was extended an employment offer. 

If the victim later sues your company using public information that can be found on the internet and a law firm uncovers the suspect’s criminal history, your argument is not going to stand up in court.  An incident that could have been prevented by hiring a reputable background check company has the potential to bankrupt your company and possibly destroy your reputation in the community.

I hope this blog has helped you understand the significance of performing background checks on potential new hires.  Background check experts possess the expertise to conduct background checks that can save you a lot more than money. This is a small investment to make to protect your income, reputation, employees and customers.   

For more information about background check experts, background checks, criminal background checks, employee background checks and pre-employment screening please contact us at background check company or call 1.770.426.0547.

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Bleeding Profits – Employee Theft

April 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Unfortunately employee theft (also known as internal theft) is a reality when operating a business of any size.  More than half of all retail industry shortage is a result of employee theft.  Every business owner needs to be aware of this and take the appropriate actions to confront this reality.

Employee theft frequently manifests through internal collusion or assisting the theft by an external party.  Most often though internal theft is the primary form of employee theft that impacts businesses.

Internal theft happens in a variety of different ways.  Most retail businesses have cashiers and, of course, these cashiers have access to many assets.  Retail cashiers have access to the register funds.  This access and the level of direct supervision frequently create an environment that is conducive for internal theft.

It is critical to remember that each employee is a potential avenue to loss.  Every employee in an organization has access to assets.  This means that not only the business’s cashiers present the possibility for loss.   The stock workers have access to your inventory, the facilities’ staff often work unsupervised and after hours, and the management staff has direct access to the safe and reserve funds

If employee theft is suspected, the next step should be to initiate employee theft investigations.  As soon as an owner or manager notices that loss has occurred, the employee theft investigation is indicated – it should also become a routine measure to uncover loss yet unnoticed and to serve as warning as well.

The goal of employee theft investigations should be to uncover and address internal theft issues.  An CCTV systems, personnel surveillance, and controlled auditing.

The goal should be not only removing the guilty party, but also identifying any control or supervision issues.  An employee theft investigation also can support the course of correction that might be indicated.

For more information on employee theft, employee theft investigation and internal theft please contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia.

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