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Did you realy think you would get away with that?

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor

I never fail to see something new in my internal cases. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think about how much more productive they could have been if they had only used their cleverness for good instead of evil. Sometimes I just look at the employee and sigh. That’s how this last case was, one big “did you really think you could get away with that” sigh.

Clothing security is a huge focus in our stores. A lot of inventory loss has been avoided because of our diligence. We do a great job using Checkpoint tags to coincide with our clothing alarm. With security tags on clothes, the losses we do incur are easier to track. This is where this particular employee messed up.

I was reviewing our report for clothing alarms that happened before and after hours. One incident had shown up. When I reviewed on our CCTV system, it showed an employee leaving with one of our brand new jackets and a pair of pants on. I reviewed her during the day and saw that she had come in to work with a different outfit on, and no bag. When I reviewed for a purchase, there wasn’t one.

This employee had stolen a brand new outfit for her date that night. She said she was going to return it, which is why she didn’t bother to take the clothing security tags off. This employee simply thought it wasn’t a big deal to “borrow” clothes from work?!? If it hadn’t been for the clothing security tags, the clothing alarm wouldn’t have gone off. It was an easy case; you just followed the obvious trail she left behind.

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Do you know who you can trust?

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

When you are running a business it is very important to know who you can trust and who you can’t. Hopefully, anyone in your store that has access to keys, alarm codes, and store funds (including sales deposits) is on your trustworthy list.

If they are not on your list, I trust that you have a plan in place to remove them from your employment.

Employee theft accounts for over 40% of a store’s losses, which makes it extremely vital that your key positions are held by employees with the highest of standards and scruples.

Sometimes, as a manager or owner, you might only be seeing one side of these employees. They may act very differently around you than they do when they are alone. Let’s face it; if an employee is going to steal from you, they aren’t going to do it right in front of your face.

They might, however, do it around other employees, many of whom are not in a position of authority. So how do you instill the trust in those employees to come and talk to you about what goes on behind your back?

Take the loss prevention workshop specifically on how to talk to your employees about employee theft, and entrusting you with that information.

Some of the best information on some of my biggest cases of employee theft have come directly from my employees.

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

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Our Shoes were Walking out the Door!

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

In one of my stores there is a problem that isn’t exactly unique to them but is somewhat of an epidemic. They are constantly losing shoes to theft.

In their efforts to prevent shoplifting in their store they have tried every way possible to battle this issue, but in spite of their efforts their total shrink in that department is astounding. They have done everything from ensuring one hundred percent tagging standards to twenty-four hour surveillance of the area, but still they get beat.

The problem seems to be that the retail anti-theft devices they were using had been beaten and the local thieves seem to have spread the word on the methods to do it.

After researching the problem we have come up with a somewhat unorthodox use for a different type of retail anti-theft device which so far has seemed to confound the culprits. Now the department is required to use 2 Alarm locks on all footwear in the store, specifically running the cable through the eye-loops of the footwear itself or attaching it to a structurally sound part of the item. Also, if possible, they are to run the 2 Alarm units through BOTH pieces of footwear, thereby ensuring that the pair is kept intact and should anyone attempt to defeat the 2 Alarm piece it will simply sound off alerting associates to possible purloining of product.

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Keeping your Equipment Up to Date can Actually Save you Money!

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

It is a sad fact that in today’s job market and national economy a lot of us in the Retail Security or Operations field end up having to move about quite a bit. More often than not the reason is that the company you were working for didn’t have the budget to keep you (or even your whole department) on the payroll. I understand fully the need for corporations to ‘trim the fat’ in order to survive but the area they certainly shouldn’t be skimping on is Retail Security or a fairly current suite of retail anti-Theft Devices.

A few months back I fell victim to the budget cut goblins at a certain retail firm but was quickly picked up by another company looking to completely rebuild their Loss Prevention department from the ground up. They had a lot of great ideas as they pertained to retail Anti-Shoplifting setups and deterrence over apprehension but there was one major problem; not a single piece of their retail Anti-Theft Device inventory was younger than twenty years old. In fact most of it was much older. The problem with this arises when you get a shoplifter that knows how to defeat out of date equipment. There is a reason that Anti-Shoplifting devices have evolved over time and it is important that retailers understand this when considering their anti-shoplifting methods.

If you have a store that is trying to cut back on spending but not on Loss Prevention make sure they consider all the retail Anti-Shoplifting alternatives so you don’t feel like you are fighting high-tech, computer savvy thieves with old-fashioned, pre-calculator equipment.

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Internal Theft Involves External Forces

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Not every employee theft investigation is going to be the same. Sure the excuses rarely change flavor: “I needed the money”, “I have a gambling problem”, “I just thought I could get away with it”, “I didn’t think anyone would notice”, but the methods involved tend to vary enough that such investigations hardly ever follow the same pattern.

Because more and more employees are becoming aware of the so-called ‘eyes-in-the-sky’ and our constant focus on employee theft many have begun to try more complex and determined tactics to fleece their companies of goods and currency. The trend that is truly taking off is using outside help to accomplish illicit goals.

In one particularly recent employee theft incident I caught someone free-bagging goods with the help of a friend. The employee and friend had met up towards the rear of the store and were chatting when I spotted them. It was hardly conspicuous until I noticed the two women discussing in some detail the items in the friend’s basket. After about ten minutes the employee went up to the front of the store to a register which was unnecessary as she was only a back-up cashier and there was no line. Then the friend went to said register to ‘check-out’. Here was where it got interesting. The total sale for all of the products came out to around $45.00 and the friend handed over a fifty dollar bill. The cashier then handed her back three ten dollar bills as change. When the drawer was clocked at the end of the night there was only the $30.00 discrepancy which they couldn’t rectify to any single transaction until I brought my employee theft investigation to light. When later confronted in interview the employee stated “I didn’t think anyone would notice that”.

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

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Cheap Labels are great for hats!

January 14, 2013 by Staff Editor

I had a shoplifter last week and all he really wanted was a new hat. He came into the department and started to try on every hat he could get his hands on. Gradually, he started to narrow down his selection to just a few hats.

What caught my eye wasn’t that he was making a huge mess out of the discarded hats, it was how he was looking at the hats he liked.

He wasn’t comparing the hats to his clothes, or his shoes. He wasn’t even looking at them in the mirror any more. Most guys, when they are looking to buy a ball cap, will play with the bill, and try to get just the right curve to it. This guy seemed to be stretching the bill out, as if looking for something on the inside. At this point it was obvious that he was looking for Anti-Theft Devices. We had cheap labels and cheap tags on all of the hats but he eventually found one that had been missed.

I guess he finally decided that it was free of anti theft devices and put the one he liked on his head. He bee lined for the door, and headed out. We stopped him, and recovered the hat.

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Not everyone is a thief, don’t let your customer suffer…

January 11, 2013 by Staff Editor

When you are in a retail establishment that is a high shrink area, it is easy to be distrustful of the customers coming in to shop. After a while you or your staff may just start to assume that everyone is a crook. When that mentality starts to take over, the level of customer service that everyone receives starts to go down.

When service diminishes, more than likely, so do sales. Now the theft problem becomes even bigger as it rips away even more of your profit, as the sales are not compensating for the shrink losses.

One of the best ways to bring back that level of service, and redeem your dwindling sales is to employ the use of liquor bottle locks with your liquor bottle security.

Alpha Security makes a line called the EASy Bottle, because it really is easy. They are easy to use, easy to audit for compliance, and easy to ward off the crooks in your store.

Once your liquor bottle security is in place, you can easily go back to providing customer service, without judgment, to your clientele. You can let the locks protect your inventory without you needing to maintain constant vigilance and suspicion.

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EAS Towers are Great for Restrooms!

January 11, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Among the more perfidious methods of theft in retail environments, is a shoplifter taking their selected items into store restrooms. There are often very exacting requirements to adhere to before executing any shoplifting apprehension involving a restroom concealment and it creates a great deal of pressure and stress for us within the Loss Prevention community; so much so that nine times out of ten we avoid going after such suspects as the risk of making a bad stop is too high.

The way around this is to create a problem for the shoplifters before they even get to the ‘safe zone’ of the restrooms. Since the vast majority of items taken into restrooms already have retail anti-theft devices in place it is simply a matter of establishing compatible retail security towers just before the restroom entrance. That way, should anyone try to get a tagged item into said restroom alarms would sound just as if they tried to exit the store with the same items.

Furthermore, in some jurisdictions the attempt to take unpaid product into a store restroom is akin to walking out the front doors with it and a stop can be made (with cause) when the alarm sounds. Of course you need to verify with your state and company retail security policies but if you have the ability, use it.

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Clothing Security for Out Of Package Problems?

January 11, 2013 by Staff Editor

OOP, or Out of Package items can create unnecessary work and margin loss to items that often don’t have a huge mark up to begin with. Clothes that come in packages, like socks or dress shirts, are common out of package items.

All too often I go into stores and see rounders full of shirts haphazardly thrown onto available hangers, marked at an additional discount. Socks are even worse. Someone has to take the time to hang tag them together, hope it stays, and then put out on the same hooks as the nicely packaged ones.

Most of the time OOP occur because a customer wants to try an item on for fit, or feel the quality of the clothes. Less frequently, but still a problem are those that open a package to take out one of the components and steal it. The problem is that customers seldom want to pay full prices for an OOP item. The only way to prevent loss on these items is to use clothing security. Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags are great for these types of items.

Maybe it is the tie that comes with the shirt, or a special accessory included on a specific packaged deal. Retail anti-theft devices can be attached to these items prior to a theft, or they can be added afterwards to these out of package items.

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Checkpoint Systems: Your Comprehensive Anti-Shoplifting Strategy

January 7, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Retail theft prevention is a priority for all retailers and the use retail anti-shoplifting devices is the first step to protect merchandise from external and internal theft. Merchants continue to see alarming increases in shoplifting incidents as a result of growing economic pressure and checkpoint systems pay for themselves.

A checkpoint security system is the most comprehensive, simple and cost effective form of theft deterrence for merchants. Checkpoint systems are easy to manage and this state of the art technology requires very little training and maintenance.

You have probably learned by now that most shoplifters are opportunists so the key to retail theft prevention is eliminating the opportunity. Checkpoint security tags are difficult to remove without the proper tools and this forces shoplifters think twice before challenging the integrity of a merchant.

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.

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