Secondary Territory

October 1, 2012 by

We all have a comfort zone. It starts at our house. That is where we can kick back, relax and be ourselves. We create our own little environments perfectly suited to our desires and tastes.

Once we have our home territory in satisfactory mental comfort, we start to move on. We have secondary territories that turn out to be an extension of our homes. These are places like a familiar restaurant, a good friend or even a relative’s home, or our workplaces where we start to settle in and start to create those same comfort zones.

This is when I often start to hear important pieces of information regarding my associates. They get comfortable at work, just like they do at home, and they start to talk. They discuss their relationships, finances, and off the record shenanigans.

It has been more than once that I have opened up employee theft investigations based off of information spilled in the comforts of the employee break room. Sadly, some of those suspicions were substantiated.

I don’t always get to see the full extent of the background checks that were run before they were hired on to the company. I do get to see them after the case is starting to come to a close.

Because we don’t hire background check experts to review the background checks, some of the potential red flags that I do see had gone unnoticed.

Maybe the background check experts would have caught onto a detail we overlooked, and would have prevented us from hiring that person who ended u stealing from us.

For more information on background check experts , background checks , criminal background checks , employee background checks or pre employment screening contact us at the background check company or call 1.770.426.0547

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So you think you know

October 1, 2012 by

Most people think that they know all about clothing security just because they know of Checkpoint tags. But what a lot of people, and business may not know is the extent of the products that Checkpoint tags come in.

Clothing security tags go far beyond just the old school hard tags and soft tags that set of the clothing alarms at the doors.

The security tags on clothes now come in more sleek, discreet, and varied configurations than ever before. The products even come with varying levels of security awareness and prevention.

Take the Alpha Security line of 3 Alarm products. They are designed to work with more specific solutions that their one alarm products. A 3 Alarm product has three levels of security.

It takes the traditional one alarm (which is the traditional alarm at the door) and adds on to it. It also has a tamper alarm. If someone tries to tamper or disable the alarm mechanism before they leave the store, the alarm on the product itself will go off.

Finally the stage three is the alarm if the product does leave the store before being deactivated. This comes in handy in “grab n run” scenarios. The alarm will not only sound as it passes through the pedestals, but the alarm will continue to go off for a full ten minutes after it has been activated.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags 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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Are shoplifters putting the “low” in your Halloween sales? Time to start thinking about clothing security!

October 1, 2012 by

Halloween is fast approaching us and there is nothing scarier for a business owner than to see their merchandise being stolen. Even if thieves steal only one item, that one item will not only impact your profits but it means you have to sell even more just to make up for the stolen goods. Now that is something that can really damper the holiday spirit.

So how can you protect your store from theft? One of the most cost effective ways is to implement clothing security tags such as the Checkpoint tags. These devices come in all sizes to fit the needs of your business. However, they share a fundamental element: they will provide valuable clothing security in your store. There are some labels that can be hidden underneath barcodes on fragrances and other boxed merchandise. There are also clothing security tags which conveniently and discreetly attach to clothing items. If a thief had a choice between attempting to steal the item with clothing security tags and going down the block to the store without any protection, which store do you think they would rather steal from? The choice is easy.

Preventing theft in your store doesn’t require a full surveillance team. Many of the thieves can be scared away simply by the sight of security tags on clothes. Clothing security can ensure your product stays where it is supposed to: on your shelves or in the hands of your customers. So don’t let shoplifters trick or treat in your store. Scare them away with Checkpoint tags!

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

 

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Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

As a management professional, I am constantly reminded that we live in a very litigious society. Even when we feel that we would be doing the right thing by standing up for ourselves, or our businesses. Often times we make the decision to err on the side of caution to avoid customer complaints, or even worse, a lawsuit.

This can ring especially true when it comes to new employee hiring practices. I have seen hiring managers afraid to not hire a candidate for fear of a discrimination lawsuit, even if there are more qualified candidates applying for the position.

I have also seen candidates hired, despite a gut feeling that there is something the manager is missing. Gut feelings don’t hold up in court, you know.

So what to do? How do you keep yourselves out of hot water, and still fill your open positions quickly and legally?

Take the Loss Prevention Workshop focused on pre employment screening. They will give you the loss prevention training you need to ask the right questions to legally obtain the right answers. They can also show you how to read between the lines of a background check.

The best part about attending loss prevention seminars is because you are with someone face to face, you have the ability to ask questions to make sure you can take away the most useful information.

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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It will have you jumping through hoops

October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Solutions to prevent shoplifting accessories like hoop earrings are hard to come by. Hard tags are too bulky to hook onto the earring cards. Even the smaller fashion tags are bulky when used on such a small surface area. They are also not very nice to look at and detract from pristine jewelry displays.

 Soft tags, which can be embedded into the jewelry cards, are not an effective retail anti theft device. The soft tags are either torn off, or the cards themselves are discarded as a shoplifter conceals the earrings.

 Using the new Jewel Lok retail anti theft devices is the new best practice solution that has been tested in several retail stores already. What they have found is that the Jewel Lok is not only simple to use, but also simple to remove at the point of sale and has a much better success rate than its soft tag counterparts.

 There are two locking mechanisms for the Hoop Earring Jewel Loks. The go through the hole in the jewelry card, and the earring slides through the lock and the push buttons lock them securely in place.

 On a side note, the Jewel Loks are reversible so you can use them on either the right or left earring.

 To remove the locks, just place them on the detacher and push the buttons again to release. Just make sure you don’t put credit cards on the detacher as it may demagnetize the strips on the back of credit or debit cards.

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

 For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

 

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New venue, ancient equipment

October 1, 2012 by 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 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 Anti-Shoplifting setups and deterrence over apprehension but there was one major problem; not a single piece of their Anti-Theft Device inventory was younger than twenty years old.  In fact most of it was much older.

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

 Visit RBC Security Solutions for Checkpoint Compatible Anti-Shoplifting or Anti- theft Devices that can help you with your Retail Security needs 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 Anti- theft Devices in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to help you prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags contact us.

 Click here for your Free Sample of these new Checkpoint Compatible Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags for your Retail Security and Anti-Shoplifting needs! 

 

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Making the exception

October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

When you work in the loss prevention or asset protection department, a large part of your daily routine is to look for and to begin employee theft investigations. Often the cases you start to develop are what we commonly refer to as “low hanging fruit”.

These are the employee theft investigations that you really don’t have to search for. They tend to fall in your lap from either blatant stupidity on the part of an employee, or they show up on an obvious exception report.

For those who haven’t worked with an exception report before, let me just say that you are missing out. These reports are designed to eliminate a major amount of time researching transaction and journal tapes. It’s sort of the cliff notes version of transaction research.

Exception reports clarify employee theft investigations by giving not only specific information (like a dollar amount) but also time, date, and MO.

Exception reports can be anything from a no sale conducted after a cash transaction, to post voids. They can even incorporate statistical analysis based on the store’s norms.  For example, you can see cashiers who have a higher refund percentage in both transactions and dollar amounts.

By utilizing the work that the exception reports has already done for you, you can spend more of your time conducting live surveillance. You can also make sure that you have captured a higher percentage of fraudulent or loss incurring transactions than if you had to scour the paper trail on your own.

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

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Some like it hotter

October 1, 2012 by

Heat waves have been sweeping the country. It seems like most of us just can’t do enough to escape the triple digit temperatures. All of the radio and TV reporters are talking constantly about staying inside of air-conditioned buildings and other ways to beat the heat.

 So you know what happens next, right? Everyone goes to one of the most prominent air-conditioned public buildings around: the mall. Later, they go to chill out at the pool.

 In between those two actions, we have seen an influx in the theft of bathing suits.

 Good for us, we are using the “Golf Ball” tags on our swimwear. These anti theft devices are made up of two identical halves. About the size and shape of a smashed golf ball, the pin on the tag is concealed inside one of the halves.

 When the two halves are pressed together, the pin is not exposed, making it a great piece of clothing security for stretchy and mesh swimwear. It’s great because it stays in place, and it is less likely to damage the clothes.

 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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State Stores: Finally, we have Privacy!!!

September 28, 2012 by

As of late I have been contacted by a few potential business owners who are eyeing up the latest trends by states to get out of the state run liquor store business. These potential business owners contacted me as a lp consultant to go over a way to move from a government run entity to a privately run business. We all know that the private sector is more conscious of protecting the bottom line.

My initial move was to go to a few of the proposed state run locations to see what liquor bottle security measures, if any, they had in place. Besides CCTV I did not see any additional bottle security. I was troubled at the lack of urgency to secure the inventory. I spoke to a couple of the managers regarding my research into their loss prevention techniques and they confirmed that the only liquor bottle security measures they had in place was their inventory counts and CCTV.

My second step in the process was to research any company that touted bottle security as one of their fortes’. I came across a company called Alpha Security. I was duly impressed with Alpha Security’s EASy Bottle bottle lock system which employed an alarmed liquor bottle lock as the key to its success. There were several different types of liquor bottle locks offered within the EASy bottle bottle lock system. All of the liquor bottle locks were alarmed and if tampered with would render the product in-consumable. My only concern was that the liquor bottle lock would be too cumbersome for proper marketing and storage. I was delighted to see that not only were the liquor bottle locks not too big or gaudy but that they were in fact lean and aesthetically pleasing while clearly denoting its purpose to deter theft.

Armed with this research regarding Alpha Security’s EASy bottle bottle lock system I sat down with several of these potential business owners. Bottle security was the topic of discussion. They were duly impressed with the dual purpose of the liquor bottle lock, excellent liquor bottle security and storage/marketing capability. The business owners saw the weakness of the government run facilities attempt at loss prevention and the strength of Alpha Security’s solutions to those loss prevention opportunities. An overall strategy was formulated that I believe will give these business owners a fighting chance to facilitate a seamless change from the government sector to the private sector.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks from Alpha Security.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Locks, Bottle lock, liquor Bottle Security, bottle security or EASy Bottle contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

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Everybody Knows em’

September 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

If you are looking for ways to upgrade your stores retail security with anti theft devices, EAS labels and tags are one of the most common ways to go.  One of the reasons why they are such a common tactic is, simply put, because they work. Tags and labels are known throughout the retail community. Both thieves and customers are aware of them and are conscious about having them deactivated.

 It really isn’t necessary to reinvent the wheel when it comes to retail security. By using tried and true methods, it saves you countless hours of frustration. You don’t have to be the one to use trial and error to see what works. Someone else has already done that for you.

 You don’t have to be the one to send the message that you use anti shoplifting tactics. The EAS tags and labels do that for you. It is statistically proven that using EAS tags and labels reduce your shrink incurred. Both items and dollars can see a significant reduction in losses. Why would you look elsewhere for a solution for your retail security program? Stick with what you and everyone else know: EAS tags and labels work. 

 Visit RBC Security Solutions for Anti-Shoplifting or Anti- theft Devices that can help you with your Retail Security needs like Cheap Tags and Cheap Labels. Our EAS Labels and Tags are not cheap they are inexpensive and made in the U.S.

 For more information on how you can use Anti- theft Devices to help you prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Tags and Cheap Labels contact us.

 Click here for your Free Sample of these new Cheap Tags and Cheap Labels for your Retail Security and Anti-Shoplifting needs!

 

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