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Spider wraps from Alpha. A great way to prevent shoplifting without preventing sales.

August 30, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Spider wraps from Alpha are the cutting edge in retail anti theft devices. We all know that it is important to prevent shoplifting in order to be successful. What we have all found is some retail anti theft devices have the unintended consequences of also preventing sales.

Locked cases are the death touch for sales. We have all used them and in some cases they are just plain necessary. The problem is customers don’t want to wait for an associate so they can read the info on a package and decide if it is the right product for them. Customers want to handle the product and when they can’t they don’t buy. Spider wraps are the answer to this quandary. The Spider wrap is a reusable wire that goes around boxed product and secures an alarm to the product. If the item with the Spider wrap tries to leave the store, via theft, then the alarm will sound. Additionally, if a really smart crook tries to cut the wire the alarm will sound. In case you have never used this product let me fill you in on a little secret. This is not a small alarm. This joker is loud and sure to draw lots of attention to the shoplifter. The result, shoplifters don’t mess with products in Spider wraps as there is no good way to beat this system.

Another positive about this is you can virtually do away with locked cases. Those high dollar items that you once had under lock and key can now be displayed on the shelf for customer to look at, handle and hopefully buy. In truth the product pays for itself in increased sales as well as prevent shoplifting. Not bad for a little ole retail anti theft device now is it?

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

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

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If You Don’t Tag, You’re It

August 30, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

While the use of RF security tags is widespread in major retail stores, only a handful of smaller, locally owned retailers have an EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) system. The primary concern for small businesses is, of course, the upfront cost of the system. While EAS systems are not “cheap” neither is the amount of loss a retailer will see if they do not stop shoplifting from occurring.

The average retailer has a profit margin of only 2% once you include the cost for the product, labor, utilities and lease payment. This means that if a shoplifter steals one item that costs $30 the retailer would have to sell $1500 to recoup the money that was lost from one item being stolen. In all my experience, I have never met a retailer that could not recoup the cost of a Checkpoint system within the first year that the system was installed.

Checkpoint security tags and RF labels are easy to apply and become a part of your employee’s daily routine. You can attach Checkpoint labels and RF security tags to virtually any product or item that you do not want leaving your store. These items are not just for giant one-stop-shop stores but are for every store that decides that they want to stop shoplifting from erasing their profits. You might think that it costs a little more up front but if you run the numbers, an EAS system always wins.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

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Missing money?? Ever consider employee theft to be the reason??

August 30, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I hope the answer is “yes”. Statistically, employee theft, also known as internal theft, is the highest causal factor for loss in retail. I know we all like to believe that cash losses are just “mistakes” and that we can do some re-training to fix the problem. You may be right. Some cash loss is due to mistakes being made. Unfortunately, it can often be due to internal theft. So how do you know the difference? Easy, you have to conduct an employee theft investigation every time you have a cash loss to find out what the cause is.

Employee theft investigations can be simple or complex. It really just depends on the situation. For cash, you should start your employee theft investigation by creating an Over/Short tracker. One way to do this is create a spreadsheet with all of the employees who run a register listed on the left hand column going vertically across the page. Then you make a row of dates horizontally across the top. Every time you have a shortage, go ahead and make a mark by each cashier on the till under the date the shortage occurred. If you do have a thief, you will start to see a pattern develop over time as you will only have one common denominator on the tills.

Another way to complete and employee theft investigation on cash is to do a careful review of the journal roll for that register. You are looking for a few things.

1) You are looking for a mistake that may show that it was an error and not theft.

2) You are looking for high employee theft indicators such as: No Sales, Refunds, Voids, etc.

You should then use your camera system to “spot check” a few suspicious transactions to see if that is where the money went missing.

Internal theft investigations on cash often take time and patience, but it’s well worth the investment if it means removing a dishonest employee.

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

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Anti Shoplifting Tools

August 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

There is no common conclusion among retailers on what constitutes the best anti shoplifting device. There are all kinds of tools that the retailer can use to keep shoplifting under control depending on the severity and frequency of theft, the category and price point of merchandise displayed and the actual location of the store itself. The common denominator seems to be that no matter what anti shoplifting measures the retailer takes, the shoplifter will always try to find a way to defeat it.

Convex mirrors, visible cameras, and two way mirrors are easily seen and avoided by shoplifters, as are sales people and other employees. All a shoplifter needs is a second of privacy hidden from view to conceal merchandise and be out of the store with it.

Checkpoint Security Systems has a retail theft prevention plan designed to stop shoplifting by all but the most determined shoplifters.

The retailer makes the decision as to the criteria of the merchandise to be protected. Checkpoint labels or Checkpoint tags are attached to that merchandise and effectively ensures that a shoplifter will not steal it.

Checkpoint labels are placed on the packaging of merchandise considered high theft. There are a large selection of anti shoplifting labels available from Checkpoint Systems that attach to the packages with adhesive or are hidden inside the merchandise so that it is not visible to the customer. If these retail anti theft devices have not been deactivated by an employee and are carried out the door, an alarm will sound, alerting the staff to take action.

The Checkpoint tags attach to apparel and ready to wear by a pin that goes through the garment in an inconspicuous place and secures the tag to the garment. The Checkpoint tags can be removed only with a special detacher. As with the label, failure to remove the tag will result in an audible alarm at the exit.

Checkpoint Systems can help any retailer who wants to cut his losses due to shoplifting. The presence of the Checkpoint Security System alone deters most shoplifters since it is visible but not intimidating at the customer entrance and the Checkpoint security tags and Checkpoint labels are extremely difficult to remove or defeat.

Used by themselves or with other retail theft prevention tools, a Checkpoint Security System will significantly decrease a retailer’s loss to customer theft.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti theft devices, to help stop shoplifting in your business, from Checkpoint Systems.

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Don’t let shoplifters wet their whistles for free, use a Bottle lock!

August 27, 2011 by Staff Editor

Have you noticed your shelves thinning out, or empty bottles sitting around your store? Why aren’t you using bottle security to stop this kind of theft and protect your profits?

We all know alcohol is a very high theft item. It has now even become common practice for shoplifters to open bottles and drink them while they are in the store. This may not concern you much when they are drinking the less expensive beer but they are sometime knocking back your high end liquors as well.

Because of this newest theft trend Alpha Security has come up with some brilliant solutions for your bottle security problems. The EASy Bottle bottle lock by Alpha Security is the latest and greatest form of bottle security available today! These hard plastic bottle locks snap onto the top of liquor bottles and prevent them from being open without a special key that is kept at your cash register. These bottle locks are also outfitted with an EAS tag that will sound an alarm if someone thinks they can get the lock off once they’ve gotten out of your store.

Your liquor bottle security nightmare can come to an end. Use bottle locks today and you will notice increased profits immediately. You will not only stop shoplifting from your business but you will have product readily available to your honest customers. No more empty bottles in your store, no more locking up high end products in cases or behind the register. Make your store more shoppable and profitable with liquor bottle security!

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase an EASy Bottle bottle lock by Alpha Security.

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CLOTHING SECURITY Necessity not Nuisance

August 27, 2011 by Staff Editor

We’ve all seen them; we’ve all heard their piercing sound, those annoying little devices known as security tags. Security tags on clothes can be especially inconvenient in the fitting room. But if we remove the inconvenient annoyance factor and actually look at the bottom line, make money and prevent loss; these tags will soon become the norm. Security tags or Checkpoint tags were created to prevent loss and help protect a company’s assets.

High dollar items are always the first to be protected. This makes sense considering the dollar amount for this particular inventory. Checkpoint tags are good for items of high dollar. What about items of lesser value? Why not protect all assets of high or low value with checkpoint tags?

What about clothing security tags? Clothing security is not always priority but once considered over a period of time how much loss in clothing adds up; one might see the need for security tags on clothes. Clothing security is important considering consumers will always need clothes. Next to food, clothes are a necessity which means companies will always make money and always lose money from this particular kind of merchandise. The bonus to clothing security tags or security tags on clothes is tagging can be very discreet and less annoying if thought through and placed properly on or within the item.

Keeping clothing security tags and other security tags on and within items keeps an honest man honest and sends a shoplifter somewhere else. If you take away the opportunity and use all preventive measures to protect all assets, profit made will most certainly outweigh loss.

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

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing alarm, clothing security, clothing security tags or security tags on clothes contact us or call 1.770.426.4567

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Unlock my product and still prevent shoplifting. Say whaaat???

August 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

If you have spent any time in business you know the key to success is to anticipate your customer’s needs and have a solution waiting. On the converse, in order to maintain business you have to prevent shoplifting among the many areas that can drain your profits. One key to prevent shoplifting is to utilize retail anti theft devices.

There are a variety of retail anti theft devices that can be used. An increasingly popular solution is Safer cases produced by Alpha. I have started using these cases in my stores and have seen a huge impact. The Safer cases are clear hard plastic cases that you actually lock the product up in. Now I already hear the complaints, but I urge you to hear me out. I am not talking about locking up merchandise in case lines. We all know that customers are less likely to buy something that they have to wait for an associate to get for them. These cases are individual boxes. They stock on the shelf and the customer can still get the product themselves and take it to the register. The cashier then simply removes the product from the case (in seconds) and rings the product up.

A real benefit to this is you can actually remove those high dollar items from the locked cabinets and put them in Safer cases. This will still secure the product and prevent shoplifting while also growing sales as it makes the product much easier for your customer to access.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

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

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Efforts to Stop Shoplifting Get a Boost With RF Security Labels

August 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Shoplifting becomes more than a nuisance when it has a serious impact on the bottom line and calls for serious efforts to stop shoplifting by the shop ownership.

Shoplifting is so expected among retailers that it affects everything in the retail world from store design to merchandising to number of staff and the number of work hours scheduled. Shoplifting is even a budgeted item (inventory reserve) because everyone in the business knows that retail theft is a given.

Retail anti theft devices (example: Checkpoint security tags and Checkpoint security labels) of varying degrees have been found to have a positive impact on the rate of inventory loss for the retailer and proven to be cost effective as a means to stop shoplifting.

Technology has played a great part in the improvement of retail anti theft devices, from closed circuit television to electronic surveillance that detects merchandise protected by Checkpoint tags and Checkpoint security labels as it leaves a store or department without being purchased.

Checkpoint Systems manufactures anti theft solutions for almost any application or budget. Once only affordable by the largest retailers, there are now Checkpoint systems that pay a quick return on investment for any size store or boutique. Checkpoint RF tags and Checkpoint RF security labels are designed to be used on merchandise of unlimited size and shape. Boxes, soft goods, bottles, whatever needs protecting, Checkpoint systems, RF security tags and RF security labels are made to improve the retailer’s profit margin by preventing the potential profit to walk out the door courtesy of the five finger discount.

Some retailers restrict their effort to high theft/high value items by applying Checkpoint labels and RF security tags to such as baby formula or leather goods. The storeowner or manager is the best judge of how to use his assets to stop shoplifting, including RF security tags and RF security labels made by Checkpoint Systems.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

For more information on Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags and how to stop shoplifting contact us at RF label or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

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Noticing high voids from your cashiers? Did you think of employee theft as the reason??

August 26, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I can already hear the question. If I had a cashier stealing wouldn’t I be looking for missing cash and not high voids? The answer is “not necessarily”. Internal theft, which is the retail term for employee theft, has a long history of void abuse. It is important to conduct an employee theft investigation if you start seeing high voids.

Here is how this employee theft scam works. The customer comes to the register with product. The cashier rings up the product totaling $46. The customer, if paying with cash, will likely give the cashier $50. The cashier has a few options at this point. Some register programs have the ability to do a “void during”, which is to say they can void the whole transaction during the middle of sale. If so, the cashier can void the sale at that point. They will then do a “No Sale” to open the drawer and “finish” the transaction. The customer sees the drawer open and the cashier give them back their $4 in change so they don’t know anything happened. They take the merchandise and leave. Now the drawer has $46 more than what the register thinks it should have since with the void the transaction “never took place”. As for the internal theft piece, now the cashier can take the money and the drawer will still balance. If your register system can do a “void after”, which is to say after the transaction has been tendered, then the cashier can do the same thing. Ring the sale and process the customer and once the customer leaves they can void the sale and take the cash. Most all companies will have a variation of this type of employee theft at some point. That is why it is good to keep an eye on voids and complete an employee theft investigation any time you notice a spike in void transactions.

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

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Anti Shoplifting Checkpoint Tags are Alarming

August 25, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Anti shoplifting Checkpoint tags used as part of a retail theft prevention plan along with Checkpoint Security Systems EAS protection of vulnerable high theft merchandise is alarming!

The shoplifters think it’s alarming because once the Checkpoint Security System is installed in the store, they will have to decide on another retailer to visit in order to continue to commit their crime undetected. The customer can’t remove the Checkpoint tags once they’re attached.

The Checkpoint security tag is also alarming when it passes through the detection field of the Checkpoint Systems antennas located at the store’s entrance. The audible alarm and flashing light (on most models) alert store staff to the fact that Checkpoint tags are still attached to articles that are leaving the store and require attention. An employee using a special detacher specifically designed by Checkpoint Systems removes the tags at the point of sale.

Anti shoplifting applications for the Checkpoint security tags are designed for almost any type of merchandise, including specialty items. The RF (Radio Frequency) technology used in Checkpoint Security Systems is the very latest and most advanced in the industry for retailers. Also alarming for shoplifters is that the retailer can pick and choose which merchandise to protect. Shoplifters will definitely avoid stores that utilize a Checkpoint Security System as part of its anti shoplifting strategy. Apparel, sports gear, hardware, electronics, and almost any other type of merchandise you can imagine can be protected by one of Checkpoint Systems selection of hard tags or Checkpoint labels.

Checkpoint labels are best suited for items that a tag won’t work well on because of size or material, such as boxed or packaged items.

One thing a retailer won’t be alarmed about is the improvement in inventory shortage figures once an anti shoplifting program including Checkpoint Security Systems is used in his store.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti theft devices from Checkpoint Systems.