Anti-Theft Devices: A Shoplifter’s Enemy

Clothing security is important in any retail establishment if that establishment wants to make profit. If you go into any major retailer out there I can guarantee you that Loss Prevention has a list of the top shrink/loss departments. I can also guarantee you that on a list of five departments, three will be clothes.

            Clothes are easy to steal and that is the reason that they appear on top shrink lists. Investing in anti-theft devices including various forms of security tags will greatly lower your shrink. It’s a safe investment but best of all it is an inexpensive one as well. There are plenty different kinds of cheap tags available to fit your business needs. In order to compliment these tags are very cheap labels which serve a shrink reducing purpose.

            Let’s say anti-theft devices were placed on jeans. The device was placed on it incorrectly on a pair and it was not visible to a shoplifter, the tag failed in its purpose. But like a good partner, a cheap label was there visibly stating that merchandise from that specific rack were all protected. The shoplifter changes his mind and leaves the store, and you just saved some clothes.

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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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Methodology in clothing security

If you have a retail store that focuses on selling clothes you should be made aware that clothing security is much more than simply picking out a few anti-theft devices and thinking you are all set.  In truth you have to do everything from picking the anti-theft devices to ensuring the clothes are placed in an area of the store that makes them less desirable targets for potential shoplifters. 

Store layouts are key in protecting your assets.  For starters; placing the clothes as far from the entrance as possible ensures they are less likely to be the target of ‘grab-and-dash’ types of theft.  Then, ensuring that there are very visible cameras or other forms of surveillance devices helps make the thieves think twice when targeting said items.  Finally, the biggest issue in clothing security is protecting items going into a fitting room.  Not all places can afford to add it to the payroll, but I cannot proclaim the value of a continuous fitting room attendant enough.  A physical presence of a store employee is an almost surefire way to keep someone from pulling something in the fitting rooms.

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 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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Protect The Rest

I have had the unfortunate experience of having to apprehend juveniles for shoplifting in my stores. One of the big times seem to always be around the end of the school years with Prom looming in the background. I have caught, more than once, a love struck high school girl trying to steal her clothes and accessories for the prom to impress a young man.

 Clothing security is important not only to your bread and butter clothing items, but also in your special occasion areas. The use of anti theft devices may seem unnecessary, but it is really a necessary precaution.  Using Cheap tags or Cheap labels can help defray the costs of additional anti theft devices just for this time of year.

 I know that the instances of theft have decreased each year the more product we use tags on. I see the girls come in, look at the dresses, take note of the tags and then leave. I even caught a few shoplifters the first year we used the hard tags, who told us how surprised they were to be caught. They had heard from older classmates that this was the place to go because we didn’t have any clothing security.

 Don’t let your special occasion items slide out the door unpaid for. Protect them like you protect the rest of your merchandise.

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 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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Too Hot For Coats

Now I know that the Northeast just had a big storm blow through with an unusual amount of snow for this late in the spring. For the rest of the country, it is time for us to put our heavy winter coats away for the season.

 Clothing security is more than just shrink reduction plans and high tech anti theft devices. It is about the complete picture of how to protect your clothes from theft- both internal and external.

 Being able to identify common traits in shoplifters narrows down your scope of vision. It lets you hone in on the real shoplifters, not the offbeat customers.

 One of the traits I watch for is someone who is wearing a heavy or bulky coat during uncharacteristically suited warm weather. Now it is possible that they really are just cold, but chances are, they are trying to steal and need someplace to conceal your merchandise.

 It’s not a completely fool proof system. It is just one that stands out in my head as we make the transition to summer.

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 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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The Green Solution

Many companies are making the transition into a more environmentally conscious mode. Whether it be all natural or organic foods, sustainable building designs or just reduction of waste, the green movement is sweeping the nation. More designers are using green materials in their clothes, so the next logical step is to use green anti theft devices for your clothing security.

 Environmentally safe and inexpensive cheap tags are the ideal solution. EAS systems employ the use of hard tags to deter shoplifters. These two part plastic devices clamp a pin through the material creating an impenetrable bond. The EAS tags are virtually unbeatable without the proper detachers.

 They are a green solution as the tags can be reused over and over again. If one half is lost, another piece can easily be used as all EAS tag halves work with each other. There is no need to create extra waste by disposing of the hard tags. The reusable nature of the tags also helps to keep the costs down by eliminating the need for continual reorders.

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 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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All About the Customer Service

Very few things make me more proud than to have one of my employees come to me with their news of making a recovery. I’m not talking about recovering their area of the store, as in cleaning up. I am talking about recovering clothes from a potential shoplifter.

 Every once in a while, one of my employees will respond to an EAS alarm and get a huge surprise. For example, just the other day a cashier heard the EAS go off and she went to offer assistance to that customer. Well, the lady that set off the alarm was so shocked not only because she missed the anti theft devices on our merchandise, but because someone had come to greet her.

 She saw the cashier getting closer, and quickly pulled several clothing items out of her purse, threw them at the cashier and ran out the door. The cashier was in total awe and it took her a moment to realize that the clothes had all of our tags still on them. She had no intention of stopping a shoplifter; she was just trying to give good customer service. It was that service that prevented a loss for our store.

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 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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Not Just For The Shoplifters

Clothing security is generally spoken of in the context of shoplifters. It is easy to qualify programs in terms of external theft. I suppose it is more tangible. In some stores, the only time you see loss prevention employees is when they have a shoplifter in custody. Or when they are walking out with the local police department who has taken custody of said shoplifter.

 The use of anti theft devices on clothes is rarely thought of as a deterrent for employee theft. When only 20 – 30% of inventory losses are caused by external theft, it’s time to rethink the usefulness of EAS systems. When used for deterring

 Internal theft, the return on your investment in clothing security is ten fold.

 It only takes one employee to turn to suffer major losses. While it is possible to receive compensation from an employee for their theft, it is paid out over time. In some larger cases, that may equate to minimal monthly payments spread out over years. The merchandise that was stolen is rarely recovered.

 Let your EAS live up to it’s fullest potential by protecting your clothes from internal theft.

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 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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Where is the weak link?

When it comes to applying clothing security, we had a solid tagging process in place in our store. As soon as the merchandise was received, we had a tag on it. The only problem was that when I went to audit our tagging compliance on the sales floor, I was always coming up with clothes missing tags. The truck unload team swore it wasn’t them, and after observing their process I knew it had to be something else. What we finally came to realize was that one frequently missed task when providing clothing security was the tagging of returned merchandise. There are often very firm and well planned processes in place for tagging merchandise such as clothes as they are received, but if you do not have a hold of tagging merchandise as it is returned you will always come up short of 100%.

 Often times returned merchandise is missed in regard to anti-theft devices. It is a process in which merchandise is brought into the store, yet it is often not considered as receiving. Because of this it can cause us to miss the regular processes that are followed when merchandise is received. Having product protection plans in place for merchandise that is returned can have a huge impact on ensuing complete accuracy.

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 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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Just For the Men

When I worked for a high-end retailer, we had an extensive men’s wear department. It was such a big deal that some locations in the company actually had a separate store dedicated just to men’s wear. The suits were a huge part of our bread and butter sales, so to speak.

 One of the problems we did run into was missing pieces to suits. We were diligent about making sure our miss matched pants and jackets didn’t belong to each other. We would also notice that vests were starting to come up missing. It turns out, our clothing security wasn’t the greatest in the suit department, and thieves were starting to take notice.

 One of the ideas to prevent further theft was to use some anti theft devices secured to the clothes. By using a cheap tag in conjunction with a cheap label, we were financially able to tag each piece of the suit.

 Our losses slowly started to diminish as word spread. We also spent less time looking for the errant piece of a suit that wasn’t there.

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 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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Loss Prevention, not Lost Profit

In order to truly execute a sound shrink reduction plan, it is important to determine the overall cost analysis. If a plan reduces shrink, but also reduces sales, for example having high theft pieces of clothes under lock and key, is it really a feasible plan.

 What about the financial costs to execute this reduction strategy? Anti theft devices are readily available, but what is the difference between the expensive name brands and the cheap tags and cheap labels?

 What you really want to protect your clothes from theft is to use cheap tags and cheap labels that are reliable and accurate. Some foreign made tags and labels may be inexpensive, but they are not reliable.

 They may reactivate themselves causing customer issues, or they may simply not be activated at all. If that’s the case, you are paying good money for a piece of plastic that doesn’t do anything at all to help you reduce shrink.

 Rest assured, it is only a matter of time before the thieving community (or your employees) are aware of these “dummy” tags. Better put your trust and money into reliable tags from the beginning to protect your investments.

 Visit RBC Security Solutions for 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.

 Click here for your Free Sample of these new Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags for your Clothing Security needs!