Just a sip – Liquor Bottle Security

There are reported incidents of people trying to open bottles and pour the contents into other containers. Liquor bottle security is more than someone coming in and trying to shoplift a bottle. Some people actually try to consume the alcohol on the premises. These losses make up a very difficult problem that retailers face.

The inherent problem is that once a bottle is opened, there is very little that a shop owner can do to recover the losses. Not only is it hard to convince a customer to buy an open bottle, it is even harder to convince, say the health department, that it is sanitary.

Health departments tend to look down on unsanitary food and beverage sales.

So what is the business owner to do? You can’t always keep an eye on everyone that comes into the store. If someone hides in a back corner and opens a bottle, sometimes it is hard to notice. Opening a bottle is relatively quiet. It’s not like tearing open a package in a clothing store.

This is an example where liquor bottle security is useful for more than just deterring shoplifters. Bottle locks prevent these losses from occurring.

The Alpha Security EASy Bottle is designed for more than just being an alarm. The bottle locks provide product denial, which is to say no one can just come in to take a sip and leave.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Improving Margarita Madness with EASy Bottle

It’s that time of year when most Americans turn their attention to one of the all-time favorite sporting events – NCAA basketball tournament play. I grab my family and friends every year at this time and we diligently fill out our brackets. I check my brackets after every game to see where we are and I have a hard time waiting for the brackets to download. It has become somewhat of an obsession.

March is filled with millions of sporting fans hosting parties, much like the Super Bowl parties in January. It is not uncommon for these parties to involve alcohol. While beer is usually a key player, hard liquor is likely to be served as well. Everyone at these parties is there to experience a good time; however, not everyone is willing to pay for their good time.

EASy Bottle bottle lock by Alpha Security.

The bottle lock is a protective cover placed over the cap of a bottle. Bottle locks are then removed at point of purchase. This simple and foolproof procedure

allows the retailer to keep the maximum amount of product for customer access on the shelves. This further increases your bottom line allowing you to staff a reasonable number of employees because you don’t have to provide extra assistance for bottles placed in locked cabinets or in stockrooms to prevent theft.

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

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, EASy Bottle contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Opening up a whole new world – Bottle Lock

Up until a few years ago, I didn’t put much thought into liquor bottle security.

One night, at the local grocery store, I saw man lingering in the corner of a back aisle with a bottle of tequila. He didn’t see me at first and proceeded to stuff the bottle down his pants! I had to do a double take to really believe what I just saw.

I worked in retail security and thought I knew it all. But because I didn’t work with liquor bottles, the thought of bottle security opened up a whole new world for me.

I was very familiar with the different retail anti theft devices that Alpha Security manufactures and develops. Mostly it is because we use so many of them in my store. What I don’t use first hand, I tend to see advertised in one of my Loss Prevention trade magazines- that is except the bottle locks- specific to liquor bottle security. Those were brand new to my field of vision.

There are several different styles of their proprietary brand of EASy Bottle locks, to choose from. Each one is designed to accommodate the customer, while deterring the potential thieves. As it turns out, bottle locks will not only work for liquor bottles, but for wine bottles as well. Double score for the liquor stores!

If the grocery store I had visited had used any bottle security at all, I doubt they would have lost that bottle of tequila. I suspect that this wasn’t their first incident of theft, and probably won’t be their last.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

I wish I thought of that…

There is a new show out on television that is all about hometown inventors. A couple of execs go out across the country talking to people who have created new kitchen gadgets and gizmos. It’s actually pretty interesting to see what people come up with in their spare time. It is also pretty amazing to see how much money people have dumped into making their inventions a reality. Talk about conviction! I guess if you are really going to make something work you have to invest the time and money into it to make it successful.

One of the other ways to make it a successful invention according to these show hosts is to make an item simple to use and simple to understand. Take a problem and find an easy fix for it.

That, in a nutshell, is why Alpha Security’s EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks are so successful. They take a problem – a need for bottle security- and then come up with a fast and effective solution.

The result is an easy fix- a liquor bottle lock that is a bottle cap pushed over the mouth of a bottle. It works two fold, first, to prevent the contents from being consumed while the cap is in place, second, to set off an alarm if the bottle is being stolen.

Simple yet effective, I wish I had thought of it!

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…

My husband and I had the chance to walk through a new market store in our area over the weekend. We are trying to eat a bit healthier, so we jump at the chance to look at new grocery stores.

This one in particular does a lot with the local farmers for their produce and has locally made breads. They are a smaller venue than the traditional big box. I would think they are a step above a permanent farmers market.

One thing that did surprise me, as we walked around, was that they did sell bottles of wine. Now I know that they probably aren’t a big shrink store for alcohol, but there was not any type of wine bottle security to be seen.

I guess you really do have to know your market to determine whether or not you need any wine bottle security like liquor bottle locks. I would be more concerned as time goes by, that you might need them down the road. More than likely, they will wait until after they have a theft problem before they feel the need to address it.

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the same holds true for wine bottle security. A small initial investment is potentially worth more than that same investment compounded by the incurred shrink losses.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

The ROI for Bottle Locks can’t be beat

The other day I went into my local drug store today to get a few quick things, and it turned out to be a not very quick trip after all. I was unfamiliar with the layout of the store and got a bit lost. I spent way too long walking up and down the aisles looking for what I needed.

Eventually, I did find the right aisle, and made it on my merry way. While I was wandering through the store I did stumble across a very small section of liquor. It was located at the far end of the store, and was barely a four-foot bay’s worth of product. I had to wonder if it was really even worth it to be there.

I did notice, however, that they did not use any bottle security. Ugh, I had to shake my head as I walked past. I couldn’t help thinking about what a recipe for disaster this store had conjured up.

Back corner of the store, no visible employees, no bottle security, hmm, it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what would happen next.

It really was quite a shame to see. There was plenty of space on the shelf for the bottles to have liquor bottle locks on them. Because there were so few bottles, they would really only need a few liquor bottle locks to guard the entire section of inventory.

I’ll bet they would spend less to have the liquor bottle lock than what they will lose on one stolen bottles in just a few months. Talk about a return on investment.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

The squeaky wheel gets the grease

We respond to whatever is loudest, most pressing, and sometimes just the most irritating situation in front of us. All too often, it is a customer that is the squeaky wheel monopolizing our time. The complaints or sheer neediness of a demanding customer can easily draw our attention away from what we really want or should be focusing on.

Rarely are we drawn to shrink reduction strategies as a squeaky wheel. Shrink losses tend to be an underlying, looming detail that eventually we get around to. Unless we are being faced with a shoplifter in our presence, liquor bottle security takes its place on the back burner.

Liquor bottle locks are a great form of bottle security. Their ease of installation and removal simplify the process of adding liquor bottle locks to your everyday operations. There is nothing worse than trying to add an additional task to an already full schedule of events.

Using liquor bottle security helps to free up your time so you can easily go back to working with those squeaky wheels. A liquor bottle lock will help deter shoplifters, even if you have your back turned with a different issue.

Don’t make your liquor bottle security any harder than what it has to be, start using a liquor bottle lock today.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

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

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.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Liquor Bottle Security doesn’t have to be seasonal.

Every thing has its moment, its place in time, if you will. Liquors and their mixed drink counterparts are no different. They each hold their specific time in the spotlight. Sometimes that drink might be a seasonal drink – margaritas and pina coladas in the summer, hot toddies in the winter. Sometimes it could be a drink sensation that catches on over a matter of months or even years.

Bottle security, in order to be effective, needs to be able to have the same type of seasonality to it. Liquor bottle security needs to be transitional.

That is one of the nice things about Alpha Security’s liquor bottle locks. Once you make the initial investment in liquor bottle locks for your bottle security, there is no set application.

If you have an increase in sales and theft of tequila in the month of May, then you can focus your liquor bottle security on tequila. Need to make a switch to rum or wines in the winter, easy. All you have to do is move the liquor bottle locks to the area you want to focus on.

No more trying to franticly devise new and innovative controls to stop the theft in your stores. Just simply remove and reuse the locks wherever you need, whenever you need.

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Bottle Security is nearly impossible to defeat…

I love stores that have bottle security in place. All of those liquor bottle locks are like soldiers in a neat little row, little plastic caps glistening in the compact fluorescent lighting. They seem to call out to the shoplifters saying, “Go ahead, I dare you to take me”.

It’s like having a little warning label on each individual bottle. You would have to be seriously desperate to even want to try and attempt to steal a bottle with a liquor bottle lock on it, particularly if that bottle lock is made by Alpha Security.

Not only do the bottle caps prevent anyone from consuming the alcohol inside the bottle, but they also work in conjunction with an EAS system to create an audible alarm if the bottle is stolen.

No bottle lock is easy to remove without the proper detachers. Even on the off chance that someone could successfully get a bottle of alcohol out the door, they still couldn’t do anything with it.

I read a Q&A one time about a customer got home and the store failed to remove the cap. There were several posts about what to do. They all added up to about the same thing. Either you break the bottle, or you take the bottle back to the store (with your receipt) to have the liquor bottle lock removed.

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle liquor bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Liquor Bottle Lock, Liquor Bottle locks, Liquor Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547