When you use the Alpha Security Bottle Locks, you have a premium product to protect your premium liquors and wines. What makes this EASy Bottle lock superior to any other lock?

Ultimately, it is about getting the biggest bang for your buck. There is no lengthy training involved which means your return on investment isn’t diluted from spending countless payroll hours teaching your employees how the bottle locks are to be used.

Your payroll is also saved by not needing to have an employee retrieve every single bottle of premium liquor because it is locked up in a case somewhere.

Using the Alpha Security Crystal Guarde has visual benefits as well. The clear top allows the tax ID stamp to be visible at all times.  This saves your employees time if they need to show the stamp to auditors, and potentially face fines for non-compliance.

The bottle locks also have the word “alarm” clearly written on them so shoplifters have a better clue that the bottles are being protected from theft and sampling.

The smaller design makes it easier to maximize shelf displays and product placement. The clear top is also less visually distracting. You see more of the product than you do the bottle locks when you scan across the store.

While this is not an all-inclusive list of the features that are included in the Alpha Security locks, it is a great way to learn that this really is a premium product.

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After making the decision to use a bottle lock as your primary source of bottle security it is time to narrow down which product will be best suited to your needs. There are a few styles of Alpha Security Bottle Locks to choose from. Each one has its own advantages based on its application within you store.

The metal bottle wrap is probably the most basic of bottle locks. It is just a simple metal band that wraps around the neck of a bottle. While it does not provide product denial, it does provide a visual deterrent against shoplifting. The biggest advantage is that the wrap will not damage any outside coverings. This is important for champagne bottles that have the metal/ foil covering over the cork.

Next is the bottle cap style of bottle locks. Tough, durable and reliable, this lock is attached directly on the top of the bottle. It provides product denial, as a shoplifter or underage drinker cannot remove the cap of the bottle to sample the contents inside.

Lastly is the EASy Bottle Crystal Guarde. Where the bottle cap is more utilitarian in design, this bottle lock has a smaller profile and a sleeker look. It is perfect for a more high-end display. The smaller design also makes it easier to maximize shelf quantities while providing the same bottle security to detract shoplifters and unauthorized sampling.

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The basics of bottle security are there to ensure you get the most benefit from security products such as the EASy Bottle by Alpha Security.

To start with, you will find some of the best features in these bottle locks. The EASy Bottle has a two stage locking mechanism, which helps ensure a solid lock on the product that will not come off in the hands of a shoplifter. From an employee’s perspective, they are easy to remove and attach. This cuts down on the amount of payroll needed to ensure compliance.

Some of the other benefits of using a bottle lock for bottle security are that for a simple application of bottle security, you gain maximum protection through product denial. They also cover a wide range of bottle types making them a versatile application to fit all of your needs. Even the most unique sizes and shapes of bottles can be covered using bottle locks.

From a financial perspective, there is a good return on the initial investment. Since the bottle locks are made from an extremely durable polycarbonate material, they can be used over and over again. There is a very minimal maintenance cost as there is very little that will need to be replaced. It is more likely that a bottle lock will be replaced because it was lost than because it was broken.

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If you have low bottle security, your store might be more prone to commercially driven theft. That is theft that has a profit at the end. As you know, alcohol is expensive. Bottles can fetch a high price just in a liquor store, and an even bigger price when sold at a bar or nightclub setting. Imagine the profit margin when you have zero overhead because you are selling stolen goods.

Stolen merchandise is sold in a variety of venues. Prestigious bottles can be sold online. Some businesses operate by reselling stolen goods, funneling this dirty money elsewhere. Bottles can even be sold from person to person.

In all situations, the merchandise was stolen from shops with limited bottle security.

To avoid this, bottle locks can act as a strong deterrent against these commercially driven thefts. EASy Bottle (by Alpha Security) locks not only deter the theft initially, but they also reduce the likelihood of a resale. It is much harder to sell an item on the street if the buyer cannot open the bottle.

It is also harder to fetch a good price on items that are blatantly stolen. The art of resale often exists when there is a plausible explanation as to why someone would want to sell an item at less than retail value, or in such high case quantities.

A resale bottle with the bottle locks still on is a good indicator that the merchandise is not legitimate.

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Are you worried about bottle security set up so your employees know that you are watching out for more than just shoplifters? If not, maybe you should rethink a few things.

I was recently asked to do a consultation for a liquor store. They were showing all of the typical signs of theft. Their profits were starting to decrease as their inventory costs were going up inexplicably. They noticed a change in the customers that were coming in, but the sales never seemed to justify their presence.

At the end of my consultation, we had determined that the store had two employees stealing from them. Both employees were passing bottles to their friends and family, a buy one get five free sort of deal. It was several thousands of dollars worth of inventory gone.

When I talked to the owner, he seemed to be happy because the employees would be prosecuted and then he thought he would get all of his money back, not exactly.  I had a conversation with him about what comes next. First they need to be convicted in a court. That could take months. Then they would have to arrange a payment schedule for restitution. It’s not like the employee is just going to write a check for the total amount. Keep in mind, if they serve time, they are not employed and have no way to pay the money back.

We looked more closely at his bottle security and added the EASy Bottle, by Alpha Security, for their bottle locks. Now all of the high dollar liquor that was walking out the door has to have a manager validate the sale and take the bottle locks off.

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If you have recently (or ever) had an employee steal from your business, this is for you. You probably spent countless hours trying to make sense of why that employee did what he did. You might have even updated or enhanced your liquor bottle security. In the end, you probably just wanted to know why he stole from you.

The dishonest employee may have given you a reason like financial hardship. Perhaps a spouse lost their job, or the bills just got out of control. They needed a way to supplement. Maybe they have an addiction or substance abuse problem. Whatever their story was, I will bet money that they never said that the reason why they stole was because you made it easy for them to do so.

What? It’s my fault? Hey- I’m the victim here!

Yes, you are the victim and no one should have ever taken advantage of you. However, as a businessperson, why would you not go to great lengths to protect your assets? No matter what the employee’s motives for stealing were, they found a loophole in your system that made it easier to steal than to be caught.

That is a sad reality we have to face. Liquor bottle security needs to go beyond the Alpha Security EASy Bottle Bottle Locks. It needs to be about operational controls, checks and balances, and an environment where the employees know that if they step out of line, they will be detected.

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Like most retail environments, I suspect that most liquor stores are experiencing an increase in refunds. There are plenty of customers who will have an excuse for why they need to return a particular bottle of liquor. If you are using liquor bottle security, then you should not have an inventory shortage because of the returns.

If you are not using liquor bottle security, than you might be seeing a shrink implication in addition to these returned bottles of liquor.

Refunded merchandise does not cause inventory shrink. If someone stole the merchandise and then refunded it, it is generally called a fraudulent refund. However, the inventory loss happened when the merchandise was stolen, not when the merchandise was returned.

That doesn’t mean the person standing in front of you deserves the refund, it just means that you are not going to have an inventory loss as a result. An exception would be if a refund is given when someone takes merchandise directly from a shelf to a counter and it is refunded. Because the merchandise never left the store, the refund causes to inventory discrepancy.

Best way that I have found to reduce these returns is to use the Alpha Security EASy Bottle bottle locks. If the bottles being returned still have bottle locks, you can safely bet that these are situations that need to be further investigated.

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I guess you really do have to know your market to determine whether or not you need liquor bottle security like EASy Bottle, made by Alpha Security. I would be concerned as time goes by, that you might need them down the road. Most small business owners will wait until after they have a theft problem before they feel the need to address it.

Liquor bottle security is frequently seen as an unnecessary expense. It is often  only after the inventory losses out number the financial investment required to get the needed quantities of bottle locks to mitigate those losses.

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

Shoplifters and dishonest employees are hard to get rid of after a store has been deemed a “safe haven” for theft. Even after a security system is in place, it could still take months or even years to fully eradicate a swarm of shoplifters that are now plaguing your liquor store.

It is an unfortunate analogy, but shoplifters are really like a bad insect infestation. Sometimes it takes several fumigations to get rid of the problem. It is better to prevent the swarm from the beginning than to try and get rid of it after the fact.

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I was a cashier at a local store working a very busy weekend. There were huge crowds of people walking around hastily. If you looked at these customer’s faces it seemed like each and every one was frowning, or glaring at the situation. Since we used minimal liquor bottle security, it was really just a matter of time before this kind of situation happened.

There were long lines at the registers. You could see the people were restless, one man in particular. He kept stepping out of the line to see how any people were in front of him. He would crane his neck to see if any of the other registers were shorter. When he saw that they weren’t he would step back in line.

After a few minutes (I am sure it felt like forever to him) he threw his hands up in the air and yelled this is ridiculous. He then stepped out of line for the last time and started walking out of the store.

For most people, we would have left the merchandise behind, but not him. Maybe it was because he felt it was owed to him because he had to wait. Perhaps it was because we didn’t use Alpha Security EASy Bottle bottle locks for our liquor bottle security. Maybe he was simply frustrated and forgot that he still had bottles of our liquor in his hands. Either way, he took it with him, and we lost a potential sale, the inventory and a customer all in one.

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One of the most overlooked areas of losses in a retail establishment is vendor fraud or vendor theft. Most of the time we associate vendor theft with either large box/department stores, or with high-end boutiques. The harsh reality is that vendor fraud is relatively easy to commit when a liquor store has minimal liquor bottle security, or just minimal security in general.

We see the soda vendors frequently committing fraud in restaurants or other general store situations. One of the most common ways is by falsifying the shipments. Either they don’t deliver all of the product they invoice for, or they take additional product back that they don’t give credit to the store for.

Liquor distributors are no different, especially if the individual reps work on commission. It is important to verify the manifests on each of the shipments to the actual product being received. I see situations where instead of a premium liquor being delivered, the store gets a case of well instead.

Another way the vendors steal from you is by taking back outdated product and either taking extra bottles, or by taking more expensive bottles than what they give you credit for.

If you can, use the Alpha Security EASy bottle bottle locks, for liquor bottle security, to prevent this kind of switch. The vendor can’t take the high-end goods that still have bottle locks. You can then verify each bottle is correct and that were given proper credit from the vendor.

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