I have a problem with loosing things. I will be the first to admit that I should be better organized at home, especially since I spend the majority of my time at work doing things to prevent shoplifting and making sure my stores do not loose things- like their inventory.

I often consider buying those remote tags that you can put on your remote control or your car keys. All you have to do is push a button and you hear an audible alarm or see a flashing light and you are drawn to your missing item’s location. It would be extremely handy for when I misplace my cell phone- especially when I leave it on silent!

Well Alpha Security, with all of their ingenuity and innovation have taken this concept and applied it to their line of retail anti theft devices.

Inside each of these retail anti theft devices are alarms that are triggered when a product is being tampered with or is being stolen. Inside the store, an early warning alarm sounds when the devices are being tampered with. If a shoplifter leaves the store with a product, the alarm will sound allowing you to follow the noise and retrieve your lost/-stolen merchandise.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

When you are trying to prevent shoplifting, it is rarely a case of less is more. You can never be too careful, or too cautious. When I consult for small businesses, they often ask which items should have retail anti theft devices.

I go through their high shrink and high dollar items first. Then I tell them that anything else is optional. If it isn’t an issue, then it may not be worth the added cost of unnecessary retail anti theft devices. But I tell them they need to do what will make them feel more secure with their inventory controls.

 I also suggest using a layered approach to their retail security. When they use the Alpha Security product lines they can find solutions that are specific to their differing product groups. There is no reason why a retail business needs to try and fit the same EAS tag to every piece of merchandise. It simply is ineffective.

 Because Alpha Security uses different designs and abilities for different kinds of products it is easy to layer on the merchandise security to prevent shoplifting.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Our latest shoplifter gave us, and our retail anti theft devices a run for our money.

This particular customer came into our store and used a wheelchair and our handheld shopping basket in his lap. He would go about his business and come to the register to pay for the items. No matter how diligent my cashiers were when they rang him up; the EAS alarm was set off when he left. We would recheck for retail anti theft devices, but could not find them. Not wanting to cause him any more inconvenience, we would let him go about his way. We knew the alarm was a way to prevent shoplifting, but we couldn’t see any indication of theft.

After about a month of this happening every time he came to shop, we started to get suspicious that something else was going on. We watched as he came in one day and realized that he had picked up two shopping baskets, not one.

At first we thought they had just stuck together, until we saw inside the baskets. As it turned out, he was hiding merchandise in one of the baskets, stacking the second one on top and adding more merchandise that he would pay for. When he left, he would leave with all of the extra merchandise sandwiched between our shopping baskets- unpaid for.

If it hadn’t been for the retail anti theft devices setting the alarms off, no telling how long it would have been before we caught on to his plan.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 A particular group of stores was using the Alpha Spider Wrap as the primary retail anti theft devices to secure several of their boxed products.

What they were asking me was to know was if they could use the same Alpha Security Alpha Spider Wrap for protection for their boxes of fragrances and colognes. Since the Alpha Spider Wraps are designed for a wide range of boxes, this business owner wanted to try and save some money by using their existing stock of retail anti theft devices.

Even though it sounded like a good idea in theory, I cautioned against it. These retail anti theft devices are much bigger than what will work effectively for the significantly smaller fragrance boxes.

I recommended using the Keeper Boxes, also designed by Alpha Security. There are several styles to choose from, and the Keeper Boxes are designed specifically for fragrances and cologne products.

By using a smaller box to prevent shoplifting, the retail anti theft devices are actually more effective. An ill-fitting protection device is easier to defeat, and nobody wants that. Even though the Keeper boxes will be an additional investment, the return on the investment will balance out.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Technology amazes me. Looking at the world and seeing the possibilities, information and access available literally, at our fingertips, is quite a phenomenon. But does basic human nature change at the same pace as technology? Maybe! I am afraid that the need to prevent shoplifting still remains. 

Yet there are still innovations that have nothing to do with a computer chip, “the cloud” or an app that can completely change your life. They are simple by design, and at the forefront of leading technology. Some of these innovations are changes to retail anti theft devices.

Alpha Security, who is a trusted industry name in retail anti theft devices, is at the forefront of innovation and change. This is because Alpha Security products are reliable, and also because they simply work. Take a look at the Alpha Jewel Lok. It is a simple lock designed to disallow product access. You cannot take a piece of jewelry off of a card with an Alpha Jewel Lok in place. This leaves a shoplifter or dishonest employee with only the option to steal the jewelry with the Alpha Jewel Lok still attached and set the alarm off.

The last thing a shoplifter wants is to be noticed, so setting off an alarm is usually not an option. They will end up leaving the jewelry behind.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

  Known for their innovative product lines of retail anti theft devices, Alpha Security has a four-pronged approach to how they prevent shoplifting.

The first is to provide the utmost level of protection for all of your high shrink products. Let’s face it; if retail anti theft devices aren’t reliable, there is no point in having them.

 Secondly, they need to be easy and simple to use. Time and time again I see great plans to stop shrink that are so complicated to execute that the plan dies before it even has a chance to work. When a plan or product is simple to use and doesn’t disrupt the normal flow of business employees will execute more completely and customers won’t have a negative shopping impact.

 Along the same lines, if the retail anti theft devices are an eye sore, they are not conducive to maintain customer friendly displays and shopping aesthetics.

 Finally, these tools need to provide value. The cost should be offset by the decrease in inventory losses within the first few months. 

 Because Alpha Security focuses on these four points, you benefit immediately by their inclusion to your retail security.

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Theft is the most common, and the most financially devastating, loss to a business. Compared to the financial damage done to inventory levels by broken or misplaced items, theft is much more widespread and damaging.

It is more likely that a thief would steal multiples of an item, than it is to have multiples of the same items damaged. It is also more likely to have several different thieves or groups of thieves targeting certain items of merchandise, creating poor sell through of those items.

Additionally, broken or damaged items can potentially be sent back to the vendor or a clam placed against the courier to help get back some of the financial loss. 

Shoplifters are harder to get a financial recourse from. Even when a shoplifter is apprehended, it can be very hard to charge them with prior incidents. Unless you have evidence that cannot be contested, you will only be able to claim the loss that was incurred during current incident that the shoplifter was apprehended during.

By stopping a shoplifter, you may have stopped the cause of the losses, but are still out the inventory from those prior incidents.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Lately retail anti theft devices similar to the Alpha Security Alpha Shark Tag have been in the headlines. The severity and frequency of wardrobing and one major retailer’s solution to stop this form of refund fraud have come to light.

The majority of the spotlight on refund fraud has focused on wardrobing. Wardrobing is when a customer purchases clothing for a specific use- special occasion, interview, etc. – and fully intends to return it after wearing it to that occasion.

While wardrobing focuses on the returns of clothing, there is more to this kind of return fraud than just clothes. Surprisingly, electronics are also targeted for one time use. Since retail anti theft devices like the Alpha Shark Tag are designed to target clothing returns, electronics are still an open market.

In one of the articles I read, a gentleman bought an expensive projector for a client presentation at his work. After carefully saving and memorizing where every piece of plastic and twist tie went, he proceeded to package up this projector exactly as it was originally boxed. This was, of course, after he had used it for the presentation. His boss had even applauded his ingenuity at saving the company money for not having to actually buy that particular piece of equipment.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

While I am a firm believer that all employees need to be held to the same accountability and responsibility standards, it is critical to your business that any part time employees are properly trained and managed to ensure the success of your retail operations. In particular, any attempts to prevent shoplifting through customer service or retail anti theft devices must be monitored closely on a continual basis.

Part time employees might make for a better financial situation, but this is generally a case of you get what you pay for. Because part time employees are less likely to have guaranteed hours or might not be eligible for benefits, they are also less likely to be truly engaged in your business.

When the responsibility falls onto part time employees, retail anti theft devices generally are more likely to be used inconsistently. It can be a tedious task of applying retail anti theft devices, and then removing them during check out. 

Part time employees simply do not care if a customer is inconvenienced by an alarm or if they actually contribute to the store security process. Even if they are held to the same standards as full time employees, there is a reality that the follow through of the part time employees might be lacking.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

A shoplifter thrives on disorganization, unattended corners of a store, and a lack of employee presence. If you do not keep your store, clean, organized, and recovered promptly, a shoplifter can slip by undetected. Understanding how to prevent shoplifting requires a need to look past retail anti theft devices as the sole solution.

If you have a table of jeans that are thrown about and disorganized, you have no way of knowing if something is missing. A table of carefully folded and laid out jeans is more likely to be noticed if one, or several, jeans are missing.

The same goes for high theft items that can be taken to an isolated corner. Sometimes moving a shelf or a table can create a better sightline for your employees to see what is going on.

Similarly, your employees need to engage all customers. If they ignore your paying customers, you can be rest assured that they are ignoring the shoplifters too.

Retail anti theft devices play an important part in the overall success of a store’s ability to prevent shoplifting. Stores need to also realize that retail anti theft devices can only be so successful to prevent shoplifting if these other operational controls have fallen to the wayside.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use 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 Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547