Anti Shoplifting Attitude for Employees

Take all the anti shoplifting steps that you can in your store, and you have not optimized them until you have all employees involved.

The way to include all employees in the effort is through education, education, and education.  At every storewide and departmental meeting, the subject of shoplifting should be covered, or at least mentioned.

Reminders such as anti shoplifting posters should be posted in employee break areas, by the time clock, in storage rooms, and even the employee’s bathroom.

Remind all employees to take different routes when they are walking from place to place in the store and not always walk the same way.  When empty packages and hangers are removed from the sales floor, their presence should be reported to management so that a known theft does not become an unexplained inventory loss.

If retail anti theft devices such as EAS by Checkpoint Security Systems are in use, be sure every employee knows its operation, and the action to take if the system is tripped by active Checkpoint security tags or Checkpoint labels.

Train all employees on the correct steps to take if they suspect a shoplifter is in the store.  Have a policy in place and be sure all employees sign off that they understand it before they go to work in the store, and review it at least annually.

Recognize employees who make an extra effort to prevent shoplifting through their ideas or actions.

Repetition and consistency in training and awareness will emphasize and enhance any retailer’s anti shoplifting strategy.

Contact LPSI at 770-426-0547 to help develop your  anti shoplifting attitude or click here for more information about Checkpoint Security Systems technology.  Visit our Online Retail Loss Prevention Store here.