Anti-Shoplifting Devices: Saving You Profits and Making Customers Feel Safe

Shoplifting can put a major dent in your bottom line and these days many stores are turning to anti-shoplifting devices like EAS (electronic article surveillance) to help them safeguard their profits by deterring theft and boosting associate awareness.

Retail theft prevention devices such as EAS pedestals can also provide a visual deterrent against theft, sending folks that want to steal other, less well protected stores. As an added bonus, knowing you are scaring off the criminal element gives your customers a greater feeling of personal safety and security.

Where I currently work, we use a Checkpoint security system, which consists of Checkpoint security tags, deactivation pads at the point of sale, and EAS pedestals by the doors that alarm if someone tries to carry out our merchandise. As a loss prevention associate for a major retailer, I use anti-shoplifting devices regularly in my work to guard against major theft incidents like organized retail crime, where professional thieves come in and simply walk out the door with our high ticket items. The great thing about EAS systems, specifically Checkpoint security tags like the soft EAS tags, however, is they can also be used to target specific merchandise that seems to come up missing more often, which sometimes changes from season to season.

For instance, although theft of electronics, alcohol and fragrances might be high all the time and I might always have those products tagged with hard tags or Alpha spider wraps, the soft tags that are used with Checkpoint systems let me tag things that might be new that I think might be stolen or that are a new trend, like swimwear, drink mixes or baby formula, without investing in additional hard tags. The flexibility that I get from using retail theft prevention devices like soft EAS tags helps me more closely monitor my theft trends, keeps the criminals out of my building and helps safeguard my company’s bottom line.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti theft devices from Checkpoint Systems.

 For more information on anti-shoplifting, Checkpoint Security Systems or Checkpoint Security Tags contact us here for help with your retail theft prevention or call us at 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia