Asset Protection – Checkpoint security system

Several months ago I began working for a department store that was unlike any retail store in which I had previously worked. My previous employers all used some form of Checkpoint security system.

I was amazed when I realized that this store didn’t utilize any asset protection technology whatsoever – nothing, not Checkpoint security tags, not Checkpoint systems, not one ounce of anti-shoplifting technology. It was the perfect set-up for aspiring shoplifters.

As a result of their lack of security tags, etc. the retail theft prevention “plan” relied exclusively on apprehensions. What was most difficult about working for this store was the distinctive category of thief; one I had previously encountered sporadically in my years of experience, but never in this volume. The troubling situation I’m referring to is adult females shoplifting with their children present.

As I mentioned, I had encountered cases involving mothers and their offspring acting as accomplices and I had also detained the occasional mother with her children in tow. However, I had never witnessed the kind of neglect, endangerment, and blatant disregard for a child’s well-being as I did at this retailer.

These women committed acts of retail theft leading to situations that confused and terrified their children and frequently jeopardized the children’s safety during arrest. One subject hid a pair of denim jeans under her baby carrier in the stroller, another hid a hat in her diaper bag, and one woman even concealed jewelry in her infant’s diaper.

Upon detainment, we would have to not only deal with a difficult shoplifter, but also the terrified , screaming toddlers and the consequent question of what to do with them when mommy goes to jail with the police.

Without a doubt, this particular store’s lack of a thorough retail theft prevention policy led to the frequency of these incidents. These mothers could have attempted to steal the merchandise available at other department stores, but this retailer didn’t pose the problem of defeating the Checkpoint security system with their children in tow.

Shopping with children in tow also predisposes the thief to be at ease thinking that they don’t look suspicious and can easily deflect the attention of an inexperienced LP associate when Checkpoint security tags and Checkpoint systems  are not in place to act as anti-shoplifting constraints.

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For more information on anti-shoplifting, Checkpoint Security Tags please contact us via Retail theft prevention or call 1.770.426.0547.