Uncategorized — Page 122

Use merchandising to help you prevent shoplifting.

September 29, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Many business owners know how impactful merchandise presentation can be for sales. Did you also know it has a huge impact on your ability to prevent shoplifting as well? It does. Shoplifters, especially professionals, aim to get in the store, steal your merchandise and exit as rapidly as possible. To this end where and how you have your merchandise set up plays a large role in your susceptibility to being stolen from.

For example, you don’t really want to put your most expensive merchandise right by the door. The expensive merchandise is best suited closer to the register where associates can keep an eye on it. Same rule of thumb goes for small and easy to conceal items. You will want to put those near the register. They make good impulse buys as the legit customer is going to the register anyway. This also keeps the small stuff under the watchful eyes of the employees.

Additionally, I recommend using retail anti theft devices to aid in your attempts to prevent shoplifting. One great product that serves to aid in merchandise presentation and product security is the Keeper case from Alpha Security. These cases can be used to hold that small product and keep it from being easily stolen. Unlike a locking cabinet, the customer can still handle the merchandise themselves as it is openly displayed. This is great for sales as customer like to be able to self service themselves up until checkout. The cashier uses a key to remove the item from the Keeper and customer service is not impacted, but shoplifting opportunity is.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Prevent Shoplifting, Retail Anti Theft Devices

Employee Theft and Shrink Go Hand in Hand

September 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Some business owners may believe that the cause of their lost profit and shrink is shoplifting. It’s easier to blame the questionable customers that may frequent our business than it is to believe that the very employees we trust with our business may be stealing. Statistics prove, however, that businesses typically suffer more loss from employee theft than they do from shoplifters.

Employee theft, or internal theft, is exactly as it sounds: it is theft that is committed against a business by its employees. It can be harder to detect, and the loss can be greater because there is greater opportunity for the theft to occur. Also, many business owners look past the employees as the possible cause for the losses that they may be experiencing.

Many smaller businesses do not have much experience with conducting an employee theft investigation. While larger businesses have a loss prevention or asset protection division that handle such things, smaller businesses may need to look to outside help when they are experiencing internal theft. Experts can be called in that are trained to conduct interviews, analyze reports and make recommendations as to what action needs to be taken to resolve the issue.

Businesses can take measures to help prevent employee theft. For example, a business can make sure that key controls are in place to prevent unauthorized employees from accessing high theft merchandise. Secure areas can also be managed by proper key controls. Additionally, businesses need to have an idea of what their inventory levels are at all times so that it is noticed immediately when merchandise may be missing.

Even the most involved business owners may experience internal theft at some point in their careers. How the employee theft investigation is conducted can mean the difference between forever being a victim to employee theft or acting appropriately so the problem is taken care of and others may think twice before committing the same crime.

For more information on employee theft , employee theft investigation or internal theft contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: employee theft, employee theft investigation, internal theft

Weave Got You Covered

September 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

For those of you that don’t know, hair extensions are all the rage today in the fashion industry. They are quick and easy means for women to change the style of their hair instantly. Hair extensions range in price from a few dollars a pack to several hundred. Of course their popularity and prices make them a prime target for theft. These items are clearly candidates for retail theft prevention and you need a way to help stop shoplifting.

Hair Extensions have not been exempt from the smash and grab issues occurring in the US today where thieves literally smash into a retail store with a vehicle scoop up as much higher end product as possible and leave. But these items have also come on to the radar to the normal everyday shoplifter.

This goes to the age old problem, how does a retailer display their goods for sale allowing the good customers touch and evaluate their options while keeping the shoplifters away? We have a number of clients that have been dealing with this for some time with great success. The solution to stop shoplifting is simple. Use Checkpoint security tags and RF security tags to shut the shoplifters down. RF security tags and RF security labels attach directly to the wafted part of the hair extension. If the shoplifter attempts to steal it then the RF system at the exit doors let staff know.

There is also another product line that complements Checkpoint Systems. Alpha High Theft Solutions produces several devices that will work on hair extensions. These include ink tags and peg-hook tags. Any of these allow a retailer to keep the hair extensions and other merchandise on the floor and available to the customer.

We can also use an RF label to prevent retail theft. A paper-thin RF label has an adhesive back and can be placed directly on the packaging either on the inside or outside. Checkpoint labels also have the advantage of being able to be used on almost all the other products in a Beauty Supply Store. RF security labels come in various sizes from postage stamp size on up.

This creates a loss prevention program that works 24/7. It never takes a day off or calls in sick. It is always working even if you are busy or distracted.

If you want to stop shoplifting now you need to get a retail theft prevention program. Shoplifting will not go away by itself. Wishing so will not make it happen. The use of retail loss prevention devices is the key.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

For more information on Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags and how to stop shoplifting contact us at RF label or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF label, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags, stop shoplifting

Increase sales with the Showsafe system.

September 27, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Most business owners understand the importance of putting products in customer’s hands. All sales are much like buying a new car. If you look at the car on-line your interest might be piqued. If you go to the lot and look at the car you start to “feel the itch”. Once you take the car for that test drive you are sold. The same thing goes for standard retail items as well. The problem that we all face is theft. You wouldn’t let someone test drive the car without a salesman with them. To that end, I wonder how many car sales are lost because that customer looked, but did not drive.

Again, we can apply the same logic to retail sales. A customer may read about a new electronic gadget on-line. They then may come to your store to look at it. If they see it through a case and they can’t touch it, feel it, play with it and experience what that device has to offer then your chances of a sale are greatly reduced. But just like that car, you can’t afford to let people have full access to high priced small electronics or they will be gone. Enter Showsafe. This is a retail anti theft device by Alpha security that allows you to display products for customers to be able to handle and test out while still helping you prevent shoplifting.

The showsafe system has cables that attach the handheld electronic devices to the system. The customers can pick up and “test drive” the product, but the security cables prevent shoplifting from occurring. If some wise guy tries to cut the cable, the system will alarm and give the employees time to react to the theft. Showsafe is a win-win solution to aid in sales and prevent shoplifting.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Prevent Shoplifting, Retail Anti Theft Devices

Bare racks don’t sell products. Use clothing security tags to keep the product where it belongs.

September 27, 2011 by Staff Editor

We have all found that it takes merchandise to make sales. Sometimes this can be a problem. On the one hand shoplifters may be taking the product. On the other you may be hesitant to fill displays because you know the shoplifters are on the way. The best way to win this fight is to use clothing security tags and a good clothing alarm.

I personally like Checkpoint systems. The Checkpoint tags are great and cost effective. Additionally, the Checkpoint clothing alarm is reliable and a great deterrent to shoplifting. Thieves will pay attention to when you start putting security tags on clothes. This creates a few problems for shoplifters. First, they now have to worry about setting off the clothing alarm and being recognized. This will reduce the number of times a shoplifter will try to steal from your business.

Secondly, by putting security tags on clothes you make the actual theft harder for the shoplifter. They need to be able to take the Checkpoint tags off in order to use or resell the product. This is hard to do without the proper tag remover. This can cause the shoplifter to damage the product trying to take the tags off themselves (which made the theft pointless to begin with). It also means that if they can take the tags off they still have to spend time doing it. Shoplifters don’t like to be in stores for long. Adding time to their trip by forcing them to defeat the clothing security devices prior to the theft discourages shoplifters and gives you more time to catch them.

Clothing security is a must for any soft lines retailer who wants to put the clothes where they belong. In the customers hands.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Checkpoint tags, clothing alarm, Clothing Security, clothing security tags, security tags on clothes

RF Labels That Work For You

September 25, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Figuring out how to stop shoplifting from occurring, can be a tough nut to crack with some items. Clothing items take RF security tags well. You usually locate the Checkpoint security tags on a seam or similar location. But what are tricky in RF systems are items like leather, purses, belts, bags and hats. An RF system relies on the use of RF security labels but what do you do when the RF label is either too large or the use of a pin is not practical or it will damage the product?

In the RF security world there is a low cost but high-end solution. It is the Alpha Fashion2 Tags. The Fashion2 RF security tags are less than 2 inches long and very thin. This tag requires the use of a pin. However, because of it’s small size it will fit on very small items such as those thong type swimsuit bottoms that do not have a whole lot of material to begin with!

The Fashion2 Accessory Tag takes RF security in a whole different direction. This tag looks the same as the Fashion2 Hard Tag but it has one major difference. The accessory tag has a built in 3 inch coated aircraft cable with a built in pin. The cable loops around the item and then locks into place. In the past you would have to use traditional RF security labels and flex string. Because the cable is only 3 inches the Fashion2 rides close to your merchandise item and has a pleasant appearance. The cool thing about this tag is that when you remove it the cable stays attached to the hard tag. No more fishing around for a flex string.

Another strong RF security point is that the aircraft cable is a thicker more robust cable. It would take quite a bit of time to cut through this baby. The clear plastic coating protects the finish of your merchandise. Loop these RF security tags through belt buckles, shoes, purse handles, leather item buttonholes, openings in hats or bag handles. Basically if you can loop the cable through the merchandise item you have attached your RF Security labels.

Both the Fashion2 and the Fashion2 Accessory Checkpoint labels come in RF and AM formats and are available in beige, gray and black colors. Standard or super detacher models available.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF label, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags, stop shoplifting

STOP! THIEF!! DON’T STEAL ME!!!

September 25, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t it be great if merchandise could help raise an alert when someone was attempting to steal it? Now it can. Alpha Security provides several retail anti theft devices that alert you to theft in several ways.

The first way is with the AM or RF (whichever you choose) alarm system that you use. The Alpha spider wraps and S3 alarm tags will work with your existing EAS system to sound the door alarms when someone tries to leave with tagged merchandise. Additionally, both devices have built in alarms that will activate if the product is taken too far from the store. Imagine someone trying to load up a bag full of product and then walk through the mall with all of these alarms going off in their bag. Call me crazy, but I imagine that will bring them quite a lot of unwanted attention.

Finally, the spider wraps will alarm if they are tampered with. The spider wraps have a wire that is used to wrap around the product and attach the device to the product. If someone tries to cut the wire to remove the spider wrap then the alarm sounds and employees can respond immediately to the situation.

Retail anti theft devices are never going to stop all of the theft, but you will be amazed at how much you can prevent shoplifting with tags that “speak for themselves”.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Prevent Shoplifting, Retail Anti Theft Devices

3 Easy Break Room Activities with Checkpoint Tags That Help Stop Theft

September 25, 2011 by Staff Editor

At the company I work for clothing security tags play a large role in making sure we keep shoplifting incidents to a minimum and go a long way to protect our profits. We use Checkpoint tags on a regular basis and, though our clothes come in from the vendor with the tags on, we still have to put the security tags on clothes that are returned by our customers before the merchandise heads back out to the floor. Here are some easy tricks I found that helped me to train the sales staff where to place the clothing security tags and how to take them on and off for our customers.

1. Host a clothing alarm contest. Dress a mannequin in a number of pieces of merchandise and ask your sales people to guess which items have security tags on them that would need to be removed. Provide a prize like a candy bar for everyone who gets the right answer.

2. Have a race to see who can most quickly remove Checkpoint tags from items at point of sale. Missing tags that needed to be removed loses points. Tags removed are one point each. The one with the most points at the end of the time frame is the winner.

3. Pin security tags on clothes. Take photographs of popular clothing items and ask your sales force to “pin” the tags on the clothes. Provide incentives for participation and post the right answers afterwards so everyone can learn.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Checkpoint tags, clothing alarm, Clothing Security, clothing security tags, security tags on clothes

Customer service backfires and causes employee theft – Atlanta Georgia

September 24, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Now before I get hung at high noon, let me explain. I’m not saying to stop customer service or that it is bad. What I do hope to bring to light is that many things we do in the name of customer service allow employees to take advantage and create internal theft (the retail name for employee theft).

An interesting example of this type of employee theft came to light during a recent employee theft investigation I worked. Like many companies, mine has a register function to “comp” the price of an item for the sake of customer service. If we made a mistake we can use this function to alleviate the cost to the customer, but it keeps the item on the receipt for inventory purposes. Sounds great in theory and as expected the customers love it. On the down side we had a cashier figure out that she could use that function to take the whole price off of an order. She then used this to create a little over $1,000 in internal theft of cash over about a month’s time.

The employee theft investigation revealed the following. What she was doing was ringing up a customer like normal. If the customer pulled out cash, she would then enter the code for “customer service” and essentially “pay” for the order with that function. She would still give the total to the customer, take the cash, use a “No Sale” to open the drawer and manually make the change for the customer. The customer got their full receipt and change and never knew anything odd happened. What this did was build extra money in the till (which she later pocketed) since she took cash that the register did not know about. In addition, she would use this function to give free product to her friends who came through the line.

For more information on internal theft, employee theft, or employee theft investigation contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: employee theft, employee theft investigation, internal theft

How RF Labels Can Save Your Assets

September 22, 2011 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Trying to stop shoplifting has always been reason for alarm to an apparel retailer. People steal clothes, but people steal fewer clothes if there is an RF label attached. They steal them because they want to have the latest fashion and either can’t afford it or don’t want to pay the price for it. It’s usually the most popular items that are vulnerable to both the casual shoplifter and the professional shoplifter. Professional shoplifter is defined here as one who resells the merchandise that he steals for profit.

There are so many ways to steal clothing. Drop in your shopping bag, conceal it in your own clothes, wear it out, or steal it in the fitting room or the restroom where there is plenty of privacy. Then there are others who simply pick up the merchandise and walk out with it or snatch the clothing from a cube or round rack and run out the door.

RF labels are the one item that apparel shoplifters don’t want to see on their intended targets. The RF security tags mean that if the shoplifter wants to avoid detection of his activity, he is going to have to remove or disable the RF security labels that are on the clothes, an almost impossible task. The Checkpoint security tags are designed so that they are held fast by a metal pin that is pushed through the fabric so that it does no damage. The tag can’t be removed without damaging the item that it protects. The RF label can only be removed by a specially manufactured detacher, which separates the pins from the reusable RF security tags.

Checkpoint labels can enhance any retailer’s loss prevention program by protecting one of his most valuable lines of merchandise. RF security labels, when used properly, can be a great asset for any retail store.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF label, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags, stop shoplifting