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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors – Clothing Security

June 17, 2013 by Staff Editor

It is hard to be a small business owner. When I think of a quaint local boutique, I don’t think of Checkpoint Tags, I think of customer service and personalized shopping. Just as they say good fences make good neighbors, clothing security tags make for a great shopping experience.

The clothing security can be an expensive investment, and really, what is the point behind clothing security tags? Why should we go to all of the trouble to make sure we have security tags on clothes?

I don’t have a theft problem in my store. It would offend my customers if I were too overbearing. Either that, or I am afraid that they will suspect that I do have a theft problem and they will go somewhere else to shop.

The reality is that the times are changing. Demographics change, as do neighborhoods, and individual customer finances. The shop that you opened may not always be that safe and secure. It is better to protect yourself and your clients by making a proactive statement up front. You want shoplifters to know that you and your security measures will always be relevant. You will never be the victim, as you will always strive to be one step ahead.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, Clothing Alarms, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

That’s My Name Don’t Wear It Out – Criminal Background Check

June 12, 2013 by Staff Editor

When applying for a new job, you may be leaving a lot to chance with your potential new employer. My brother recently found this out when he applied for a new job after his recent graduation from college. It all started with a background check. More specifically, it started with a criminal background check that had gone awry.

His potential employer had not used reputable background check experts to perform pre-employment screenings. In fact, they didn’t use background check experts at all. They used an in-house program to search through the internet databases to get their criminal background check results.

Well, his background check turned up criminal hits from a state he had never even visited. Because of this, he had received communication from the employer that his job offer was being rescinded due to the results.

After much discussion and secondary verification, luckily the problem was solved. When they ran the criminal background check, they had only used his name and date of birth. There was a match to someone meeting these very limited search qualifications, and thus the problem started. After they used additional information for a background check like his driver’s license and social security number (and matching up his photo id to the mug shot on file) they were able to verify who my brother really was, and who he was not.

To purchase Pre-Employment Screening Services or for more information on background check experts, background checks, criminal background checks, employee background checks or pre employment screening contact us at the background check company or call 1.770.426.0547

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More Power To You – Alpha Spider Wraps

June 11, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I have a friend who is a district loss prevention investigator for a national hardware chain. She has seen the rise and fall of many trends from both shoplifters and employee theft cases. My friend has said numerous times that the Alpha Security Alpha Spider Wrap retail anti-theft devices are an invaluable resource.

She also has had the opportunity to see the impact that the addition of the Alpha Spider Wrap has made over the years. If it wasn’t for these retail anti-theft devices, the losses from high dollar power tools and other boxed items would be thousands of dollars more than what it is in these stores.

Power tools are a huge loss item because they have enormous resale value and opportunity. They are easily pawned, used or sold to another person on the streets or job sites. If they were not so easy to unload for profit, they would not be stolen so frequently.

The addition of the Alpha Spider Wrap has helped prevent shoplifting in the high loss department of power tools since they started using them.

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

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So Small You Wouldn’t Even Notice – Employee Theft investigation

June 10, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

As an investigator, I take on employee theft investigation only when large or repetitive cash shortages or merchandise discrepancies appear. It is not very common to look at small dollar employee theft cases.

There is a growing trend among many small businesses and low volume stores that is a concerning. It is the theft of small cash wrap items caused by internal theft. Most of these employees are cashiers, so they are close to these items throughout the course of their normal shift.

We are seeing many employees taking small items at the register such as a pack of gum or a candy bar. Sometimes it might be a drink from the store’s coolers. Often, the employee simply forgets to have someone ring up those purchases because they were distracted after taking the item.

They take the items while they are on the clock, which is why they get distracted easily when a customer comes up to pay, or the manager is busy elsewhere in the store.

It might only happen once, or it might be a few times before this employee realizes that no one caught his or her mistake. No one noticed that the pack of gum or the soda was never paid for. It is in that moment that the employee will continue to take those items because they know that no one is watching.

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

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The Best Accessory for Your Accessories – Alpha 2 Alarm

June 6, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

The Alpha 2 Alarm lanyard is a retail anti-theft device comprised of a small block (only a few inches long) that has a wire lanyard permanently attached at one end. The wire is a heavy-duty wire that prevents it from easily being cut. In order to protect your merchandise, the cable wire is covered in a protective coating. This makes sure the wire does not snag on any fabrics or decorative embellishments.

The other end of the wire remains loose until it is attached to the merchandise. Then the loose end is inserted into the block. There is a push button release for easy removal with a detacher at your POS.

Even though this is one of the best uses for this particular type of EAS alarm, the Alpha Security Alpha 2 Alarm lanyard lock is for more than just purses. This is a versatile type of retail anti-theft device that can prevent shoplifting of a wide variety of accessories. The lanyards are large enough to work with large totes and handbags. They are not so big that they would not work for the smaller wristlets that are in fashion right now. The lanyard can also be used for other suitcases and luggage.

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

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The Wrong One – Background Check Company

June 6, 2013 by Staff Editor

Whenever I try using a search engine to find background checks on someone, I am usually bombarded with online ads. These ads want to charge me money for personal information on an individual. There is usually some sort of teaser about how many results are found, and how many types of records there are – birth, divorce, arrest, death, etc.

I am always tempted to try them, that is, until logic sinks in. If there are so many search results, how will I know that what I am paying for is the right person’s pre-employment screening? What if I pay the fees for access and I can’t really find accurate or timely information on the person I am trying to research?

Going with some cheap online company, I might pay a small amount, but if it isn’t the right person, then I will be left with paying more to get the right information on the right person. It would not only be a waste of my money, but also my time.

I usually leave the website and go back to plan A – using a reputable company for my background checks. Sure they might charge more up front, but I know that they are providing solid, accurate information for my employee background checks, that I can use to make good hiring decisions.

I only want to run an employee background check one time. I don’t want to have to worry about getting the wrong information because the internet gave me the wrong person.

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The New Look – Jewel Lok

June 4, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

An essential up-selling tool in retail is jewelry. Jewelry is one of the most effective means of creating a new look with an outfit. Nothing works like accessories to create or complete a new look with a new outfit or add miles to an existing outfit or a new pair of shoes.

Using standard retail anti-theft devices in order to deter and prevent shoplifting of accessories is not 100% reliable. The EAS tags and labels are hidden inside the packaging most of the time and it is a simple matter to remove the jewelry from the packaging.

It’s a no brainer for the average shoplifter to exit the store with stolen jewelry with little or no risk involved with only the standard devices in place. Enter Jewel Lok.

Jewel Lok is the latest innovation in jewelry retail anti-theft devices. Jewel Loks tailored for necklaces and bracelets, as well as for hoop and stud earrings make it possible for the retailer to protect every size and type of jewelry in inventory. Each device is designed to create a highly successful, locking mechanism to make sure your jewelry does not walk out the door in the possession of shoplifters.

No more running around the store collecting loose, discarded jewelry packages. Jewel Lok precludes the product being removed without the proper detachers.

Reduce or eliminate the risk in selling jewelry now. Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti-theft devices utilized with Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting.

For more information on how you can employ retail anti-theft devices with Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system and prevent shoplifting please contact us or call 1.770.426.0547.

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Secured Sandals Using Clothing Alarm

June 4, 2013 by Staff Editor

Summer has arrived. Simply walking to my parked car in my Florida driveway produced sweat today. We can all agree that it is HOT wherever you live. Change of season translates to one thing in retail – new wardrobe. Bright colors, short sleeves and linen are the trend this year.

The number one summer staple (well, year-round) is flip-flops when growing up in South Florida. Everyone has at least one pair of sandals in their closet whether young or old, fat or skinny, fashionably dressed or out of style.

Flip-flops, as well as many other shoe styles, are easily stolen if they are not properly tagged. A shoplifter can simply slip off their old pair of shoes and slide into new ones. Many stores place shoes on racks or as open-sell items in boxes because they do not have space to keep shoes stocked. The best way to sensor shoes is to attach the pair of shoes together and secure them with a clothing alarm. Attaching checkpoint tags to prevent theft is mandatory for stores that leave pairs of shoes on display.

Clothing is less vulnerable to theft when store owners take time to ensure that there are proper security tags on clothes. Identifying which merchandise is new in season and style can facilitate determining specific areas which require the special attention of clothing security tags.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase the clothing alarm, clothing security tags as well as the Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system. Checkpoint tags come in various colors and sizes and offer choices for attaching security tags on clothes.

For more information about clothing security, clothing alarm, and clothing security tags and how they can function with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system, contact us at security tags on clothes or call 770.426.0547

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Into Thin Air – Employee Theft Investigation

June 3, 2013 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Back in my early days of management, I had a significant cash shortage. In fact, it was most of the day’s cash sales. This was well before I knew anything about internal theft.

I had worked the morning shift, and my closing manager called me when she counted down the till for the night. We were several hundred dollars short and she couldn’t figure out why. After recounting several times, we were convinced that we had an employee theft situation.

I called my district manager. He started to go over some basic procedures that we were not currently using. One of them was a sign-on and off for our registers. We let one person sign on and then everyone used their log in to ring sales for the rest of the day. The other was that we would often not have anyone up at the front counters to see what was going on in our shop.

Since we had no cameras or exception/ tracking reports, it was useless for us to conduct an employee theft investigation. The money was simply gone.

After we started using the sign-on and logging off after we were done, the issues stopped. Months later, I had an employee tell me that he had seen the old assistant manager come into the store and go behind the counter when no one was around. We suspected then that he had been coming behind the counter and opening the drawer while no one was looking because we never logged off the register.

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

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase CCTV Systems that can help you stop Employee Theft and Internal Theft problems and help with your Employee Theft Investigation.

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After The Fact – Background Checks

May 30, 2013 by Staff Editor

I ran into an interesting situation the other day involving employee background checks.

We had an associate found guilty of employee theft. It was a pretty open and shut case. We followed our company procedures to the letter, and the end result was that we terminated this employee. She was not prosecuted, but we did require restitution to be paid to us to make up for the losses she incurred.

We didn’t think much else about it. In an unrelated matter, or so we thought, a few months later we were in the process of promoting one of our employees to a management position. They would have keys to the building, safe codes and alarm codes.

As per our policy, we ran a background check before the promotion was to go through. One of the points on the employee background check is address verification. The employee’s current address was different than the one we had on file from his application.

While this was not unusual in and of itself, there was more that this background check revealed. On the list of known residents of that address was our previous employee that we had terminated for theft.

Had it not been for the background check, we would never had reason to question this employee or his motives.

This is just one of the reasons why running an employee background check has different advantages and looks for different criteria than a pre-employment screening might. Because his move was recent, the pre- employment screening would not have turned up the connection with this employee.

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