The Price of Peace of Mind – Clothing Security Tags

With so many benefits to using clothing security tags, it amazes me how many shops still have no visible signs of Checkpoint tags. I think the most common reason against using security tags on clothes is the start up price.

When profits are down it is hard to even think about spending more money. So when you are trying to protect your dollars, a clothing alarm seems like a counter productive use of funds. How would you even know if they work?

You can look at other indicators on a daily basis, if you don’t want to wait for something like a yearly inventory count to take place. You can look to see if you see more or less evidence of price tags being torn off of your merchandise. These loose tags are an indicator of theft in your store. A reduction would mean there are less attempts at theft due to your addition of clothing security tags.

Having a clothing security system in place isn’t just about a quantifiable reduction in theft or theft attempts in your store. It is also about having the peace of mind that you are being proactive in stopping the existing theft as well as preventing future thefts from happening.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, 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

Prevent Shoplifting without locking everything up

At one time, many retailers who were baffled with finding a system that would prevent shoplifting simply started to lock their small, high dollar, and/ or high shrink items away. This method undoubtedly dramatically reduces shrink; but at what cost in lost sales? 

From a customer service standpoint, this system is terribly ineffective AND costly. It is not surprising that this style of loss prevention is often referred to as “lost sales”.

There have been times as a consumer that I have needed to purchase an item  that has been locked up. In today’s meager payroll world, spending time to track down an associate, wait while they find another associate who has the key, and then wait for the item to be unlocked for purchase is highly frustrating and time consuming.

Most consumers in this “culture on the go” either don’t have the time or willingness to spend the time waiting for this process. I have no doubt that I am not the only customer who has walked out of a store without making the purchase because the process was simply taking too long.

Good customer service demands that you are able to simply ask an available sales associate to get whatever product you want into your hands without the drama. Successful retailers are rethinking this strategy and implementing the many versions of retail anti-theft devices designed for better customer service and sales.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti-theft devices that can be implemented along with Electronic Article Surveillance (or EAS) system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how to install retail anti-theft devices as well as Electronic Article Surveillance or (EAS) system to prevent shoplifting please contact us or call 1.770.426.0547. 

 

Market Yourself – Pre-employment Screening

For some companies, it is a critical part of the decision making process to perform pre-employment screening. Even potential litigation or other liabilities can be prevented through an employee background check.

Much of the criteria in an employee background check can point an employer in the right direction in a hiring decision.

As an employer, I need to make sure I have more to go on than just a hunch, or gut feeling. I need something tangible and measurable to say that my potential new hires will do me justice for years to come. If I don’t do my due diligence and run criminal background checks as part of my pre-employment screening, I really don’t know what I am potentially going to discover after I hire someone with a questionable past.

As a smart employee, I understand just how invaluable it has been for me to ensure my pre-employment screening not only shows up clean, but also in exemplary standings. I want to be the best potential candidate for a job in all aspects, which includes the ones on paper.

With so many applicants in the job market, it is imperative to stay marketable. One of the best ways to be able to market myself is not only speaking to my skill set; it is in being able to speak to my ability to pass a background check.

I would expect nothing less from my job applicants.

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, visit our website or contact us at Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. or call 1.770.426.0547

The First Response – Clothing Alarm

Of all the potential challenges I have faced with clothing security tags, the hardest is clothing alarms. These alarms are no different than a car alarm. Over time, even the best of us have become immune to the sound of one going off in a parking garage or outside our homes.

Just like many other sensory things (sights, smells) we become immune to repeated sounds over time.  Our employees similarly become immune to these alarms – especially when close to 95% of them are false alarms.

How do you solve the problem? Start with the basics of security tags on clothes. The first part is awareness. Your employees actually have to be aware of their surroundings and acknowledge when an alarm goes off.

Make sure you have consistent placement of your tags. It makes them easier for your employees to find. When your employees can find the tags, they can have a better accuracy rate of deactivating the tags thus reducing the number of false alarms.

The better you are with consistency in placing your Checkpoint tags, the better your overall performance will be. You have to train your employees to understand that your clothing security does not stop with the clothing security tags. Responding to and preventing false alarms are also a big part of their job and your success.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, 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 

 

10 Long Minutes delivered by 3 Alarm

When one thinks of time, it can feel as if a second is over in a flash. A minute may take a little longer. A minute can also feel like an eternity depending on what is happening in that minute and one’s frame of mind.

Ten minutes can feel like an eternity if one is waiting for an important phone call. Ten minutes can also feel like an eternity if one is standing in line waiting to check out in a store. Ten minutes absolutely feels like an eternity if your store’s 3 Alarm retail anti-theft device is screaming at the shoplifter who just stole your merchandise.

That’s right, a 3 Alarm tag will sound for a full ten full minutes before it ceases its audible alarm.

Hopefully 3 Alarm retail anti-theft devices will prevent shoplifting from the get-go. This system uses a three-step warning to persuade a shoplifter to change his ways if for some reason it does not initially deter the thief.

Step one in the warning system is the perimeter warning. If the tags get too close to the entry doors without being detached, an alarm will sound.

The second step occurs anytime a product is being tampered with by a potential thief. An alarm is generated if a shoplifter tries to disarm or detach 3 Alarm security products without the proper detacher.

Finally, if the shoplifter ignores all warnings and attempts to walk out the door with the product, a 3 Alarm tag will emit a siren for a full ten minutes. That is usually enough time for the shoplifter to come to his senses, drop the merchandise, and allow you to retrieve it before it walks out the door.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to find retail anti-theft devices that can be used with Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can reduce or altogether prevent shoplifting for your business.

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

 

Bottom of Basket- Employee Theft

I remember working an employee theft investigation regarding a cashier, who was ringing up her boyfriend. Underneath his cart was about $300 dollars in product that she did not charge him for. Because she did not want to draw attention to this merchandise not being paid for, she left them under the cart.

Unfortunately for her, but lucky for us, she did not realize that the items had RF tags on them. When the boyfriend tried to leave, he set off the alarms at the door alerting everyone around to the situation.

I did some research as part of that employee theft case. The girlfriend had been passing off merchandise for several months. It was probably longer than that, but they had left a trail of paperwork that we could follow.

Some of the stolen goods were returned without a receipt so a merchandise credit was issued. Because it is an in store credit, we could track all of the purchases that card made.

Each time they used the merchandise card to pay for a transaction, we saw more merchandise being passed off at the register. They would then return that product and get a new merchandise store credit that we could track. And so the cycle was established.

It’s hard enough to think that one of your own employees has been stealing from you. It’s even harder to think that often, internal theft involves either multiple employees or an employee working with someone outside the company like a friend, a relative, or even a vendor.

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.

Secure Your Shoes – Clothing Security

Why would anyone try to steal a pair of shoes? For the same reasons that they want to steal anything else. If you are questioning whether to install a clothing alarm and put Clothing Security tags on your shoes, think about the reasons and ways people will try to steal them.

One of the most common ways that shoes are stolen is called a shoe switch. The shoplifter comes into the store in a pair of shoes or sandals that are worthless to them. They try on the shoes they want and put their old shoes back in the box. If the shoes don’t have any clothing security, the shoplifter will simply walk out the door with their new pair of shoes.

Think about why someone steals shoes. They might steal them out of necessity. Maybe it is out of peer pressure to have better shoes than they can afford. Maybe it is just peer pressure to steal something in general. It could even be as simple as they shoplifter wanted them and no one was watching so they took them.

Regardless of the reason, it has been proven time and time again that the simple effort of putting security tags on clothes and shoes is an effective deterrent.

Using Checkpoint tags allows you to have the versatility to protect your shoes and the rest of your store’s clothes with interchangeable tags and labels.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, 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

Are we talking about Chili – Alpha 3 Alarm

I would like to feel that I am pretty savvy when it comes to technology. There isn’t much that I can’t do or figure out. I am baffled when it comes to what exactly are the Alpha Security Alpha 2 Alarm and Alpha 3 Alarm retail anti theft devices.

I know this isn’t like a 3-alarm fire or a good bowl of 3-alarm chili. It did take me a bit to realize that Alpha Security has come up with different levels of protection against in store theft.

The most basic level is the typical EAS system.  A product has a tag that alarms when the tag passes through the field generated by two towers at an exit door. We see that in just about every big box retailer out there.

That is a good start, but what if you are trying to prevent shoplifting by more experienced shoplifters? Your retail anti theft devices need to step it up a notch. This is where the Alpha 2 Alarm comes in. That is an alarm that comes directly from the retail anti theft device if it is tampered with.

Now if you still need more protection look for the Alpha 3 Alarm. It has the alarm capabilities of both levels one and two. But the biggest difference is that an Alpha 3 Alarm will sound if the retail anti theft device (and the product) leaves the store without being paid for. The alarm will continue to go off for up to ten minutes allowing you time to find where the shoplifter has inevitably discarded the merchandise.

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.

 

Over Not Under – Internal Theft

Track your overages and you may discover that you have an internal theft case, just not in the way you would imagine.

There is a saying that less is more. While that applies to many situations, especially when you are talking about how much money an employee stole from you; it is not always the most accurate for an internal theft cash case.

When you conduct a typical cash employee theft investigation, we generally start with the obvious. If there is money missing from a till, then we have employee theft. So we research the discrepancies – the cash shortages.

Here is one way that many employees get away with their own “perfect crime”.

If I am a trying to steal money from a register, and I want to be smart about it, I will know that I cannot simply take money from a till. Someone will notice, and it will only be a matter of time before I am caught.

So what if I find a way to inflate the till and take the extra cash. Simple enough if I do a refund without an actual customer. So if I refund an item and the total comes to $24.00, I can easily pocket a ten and no one will be the wiser. In fact when the drawer balances, there will be an additional $4.00.

So there you have it. You have an overage, and they have money in their pocket.

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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Evaluate Your Inventory – Clothing Security Tags

It should be no secret that you need clothing security tags to protect your merchandise. What you might not realize is that it is also not a secret as to which specific items need clothing security.

The first place is to start looking at your last inventory report. You are conducting inventories at least on a yearly basis right?

If you aren’t, you need to start. How will you ever know that you have a problem if you don’t have any way to manage or quantify your inventory losses?

If you have inventory items that you still carry that are still seeing losses of, this is where a clothing alarm can come in handy and are the ones that need Checkpoint tags first. If these items caught your eye, then you are probably missing either high dollars or high quantities of these items. These are your top shrink or your high shrink items.

Analyze your reports further and you will find which other items are on the list of losses. These are the items you need to make a decision regarding whether they will benefit from security tags on clothes.

If you find an item that you had shrink in, but you no longer carry the item determine if you have a comparable item. If so, you may consider using clothing security tags to be proactive in reducing your shrink.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, 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