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Where do I begin?

September 24, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I don’t even know where to start. I ordered the free samples form RBC Security Solutions, expecting to have a small envelope delivered with one of their labels inside.

To my utter shock and amazement, there was not a single label inside. There were strips of six different types of labels! I didn’t even know where to start. It was not what I was expecting from a company trying to sell cheap labels and cheap tags.

There was more product than what I ever expected, and that makes it only that much easier to see what a great representation of anti theft devices this company makes.

When you can look and feel how the labels are going to work and look, it is easier to make decisions about how to enhance your retail security.

I could actually take a strip of labels to my thermal printer to make sure it would run through correctly, and they did! That is not something you could do if they had just sent out one lonely label in their bright green envelope.

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For more information on how you can use Anti- theft Devices in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to help you prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags contact us.

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An extension of your personality

September 24, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

For many women (and men) out there jewelry and accessories play a major part of identifying who we are as a person. Think about someone you know who never leaves the house without a signature piece of jewelry. Maybe it is a beautiful estate necklace. Perhaps it is a constant myriad of funky jewelry designed to make a bold statement. Maybe it is just a simple gold wedding band. The point is jewelry is often an extension of our personalities.

That is why jewelry and accessories play such an important role in generating sales revenue for retailers.

Unfortunately, for most retailers, jewelry and accessory departments are often one of the highest shrink product groups. The traditional retail anti theft devices are slowly growing obsolete.

Having a soft tag embedded into a paper jewelry package just doesn’t cut it anymore. They don’t prevent shoplifting when the shoplifters simply remove the jewelry from their cards and toss the packaging away before they leave the store.

Jewel Loks, on the other hand, prevent the shoplifters from removing the jewelry from the packaging. By eliminating this kind access to the product, shoplifters are thinking twice about trying to steal.

By utilizing Jewel Loks in display and in merchandising standards, you don’t have to worry about detracting the honest consumer from their purchase. They are discrete and are designed to allow the jewelry to fit on peg hooks and rounders, like they normally do.

Women are craving to let their personalities run free through the use of accessories; Jewel Loks allow them the means to do so.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices 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 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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Accessible solutions

September 24, 2012 by Staff Editor

Accessibility can be a key component to merchandising and sales. In my time as a department manager for a men’s clothing outfitters, I spent a lot of time evaluating and changing out my display mannequins.

If I put an outfit up on display on Friday morning, by Sunday afternoon, all of my product, well at least the popular sizes, would be completely sold out. If I didn’t have any of an item on the shelf, the shirt would literally be taken off of my mannequin’s back.

It was about having the merchandise accessible to the customer’s that allowed for the sales to take place. They could see the clothing hang correctly. They could touch and manipulate the fabrics. They could visualize themselves in those clothes. Accessible.

With the mannequin displays, it was easy to use clothing security tags. I could hide them in the fold of a collared shirt, or even retag the pants in the back waistband. It was easy to rearrange the clothing security tags without jeopardizing our clothing security.

I didn’t need my clothing security to be like Fort Knox with every thing under a strict lock and key. I just needed enough security to make sure that if someone did try to steal the clothes that the clothing alarm would go off as they exited the store.

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

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Getting close, but not close enough

September 24, 2012 by Staff Editor

Do you have a best friend at work? For many employees out there, they do. It is someone who they joke and kid around with at work. They can vent about how they had a bad day, and the at work friend understands because they know the environment and the people in the story.

While some people do take these friendships to the next level and gather outside of the workplace, many companies do prohibit fraternization on any sort of level. At work friends, when kept at work, are an important part of employee morale so they are not limited.

The question is, do we really know our at work friends? Do we really know that person and what they are capable of if we only see them in a certain light or environment?

This is where employee background checks come into play. No matter how well you might think you know one of your employees, if you only see them on the job, you are probably not fully aware of any issues they might be having outside of work.

Employee background checks can uncover financial and criminal histories that may have begun since the employee was hired.

It is always disheartening for employees to find out that their at work buddy was caught stealing, or was terminated for drug or alcohol usage on the job. A background check might get you closer to that employee, so you really know what they are all about.

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Tags and Labels Made in the USA

September 21, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

First of all I should say congratulations to anyone who has decided to use any sort of retail anti theft devices. Retail security is a significant issue to any retailer who is trying to save their profits on all fronts. Better yet, congratulations on deciding to use EAS tags and labels for your anti shoplifting needs.

Now that the decision has been made, it’s time to think about some of the associated costs. You need to have at a minimum, EAS tags or labels and a tower at the entrance to alarm the devices. Just because the cost of prevention is far less than a loss of merchandise due to theft, doesn’t mean you have to spend your last penny on them.

By going with a reliable company, it is easy to get cheap tags and cheap labels for your needs. You should be aware that many companies do offer cheap labels and cheap tags that are not made in the USA.

While they may have a good price, they may end up costing in the long run. Some do not deactivate properly causing customer complaints. Some aren’t activated, which defeats the purpose of even having them. Make sure your company uses tried and true made in the USA tags and labels to really get the most for your money.

Visit RBC Security Solutions for Anti-Shoplifting or Anti- theft Devices that can help you with your Retail Security needs like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags. Our EAS Labels and Tags are not cheap they are inexpensive and made in the U.S.

For more information on how you can use Anti- theft Devices to help you prevent retail theft in your business with products like Cheap Labels and Cheap Tags contact us.

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The Opportunistic Criminal

September 19, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Using anti-shoplifting devices such as EAS hard tags and soft tags has really done a great deal to cut down on shoplifting from the opportunist or armature shoplifter in my store. The typical shoplifter is someone that shops at the store regularly, loves the merchandise, but just can’t afford to buy it all the time. These people steal because it is easy and accessible. When you take those things away by implementing retail security or anti-theft devices, you eliminate the probability of armature theft taking place. When you remove the opportunity, you reduce the theft.

Even when you have an ambitious shoplifter, they tend to be easier to identify when you have anti-theft devices in place. Working in retail security for as long as I have, I’ve seen it all. Recently I had a shoplifter that selected a few shirts that were protected with some hard tags. I didn’t pick up on the person until they were in the corner of our shoe department using the edge of the shelf to try and pry the hard tag off of the items. They were able to wrestle a few of them off the merchandise, but it took them quite some time and a lot of determination. I had several sales floor employees contacting me and letting me know what was going on as it was so obvious. By the time they had removed the tags and concealed the merchandise I was able to contact the police and have them ready to apprehend before they even left the building.

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What Are Your Qualifications?

September 17, 2012 by Staff Editor

Forget about your potential employees’ qualifications for a moment. Think about what are your qualifications, or what are the qualifications of your HR managers?

Very few people are qualified to be background check experts. It’s not that it is difficult, it is because it is a time consuming qualification that very few people have put in the hours to prefect.

Being a background check expert means more than just filling out a few forms on the computer and hitting enter. It is about utilizing resources, analyzing reports, and being adept at asking the right questions to personal and professional references.

I personally rely on the knowledge and experience of experts. I am aware that I cannot be an expert in every subject that could ever possibly arise.

I need to be able to have a broad understanding of the process and what to look for, for potential red flags, but the bulk of the pre employment screening as well as the employee background checks for existing employees should be sent out to a true background check expert.

These experts will also have a keen working knowledge of the legalities involved in running these pre employment screenings and employee background checks.

My qualifications do not cover background checks. My HR manager is more qualified than I am, but she still is not an expert in background checks.

It is time to let the professionals be the experts and have them run background checks completely and thoroughly.

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Employee Theft: The #1 Profit Killer

September 17, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Throughout my career in loss prevention I was taught that three things cause shrink: external theft, internal theft, and paperwork error. Internal theft is the number one cause, followed by shoplifting, then operational miscues. Keeping track of employees is a necessity and this is done by conducting an employee theft investigation. These investigations don’t take a lot of time to complete and can be very beneficial in weeding out the dishonest employees that are causing more harm than good to you and your business.

Loss prevention and store management have a responsibility to monitor transactions and follow up on transactions that seem out of the ordinary in order to prevent as much employee theft as possible. Once some of the dishonest employees are caught and have their employment terminated, the other employees will notice this. The end result would be more honest employees who are reluctant to act dishonestly. If you were an employee that was thinking about stealing something and saw a co-worker being escorted out of the store by loss prevention or for extreme cases the police, would you think twice about stealing? The answer is yes. Deterrence works, letting your employees know that their work is monitored at all times works.

Employee theft is the worst cause of shrink and sadly it will take place. However with the help of loss prevention starting and completing a successful employee theft investigation, you can reduce the amount of loss while increasing the amount of honest and productive employees that you have in your place of business.

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

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It is getting personal

September 17, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Do you need a better way to protect your personal care items? I know that we have seen an influx of shoplifters trying to steal personal and beauty care items. I guess it is because the summer is here and everyone wants to look his or her best in their summer attire.

That doesn’t mean that they should be able to get away with stealing, it just means that we have to find a way to tighten our retail security. Most anti shoplifting processes start with anti theft devices.

If you have access to rolls of cheap labels, it is easy to add them on the fly. If you start to notice certain items disappearing from your shelves without corresponding sales, slap an EAS label on them.

If the thieves move on to a different item or product assortment, then start tagging those also. It may not provide the permanent solution for your shrink, but it will buy you some time to figure out a better solution for those items.

Anything you can do to make it harder for a shoplifter, the more results you will see.

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Deny, Deny, Deny

September 17, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

It would seem that to keep a product out on display and to also have it impervious to theft would be two conflicting sides of the coin. In all my years of trying to prevent shoplifting, I know that using the right retail anti theft devices can allow you, as a merchandiser, to do just that.

When you are using a product like the Jewel Lok, you create a product denial scenario. It is a basic principal of retail loss prevention. If a thief cannot get to the product they desire, they will not steal it.

Keeping merchandise under constant supervision, or lock and key, doesn’t always make a happy shopper. So switch out your lock boxes and display cases to the Jewel Lok. The customers have a full range of access to the jewelry, and you get to keep the jewelry on the cards until it is time to purchase.

Jewel Loks attach directly on to the jewelry, which is something that wasn’t done in the past. Before, retail anti theft devices only attached to the package or jewelry cards. This made it easy for shoplifters to separate the two parts and sneak off with the half they wanted.

By eliminating the ease of discarding the package and the old retail anti theft devices, you create what is known as product denial.

Your customers have access, but your shoplifters are left out in the cold with nothing left to steal.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices 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 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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