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One, two, three

September 3, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

With so many great retail anti theft devices out there to prevent shoplifting, it can get kind of confusing understanding the nuances of each type of product.

I wanted to give a quick overview of the different stages of EAS alarms to include 2 Alarm, and 3 Alarm products.

At the most basic of levels, all EAS products (soft and hard tags) regardless of form are equipped with a level one alarm. It means that the alarm will go off at the front doors when the retail anti theft devices passes trough, if they are not deactivated or removed first.

That seems simple enough.

Next comes the 2 Alarm. These are products that are a little more complex. The alarms are for higher ticket or higher theft items that need a little bit better of security. A 2 Alarm product will emit an audible alarm if the device is tampered with. So even if the EAS is not near a doorway, the alarm will sound if someone tries to remove the device.

A 3 Alarm EAS tag is the highest and most involved form of retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting. A 3 Alarm will do what both a one alarm, and a 2 Alarm product will do. The best part is that the 3 Alarm will continue to emit that penetrating audible alarm for a full ten minutes after the product has left the store.

I hope this helps clarify the differences for you.

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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It’s not easy being green

September 3, 2012 by Staff Editor

All to often clothing security can seem like it is a waste of time, a waste of payroll, and a waste of valuable financial resources. The last thing you want is for clothing security to be a waste on the environment as well.

If you are looking to convince someone that there is a very solid point to clothing security tags, let them know that Checkpoint tags are financially and environmentally sound.

You see, a Checkpoint tag is built to last. Yes, they are made out of plastic, but this is not a cheap plastic. These Checkpoint tags are going to stand up to being dropped, stepped on, knocked around, and anything else you can think of. They are also reusable.

By setting up your own clothing security tag “recycle bin” at the point of sale, you can reuse the tags over and over again. That saves the wear on the environment by not making them s single use, disposable commodity.

You also don’t have to continually reorder the tags. That saves tons of money in the process. Once you have made the initial purchase, you are set. Eventually you might need to reorder due to increase in clothing items you want to tag, or due to loss. These things can’t be avoided, but the major purchase will tide you over for the majority of their tenure.

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Don’t Employ Criminals

September 3, 2012 by Staff Editor

Employee background checks are a crucial step in the hiring process. Taking extra precautions now can prevent theft in the future. Working as an LP detective, I once received a tip from a manager that one of his associates had friends visit him and shop in the store often. It also turned out that the associate’s register consistently turned up short.

I decided to work a case on this associate. Over several weeks I watched him and built my case. One evening, his friend came to visit. They shopped around the store, selecting merchandise from his department. The friend ended up with six shirts and three jeans.

At the register, the associate rang the friend for one shirt and one pair of jeans but bagged the other seven unpaid for items. The associate walked his friend to the exit where my fellow detective was waiting.

Needless to say, we pulled both suspects into the LP office and notified the police. When they arrived, they ran the associate in their system to check for priors. The associate carried an alias which was linked to two charges of robbery. He had a bench warrant out for his arrest.

We estimated a total of $2,000 in register shortage over his six months of employment. We never obtained a cash theft admission from him, but the shortage ended after his termination.

This entire situation could have been avoided during pre-employment screening and background checks. $2,000 of cash and an unknown amount of merchandise theft would have never occurred if criminal background checks had been implemented by a background check company.

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Tell-Tale Behaviors

September 3, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Employee theft accounts for the majority of shortage in any store, as they have more access to the company’s assets than a shoplifter. Just like shoplifters show tells, associates can display them, too. Sudden changes in an associate’s behavior should warrant suspicion of internal theft. Someone who seems overtly friendly, complains about their financial situation or that they are underpaid or an associate that has friends and family visit the store often, are some things that wave a red flag.

As an LP professional, I encountered an associate who frequently complained to fellow coworkers that he was unhappy at home and couldn’t make ends meet. He told everyone who would listen. Then, this same associate came into work with a high-end set of $200 headphones and a new MP3 player one day. He continued to complain about his financial situation. Within the same week of his first shopping spree, he came in with a designer belt which he gloated about, showing everyone the receipt in which he paid $400 cash.

This information triggered my awareness and I decided to begin an employee theft investigation on him. We posted a covert CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) camera above the register in the department he normally worked in. After a few weeks of surveillance, we caught the associate red-handed stealing cash from the register. When questioned about the theft, he admitted that he made duplicate receipts for customers who were paying with large amounts of cash. He used those receipts to void the transactions later at his register and pocketed the money at the end of his shift.

Being observant of associate behaviors may lead to a case of employee theft and having a reliable CCTV system in your store can play an integral role in conducting an employee theft investigation.

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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Doing your part

September 3, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Retail security goes beyond anti theft devices. It is about creating a comprehensive anti shoplifting strategy for your store. You have to know how to use the EAS tags and labels to your advantage. You also have to know what else to do to protect your inventory.

Having the tools and resources available to do your job makes things a lot easier. Knowing how to use them to your advantage makes an even bigger impact.

Do your employees know to look for and deactivate every tag on every item that they ring up? Is it more widespread practice that your employees try to guess and consequently pick and choose which items they attempt to deactivate?

When EAS tags and labels are not properly deactivated, false alarms result. If your employees don’t take the time to remove the EAS devices, why do we think they would take to time to respond to an alarm?

Shoplifters watch for unanswered alarms. That’s one of the reasons they target a store over another one. Setting the standard for 100% deactivation will further the overall effectiveness of your anti theft devices.

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Buying Online

August 31, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I do a lot of online shopping, more than what I realize sometimes. It is so much easier to find what I want at the price I am willing to pay. Not every brick and mortar store can carry the variety of products I need for my home and my business. My husband and I even ordered our wedding rings on line.

One thing we realized in that process is there are still some things you don’t want to buy sight unseen. The diamond for my band was one of them. It was one thing to risk being potentially scammed out of a band, thousands of dollars on a diamond is completely different.

This is why I like the ability to order a free sample of anti theft devices. I don’t want my retail security to be scammed. My inventory needs protection, and these are the anti shoplifting tools I want to use.

When I look at the samples, I can gage first hand the quality of product that will be protecting the thousands of dollars worth of inventory for my store. I know I will be making the right choice and can buy on line without regret.

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Anti-theft devices and your store’s restrooms

August 29, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Among the more perfidious methods of theft in retail environments, is a shoplifter taking their selected items into store restrooms. Just as with fitting room theft there are very exacting requirements to adhere to before executing any shoplifting apprehension involving a restroom concealment and it creates a great deal of pressure and stress for us within the Loss Prevention community; so much so that nine times out of ten we tend to avoid going after such suspects as the risk of making a bad stop is too high.

The way around this is to create a problem for the shoplifters before they even get to the ‘safe zone’ of the restrooms. Since the vast majority of items taken into restrooms already have anti-theft devices in place it is simply a matter of establishing a compatible retail security gate just before the restroom entrance. That way, should anyone try to get a tagged item into said restroom alarms would sound just as if they tried to exit the store with the same items.

Furthermore, in some jurisdictions the attempt to take unpaid product into a store restroom is akin to walking out the front doors with it and a stop can be made (with cause) when the alarm sounds. Of course you need to verify with your state and company retail security policies but if you have the ability, use it.

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Testing the waters.

August 27, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

One of the more complex employee theft cases I had to work on was because there wasn’t a clear-cut way to explain to the associate that they were stealing.

Usually when I conduct an employee theft interview, the employee being question is aware of their wrongdoing. They may try to justify it or completely deny it, but deep down, they know it was wrong.

We had a cosmetics department in the store. At the different counters were the testers of eye shadow, and lipsticks, and of course perfume.

It wasn’t uncommon to see an employee occasionally walk by and give a little spritz as they walked to their selling department. Sometimes they would tryout a new shade of lipstick on a break. For the most part, the employees were respectful, and made purchases of the items they tested. Since this was no different than how we would treat a customer, we stayed out of the way.

One day, an employee came to me fuming because another employee would do their full makeup every day from their testers. Then this employee would take the lipsticks and eyeliners with them.

Because the makeup had no retail value, it was a hard sell when I went to talk to this employee. I explained moderation. I explained respect for the other associates. I even explained it was employee theft of company property. Nothing.

While they no longer work for the store, to this day, I really think she still believes that it is ok to take something that doesn’t belong to her, as long as it doesn’t have a price tag.

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How to prepare for the unexpected

August 27, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Retail security involves developing and executing plans to prepare for just about every conceivable situation to protect the safety of your employees, your customers and to secure the profitability of your store and its assets.

On the very forefront of inventory protection are anti theft devices. They are retail security’s permanent eyes and ears.

As a manager, I can’t stand guard over my high theft merchandise every single hour the store is open. I also can’t realistically expect to have the store employees standing in shifts over that same product.

This is where anti theft devices are useful. Once the EAS devices are attached, they are permanent. I know that if I leave for the day, that hard tag I put on a pair of jeans will still be there when I get in the next morning.

I know that if someone does try to steal an item, the EAS tag will set an audible alarm off notifying every one in the area to be on alert.

In retail security you do your best to prevent the unexpected from happening. Anti theft devices help eliminate the unexpected in the way of a shoplifting loss.

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Locked up, lose out

August 27, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

For a while, retailers that were fed up with preventing shoplifting of their small, high dollar, and/ or high shrink items simply started to lock them away. While I don’t know the exact numbers, I can only imagine that their shrink losses dramatically decreased, since no one but an employee with a key could access the merchandise.

I can also assume that from a customer service standpoint, there has been a significant decrease in those sales. It’s no wonder that loss prevention is often referred to as “lost sales”

I know that as a consumer there have been times that I have needed to purchase say a razor, and it has been locked up. In a perfect world scenario, you simply ask the available sales associate to get one.

In today’s meager payroll world, spending time to go track down an associate and then find out they have to get someone else who has the key, is cumbersome and time consuming. I, for one, don’t always have the time, or patience to wait for that. I have on more than one occasion walked out of a store without making a purchase because it was taking to long to get my product out of the lock box.

As it turns out, I am not the only one who has done this. Retailers are rethinking their strategy and going to new retail anti theft devices designed for better customer service and sales.

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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