The truck stops here

For most of us it can be difficult to separate our work lives from our personal lives. We are spending more time at work, involved in work, checking our emails and voicemails for work, sometimes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our families are often pushed to the side because our work can be so consuming.

It is no surprise that so many people develop relationships at work. They can be friends, or even love interests. Even in the loss prevention profession, it is not uncommon for people to meet their future spouses while on the clock.

Most companies have clear-cut policies in their handbooks regarding personal relationships and fraternizations for a couple of reasons. One is to protect everyone form harassment or favoritism in the workplace. The other is to protect against employee theft.

It is not uncommon for employee theft to take place when there are friends or relatives (significant others) working together and having access to merchandise and a register or unsupervised back door.

Not many people know that there are policies in place regarding delivery truck drivers. Most of my stocking crews know that there is a strict time limit that must be followed for how quickly a truck must be unloaded.

While they think it is about their own productivity levels, an even bigger part is to prevent employee theft.

In large cases involving store associates and drivers, there is usually documentation of the drivers lingering at those stores and developing relationships. These relationships lead to the potential and opportunity for major theft to occur.

When the trucks are pushed on as soon as possible, those relationships do not have time to form, thus cutting back on the potential for employee theft of that nature to occur.

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Only sometimes

For plenty of retailers, sales are driven by special buys. These deep discount, one-time purchase items drive in customer traffic to encourage shopping in other areas of the store.

 Sometimes these special buys are a consumable. Sometimes, they are a one of a kind specialty item. Sometimes you need to have access to cheap tags and cheap labels to make sure your retail security is up to speed with these one-time displays of product.

 Because the draw a buyer has for a special buy piece of merchandise is the extremely low cost of goods, it may not make sense for the vendor to put in extra time or money into equipping them with anti theft devices.

 By not having these items EAS tagged, it can lead to more than just an inventory loss.  You can loose major sales and reputation by not having an advertised product available.

 There will surely be upset customers who made the trip into the store just for that item. To send them away empty handed will actually send them away with a bad taste in their mouths for your store. They will be less likely to make a trip again for any other sales.

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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend

It is absolutely true! Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. I can’t think of a single woman out there who would not love to see a beautiful pair of diamond earrings or a diamond necklace wrapped up in a little box as a present for her.

 As a retailer who has worked with high end and middle grade diamond jewelry sales, I can tell you the conundrum we face when presented with a beautiful new piece of diamond jewelry.

 The first thing you want to do is make sure every employee working for you has seen the new piece and is completely in awe. That way they can talk up the sale to all of their clients.

 Next you want to find a great way to merchandise and display the jewelry. That is where the problem begins. Typical retail anti theft devices might work to prevent shoplifting in other areas, but not with a classy piece of jewelry like this.

 You can’t leave it unattended, so what’s a girl to do? Use the new Jewel Loks, of course.

 A Jewel Lok is a locking mechanism that is designed specifically for jewelry that needs to be mindful of presentation and preventing shoplifting.

 By using a Jewel Lok, you can then display the new diamond jewelry out in the open for all to see without worrying that the retail anti theft device will be bulky, or even worse, easy to defeat.

 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 

 

In the beginning

I got my start in retail working for a clothing store. It was simple. Clothing security seemed to be pretty cut and dried. You put security tags on clothes and watch for people trying to steal your stuff.

While I have progressed my career with more complicated situations and cases, I still have a fondness for working in basic clothing security. Checkpoint tags were, and still are a staple. Shoplifters tend to follow the basic patterns of theft.

Now don’t think that there isn’t any skill or thought required to work in clothing security. There are plenty of both. Understanding that Checkpoint tags are only as good as the people using them and monitoring them.

Simply having security tags on clothes does not prevent shoplifters from stealing.

What I liked about the job was the simplicity to just do my job. It was about case production and making sure that clothing alarms were taken seriously. It wasn’t about getting involved in three hundred other P & L statement corrections and explanations, or in overseeing human resources issues.

I am happy with where my career has taken me, but every now and again, its nice to just be an agent who is focused on shoplifting.

There is a very rewarding feeling knowing that each shoplifter you sop makes a positive contribution to the community you work in.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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Finding the Pattern

A pattern is simply a repetition of images, sounds, or events that when put together create a whole picture. These pictures often give us answers to questions that we may not even know we need to be asking.

My daughter has been skipping her naps over the last few days. The first time she fell asleep in the car for about ten minutes, but when I tried to get her inside and up to bed, she woke right up. Later she fell asleep while I was holding her. Again, she woke up as I laid her in bed. Well after she had a restless night of sleep, I was able to identify the pattern as an ear infection.

While it would have been nice to catch it sooner, the first few clues meant nothing to me until I saw the full pattern emerge.

Employee theft cases are the same way. You look for any patterns you can find to identify previous acts, and obtain future thefts in progress.

What you don’t want is to forgo employee background checks that might identify criminal patterns prior to employment. If you have to wait to identify a pattern of theft before you can stop it, you have waited too long. You will never see the cash or the merchandise again.

An employee background check expedites the pattern finding process by taking into account their prior activities, whether they are criminal records, or spotty previous work history.

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Smoke and Mirrors

My teenage son and I went to our favorite BBQ joint for lunch. As we were walking in, he noticed the sign that had their slogan on it “All smoke and no mirrors”. He was a bit confused and couldn’t figure out why someone would cook BBQ with a mirror.

 I realized that he had grown up in the convincingly “real” world of computer animation and digital effects. He had no clue that magicians used smoke and mirrors to create the illusions for them to pull off their magic tricks.

 The last thing you want in your retail security is for the thieves to think your anti theft devices are all smoke and mirrors. Many stores used to have dummy domes and cameras to give the illusion of retail security.

 That only works for so long. Once the word gets out that they are just fakes, the shrink losses start to increase. Better to spend your time and energy with the real thing from the start. If you are using cheap tags and cheap labels, get the ones that are reliable and work properly every time.

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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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What can we do?

When you want to stop shoplifting in your stores, the easiest thing to do is to start using anti theft devices for retail security. They will help deter a large majority of people who would consider shoplifting. If it is no longer easy to do, this percentage will simply stop and go somewhere else that is an easy target.

 Unfortunately, that leaves you with a different element of shoplifter, ones that are a little bit more seasoned, or desperate. Either way, anti theft devices are not going to dissuade them from stealing your goods.

 These are the people who must be caught in order for them to stop. You have the right to detain a shoplifter. You have a right to recover your merchandise and prevent a loss.

 You cannot just stop anyone because you felt like it, or you think they did something. You need to be sure. You need to know exactly which item they have, and where they concealed or hid it on their person.

 You also need to either call local law enforcement or let them go within a timely manner (think less than an hour). Check your local jurisdiction for exact information.

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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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How about a hot dog?

I have no doubt that the relationship started out with the simple question of “how about a hot dog?”

Like all unfortunate circumstances what started out as a simple working relationship between a hot dog vendor in our parking lot and a store employee quickly went south.

The employee would go out on his lunch breaks and grab a bite to eat and a little small talk with the vendor. Over time they got to know each other a little bit better and would talk about families and how their workdays were going.

Eventually the vendor would give out some free food to this employee as their relationship turned to friendship.

It wasn’t long after that the vendor started to talk about getting some things for free back from the employee. This was the beginning of a very serious case of employee theft.

It started out small enough, the employee passed off some screws and adhesive to help the vendor fix something broken in his hot dog cart. Over the next few months, the employee theft grew to include some power tools and other expensive store items.

When we conducted the interview, the employee stated how he never intended to be caught up in an employee theft situation. He was feeling obligated to his new friend to help him out and the items started to get out of control with cost and frequency.

A small part of the employee was glad he had been caught because he now had a way out of the situation.

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Prosecuting a minor

I hate it when kids steal. There is no good scenario for anyone under the age of 18 to be caught shoplifting. To start with, I firmly believe in the innocence of a child, even if that child is ready to graduate from high school and is almost an adult. Shoplifting turns into much more serious issues if undetected.

 Retail security is primarily designed for adults who knowingly violate the laws and understand the gravity of their consequences. Retail anti theft devices work best with adults because they know what these anti shoplifting tools are for.

 For small children, EAS tags don’t work because they don’t know what they do. Most children, up to a certain age, may know that it is wrong to take something that doesn’t belong to them, but aren’t fully aware of the meaning of shoplifting.

 Some small children (under five) may not even know that it is wrong.

 It’s the older, teenage crowd that shoplifts out of a dare, peer pressure, or for fun. They may think it is all a joke because they think they have the get out of jail free card until they turn 18. The good thing about anti shoplifting devices, however, is that it only takes one time of trying to take something that doesn’t belong to them for them to learn what these devices do. 

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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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Hey, I found it!

I am always loosing my keys and my phone. I had even hired an assistant manager one time and explained to him on his first day at work was to make sure that I always had my phone and keys before leaving the office. He laughed, until five minutes later when I couldn’t find my phone.

 My friends know I am a lost cause. They often joke about getting me one of those remotes that you can attach an alarm on to your personal effects. That way you can just let your lost items send off a distress signal to help you locate them.

 I think that is why I like the 3 Alarm products for retail anti theft devices. The 3 Alarm will emit an audible alarm for ten minutes after a stolen product has passed through the store’s doorway.

 It gives you time to find your item. If you have a shoplifter stealing an item, they will try to run out the doors. Once the 3 Alarm activates, and they realize it won’t stop; the shoplifter will realistically drop the item.

 Even if they take the item with while they are running, ten minutes is ample time to find out where the item was discarded. You may not always be able to prevent shoplifting from happening, but you will always have a shot at recovering the merchandise with a 3 Alarm retail anti theft device.

 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