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Stay Savvy

May 28, 2012 by Staff Editor

The small business owner is a unique specimen of the business culture. They are often financially savvy, innovative and very passionate about what they are doing. They are not the ones to stand on the sidelines waiting for success to fall in their laps. This is why they are living their lives as an entrepreneur.

This is also why, when faced with an unexplained shortage, lack of sales production, or an all around bad hire, they take it personally. Small business owners generally have screened, interviewed and hired each of their employees personally. It is personally that they take any affront to their hiring decisions.

This is one of the critical areas that running background checks can help with. Employee background checks that are conducted by an outside, impartial Background Check Company can see past a personal, emotional response to a job candidate.

The Background Check Company’s only job is to see past the black and white on an application. They can run various levels of employee background checks to cover credit, work history, convictions, pay rates, etc.

These background checks help to fill in the blanks that are sometimes overlooked in an interview or a pre screen. Often, just mentioning to a potential candidate that there will be a background check conducted for all new hires is enough to keep some of the truly bad seeds at bay.

They know that any lies or issues they are trying to cover up will potentially be unearthed. This leaves the small business owner free to go back to being passionate about their jobs, their stores, their customers and their business, all while maintaining their financial savvy.

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Less Is More

May 27, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

Famed architect and designer Ludwig Meis van der Rohe once said less is more. He was more right that what he probably realized, especially when it comes to retail security measures.

Some people are under the assumption that in order to get the best, you have to spend more. The reality is, just because you are spending less, doesn’t mean you are getting less.

In the case of using cheap tags and cheap labels for your anti shoplifting needs, spending less actually gives you more. More money to spend elsewhere. More peace of mind knowing that you are protecting your assets from theft. Don’t forget, you are helping keep more money in American business by buying these tags and labels that are manufactured here in America.

You will be getting so much more for your dollars spent than if you went with a name brand EAS tag or EAS labels for your store’s security program. Cheap, reliable, and effective is hard to argue with.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that more is always more. This is one simple situation that proves less really is more.

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Don’t get lucky, get prepared

May 24, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

There is a saying that talks about how no one is ever really lucky. It is only a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. It is a way to say that hard work, and perseverance really makes the difference. No one gets lucky. No one wins without the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to make them winners.

Retail security is the same way. No one gets to be “lucky” and have low shrink numbers. Just like no one gets to have good sales because they are lucky. Sales come from proper merchandising, proper on hands, and a knowledgeable and friendly sales staff.

To have low shrink, you need to be diligent in providing customer service to anyone in your stores. It is also helpful to have the right tools and resources to do your job properly. That’s where retail security anti theft devices comes into play.

They can help you with your preparation for anti shoplifting. Cheap tags and cheap labels provide the necessary protection up front to prevent shoplifting.

You would no longer need to feel that you were lucky someone didn’t steal from you. You can be confident that your preparation reduced your shink.

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When It Comes Down To Cost

May 24, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

We would all love to be able to afford the best of everything in life. The beautiful sprawling mansion, the luxury cars, and the latest couture fashions straight off the Paris runways are all high dollar wants. Unfortunately, most of us are of the working classes and we make do with what we can afford.

When it comes down to protecting your hard earned investments, like your business, you want the best. It is hard to justify settling for less because of a price tag.

When you make the decision to use anti theft devices, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality to find an affordable solution. To efficiently prevent retail theft in your business, try using some cheap labels and cheap tags from a trusted source.

These EAS labels and EAS hard tags are designed to be a cost effective solution to protect your investments, and ultimately your profits. There is no need to short change your business. When it comes down to a matter of cost, use the cheap EAS tags and labels to protect your stores.

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Are you the victim of employee theft by voids??

May 21, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

The longer I work in retail the more I believe the phrase, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”, was directed at theft. There are two things to steal in retail. One is money and the other is merchandise. Even still there are dozens of ways to go about stealing both. This is perhaps why internal theft (also called employee theft) is the number one loss category every year. It is not easy to conduct an employee theft investigation, but it sure is necessary.

I have had to conduct an employee theft investigation at numerous gas stations recently. One similarity between this internal theft is the clerks using voids to help them steal cash. Here is how the activity works:

Customer comes to pay for merchandise like food or drinks and pulls out cash.

The clerk scans the merchandise so that the customer and the cameras show normal ringing activity.
The clerk then voids the sale.
The clerk then conducts a “No Sale” function to open the drawer, takes the customers money and gives them change (they do have to do the math in their head).
The clerk now has unaccounted for funds that he/she is free to take.

By voiding the sale the money taken in from the customer is not recognized by the register. The employee can take this cash and the register will still show even. This type of employee theft happens in most retail environments so I suggest checking your void reports and associates who trend higher than the rest are likely candidates for an employee theft investigation.

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Which One Will You Pick?

May 21, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

I have had many opportunities over the years to stop shoplifting, or more accurately, to stop shoplifters in my stores. One of the easiest ways is to incorporate the use of Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint security tags into our day-to-day operations.

Checkpoint security tags and Checkpoint labels are tested for quality and reliability. Checkpoint prides themselves at being at the top of the anti theft device game. They have blazed the trail to provide effective solutions to stop shoplifting.

Checkpoint continues to innovate product specific solutions to assist in all of your shrink reduction needs. They have gone beyond the simple hard tags and now offer box locks, wraps, customizable adhesive labels and jewelry solutions, just to name a few.

Having more solutions makes it easier for me to do my job and reduce shrink in my stores. I no longer have to spend my time reinventing the wheel just to make something work. I can just browse the list of Checkpoint solutions to see what will work in my situation.

I find that I spend less time looking at what went wrong, because I was using the wrong product. Now I spend my time evaluating what went right and how can I produce those same results with my next problem area.

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Out of the ordinary placement of anti theft devices

May 21, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

In one of my stores there is a problem that isn’t exactly unique to them but is somewhat of an epidemic. They are constantly losing shoes to shoplifting. In their efforts to prevent shoplifting in their store they have tried brainstorming numerous ways to battle this issue, but in spite of their efforts their total shrink in that department is astounding. They have done everything from ensure one hundred percent tagging standards to twenty-four hour surveillance of the area, but still they get beat.

The problem seems to be that the retail anti theft devices they are currently using have been beaten and the local thieves seem to have spread the word on the methods to do it. After researching the problem we have come up with a somewhat unorthodox use for a different type of retail anti theft device which so far has seemed to confound the culprits. Now the department is required to use 2 Alarm locks on all footwear in the store, specifically running the cable through the eye-loops of the footwear itself or attaching it to a structurally sound part of the item. Also, if possible, they are to run the 2 Alarm units through BOTH pieces of footwear, thereby ensuring that the pair is kept intact and should anyone attempt to defeat the 2 Alarm piece it will simply sound off alerting associates to possible purloining of product.

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On the road

May 21, 2012 by Staff Editor

I just came back from a great weekend with my family. We took a road trip up north to see one of the national museums that we had been dying to go see. It was well worth the trip, I might add. Even my toddler loved it.

After we had walked all seven floors of the museum, we decided to take a quick swing through the gift shop on our way out. They had a large amount of clothing for sale, but none of it seemed to have any clothing security tags.

I thought that was pretty strange for a tourist attraction to not have any visible clothing security. After I took a closer look, I could tell that they didn’t use any clothing security tags. They did have clothing security in the form of soft labels.

These labels were imbedded into the price tags of the clothes. It was a pretty smart move, I thought. There was still a form of protection in place, but it wasn’t overtly publicized.

No doubt they have had their share of shoplifters, but the amount of false activations from their clothing alarm was greatly reduced. No one ever forgot to remove a hard tag. The soft tags were disarmed as soon as they were placed on the counters at the wrap stand.

In a museum, the last thing you want is to have a clothing alarm going off every few minutes. This individual take on clothing security was very well thought out to suit their needs.

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Why perform background checks?

May 21, 2012 by Staff Editor

Hiring new talent is a trying and time consuming process that taxes the resources of any company. While it is a frustrating fact of doing business, it is an unfortunate requirement to ensure you obtain quality talent to add to your company. The problem is you still cannot allow your company’s staffing needs to be figuratively blinded by glowing recommendations and ten-page resumes chocked full of exemplary qualifications.

In these dire economic times people have become desperate to find work and the unsavory practice of lying about qualifications or work history has become more commonplace than ever. If you or your human resources department doesn’t require employee background checks or any sort of pre employment screening you may find your company hiring a virtual lemon of an employee. Without performing an employee background check on your new receiving hire you might never know they never actually operated a forklift before which could lead to a potentially deadly accident and a huge liability. If you don’t perform a pre employment screening on that supposed cash room veteran you won’t find out that they were fired from their last job for stealing to pay for a gambling problem.

Background checks can protect your company from potential problems before they start (literally). The reason background checks were created in the first place was to ensure people are who they say they are. As loss prevention professionals (or managers looking to protect company assets) we can use this resource to our advantage and reveal who is worth hiring and who is simply padding their resume.

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Doesn’t Matter Which Side You Are On

May 17, 2012 by Staff Editor Leave a Comment

In order to prevent retail theft, you need to first have a clear-cut strategy of how you want to accomplish your goal. Ask yourself if you are looking only at anti shoplifting methods, or did you remember to include internal, or employee, theft in the equation?

Even though most anti theft devices are geared towards anti shoplifting, about 40% of shrink form retailers nationwide come from an internal source. That is a pretty significant percentage when the rest of the shrink occurs from operational breakdowns and errors.

Some retailers only report around 20% of their losses as a result of external theft.

Luckily, EAS tags are designed to reduce both internal and external theft. Statistically, the use of EAS tags and EAS labels have proven themselves effective in both areas of loss.

It really doesn’t matter if you are trying to prevent internal or external theft. EAS tags and labels work for both, helping you reduce the costs involved in your efforts to prevent retail theft from happening inside of your stores.

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