Now is the Time

March 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Now more than ever before retail security is an integral part of any retailer’s day to day processes. The economy is at a stand still. Unemployment rates are still high in most of the country. More people are turning to theft as a way to supplement their income, or in some cases even providing much needed basics like food and clothing.

One of the most basic anti theft devices is EAS tags and labels. There are cheap tags and cheap labels out there to help supply even the most budget stretched retailers with anti theft devices.

By adding these tags or labels into the SOP of your day-to-day business, shrink and other associated losses will start to diminish. You simply adhere or pin the devices on to whatever your high shrink merchandise is. You have an instant deterrent against theft.

You might even see an increase in your employees’ engagement levels. The more you can do to show you care, the more your employees and, in turn, your customers will respond with positive results.

Just because retail theft is out there, doesn’t mean you have to be a victim. You can take the power to control your profits into your own hands.

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 Innovative Solution

March 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment

A very large part of having the successful ability to prevent shoplifting is the ability to be innovative. Sometimes innovation comes in the form of bribery. For example: Pizza Party to the lowest shrink loss department!

Sometimes innovation comes in the form of excessive communication- Tell me again why your LP newsletter is taped to the lunch tables and inside the bathroom stalls?

Sometimes innovation comes in the form of retail anti theft devices like the Nano Gate. The Nano Gate is a replacement for the EAS towers located at the entrance doors. No longer big and bulky, this tower is streamlined to accommodate a new scope of uses.

The Nano Gate is great for boutiques and small specialty stores as it keeps with a more customer friendly or high-end image. Because of it’s more compact size, it can be used not just at the points of egress, but also in mini areas or pads.

Need a watchdog on your handbag wall? There it is! How about some infrequently used corners or back stock areas? Perfect there too. Do you have an employee entrance? What a great deterrent from employee theft!

Retail anti theft devices can seem to be the same thing over and over. Innovative solutions can brake out of those molds. Knowing when and how to utilize these innovations will make all the difference in the world when it comes to your bottom line profits. Don’t be the same, innovate!

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

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Fitting Rooms: A Safe Haven for Theft?

March 14, 2012 by

While employed as an agent for a department store, one issue that we never stopped confronting was fitting room theft. It might be assumed that the amount of shoplifting that occurs in this location would probably be similar, if not equal, to the restroom because both places offer privacy. However, carrying an armful of clothing into a designated area for trying on apparel isn’t devious at all, whereas smuggling merchandise into a lavatory should raise some red flags.

The corporation I worked for expected fitting room attendants to count the merchandise going into the room and coming out and verifying that there were security tags on clothes. In reality, this is not the way the system operated. I found myself going over the procedures with these associates almost weekly. The reason why the salespeople weren’t following these guidelines was not because they didn’t care, but their focus was on their own department, sorting merchandise, and running racks back to the floor.

Shoplifters are normally prepared for a store’s fitting room procedures and have an arsenal of techniques to thwart clothing security efforts. Even if an attendant is diligently counting merchandise in and out, they may have apparel double-hung on one hanger, have items hidden inside other items, or “swap-out” their old clothing for a new article without causing a clothing alarm. So how can retailers reduce their vulnerability to fitting room theft and beef up their store’s clothing security when thieves are continuously improving the way they steal?

The best and most-widely used solution for fitting room pilferage is the application of clothing security tags or security tags on clothes. Depending on a store’s needs, they’re available in an array of sizes, shapes, and styles. In the security industry, Checkpoint tags are unsurpassed for good reason: for over forty years they have worked with retailers to provide innovative and technologically-advanced solutions to address theft. Even if a customer going into the fitting room looks suspicious, retailers can be confident that Checkpoint tags won’t let their merchandise disappear in there.

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

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

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It Can Happen Anywhere

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Coming from the world of retail loss prevention, I always knew the importance of running background checks, performed by background check experts at a background check company. It is one of the safe guards to hiring reliable, trust worthy employees. Employee background checks is the key to validating a potential employee’s resume or job application.

Recently, I realized that background checks and pre employment screening, when you utilize proper background check experts at a background check company, is something that all companies or employers should do. I unfortunately came to this discovery only after hearing a story from my mother.

She called one day just to chat and started to tell me of some local excitement. The church she attends had to fire one of their secretaries about a week ago. I knew it must be pretty bad if you are terminated from a church. I was right.

The employee, who should have had criminal background checks performed,  had been secretly writing checks to herself for the better part of a year. She was coding them as invoices for other miscellaneous work to be done on the church grounds.

This employee had a great track record of attendance and was well liked. She had gotten sick and was unexpectedly out of the office for a week. When another employee started to reconcile the books, the employee background checks that had been cashed showed up. After an investigation was conducted, the scope of loss totaled around a thousand dollars. She was promptly terminated as a result.

While pre employment screening may not have caught this employee, running a routine background check periodically would have shown her financial troubles. I recently read an article that had stories very similar to this. It’s more common than you think. If it can happen at a church, it can definitely happen anywhere.

For more information on background check experts , background checks , criminal background checks , employee background checks or pre employment screening contact us at the background check company or call 1.770.426.0547

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Checkpoint Security: Products Designed With The Retailer in Mind

March 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Checkpoint Security is a long-standing security solutions company, their products have been used for years by the retail industry’s leaders.  One of the primary functions of Checkpoint is to assist the retailer in the goal to stop shoplifting.  To accomplish this goal, the company provides various RF security labels and RF security tags.

I have seen first hand the effectiveness of the Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint security tags.  Like many in the loss prevention industry, I began my career as a Loss Prevention Agent.  During this time I worked extensively with RF security labels and RF security tags.  It was interesting to watch shoplifters on the floor selecting merchandise, only to see them put it back once they discovered the Checkpoint Security tags.  After seeing this time and time again, I was convinced that RF labels and RF security tags were one of the most effective tools to stop shoplifting.  While the RF label and RF security tag is not a replacement for a well trained and staffed loss prevention team, it does have its place as a tool to stop shoplifting.

The use of Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF labels, and RF security tags a retailers is employing a strong active security solution to stop shoplifting.  The RF label and RF security tag can be used as a last moment warning sign that your merchandise is leaving the store without being paid for.  The RF labels and RF security tags work by letting out an alarm once the merchandise has passed a pre-designated point.  This is usually the threshold of the store.  This system can either be designed to work with: Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF labels, RF security labels, and RF security tags.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, and other RF labels that can help you stop shoplifting in your business.

For more information on Checkpoint labels, Checkpoint security tags, RF labels, RF security labels, RF security tags and how to stop shoplifting contact us at RF label or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

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Bad Economy: No Problem!!!

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Small business owners are having a tough time in this economy but this is no time to forget about protecting the bottom line. When I am hired to do lp consulting for these small business owners I have the uphill battle to help them spend money to save money. Most of these businesses are retailers selling a variety of products. My first pitch is an EAS system. Unfortunately many of the EAS systems are expensive and fall outside the price range these small businesses can afford. As the economy started to recede and the trend of small businesses to spend less on retail security increased I realized I needed to conduct additional research to see if there were any other companies out there who were making affordable anti-theft devices.

I found a company called RBC Security Solutions and realized that for every bump in the road in the economy there are very intelligent people who are constantly looking for innovative ways to manufacture quality products in more efficient ways to be able to offer them at a more inexpensive price. I could not believe the variety of anti-theft devices RBC offered such as cheap tags and cheap labels. Retail Security is a tricky business that is never cookie cutter or one size fits all. A business has to be fully evaluated from its administrative practices to its employees to its sales performance to its demographics and finally its physical location. Once that evaluation is complete a shrink busting strategy including anti shoplifting tools can be implemented. RBC had a full compliment of inexpensive retail security devices that fit nicely into the owners strategy to control shrink in his store.

RBC made my job a lot easier by having a full inventory of reasonably priced anti shoplifting tools that appealed to the small business owner due to the fact the prices fit his pocket book. In a time where every dollar counts RSB has smartly moved into a position to help small businesses afford items to deter theft. RBC has become a much needed ally to the retail world and to loss prevention professionals who are trying to find new inexpensive ways to protect their company’s assets. One thing I learned from RBC Security Solutions that has become a mantra of mine is “Inexpensive does not mean cheap!”. Even though the cheap pricing is attractive, once you see the quality of the product that RBC security solution sells you will realize there is nothing cheap about the quality.

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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Retail Anti-Theft Devices: Technology For A Real Problem

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Shoplifting or theft is as old as the marketplace.  For many years retailers worked with limited technology to address the issue, but today is a new day.  The loss prevention industry has long sought for new technology to provide an edge against shoplifting.  Recently, the focus has been on retail anti-theft devices as a means to prevent shoplifting.  Currently, there are many retail anti-theft devices on the markets, some examples are:  2 Alarm, 3 Alarm, Jewel Lok, Nano Gate, Shark Tag, and Spider Wrap.

Each of these tools has their place in the retail environment.  The 2 Alarm and the 3 Alarm security tags is a flexible article security tag.  It can be used for many different applications such as:  Clothing security, merchandise security and most of all to prevent shoplifting.  The 2 Alarm and 3 Alarm tags use RF or EAS technology to notify the store’s personnel in the event that merchandise is taken from the store.  These tags work best with merchandise that can be pinned.  The Jewel Lok is a small security tag.  The Jewel Lok is designed to work to secure your high priced jewelry.  The Jewel Lok works on the same principal as the 2 Alarm and 3 Alarm, but in a smaller package.  These devices are designed to prevent shoplifting

The shark tag and Spider Wrap are newer products to hit the marketplace.  The Shark tag is used to prevent loses that can occur from return fraud.  The Shark Tag is a non EAS/RF retail anti theft device.  It is attached to merchandise and easily removed by cutting.  This allows the retailer to see if the merchandise has been worn.  While not designed to prevent shoplifting, the retailer can then deny the return of unsellable merchandise.  Spider Wrap is used for securing merchandise packaged within boxes.  The Spider Wrap retail anti-theft device is a great tool for “tagging” these difficult to control items. 

All of the above mentioned retail anti-theft devices could be partnered with the Nano Gate.  The Nano Gate is a device that is placed on the exit/entrance of an area that needs to be secure and not have your product in the area.  I’ve worked in the loss prevention industry for a number of years and it’s my belief that it is important to invest in retail anti theft devices for the health of any business.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for retail anti theft devices that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

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The Good Old Days: NOT!!!

March 12, 2012 by

Thinking back to my days a store detective there are many things that bring a smile to my face as well as a few things that really frustrated me. One of those frustrations was the feeling you got when you were the only detective in a store and multiple thefts were happening all around you. I really hated that awful feeling in your stomach when you missed the concealment of merchandise by mere seconds only to turn around and miss another theft in another part of the store. The only clothing security in the store was the floor walking you did as a store detective. Days like that never truly leave a loss prevention employee. The worst part is the disappointment from the sales employees on the floor when they see you have dropped the ball. That is why I will never forget when the company finally gave us a weapon to help us when we are outnumbered, the best clothing alarm out there.

My staff and I were so excited when the first box of clothing security tags showed up at the store. When we found out from training that the entire store staff would be working together to put the security tags on clothes we were ecstatic. The fact that everyone knew how and where to attach the checkpoint tags made it easier on the sales team at the registers to remove the checkpoint tags quickly so as not to slow down sales at the POS (point of sale). Now the entire staff had a vested interest in protecting the product in the store. Everyone had invested time and effort into the clothing security system and did not want to see their hard work fail. I was amazed at how quickly the known shoplifters in the store realized there were security tags on clothes. The confused looks on their faces, the testing of the checkpoint tags and ultimately the defeated looks on their faces turned my frown upside down!

Clothing security had a new face in our store and it covered all the products. Was the system infallible, of course not, but it helped bring down the shrink in our store significantly. The first inventory count amazed everyone and grabbed the attention of the higher executives. Apparently as a store we worked together very well to implement the system and though we were in a busy urban market were able to post very impressive shrink percentages. I never felt alone again in that store, the checkpoint system silently had my back.

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

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547

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Caveat Dominus: Employer Beware

March 12, 2012 by

When it comes to examining an applicant’s history, the mantra “the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior” has been the guiding principle behind this practice.  For employers to know what performance to expect from a prospective member of their staff, they will want to have a pre-employment screening process in place that will give them this insight. The potential repercussions caused by a bad hire are enough to make any business reluctant to take a chance on a new employee without a rigorous background check. Employee background checks are important and here is why: According to the 2010 National Retail Security Survey, internal theft cost retailers $15.9 billion and accounted for 45% of shrink. In addition, during a new associate’s first ninety days, companies can potentially invest anywhere between $5,000 to $75,000 in their training and development; this is motivation enough to make an employer not want to have to repeat this process too many times.

The potential hire selection process not only has shrink implications to consider, but staff members can also be potential liabilities for their employers. This is a prime example of why pre-employment screening is so important.  Legal actions involving negligent hiring practices and employers being held accountable for a staff member’s actions can be avoided if due diligence in hiring practices can be demonstrated. Also, in a society as litigious as ours, prospective hires that could jeopardize a business’ compliance with federal and state safety guidelines should be avoided. Lastly, employee background checks can assist in avoiding a bad hire’s potential damage to a company’s reputation, which can’t be measured in monetary losses.

The need for employers to perform background checks for prospective staff members is palpable and choosing the right background check company is a crucial part of the hiring process. When considering the right business to handle this, accuracy of information and timeliness are important factors. Choosing the wrong background check company for examining applicant backgrounds can nullify the steps an employer takes to avoid the potential hazards the appointment process can pose.

For more information on background check experts, background checks, criminal background checks, employee background checks, or pre employment screening contact us at the background check company or call 1.770.426.0547

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Putting the Pieces Together

March 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

When initiating an employee theft investigation, the case can often seem complex or even inconclusive on whether or not the subject is committing acts of dishonesty. What instigated the examination of the associate’s behavior may have seemed like a minor indicator, such as decrease in job performance or not parking in staff areas, however, it is the investigator’s task to take these small malfeasances and see if these become pieces that when put together like a puzzle, create a picture of clear acts of stealing. Sometimes the piece you begin with doesn’t always point directly to a case of internal theft.

A particular case I handled comes to mind that illustrates this perfectly. While employed at a big box retailer, my team and I would conduct perpetual inventory twice daily of “hot” items that were easily taken by employee theft. Within a week, an entire line of popular anti-aging products began disappearing off the shelf. Our perpetual inventory established time frames of loss, so the other agents and I began reviewing video to look for a possible subject. At first no one stuck out to us because whenever the items were selected, the customer always headed to a cashier. Upon further investigation, we discovered that although it appeared to be taken to check out, there weren’t sales around these times.

With this piece we realized we were undertaking a potential employee theft investigation and we started narrowing in on a particular cashier. This person was the employee that these customers were going to when checking out. Upon further investigation into the cashier’s ringing history, we confirmed numerous cases of this associate passing merchandise to friends and family. The customer would approach the line, purchase a couple low-dollar items, and the cashier would “sweetheart” our high-risk merchandise. After documenting these incidents, we pulled the associate and he was terminated for internal theft. Thanks to our ability to take these seemingly unrelated pieces and put them together to create a complete puzzle picture, my store rid itself of a toxic member due to employee theft.

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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