It’s that time of year again! The holiday shopping season is quickly approaching and retailers are scrambling to make preparations. They are ordering new merchandise, hiring seasonal staff and hanging colorful lights throughout the store. The holidays feel truly magical at times!
Many consumers have put a little extra cash aside to purchase the perfect gift for close friends, family and co-workers. As a result, there is always a sales increase in November and December. Unfortunitally the busy holiday shopping season is also the busy holiday shoplifting season so being anti shoplifting must be a priority.
A major retailer I once worked for saw a 100% increase in shoplifting incidents during the last quarter of the year. Retail theft prevention was always a priority but we really had to work extra hard to protect profits over the holidays. Shoplifiters love a busy store because it gives them a greater sense of security.
Having a checkpoint security system in place was a great tool to support our anti shoplifting program. Retail theft prevention is without a doubt a challenge for any retailer during the holidays and checkpoint security systems were used to track our trendiest items on display.
We simply placed checkpoint security tags on the merchandise and the tags would be removed by a customer service associate at the point of sale. If the checkpoint security tag was not removed and a shoplifter attempted to leave the store with unprocessed merchandise, the door alarms would alert our staff.
If you are ready to make retail theft prevention a priority this holiday season you should consider a checkpoint security system. Checkpoint security tags by checkpoint systems helped us deter opportunists that prey on busy stores and were the pillar of our anti shoplifting program.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase retail anti theft devices from Checkpoint Systems.
For more information on Anti Shoplifting, Checkpoint Systems or Checkpoint Security Tags contact us at Retail theft prevention or call 1.770.426.0547
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