How Did They Do That?

Throughout my tenure in Loss Prevention, I have seen just about every way that employee theft or internal theft occurs. The nice thing is, once you know the basics, resolving an employee theft investigation is relatively simple. Most dishonest employees are caught because the get bold and think that they are the only ones to have ever tried that method before.

More often than not, the employee will try to find merchandise that does not have any sort of hard RF tag or a soft RF label that will sound the alarm as they leave. They might try to conceal a small item on their person, such as a piece of jewelry or a wallet. They might even try to wear an item out like a jacket. Larger items may go into bags or purses (having mandatory bag checks as employees leave will eliminate most of this sort of internal theft).

If the employee does try to steal an item with an RF tag or Label, they are now faced with the difficult task of trying to remove the tags without destroying the merchandise. I have conducted many employee theft investigations because I saw an employee go to a register, without any customers present, and remove and deactivate these tags. While they thought they were being discreet, they were actually a blinding light to a knowing eye.

Most of the cases with this sort of employee theft admitted that having the tags made it difficult to steal the merchandise. It was so difficult that unless the items were something extremely valuable to them, it was not worth trying to steal. The Checkpoint System helped to keep the honest employees honest, while providing cues to detect the one who weren’t.

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