Anti Shoplifting Message – Don’t Do It Here

March 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment

When a retailer is forced to take an anti shoplifting stand because of high inventory losses and reduced profits blamed on theft, there are a lot of options open, from increased staff, locking displays, CCTV. None of these are cheap and totally effective.  A shoplifter is like any other criminal: motive, means, and opportunity are required for him to complete the crime.  As long as the shoplifter believes he has the opportunity to steal undetected, he is going to go ahead and make the conscious decision to do it.

The retailer has no control over motive and means of the shoplifter; therefore he has got to reduce opportunity.

A premier anti shoplifting solution is offered by Checkpoint Systems.  The retailer decides which merchandise to protect based on his own criteria: price point; theft rate; location; popularity; or even all merchandise on display are legitimate decisions.  Checkpoint tags and Checkpoint labels are attached to the merchandise.  When this merchandise passes the Checkpoint Systems antennas that are located at the entrance/exit of the store, and the salesperson at checkout hasn’t deactivated or removed the Checkpoint tags or Checkpoint labels, and alarm will sound and the customer will be redirected back into the store.

Retailers who have installed and use Checkpoint Systems equipment have experienced a tremendous decrease in inventory loss.  Every potential shoplifter that enters a store protected by Checkpoint Security Systems has to make a conscious decision:  Do I want to take a risk by stealing from this store or do I want to go to a store that doesn’t have a detection device?  Most would choose the easier road.

The installation and use of Checkpoint Systems, Checkpoint tags, and Checkpoint labels is to make an unmistakable anti shoplifting statement:  Go somewhere else to steal.

Call 770-426-0547 to discuss your anti shoplifting strategy, or click here for more information.  Please visit our Online Loss Prevention Store by clicking here.

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Tell shoplifters to go elsewhere with Checkpoint systems

March 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Where ever you have a retail outlet, a business, etc., you have shoplifting.  It comes with the territory of owning and operating a business.  However, there are anti shoplifting measures available that can lessen the affect shoplifting has on your business and your customers.

According to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, most cases of shoplifting occur by people who otherwise obey the law.  Often shoplifters have no previous record, except for possibly other shoplifting arrests.  Additionally, consumers pay higher prices because of shoplifters.  Businesses that suffer large losses from shoplifters have to raise their prices to compensate for that loss, thus sharing the problem with customers as well.

Anti shoplifting measures, such as Checkpoint security systems, can prevent shoplifting in your business.  While shoplifting is prevalent, it is much harder for a shoplifter to steal when there are Checkpoint labels or Checkpoint tags standing in the way.

Shoplifters are only successful at what they do if they do not draw attention to themselves.  Without getting anyone’s attention, they can steal, and steal, and steal some more.  “Attention” to a shoplifter is when they see that your business has Checkpoint systems.

Shoplifters steal for a variety of reasons, including the “high” or excitement of the steal, and of getting away with it.  They also can feel that they have earned the right to shoplift, or that it is justified due to their own sacrifice.  Shoplifters also have said that they experience a relief from anxiety, boredom, or depression when they steal.

Regardless of how a shoplifter benefits from shoplifting, do not allow your business to be the provider of their satisfaction.  Checkpoint security systems can reduce your losses from these people and send them somewhere else to “get their fix.”  Honest customers are the ones that you want to attract, not the thieves due to your lack of anti shoplifting devices.

Speaking of satisfaction Checkpoint systems ,  Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint tags do not deter your legitimate customers. Their satisfaction comes from your lower prices!

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Checkpoint Systems – Anti Shoplifting Answers

March 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

What anti shoplifting solution keeps shoplifters out?

Nothing will actually keep shoplifters out of any store, because no can say what a shoplifter looks like.  Could be male or female, any race, skin color or religion, old or young.  Anyone who has been in retail for any length of time knows a shoplifter story that begins, “You won’t believe who we caught shoplifting”, then goes on to describe a preacher, school principal, politician or who knows what.  The point is, anyone can be a potential shoplifter.

So the goal is to let everyone in the store, but don’t let them shoplift.  There are various degrees of deterrence that can used to discourage shoplifting activity, some more successful than others.

One of the most effective and practical anti shoplifting decisions a retailer can make is the installation of one of the retail anti theft devices developed by Checkpoint Systems.

The way it works is not magic, but it can seem like it is.

Sensors – actually pedestal antennas – are placed at the store’s entrance/exit where every customer passes through to enter or leave the store.  All the merchandise – at least the merchandise that needs protection from theft – has a Checkpoint tag or Checkpoint label attached.  The labels are deactivated and the tags are removed when the item is sold.  If the tag or label is not removed, when the label passes through the antennas’ field, the antenna picks up the radio frequency emitted by the tags and sound a local alarm as it flashed a red light.  Not disruptive, but definitely an attention getter.

The Checkpoint Systems device is extremely reliable (it never takes a day off and rarely calls in sick).  Although salespeople should always remain alert for shoplifters, Checkpoint Security Systems can take some of the pressure off and let sales people do what they do – sell merchandise.

Get an anti shoplifting attitude and cut your retail theft losses with a retail anti theft device from Checkpoint Systems.

Call 770-426-0547 or click here for more information.  Visit our Online Loss Prevention Store here.

 

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Anti Shoplifting Action that Works

March 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

If anti shoplifting efforts aren’t on a retailer’s mind, then he isn’t paying attention.  Shoplifting, as everyone has heard, is affects everyone in the form of higher prices and an overloaded court system, but the person most directly affected is the retailer himself.

Stealing from a store just isn’t personal to the general public, who seem to look on shoplifting as a victimless crime in many cases.  But it is extremely personal to the retailer, as personal as taking cash out of his pocket, because that is exactly what shoplifting does.  When the store loses, not only the owner loses, but also each employee of the store who may have received a raise, or may not have been laid off, also loses.  In addition to making capital available to operate the business, the store profit is what the retailer depends on for his own living expenses.  So yes, shoplifting is personal to him, and the reason for his anti shoplifting position.

Checkpoint Systems retail anti theft devices are the choices for retailers that are serious about their anti shoplifting efforts.

Every Checkpoint Security Systems piece of equipment, Checkpoint labels, and Checkpoint tags are designed to prevent shoplifting from its many users.  The mere presence of a Checkpoint Systems antenna standing at the store’s entrance is sufficient to subtly warn the potential shoplifter that the risk of being caught shoplifting at that store is too great to take the chance.  For those that do decide to risk theft from a protected store, the attention they will get from a well trained and attentive staff member will certainly affect their intention.

There are Checkpoint Security Systems doing their jobs in the retail environment from the mega stores all the way down to the corner grocery store, and all have experienced greatly reduced instances of shoplifting and are enjoying new found profits.

Need anti shoplifting advice?  Call 770-426-0547 or click here for more information.  Please visit our Online Retail Loss Prevention Store here.

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Checkpoint Systems Needed at the Jail

March 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

At least Checkpoint Systems might have helped recover the stolen merchandise while it was still usable.

According to the City Pages of the Minneapolis/St. Paul News [link here], a 270 pound female shoplifter was observed squatting on the floor of a fur retailer in Bloomington, and stuffing a fur coat valued at $6500 up her dress, while an accomplice attempted to distract the salespeople.  An alert employee asked the shoplifter what the heck she thought she was doing, whereupon the shoplifter pulled up her dress to show the employee a bare behind.

While the employees tried to recover from the sight, the shoplifter and the lookout drove away with a third person.

Later in the day, the shoplifter was arrested when she was in a car that was pulled over by the police.  She was brought in for questioning, and while she admitted stealing the jacket, she denied having it with her.

The shoplifter was booked into the jail, searched by a pat down and a metal detector and placed in a holding cell. (This is where the Checkpoint Systems antenna and Checkpoint security tags may have come in handy).

The 46 year old spent the entire New Years’ three day weekend in the jail with the merchandise still in her underwear, doing whatever people do when they’re in jail for three days.  I’m guessing a shower wasn’t on the agenda.

She denied having the fur until she was told she was being transported to the county lockup, when she pulled out the coat and handed it over.

The article didn’t say if the boutique got their coat back, or even if they wanted it back.

If the shop had been using an anti shoplifting device such as a Checkpoint Security System, the shoplifter most probably would have picked on a different store, as the system detects checkpoint tags no matter where they are concealed, evening the underwear.

The jail might consider a Checkpoint System to be sure no stolen merchandise is kept in the jail for the weekend.

How can a Checkpoint System help you control shoplifting losses?  Call 770-426-0547 or click here for more information.

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Dream of profit, not loss, with Checkpoint systems

March 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Wouldn’t we all like to stop shoplifting in our businesses?  Could you imagine the profit to be made if there was no such thing as shrink?  But unfortunately, such a thought is a dream.  But there are anti shoplifting measures you can take to maximize your profits by significantly reducing your loss from theft.  The next best thing to no shrink is reduced shrink by using retail anti theft devices.

Checkpoint security systems are an option you can use to reduce loss due to theft in your business.  By having Checkpoint security tags on clothing, for example, you can send a clear message to potential thieves that may come into your business.  That message is that you are serious about retail theft prevention, so you protect your merchandise from people just like them.

Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint tags can be placed on your merchandise so that if it leaves your business without being paid for, employees are alerted.  These types of anti shoplifting devices are like having an employee guarding every item you sell, preventing shoplifters from taking the merchandise without paying for it.  It’s a minimal investment that is well worth the expense in order to protect the merchandise you wish to sell.

The ability to stop shoplifting does not have to be a dream.  You can make your anti shoplifting ideas a reality by investing in merchandise protection.  Checkpoint systems can help you in this endeavor by being a deterrent to the would-be shoplifter, as well as an alert when theft does occur in your business.

Live the dream with a profitable business, not one that has to succumb to the loss caused by out of control shoplifting activity. Checkpoint security systems and retail anti theft devices will make that dream come true!

For more information about anti shoplifting or stop shoplifting or Checkpoint security systems or retail anti theft devices or Checkpoint labels or Checkpoint security tags or Checkpoint tags or Checkpoint systems contact us at retail theft prevention or call 1.770.426.0547.

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Anti Shoplifting – Is Your Return Policy Too Liberal?

March 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment

In spite of anti shoplifting efforts, according to a recent survey merchandise returns amount to over $219 billion a year. Nearly $12 billion of this is fraudulent.  This category of retail loss is significant.

Why has this category of retail loss kept increasing?

From the thief’s standpoint, obtaining full value of the goods is preferable to fencing the merchandise for cents on the dollar, or attempting to sell it on the brown market for less than the full retail price. There are so many ways to return stolen merchandise to the store: using duplicate or counterfeit receipts; legitimate receipts accompanying stolen merchandise; and buying merchandise from a discounter and returning to a full service retailer, are only some of them.

The source of the stolen merchandise brought back for return may be a result of internal theft, sweethearting, or more likely shoplifters.

It is doubly painful for the retailer to pay retail for his own merchandise that he usually buys wholesale from a vendor.

To become a harder target in this area of retail loss while maintaining great customer relations is a balancing act faced by retailers every day.

Shutting of the supply through anti shoplifting efforts is one way to tip the scales in the retailer’s favor.

Checkpoint Systems’ line of retail theft prevention products allows full access to the customer to inspect the merchandise, but prevents it from being stolen by detecting Checkpoint security tags attached to the merchandise as the shoplifter attempts to exit the store.  This not only announces that merchandise is being taken, but serves as a deterrent to potential shoplifters who know why the Checkpoint security tags are attached.

For assistance with your anti shoplifting strategy, call the experts at Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. at 1-770-426-0547 or click here to contact us.  Please visit our Online Retail Loss Prevention Store for the latest in Loss Prevention products.

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New Anti Shoplifting Obstacle – Exit Door

March 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The exit door recently served as an anti shoplifting measure in Macomb County Michigan according to a recent new story in the Macomb Daily.  [Read the article here.]

A thirty-year-old woman was trying to leave a department store with more than $600 in stolen electronic merchandise when the motorized cart in which she was riding became stuck in the door.  Because the door alarm sounded, employees approached the 400-pound woman to ask for receipts for the merchandise.

A store loss prevention agent was called and the woman pushed her and struck her in the face.

Finally a sheriff’s deputy arrived and instructed the woman to place her hands behind her back, when she took a “fighting stance.”  The deputy took his Taser from the holster and repeated the instructions. The woman brought her hand up above her head and looked directly at the deputy, who then used his Taser on her.  The woman then complied and was taken to jail.

Not every shoplifting incident is the entertaining, but each shoplifting occurrence contributes to a growing problem for retailers, in that the cost of stolen goods comes off the bottom line as an expense, eating away at profit.  This is one reason that retailers invest in anti shoplifting devices and programs.

Even if this woman hadn’t become stuck in the doorway, the article reports that she was approached by employees the “door alarm” had activated.

EAS devices like those provided by Checkpoint Security Systems are designed to reduce inventory loss by alerting store personnel when stolen merchandise is being taken out, whether the shoplifter is stuck in the door or not.  There are Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint tags suitable for use on electronics or any other type of merchandise that is prone to walk away with a “sticky fingered” thief.

Rather than depend on a doorway narrower than a motorized cart, it is a sound business decision to protect a store’s assets with efficient and economical retail theft devices from Checkpoint Security Systems.

Find out more about anti shoplifting methods for your retail store at 770-426-0547 or click here to contract LPSI: loss prevention consultants.  To see selections of Checkpoint Security Systems, Checkpoint labels, and checkpoint tags, visit our Online Retail Loss Prevention Store here.

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Stop profit loss from shoplifting with Checkpoint Systems

March 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment

You as a business owner need to figure out a way to reduce your losses and control shrink in your store.  Simple enough, you would think.  But shoplifters, employee theft and vendor fraud make the task more difficult than it needs to be.  When a business is considering anti shoplifting measures, Checkpoint security systems is an option to consider.

Part of a good anti shoplifting plan is making sure that inventory is accurately tracked and accounted for.  Then, when inventory is displayed for customers to purchase, retail anti theft devices such as Checkpoint security systems can be used.  Checkpoint labels can be placed on high theft merchandise so that employees are alerted when merchandise is leaving without going through the registers.  Checkpoint security tags function in the same manner.  Often, simply the sight of anti shoplifting devices such as Checkpoint tags can be enough to deter the shoplifter and encourage them to move on to the next unprotected business.

When you recognize that some of the merchandise you sell is sought after by shoplifters, Checkpoint security systems can help protect it.  You want to be able to still have your high theft merchandise available to honest customers, and Checkpoint systems allows you to still do this but have the merchandise protection to make a profit.  There is no profit to be made when your merchandise is walking out at the hands of shoplifters.

While locked cases can help deter theft, it is probably not practical to lock up every item that you sell.  Checkpoint security systems, including Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint tags, can be used to display the merchandise that you have to offer without worrying about the profits you may lose if the merchandise is stolen.

For more information about anti shoplifting or Checkpoint security systems or retail anti theft devices or checkpoint systems or Checkpoint labels or Checkpoint security tags or Checkpoint tags contact us at checkpoint systems or call 1.770.426.0547.

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Anti Shoplifting Attitude for Employees

March 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Take all the anti shoplifting steps that you can in your store, and you have not optimized them until you have all employees involved.

The way to include all employees in the effort is through education, education, and education.  At every storewide and departmental meeting, the subject of shoplifting should be covered, or at least mentioned.

Reminders such as anti shoplifting posters should be posted in employee break areas, by the time clock, in storage rooms, and even the employee’s bathroom.

Remind all employees to take different routes when they are walking from place to place in the store and not always walk the same way.  When empty packages and hangers are removed from the sales floor, their presence should be reported to management so that a known theft does not become an unexplained inventory loss.

If retail anti theft devices such as EAS by Checkpoint Security Systems are in use, be sure every employee knows its operation, and the action to take if the system is tripped by active Checkpoint security tags or Checkpoint labels.

Train all employees on the correct steps to take if they suspect a shoplifter is in the store.  Have a policy in place and be sure all employees sign off that they understand it before they go to work in the store, and review it at least annually.

Recognize employees who make an extra effort to prevent shoplifting through their ideas or actions.

Repetition and consistency in training and awareness will emphasize and enhance any retailer’s anti shoplifting strategy.

Contact LPSI at 770-426-0547 to help develop your  anti shoplifting attitude or click here for more information about Checkpoint Security Systems technology.  Visit our Online Retail Loss Prevention Store here.

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