I had been asked to come in to conduct an investigation at a neighborhood liquor store. They had suddenly been experiencing an influx in bottle shortages that they could not explain. The store did not have any liquor bottle security like the Alpha Security EASy Bottle, so it was hard to tell initially where the losses were going.

It was only after concluding the investigation that we uncovered what was going on.

This particular liquor store had a few employees working a late shift on the weekends who decided they needed to make more money. One of them came up with the great idea that they would start selling individual shots to customers. Since there was no liquor bottle security, it was easy to take a handful of bottles to sell from.

Pretty soon word was out in the community. People were stopping by the liquor store on the weekends like it was the neighborhood bar. We started noticing losses in the inventory, not because of the bottles the shots were being sold out of (those had actually been paid for by the employees). It was from the customers who were coming in to drink.

They noticed that the store didn’t use bottle locks for their liquor bottle security, so these “customers” started walking out the door with unpaid for goods. It was those losses that prompted the investigation. Had the employees kept a better eye on the merchandise, the losses never would have happened, and no telling how long their new business would have gone unnoticed.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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My husband is a district manager for one of the smaller discount chains. Every day he comes home and tells me stories of how he stopped a shoplifter in one of his stores. Since this company sells mostly general merchandise, they don’t have a lot of security systems in place. Things have progressively gotten worse since they started selling alcohol with no bottle security.

I really wish I could hand him a spec sheet for the Alpha Security EASy Bottle and tell him that the simple investment of bottle locks would make a world of difference in his stores. Unfortunately, the decision is not in his hands. That is one of the downsides to working in a chain retailer. There are many other hands in the decision making pot.

If he were in his own store where he could call the shots, I have no doubt that he would make a different decision that would help him and the rest of his employees reduce the number of shoplifters in his stores. It has been statistically proven that the mere addition of bottle security greatly reduces a store’s losses from theft within the first year. Probably sooner, I would imagine!

For now, my husband can only continue to stop the losses as he sees them. He can document them and report them to those who make the decisions, and hope that they will see the need to do something different.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Whether you own a restaurant or a liquor store, there are questions that are not only interrelated, but also have a very simple solution.

Are you worried about your high dollar liquor and wine sales not being accounted for?  Are you missing bottles of alcohol that cannot be explained? Do you suspect that maybe one of your own employees is taking advantage of you? Do you have very minimal or non-existent bottle security? Or do you simply have an abnormally high inventory cost that you cannot explain away from the most obvious reasons?

More than likely you have an employee that is taking advantage of the lack of bottle security in your place of business. Checkpoint offers a simple solution to wine and liquor bottle security. The Alpha security line of bottle locks provides product denial to anyone who does not have a key or detacher.

The EASy bottle lock is a cap that fits over the top of your wine or liquor bottles without harming the caps or corks, preventing access to the contents inside. By limiting the keys or detachers, you provide enhanced liquor bottle security from not so honest employees.

Whatever the problem is, having a plan and procedure in place that enhances you bottle security greatly reduces your risk and exposure to those unfavorable elements.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Beautiful weather is great for traveling. I love a great road trip that takes me to a picturesque, off the beaten path, place. Usually, I see signs for the local wineries along the way. Depending on the day’s agenda, we try to stop and support these local businesses. I have to take note that most of them do not use bottle locks.

It is really a shame, because bottle locks would be such an easy addition to their bottle security. I think most of these owners think that EASy Bottle bottle locks are only for liquor bottles. They have to keep their wines behind lock and key instead of proudly displayed.

I mentioned it is a shame because these same vineyards have other Alpha Security products in place in their gift shop. They tag their other merchandise and bypass the bottle security. Since the systems are already in place, it would be an easy addition to start using locks for bottle security.

They would be able to merchandise their wines front and center. That is why we are all at the wineries, right? It is for the wine. As much as I love looking at the other accessories and wine flavored foods, I am more interested in looking at their wines. Having these locks would give them that opportunity without opening themselves up to the risk of losses.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

We, as a store, spend more time merchandising than any other task. We are constantly restocking our shelves, making the bottles front faced and full on the shelf. We make sure that our Alpha Security bottle locks are in place and that they are not a negative impact to our visual directives.

How do you spend your payroll hours? For most of us, we do everything we can to maximize the productivity that we can get from our employees while on the clock. For me, the biggest use of my employees’ time is stocking and merchandising. That includes insuring our bottle security procedures are followed.

That is one of the things I like best about the EASy bottle locks. They do the job they are supposed to do (bottle security) without impacting the job my employees and I need to do.

We can stock the shelves at maximum capacity, which makes it easy for my customers to find the items they are looking for in stock. It also means that the bottles can be front faced without any issues.

The locks are designed to be space conscious, by not having excessive bulk and reducing the amount of bottles I can put on a shelf. They have also made it easy to read the tax stamp, so I will have no issues passing my state audits.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

My liquor bottle security and theft of alcohol. Well, this one had nothing to do with alcohol or bottle security.

This particular liquor store owner had been smart enough to use bottle locks for his liquor bottle security – specifically the EASy Bottle by Alpha Security. His inventory was right in line where he needed it to be, at least in the alcohol department. It seemed strange that he was ordering mixers more frequently than normal.

After a closer look, it turned out that his employees were grazers. A grazer is an employee who grazes throughout their shift. They will pick up random drinks, like water or sodas to consume during the course of their shift. They might also take items found at the registers like packs of gum, or chips, candy bars and crackers to snack on.

He kept a reach in cooler filled with mixers of various types, which also included some non-alcoholic drinks like sodas and energy drinks. Because these are such commonplace items, they are not as easily identifiable when an employee takes them directly out of the store’s inventory, versus bringing them from home.

The best course of action is to require employees to not allow food on the sales floor, and maintain a close watch on your inventory, just as you would with the rest of your bottle security.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

Having bottle locks on your merchandise will protect your inventory from outside theft. When you experience theft, you suffer a two-fold loss. The first loss is that of your inventory and the dollars. The second loss comes from the loss of customers that come to your store.

Bottle locks in the Alpha Security line provide product denial to anyone who does not have a key or detacher. EASy bottle locks are bottle caps that fit over the top of your wine or liquor bottles without harming the actual caps or corks, preventing access to the contents inside.

Product denial is one of the added bonuses of using a bottle lock for liquor bottle security. It allows you to maintain control over your merchandise. No one can come in and “sample” your wares without your knowledge –and approval. It also helps you to avoid potential problems with your employees.

Employees who have drinking problems may work for you without your knowledge of their problem. Blocking their access to your alcohol with a bottle lock may save you so much more than just your inventory in the long run.

Liquor bottle security is easily maintained with the use these bottle locks. Once the lock is placed, it is near impossible to remove without the proper equipment. The secret to your success will literally be in your hand with the EASy Bottle S3 or hand key detacher.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

There were problems with numbers not matching up and high inventory costs. While the owner was suspicious that the manager was just inept at his job, I saw more. I saw that the manager was probably keeping secrets for a reason. I knew that this manager had a drinking problem. I think that was my first clue that we needed more bottle security in our bar.

I also know that this manager did not have a naturally dynamic personality and was always stretching to make friends. The reality was that he was giving away drinks to trying and make friends in addition to feeding his own drinking problem.

The manager was having a hard time explaining inventory and sales figures and tried to keep things under lock and key as much as possible – especially from the owner. The owner didn’t want to believe that this manager could be stealing or giving away drinks when he was working.

This was a more complicated problem than just needing to implement bottle security. This was a problem with an employee keeping detrimental secrets.

I knew that we would never really be able to provide the evidence needed to convince the owner that the manager was stealing. What I could do was change the bottle security in the bar and hope that the manager would catch on that we were hot on his trail.

So we purchased Alpha Security EASy Bottle locks and told the entire bar staff that there was a theft issue. This was just the first of many steps to block the perpetrator from stealing and we were in the process of collecting our evidence for prosecution. It scared the manager enough that he quit the next day.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

My husband is a district manager for one of the smaller discount chains. Every day he comes home and tells me stories of how he stopped a shoplifter in one of his stores. Since this company sells mostly general merchandise, they don’t have a lot of security systems in place. Things have progressively gotten worse since they started selling alcohol with no Liquor bottle security.

If he were in his own store where he could call the shots, I have no doubt that he would make a different decision that would help him and the rest of his employees reduce the number of shoplifters in his stores. It has been statistically proven that the mere addition of a security system greatly reduces a store’s losses from theft within the first year. Probably sooner, I would imagine!

I really wish I could simply hand him a spec sheet for the bottle locks made by Alpha Security and tell him that the simple investment of the EASy Bottle would make a world of difference in his stores. Unfortunately, the decision is not in his hands. That is one of the downsides to working for a chain retailer. There are many other hands in the decision making pot.

For now, my husband can only continue to stop the losses as he sees them. He can document them and report them to those who make the decisions, and hope that they will see the need to do something different, and maybe add in some liquor bottle security.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

If you are using the EASy Bottle (made by Alpha Security) for your bottle security, you might not be completely aware of all of the different ways their bottle lock prevents theft.

The most obvious is the visual deterrent that a bottle lock provides. It allows a potential shoplifter to take one look at your shelves and decide it is time to go elsewhere. They can clearly see from the doorway if you are using a bottle lock.

Were you also aware that there are little pain points under the base of the lock? OUCH! These points are meant to keep fingers away and to not even attempt at trying to disarm them. Don’t worry though; these points are far enough underneath the lock that your normal customer won’t feel them.

The Crystal Guarde lock is clear. That helps you in two ways, one it allows your customers to fully see the product. It also keeps any tax stamps easily in view in case of any state (or other) audits.

Finally, embedded in the locks are EAS tags. These tags work the same way as they do in other retail environments. They set off the alarm if someone tries to sneak out with the full bottle.

So you see that it might be more than just a single facet of these bottle locks that are preventing theft in your store and enhancing your bottle security.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547