The Ins and Out – Checkpoint Systems

Have you ever wondered how Checkpoint Security System stop shoplifting? The answer is easy once you understand how Checkpoint Systems work.

There are two main components for effective anti shoplifting. The towers, which are stationed at an entrance door, and the Checkpoint tags.

The towers flank the door and send out a signal, creating a sort of force field around your door. An audible alarm is generated any time a tag enters this field. This alerts your staff to the door to offer quality customer service to validate a false alarm, or ultimately to recognize a theft in progress. This is what retail theft prevention is all about.

Checkpoint tags and the rest of the Checkpoint Security System offer a simple for of retail theft prevention. It gives the store’s employees a cue as to what is going on. No one needs to be a great detective or to be asked to engage in a risky confrontation.

The Checkpoint System goes off and the employee politely responds to the alarm. If a shoplifter sees an alarm going off, with an employee’s response, they can assume that the same will happen to them if they set the alarm off too.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547 

Why is that Missing? – Retail Theft Prevention

Are you missing random quantities of merchandise? Ones that might not have any Checkpoint Security Tags? Perhaps items that aren’t normally on your high shrink list? If you are, then you are probably being hit by an amateur shoplifter and you may want to take another look at your retail theft prevention strategy.

What is an amateur shoplifter?  They can be anyone who enters your store with the intent to steal. It can be a teenager on a dare, a grandmother on a fixed income, or even a mother with a small baby. Amateurs are not hardened criminals. The last thing they want is to be caught.

To stop shoplifting of clothing, bags, and shoes and to greatly reduce the losses incurred by this particular type of thief, use the Checkpoint System of anti shoplifting devices. The use of Checkpoint tags are usually enough of a deterrent for most amateur shoplifters; a Checkpoint Security System is a great tool for retail theft prevention.

Amateurs do not want to run the risk of exposure. Since anti shoplifting devices are nearly impossible to remove, and these thieves know the alarm will sound if they try to leave with the merchandise, it is in their best interest to go to a different store and leave yours alone.

As I watch amateur shoplifters picking up clothes, it is not uncommon that they check each piece of clothing for a Checkpoint tag. If the garment didn’t have a Checkpoint security tag attached, it would be stolen. 

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547

The First Stop – Stop Shoplifting

I always found it challenging when training anti shoplifting topics to discuss the events at our refund desk. While it is frustrating to see the refunds of stolen merchandise come into the store, it is not where the loss was occurring.

The losses actually come when the merchandise is stolen. In order to prevent this sort of refund fraud, you have to be able to stop shoplifting in your store.  It doesn’t matter how many times you turn away a refund, all you are doing is missing an opportunity to get an ID and potentially start a case.

In one of the stores that I worked in, we had a huge issue with people coming in and refunding stolen merchandise. How did we know it was stolen? Because the Checkpoint systems we installed would always go off when they walked into the store, not out of it. Had the items been previously purchased, the tags would have been deactivated when the items were sold.

Even though my management team wanted to focus on the refunds, I had to remind them that were not where they needed to be looking. After we started to actually stop shoplifting, we saw a decrease in the fraudulent refunds.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547

Your friend – Checkpoint Tags

Our store recently apprehended a shoplifter in what we thought was a relatively routine case. A man walked into the men’s wear department, picked up a shirt, and headed toward the fitting room.

He walked out of the fitting room with the shirt within a few minutes and walked into a far corner of the store. We watched him as he removed the shirt from the hanger, rolled it up tightly, and carefully placed it under his arm thinking no one would see it.

The clothing alarm sounded as he was leaving the store as we expected it would. Because we knew he had not paid for the shirt, we assumed we would find the clothing security tag on the shirt.

I picked up the shirt to catalogue the item number and description after we got him back into our office for processing. I looked for the price tag to get the information needed, and as I turned the shirt around in my hand, it struck me that the shirt didn’t have the Checkpoint tag anywhere on the garment.

The suspect became adamant about going to the bathroom which set off an alarm in my head. As it turned out, he had also stuffed a pair of jeans into his jacket unseen. The jeans had alerted our clothing alarm with the checkpoint tag.

Without a tag on the jeans, not only would we have never discovered the jeans, but the alarm would not have sounded at all with the tag missing on the shirt. Bottom Line: it is much simpler to accost a thief with an alarm as well as to assure you have found everything upon discovery.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm and clothing security tags as well as the Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags and how they can work with Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system please contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547.

 

Simplify Everything- Retail Theft Prevention

Anti Shoplifting and retail theft prevention is often overcomplicated. Elaborate plans and programs are dreamt up and put into place only to fail time and time again.

Using Checkpoint security tags are still one of the most effective deterrents to stop shoplifting. This visual cue tells the potential thief that the merchandise is not an easy target. No shoplifter ever wants to be noticed! This is one of the biggest reasons why Checkpoint systems are so effective.

In order to stop shoplifting, you have to provide a reason why a shoplifter should not steal from your store. Retail theft prevention using Checkpoint security tags give the shoplifters that reason to go elsewhere.

The tags provide a visual deterrent as well as an audible one. Long are the days where the tags only sound an alarm at the door. Now Checkpoint systems will alarm inside the department or store if a tag is tampered with. Because the alarms are built into the tags, the alarms can even follow a perpetrator outside of the store if the stolen merchandise they are carrying has a tag that was not deactivated.

This simplifies the need for elaborate plans in retail theft prevention. Just apply the tags and watch your incidents of theft drop.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547

Fun at Work with Clothing Security

I had the opportunity to be on the flip side recently.  After spending years trying to prevent losses and impart excellent clothing security measures for my stores, I recently had a partnership with one of the managers at a neighboring retailer.

We called each other frequently to share ORT information and discuss trends. One day he asked me to help him do some shoplifter awareness training for his store. He asked me to play the part of a customer and commence stealing. He wanted to discover if his associates were paying attention to what was going on in their respective departments.

I entered the store on the scheduled date and time. The first things I did was approach their accessories department and choose a large handbag. I quickly found one without the Checkpoint tags attached.  As I rode an escalator to the clothing department upstairs, I pulled the price tags, etc. off.  It now looked like the bag was mine to everyone on the second level.

I spent the next thirty minutes stuffing the bag with as much merchandise as I could fit into the bag. I used as many shoplifter-warning signs as I could think of. I scrutinized the items to find which ones did not have any clothing security tag attached and began selecting multiple pieces of clothing without regard to size or color.  My goal was to get out the door without sounding a clothing alarm.

I shopped the top five shrink areas and made it out the door with approximately $4,000 of merchandise.  My colleague recounted later some of the phone calls from associates as they observed my actions. I don’t feel too badly about being found out by some of the associates – they all learned a great deal that day. Not only did they learn more about how a shoplifter operates, but they also learned how critical Checkpoint tags and clothing security are to the process of controlling shrink.

Please note: This training exercise was conducted in an extremely controlled environment. We had approval from both corporate headquarters and all parties signed a written agreement. The associates were also aware that the test would be conducted on that day; and the entire test was filmed as well. All merchandise was returned in mint condition immediately after I exited the store.

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

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

Dive On In – Stop Shoplifting

For many retailers, it is time to think about swimsuits. The winter’s coats and sweaters are slowly but surely being replaced with warm weather merchandise and apparel. This change in merchandise needs to bring a change in our retail theft prevention ways.

Swimsuits are small and easy to conceal. They are just begging to be taken. It is common that they are stolen in a fitting room. Sometimes they are simply concealed in a purse or pocket on the sales floor. So what’s a progressive retailer to do? Well, look no further than Checkpoint systems.

Chances are you already have a Checkpoint Security System in place that uses the basic soft labels or hard tags. That means you already have a step in the right direction for retail theft prevention. The simple applications of anti shoplifting devices are sure to make the right splash in your swimwear sales this year!

I frequently see retailers avoiding the use of hard tags because they are afraid they will damage the stretchy material of the suit. The Lycra easily snags on the metal pins.

There are other alternatives to the traditional pin tags that do not damage the material. They make sure your retail theft prevention doesn’t do a cannonball this year.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.

For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547

Hot new accessories – Checkpoint Tags

Did you watch the runway shows in Paris?  No?  Neither did I. I am always aware of the shows and that it is just a matter of time before they (or reasonable knock offs) begin to hit the shelves. The only reason I didn’t watch was a result of my preoccupation with a new shipment of clothing needing Checkpoint tags.

I am fortunate to work with a company that is adamant about placing security tags on clothes.  This company understands that consistency is crucial to proper clothing security as well as thoroughness of application. It has been documented time after time in post apprehension interviews with both shoplifters and employees with “sticky fingers”  that lawbreakers will diligently search out clothing that does not have a Checkpoint tag or any clothing security.

Security tags on clothes remain, above all, a visual deterrent. Clothing security tags thwart a shoplifter’s plan of attack to simply enter the store, steal stuff, and rush out the door. When they have to add a step – like “take security tags off clothes” – their plans falter. Potential shoplifters will most likely back off rather than run the risk of being caught in a situation that has suddenly left them unsure of the situation as well as their ability to thwart the system.

Plan now to include the hottest accessory around: clothing security tags.

Whether you own a high- end boutique with runway designs or last season’s middle market versions choose clothing security from a company that will offer creative solutions to your every requirement.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm and clothing security tags as well as Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, clothing security tags and how they work with Electronic Article Surveillance or security tags on clothes contact us or call 1.770.426.0547.

You have options with Checkpoint Tags

Awareness of how many thousands of different items a store can contain is inevitable if one works Loss Prevention (or Operations Support as some presently call it) to implement and enforce retail theft prevention in order to stop shoplifting in one of the larger stores.

With so many different types of products (clothing, electronics, furniture, tools, etc.), it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the need to protect every single piece of inventory.  However, it is extremely rare for even the most stringent loss prevention policy to dictate that the two dollar items at the impulse rack require Checkpoint Security Tags.

Most stores have a guideline of price points for each category of inventory sold in the store.  But not every piece of inventory can necessarily benefit from utilizing the identical anti-shoplifting equipment as its store-front neighbors. 

Winter jackets can benefit from Checkpoint security tags and have little use for the application of Checkpoint labels.  Similarly, the DVDs that one stocks require Checkpoint Labels because nothing else can be attached to them. 

This is why there are options in the retail theft prevention world – measures used to protect products must vary because products come in every imaginable shape and size.

If you want to be confident that your store is making the most of the Checkpoint Security System previously installed, it is imperative to be sure that you possess enough variety in the anti-shoplifting suite to cover all items you need to protect.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to find anti-shoplifting systems and devices including Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system by Checkpoint Systems and stop shoplifting once and for all in your store.

For more information about anti-shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they work with Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system please contact us via Retail Theft Prevention and stop shoplifting for your store or call 1.770.426.0547. 

Are the sounds of the Clothing Alarm haunting you?

The sound of the clothing alarm used to haunt me in my dreams for a couple of reasons. One reason was that the cashiers in my store frequently forgot to deactivate or detach clothing security tags. In reality some would forget; others claimed they knew which pieces were tagged, so they only needed to deactivate those particular items. Needless to say, clothing alarms found a way to go off at the doors almost continually throughout the day.

Another reason for my frustration was that I was new to the business and I would race to my camera system to discover who set the alarm off every single time the alarm sounded.  Even if they were already out the door, I was determined to catch the thief in the act of stealing.

I no longer feel the need to prove something to myself or to my stores. I have also learned to train my cashiers more effectively on the value of proper deactivation. I have learned how to explain all components of clothing security as well as customer service and how they are interconnected.

I also learned to emphasize how critical it is to deactivate correctly the first time because it creates so much less work for everyone in the end.

It was as much a lesson for me to learn as it was for my cashiers. Those early experiences have fueled my success throughout my career.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm, clothing security tags, and Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information about EAS system please call 1.770.426.0547 or contact us via security tags on clothes.