When we think of loss prevention or retail security, we typically think that we have a need for clothing security to protect our inventory and merchandise from shoplifting. The sad reality is that a single dishonest employee can do more damage in a short period of time than some gangs of shoplifters can incur over an entire year.

Most retail statistics account for about forty percent of their inventory due to employee theft. That leaves sixty percent of your inventory losses coming from other sources. Don’t be so quick to think that the rest is from shoplifting either.

It is more realistic to think that only twenty percent of your shrink comes from shoplifting – maybe thirty, depending on your location and demographic. That means the other thirty to forty percent is left unaccounted for.

The last category would be operational errors. That means your inventory losses are from things like incorrect shipments, damages, or incorrect sales or return information.

Any way you look at it, the majority of losses can potentially be avoided by adding security tags on clothes. Checkpoint tags are one of the most reliable forms of clothing security tags, and a worthwhile investment to help reduce your inventory losses due to theft.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

 

Really, what is the point behind clothing security? Why should we go to all of the trouble to make sure our Checkpoint tags are on all of our clothes? The clothing security tags can be an expensive investment.

I don’t have a theft problem in my store. It would offend my customers if I were too overbearing. Also, I would not want my customers to suspect that I do have a theft problem and lose them to another shop.

It is hard to be a small business owner. When I think of a quaint local boutique, I don’t think of security tags on clothes, I think of customer service and personalized shopping.

The reality is that the times are changing. Demographics change, as do neighborhoods and individual customer finances. The shop that you opened may not always be that safe and secure. It is better to protect yourself and your clients by making a proactive statement up front. You want shoplifters to know that you and your security measures will always be relevant. You will never be the victim, as you will always strive to be one step ahead.

Just as they say good fences make good neighbors, clothing security makes for a great shopping experience.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

With so many benefits to using security tags on clothes, it amazes me how many shops still have no visible signs of clothing security. I think the most common reason against using clothing security tags is the price tag.

When profits are down (boy, even straight sales are down) it is hard to even think about spending more money. So when you are trying to protect your dollars, Checkpoint tags seem like a counter productive use of funds. How would you even know if they work?

Having a clothing alarm system in place doesn’t make it easy to quantify its effect just by looking at your sales. You would have to look at things like the reduction in true shrink (not damages) that your store has incurred over a comparable time frame.

You can also look at other indicators on a daily basis, if you don’t want to wait for something like a yearly inventory count to take place. You can monitor if you see  evidence of price tags being torn off of your merchandise. These loose tags are an indicator of theft in your store. A reduction would mean there are less attempts at theft due to your addition of security tags on clothes.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

Of all the potential challenges I have faced with clothing security, the worst has really been dealing with clothing alarms.

You would think that the worst part of Checkpoint tags would be trying to make sure all of your clothes have the right clothing security tags on them. Having security tags on clothes is only time consuming. Having your employees actually respond to the clothing alarm takes a lot more than just time.

The first part is awareness. Your employees actually have to be aware of their surroundings and acknowledge when an alarm goes off. Just like many other sensory things (sights, smells) we become immune to repeated sounds over time.

A clothing alarm is no different than a car alarm. Over time, even the best of us, have become immune to the sound of one going off in a parking garage or outside our homes. Our employees become immune to these same alarms – especially when close to 95% are false alarms.

How do you solve the problem? Start with the basics of clothing security. Make sure you have consistent placement of your tags. It makes it easier for your employees to find. When your employees can find the tags, they can have a better accuracy rate of deactivating the tags thus reducing the number of false alarms.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

 

Why would anyone try to steal a pair of shoes? For the same reasons that they want to steal anything else. If you are questioning whether to put Checkpoint tags on your shoes, think about the reasons and ways people will try to steal them.

First think about why someone steals shoes. They might steal them out of necessity. Maybe it is out of peer pressure to have better shoes than they can afford. Maybe it is just peer pressure to steal something in general. It could even be as simple as they shoplifter wanted them and no one was watching so they took them.

One of the most common ways that shoes are stolen is called a shoe switch. The shoplifter comes into the store in a pair of shoes or sandals that are worthless to them. They try on the shoes they want and put their old shoes back in the box. If the shoes don’t have any clothing security tags, the shoplifter will simply walk out the door with their new pair of shoes.

Having security tags on clothes, like shoes, is the easiest way to protect them from being stolen. If you use clothing security, the shoplifters won’t be able to leave without setting off the clothing alarm. 

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

It should be no secret that you need a clothing alarm for clothing security to protect your merchandise. What you might not realize is that it is also not a secret as to which specific items need clothing security tags.

The first place is to start looking at your last inventory report. You are conducting inventories at least on a yearly basis right? If you aren’t, you need to start. How will you ever know that you have a problem if you don’t have any way to manage or quantify your inventory losses?

Taking inventory is the best way to track your inventory. You should compare the quantity of each item you purchased versus the quantity of those same items you actually have on hand. Be sure to adjust for any sales or returns made.

Whatever discrepancies you have is called shrink. Now that you know what your shrink is look at those specific items. Decide if these items are ones that are continuing to cause shrink issues? Were the losses on items that you no longer carry in your store?

If you have inventory items that you still carry that you are noticing losses of these are the ones that need security tags on clothes. Checkpoint tags should be applied to these high shrink items first.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

 

Clothing security tags are the front line of defense to reducing shrink from theft. A visual deterrent that only needs to be applied once, they are efficient and cost effective for both big box retailers and the small business owner.

One of the questions I am asked regarding security tags on clothes is “What should I Tag?”

While the obvious decision would be to tag everything, that would end up being inefficient, expensive and unnecessary. Having too many clothing security tags is a distraction for you, your employees and mostly for your customers.

Too many tags can lead to improper deactivations and longer waits at the register to try and deactivate all of them. If a Checkpoint tag is not deactivated, by design it will sound a clothing alarm. If a tag is accidentally not deactivated, that same clothing alarm will go off. Too many alarms and both your employees and customers start to become immune to it.

There is also the added expense of too many tags. It is more cost efficient (both straight line expenses and return on investment) if you stick with just the top inventory shrink items.

You also need to factor in the time it will take to effectively tag your merchandise. Spending countless payroll hours on clothing security for items that are not a high risk is a waste of your resources.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

There is a reason why retailers almost universally use security tags on clothes as their preferred choice of retail anti-theft devices, specifically Checkpoint Tags. Just because you use clothing security tags doesn’t mean the crooks will simply throw their hands up and walk away. Some will make a valiant effort to defeat them and your clothing security.

For example, a famous actress was arrested stealing clothes from a high dollar retailer. When she was apprehended, there was a cut on her finger. While that little detail might not mean anything to the common observer, to anyone in the clothing security department, it meant all the difference in the world.

She tried to pry apart a brand name Checkpoint Tag. The knife slipped cutting herself when it didn’t easily open. This action not only prevented the tag from being disabled, but it also gave the store further proof, legally, of her intent to commit the crime she had been accused of.

That means your security tags on clothes need to be beyond reproach. No one should be able to come in with a pocket knife or a pair of pliers and pry open the tags to defeat them. This would ultimately help them circumvent your clothing alarm. Your tags should be seamless and fool proof.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

One of my first experiences with a shoplifter was a man who came into the department store that I worked in. He started looking at sweat jackets, which was not anything suspicious in and of its self. What I found suspicious was when he started looking for the Checkpoint Tags.

It didn’t take him long to find out that security tags on clothes in the men’s department were not consistent. He took the jacket off the hanger and went into a fitting room. When he came back out mere seconds later, he was wearing the sweat suit jacket. 

I first tried calling someone in the menswear department to get them to offer customer service, but it was too late. The man had already started to head toward the exit door.

Clothing security tags, or any other form of clothing security, would have helped us prevent this theft. Without one, none of the employees could readily identify that this jacket was one of ours that had not been paid for. The clothing alarm did not go off without a Checkpoint tag, and alert any cashiers or managers to this man’s actions. The man had exited the store and sped off in a car waiting for him in the parking lot.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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

When I first began my retail career many years ago, I was introduced to the idea of clothing security in the shoe department. As I walked through the stock room, you could see the carnage of old clothing security tags strewn about; missing pieces, blue ink splatter on the ground. It was not a pretty sight. Even worse, the reason we were there to begin with was from the number of customer complaints because the Checkpoint tags had been put on the shoes with the bulky part on the inside. Our customers could not try the shoes on without the tags being removed first. This was not the deterrent our store was looking for. This was not supposed to be a deterrent to our paying customers.

Since that day, security tags on clothes have become more refined, and more user friendly. Security tags on clothes are no longer limited to bulky ink tags. They can be a discreet sticker placed on the inside of a wallet or on the back of a jewelry card. These soft tags are a highly effective form of clothing security, as they will still set the alarms off at the doors. The advantage of this type of clothing alarm is that it does not distract from the visual display of smaller items, ultimately keeping the items accessible to customers.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

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