Shoes always pose a problem for clothing security. The two biggest losses in the shoe department are inventory shrink losses from shoplifters or employees.

These theft losses are pretty straightforward. Often a shoplifter will come into the store with an old pair of shoes and try on a new pair. They put their old pair in the box and walk out with the new pair. An employee might do the same, or they will be more likely to pass off the shoes at the point of sale to a friend or relative.

Using Checkpoint tags only partially solves each of these problems. Since the pin system only works when there is an eye to thread the stickpin through, many shoes cannot be tagged. Strappy heels, dress shoes and sandals are prime examples. Without clothing security tags, it is just that much easier for a shoplifter to walk out the door unnoticed.

Using the Alpha Security Mini CableLok instead of checkpoint tags offers more range for your clothing security tags. The Mini CableLok is a small 3” aircraft grade cable with an isolated sound chamber. The cable can be looped through straps or decorations that would secure the lock. By increasing the range of merchandise that can now be secured, to makes it harder for a shoplifter or an employee to sneak out the door.

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.

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Would you throw a hundred dollar bill in the trash for no reason? How about a twenty? No? Well maybe you would walk by a trashcan and throw a dollar bill into it without caring; it is just a dollar after all?

If you wouldn’t throw money away on purpose, than you probably keep pretty tight controls on your business’s cash.

You probably have register reports that tell you how much cash you should have at the end of the day. You probably also count the cash in your safe and any starting banks for your tills. You most likely have a bank deposit log for outgoing deposits, and balance that record against your account statements form the bank every quarter, if not every month.

How about your merchandise? Do you keep the same level of control on your merchandise as you do your cash?

Do you maintain inventory tracking and counting on a quarterly basis? Once a quarter might be to frequent for some business, so how about conducting a full inventory once every six months, or once a year?

You have a locking cash register and understand the importance of securing your cash, so why wouldn’t you secure your clothing and other inventory products?

Because you spent your carefully managed and tracked cash on purchasing your inventory, would it not make sense that you should spend as much time and effort in protecting your clothing inventory from losses?

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 

In order for security tags on clothes to be effective, you have to have a certain level of quality in your clothing security resources and tools. Some retailer’s use cheaply made and cheaply sold clothing security, instead of Checkpoint Tags.

If I was to look closely at these cheap clothing security tags, I would be able to see the actual seam in the middle of the hard shell. On some of them, the seams are actually breaking apart.

Any shoplifter with an ounce of persistence could easily pry the two sides apart with a screwdriver or other tool. Once the two sides are pried apart, the shoplifter has access to the inner locking mechanism, which is what holds the pin in place on your clothing. Once the pin is removed, these clothing security tags have effectively been rendered completely worthless.

Checkpoint tags have a guarantee of quality. They know that if you cannot rely on their product for your clothing security needs, you will spend your money elsewhere. That is why when they seal the clamshell section of their tags together, they do it so it is a permanent seal that will not come undone, or be easily pried apart. Just remember, if the tags are cheaply made, they will cheaply be defeated.

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 is not uncommon for retailers to use bulky cable and chain locks to secure entire fixtures of expensive clothes, like jackets or coats. The problem is that these chain locks are often extremely sensitive and are prone to setting off the clothing alarm by very little movement of the product.

That means that an employee needs to be present at all times to detach an item for a customer. When an employee is not there, customers are often reluctant to try anything on, much less to take their time to track down an employee just to look at one on.

This is probably the most common area that retailers are challenged with finding a balance. They need to balance the use of clothing security with the shopping habits and needs of their customers.

When your merchandise is tied up to the point that it is unshoppable to the average customers then your profits on those items are tied up as well. Literally. It has been proven over and over that when you eliminate access to your merchandise, sales go down. When you give customers the ability to touch, feel, and try on clothes at their leisure, sales of those items increase. When the sales increase, so does the profit.

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.

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At one time, we employed a door guard whose job it was to greet customers, answer alarm activations, and to validate returns coming into the store. One day he told me about a girl that came in to return some nail polish. As she showed my employee the receipt and the bottle she was returning, told her that the color was really pretty and almost like the color she was wearing on her nails. It was a classic case of wardrobing.

Now this girl quickly changed her story and backtracked saying that she wasn’t going to return the nail polish, but she knew she was caught.

Too bad it isn’t always that easy for a retailer to know if their product is used in wardrobing.

Even though it is rare to catch a customer actually wearing the clothes they are attempting to return, Alpha Shark Tags are the next best thing. These plastic red tags help to reinforce your store’s return policy. Because the red tags simply can not be removed or reattached without showing signs of tampering, it is a fool proof way for your employees to determine if the clothing can be returned or not.

Alpha Shark Tags may not be able to tell you what the customer did with the clothes after they left the store, but they can decrease the likelihood that they were worn and then returned.

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Confronting or detaining a shoplifter takes an intimate knowledge of the crime. That means you have to personally witness the event. You have to know one hundred percent, undeniably, that the clothing the person has is yours, and they intended to steal it. While some of the larger companies have access to RFID tags as a part of their clothing alarm, smaller business still have to rely on being an actual eyewitness to determine which specific pieces of merchandise have been concealed.

During the initial detainment you have to make sure the shoplifter knows you have complete knowledge of their actions. That usually includes you stating “ I know you have Item A hidden in your bag (pocket, purse, coat, etc)”. By stating the exact item and the exact location the item was concealed, you have proven your knowledge of their theft attempt.

An accusation that has no truth to it can result in a wrongful detainment lawsuit from the accused, costing an enormous sum of money and time. You have to be able to dedicate your complete attention to watching a shoplifter. Sometimes that can be five minutes, sometimes forty-five. If dedicating that kind of time to reduce shoplifting losses just isn’t plausible for you, checkpoint tags are an effective deterrent.

They stop losses before they even begin. Clothing security, especially in the form of clothing security tags, pushes the shoplifters to a store that has no clothing security or 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

Eyewear Tags are small attachments that fit on the earpieces of prescription glasses and sunglasses. The Eyewear Tag provides durable construction with a protective cushion that securely holds and protects eyewear. Having this innovation in clothing security is a huge win for any business that carries these glasses.

Training your employees on how to use and reuse them will be a breeze. They are easy to apply and remove, and easily reused for the next pair of glasses that comes into your inventory.

They come in two sizes in RF technology and three sizes in AM technology, both of which are common industry standard forms of clothing alarms. This makes it even easier for this new clothing security to seamlessly incorporate with existing clothing alarm found in your store.

Even better for you and your customers is how small and unobtrusive the Eyewear Tags really are. As with any other security tags on clothes, you wouldn’t want to inconvenience your customers in the name of theft prevention. The tags are fitted so the flat side is inward- eliminating bulk for when a customer is trying the glasses on.

As with many accessories, glasses have always been problematic in trying to protect form shoplifters. Now you can, as they say, protect this year’s hottest sunglasses and prescription eyewear with the Eyewear Tag.

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

If you walked out the exit door triggering the alarm because you had active Checkpoint tags on some merchandise with you, what would your employees do? Would they come over to deactivate the tags? Would they validate the receipt?

Would they simply ignore the alarm and continue on with what they are doing? That uncomfortable silence emanating from your employees can do more harm than you may realize.

What we often forget about is how to train our employees in responding to clothing alarms generated by security tags on clothes. Any alarm that is not responded to is a signal to potential thieves that no one cares about the alarm activations. If no one cares, than it is easier for a thief to steal and not worry about the consequences of getting caught.

That is where training your employees on the expectations are critical. It doesn’t matter how many times an alarm goes off, if no one responds, all of your time and effort to tag the merchandise is rendered useless.

More often than not, the reason why employees disregard the alarms is because they do not feel comfortable with how to respond. By properly training them and showing them your own example of how to respond, your alarm activations will be much more productive.

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 a boutique re-brands their clothing, they are usually taking other designer’s clothing and eliminating these logos and other identifying tags. The boutique will then sew in their own tags and logos; effectively creating their own in house brand of clothing and merchandise. Fortunately for these small boutiques, this re-branding process is a prefect time to add clothing security tags.

There are clothing security tags (Checkpoint Tags) that are sew in labels. These tags are a soft, paper label that is embedded inside a taffeta pouch. The labels are also customizable, which can further reinforce the boutiques brand and image. Since the tags are paper that can be seen through the taffeta pouch, any logo or other branding is easily printed onto the face of the tag.

The tags are highly efficient from a labor and payroll perspective as the labels are sewn into the garment at the same time the boutique’s labels and tags are sewn in. Thus they are saving time and effort.

Finally, the labels are harder for a shoplifter to find and remove. Most shoplifters are looking for a hard plastic tag on a sleeve or the bottom of a garment. These labels are placed on the inside of the garment, on the back with the brand label.

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

As on line orders become increasingly popular, brick and mortar stores are scrambling to adapt to these new consumer shopping habits. One of the current trends is to allow customers to place their orders on line, and then pick up the merchandise in the store. With this change to shopping habits come changes to our clothing security.

The “old fashioned” way of shopping was a customer actually had to come into the store, select their items and carry them to the register to be rung up. Any clothing security tags were removed at this point of sale.

Now, the customer has already paid for their items, and the employees are the ones to gather the merchandise and take it to a central check out location/ customer service area. Here is where a decision needs to be made regarding the security tags on clothes.

Do you remove the Checkpoint tags now, in an effort to expedite the customers wait (a big part of why they shopped on line to begin with)? If so, you run the risk of shoplifting or employee theft of readily accessible items that have the clothing security already removed.

Or, you can leave the tags on, protecting your merchandise from this easy access, and run the risk of irritating the customer who is expecting a smooth and quick pick-up process?

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