If you own a liquor store you know all about shoplifting. But you may not know about all the prevention techniques and bottle lock items available. During good times or bad, shoplifters will steal from you. Liquor stores also have another problem related to shoplifting. There are individuals that will enter the store, open a bottle of you best, drink some then put it back on the shelf. This issue is really no better that when a thief removes the merchandise from the store.

There are several things you should consider to combat these thefts. This is a multi-stage solution. First is greeting the customers when they enter the store. Why do you think that major retailers have a “greeter”? Well-established studies have shown that if impulse and some amateur shoplifters are greeted when they enter the store that they will not shoplift during that visit. This is because that in their mind they have been seen and no longer blend into the crowd. I like to stress that this should go beyond the “Hi, welcome to ___” statement. I believe that if possible they should be asked if you could assist them in finding something. This adds more interaction and clearly establishes that they have been noticed. Of course this is also very good customer service for your good customers. Remember, customers love attention shoplifters hate it.

Next we all know that you can be routinely in situations where you do not have a good employee to customer ratio. What can you do? There is other customer service and anti shoplifting techniques however, they all rely on employee actions. In this case you need items that physically secure your product. If you have a Checkpoint system at your customer doors then you have most of the problem solved. However, this may not be the best environment for just using Checkpoint labels on your bottles. Two other Alpha High Solutions products will take care of this. If you do not seem to be having issues with consumption in the store then use an Alpha Steel Grip. This bottle lock comes in several sizes and wraps around the neck of the bottle. The new Steel Grip has a redesigned coated plastic steel band that locks into a redesigned hard tag. The Steel Grip will trip the Checkpoint system at the doors.

The second is an even hotter product called EASy Guarde. This is merchandise denial product. It is a bottle lock that fits over the cap of the bottle and locks it down. There is a Checkpoint Tag built in. The bottle cannot be opened with this bottle lock on it. The EASy Guarde is clear acrylic and black. The Steel Grip and the EASy Guarde can only be removed by store employees with the special S3 key. You can learn more about these Bottle Locks at www.LossPreventionSystems.com

Be proactive and sell more, loose less and make more margin!

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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When is the last time you really sat down to figure out your break-even analysis? Was it last month, or maybe a year ago? If you have done one recently, is it because your business is starting to struggle financially? Finally, are those struggles due to an increase in theft of your inventory?

 If you have answered yes to those last couple of questions, now is the time to get serious about your bottle security.

 In order for you to break even, you need to know your fixed costs, and the prices of your products. Then you can add in your variable costs like the addition of Alpha Security’s EASy Bottle Bottle locks for your bottle security.

 This will get you the minimum sales you need to break even. You can even run these numbers using the costs to replace your stolen merchandise instead of the price of bottle locks for comparison.

 The results will show you that after the initial investment of the bottle locks, you will find your break even number is significantly reduced compared to the number including your stolen inventory replenishment.

 Now you can take all of this a step further by incorporating a payoff matrix to project out your future profits, but I can tell you that the bottle lock expenses will save you money in the long run.

 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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We all are programmed to multi task. If for some strange reason we are not trying to do a billion things all at once, we don’t feel like we are being productive. I have that problem when I am trying to clean my house.

I start out innocently enough. Start the laundry. Then I realize I need to wash the dishtowel so I head to the kitchen. Then I realize that if I start doing the dishes, then I can clear out a space to put the pots that need hand washing. Then I remember the water glass in the living room so off I go.

Eventually the entire house gets clean, but nothing ever is completed progressively. There is no section that is completely done and then another one started. If something comes up out of the blue, then the entire house remains unclean.

Zen wisdom teaches to do what you are doing while you are doing it. It makes sense. Really, you cannot do multiple tasks at once. You are constantly stopping and starting new tasks.

That’s one of the nice things about using bottle locks for your liquor bottle security. The EASy Bottle Bottle Locks do only one thing, and they do it well. It enhances your liquor bottle security. All they do is stay put and protect your inventory from damage or loss.

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 , liquor bottle security or EASy Bottle and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

If a picture is worth a thousand words, than I can only imagine what seeing the actual thing is worth. I have seen several pictures of the bottle locks from Alpha Security, and the pictures, overall, do the product justice.

They show the bottle lock, both on its own, and on a bottle and it looks about like anyone would expect. The bottle locks are simple design, pretty compact, and easy to use. Just slide one on and snap it into place. Done! It’s not really rocket science.

What I wasn’t expecting was the major difference in quality when I actually held a bottle lock in my hand. Wow doesn’t even begin to describe it.

These bottle locks are made of a super durable, extremely hard plastic. I was expecting something much, much thinner. They really are streamlined, too. You could put them on several bottles and probably not even reduce your shelf count by one.

I knew from reading the descriptions on line and looking at the pictures that this is one product that would live up to my expectations. What I wasn’t prepared for was the bottle lock exceeding my expectations. I know that these are well worth the investment to increase the bottle security in my stores.

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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Do you have an employee referral program? I know that several of the companies I worked for would provide a monetary incentive for employee referrals that were hired onto the company. One of the companies I worked for had a strict no advertising rule, so employee referrals made up about 90% of our staff.

This had its benefits and weaknesses. If you had an employee who turned out to be a bad seed, who had referred many of the employees, than you would generally have a mass exodus of employees when one leaves.

On the other hand, finding a diamond in the rough that happens to have several competent friends can turn into several diamonds in the rough, all because of a referral process.

Liquor bottle security should not be any different. When you have trustworthy, competent referral, why not go along with it? That is one of the best ways to really know what you are getting yourself into.

Having seen first hand the quality and ease of use that Alpha Security EASy Bottle Bottle Locks can bring to your liquor bottle security is priceless.

No more trying to chase down a diamond in the rough, simply follow the referrals to the top of the line, newest addition to your retail team: the bottle lock.

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 , liquor bottle security or EASy Bottle and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

We all know that a shoplifter who walks into a store, steals an item, and then gets away with it will come back to do it again. I refer to it as the “stray dog” theory. If you feed a stray dog, it is bound to come back again looking to score.

The more technical terminology, or practical theory is the reinforcement theory pioneered by a man named B.F. Skinner. He states that a reinforced behavior will be repeated; a behavior that is not reinforced will not be repeated.

So to correlate to a shoplifter: a set of circumstances that results in positive consequences will equal an increase in that behavior. A shoplifter who gets away with theft will not only come back, but will do it more frequently with bigger takes each time.

So to stop a shoplifter, change the set of circumstances that created the positive reinforcement.

By adding liquor bottle security, like using Alpha Security EASy Bottle Bottle Locks, you create extinction.

The (new) existing set of circumstances with the same behavior will result in the positive consequence being withheld equaling a decrease in the frequency of the actions.

So, based on this scientific principal, if you change the shoplifter’s ability to steal successfully, he will stop coming into your store to steal.

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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Well it seems like the initial rejoice is over. Washington State recently passed legislation allowing the private sector to sell liquor and alcohol. While this deregulation of sorts was initially met with a overwhelming approval, there is a new grass roots buzz going on.

It seems like the prices are no longer as low as what they used to be. The talk is that it’s the high price of liquor taxes driving the price up. It also seems like there is a reduction of inventory variety as the private sector is unwilling to stock the same multitude of brands found in the state run agencies.

So now there are fewer off- brands, leaving consumes with only the name brands, which were more expensive to begin with. Compound that price by adding huge taxes and the result is a major blow to the everyday man’s budget.

This is where Alpha Security’s line of EASy Bottle Bottle Locks can be implemented for liquor bottle security.

Anytime you incur a drastic price increase to a highly consumable and highly desirable item, theft will start filling in the gaps.

Liquor bottle security needs to be in place to prevent this sort of redistribution of wealth, if you will. A simple bottle lock will keep your goods on the shelf until the actual consumer makes their purchase.

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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The control process is a four-step process that can be used by any of the various levels in an organization to ensure that you are producing on all levels. The nice part is that anyone can use the control process. By setting this up, even your low totem- hourly employees have an avenue to become more engaged and take ownership in your store.

You also have the ability to determine if something is working, like the new bottle lock you just started using for your bottle security.

Step one: set the performance standard. Your new bottle locks should not interfere with your daily operations, but should still reduce and prevent inventory shrink.

Step two: measure the performance. Bottle locks should only take a fraction of your stocking time to apply. You should start to see an immediate reduction in theft.

Step three: evaluate performance. Time your employees to see how long the bottle locks are taking to apply. Can you quantify how much less product you are ordering to compensate from your inventory losses?

Step four: Take corrective action. If the bottle lock is taking too long, find out why. Should you do additional training with your employees, or are they dawdling to get the job done. There should be evidence in your product receipts after the first few months that your inventory costs are coming back in line as a result of your increased 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 , liquor bottle security or EASy Bottle and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

There are thousands of young, optimistic graduates letting off a bit of steam as their school careers have come to an end. Hopefully all of the graduation celebrations went off without a hitch. Unfortunately for many schools across the country, underage drinking put a damper on some of those ceremonies.

For those communities that may have suffered a loss, I hope that is not the reason that has prompted you to think about liquor bottle security.

It is an unfortunate reality that since underage teens and young adults cannot legally buy liquor, some resorts to trying to steal it. Now the single issue of underage drinking has been compounded by the illegality of theft.

Having liquor bottle security in place helps with this double-sided problem. On one had, EASy Bottle bottle locks have been known to reduce the success of a shoplifting attempt.

Bottle locks are also designed to disallow consumption of the product. That means that even if someone does get away with stealing liquor, they cannot drink it without destroying the bottle first. That helps to prevent underage drinking.

As a teen (or anyone else for that matter), if you have to steal an item that you may not even be able to use once you get it, the desire to take that item is drastically reduced.

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 , liquor bottle security or EASy Bottle and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547