A large part of retail theft prevention actually comes in the form of education. That means educating your employees on why you use Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags. It also means educating them on what behaviors a shoplifter demonstrates, and also what they can do to deter the shoplifter from stealing. The more information your employees have to be a part of the solution, the better the chances that they will make attempts to better your business.

Sharing this same information with potential shoplifters is equally as important as a deterrent. That doesn’t mean your employees shout across the store that they think a customer is a shoplifter and they are being watched.

 It means that Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags are not hidden. They are placed strategically and obviously so shoplifters are aware that the store is being protected. While you don’t want to put these anti shoplifting devices in places where customer service and care will be negatively affected, a balance between the two extremes needs to be found.

The same thing goes with signage stating things like “shoplifters will be prosecuted” and “the premises is under video surveillance”. 

 These signs should be displayed prominently so the information can be readily shared with anyone thinking that they might come steal from your store. A front window is an ideal place, as is the inside of a fitting room. Be careful to not completely plaster your store with these signs and risk alienating your real customers.

 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.

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The point of organized retail crime is to take advantage of other retailer’s merchandise for his or her own benefit. These thieves do not care if they get their haul in one big job, or in multiple smaller ones. While major retailers have multiple locations and larger quantities of desirable merchandise making them attractive to organized retail crime, they also have more security and theft prevention resources available to help combat those thefts and inventory losses.

Smaller retailers, who may not have the most desirable selection of merchandise, may actually find themselves more prone to organized retail crime because their stores are more vulnerable without inventory security devices, or other EAS and camera systems.

National estimates are around 30 billion dollars worth of losses at the hands of Organized Retail Theft crimes. You heard that right, 30 BILLION dollars in losses. 

That is massive. It is also indicative that these crimes are so widespread that they will affect every retailer, both large and small. The biggest take away is that organized retail crime will seek out the greatest path of least resistance. 

If you have any merchandise at all that can be resold, or otherwise profited from, and you have minimal store security, you can bet that organized retail crime will be a factor in your store.

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There is a new thought emerging around how customers shop at different locations based around their perceived safety. The studies are centered on a fear of crime in ordinary shoppers. The higher the fear, the more likely for avoidance behavior- basically a shopper will either altogether avoid a store, or will get in and out really quickly.

Both avoidance behaviors result in a loss of sales for the retailer in question. Obviously if customers will not even enter a store, there is no way to sell them anything. If a customer comes in, but rushes to get out, all carefully laid out merchandising plans, sales and promotions do no good to generate additional sales- the customer is simply oblivious to them.

What you can do to prevent avoidance behavior of this kind is to create a safe environment for your customers and your employees. Make sure parking lot lights are on (and working) when it starts to get dark. Use EAS tags and other kinds of theft prevention like cameras and domes to deter shoplifters and other criminals from even entering your store. Build a relationship with your local police department, so they routinely stop by to say hi and make sure you are safe.

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.

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An online store is also a great way to reach a whole new customer base. Unless you are doing extremely well, you are probably not at a point where you need a separate and distinct shipping warehouse to fulfill your online orders.

That means you are fulfilling orders out of your existing stock, from your existing brick and mortar locations making it even more important to make sure your employees are packaging orders correctly.

They need to ensure the product’s size, color, brand and quantity are what have actually been ordered. Your employees also need to make sure that any security tags have been removed or deactivated.

Based upon the product being shipped can effect the potential for customer service fail when the customer receives the product. Soft tags are less likely than hard EAS tags to cause a major issue if they are not deactivated before shipping, but they may still cause some problems for the customer.

If you sell clothing that has a source tag embedded into the product (like some name brand running shoes are) it can cause problems for the customer later on. They might not realize there is a security tag in their shoes, and can potentially set off security systems as they wear these shoes out and about. This can lead to multiple embarrassing alarms, and ill will toward your store for putting them in that situation.

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Do you know that anti theft devices can help you eliminate or reduce employee theft in your business? It took me a long time to figure that out. It wasn’t until I had some actual training in loss prevention that I realized how truly multifunctional Checkpoint tags and Checkpoint labels could be for your retail security.

I knew that anti theft devices were primarily designed for anti shoplifting purposes. What I didn’t know was how these same devices are a theft deterrent for employees. You see when an employee looks to steal merchandise, they go through a very similar process that a shoplifter does. They look for a quiet moment when no one is watching to commit their act. They look to figure out how to get the merchandise out of the store. They also look to see how which merchandise would be best to take.

If the merchandise has no anti shoplifting alarms attached, then the merchandise is more desirable. It will be easier to get out the door undetected by other employees or management.

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I recently went to a store to buy some new accessories for an upcoming event. Little did I know that this shopping trip would be a lesson in how the lack of anti theft devices makes a huge difference in how clean a store is.

Because this particular store had been completely ransacked in their jewelry department. It was almost impossible to find what I needed. There were earrings missing, or lying on the ground in complete disarray.

Eventually, I just ended up leaving without making a purchase. It was frustrating as a customer to have such rotten luck finding what I needed. It was even more frustrating having worked in retail security because I know that the simple addition of Checkpoint labels and Checkpoint tags could have prevented some of this mess.

This wasn’t so much an issue of employee engagement or merchandise recovery practices. This mess was because shoplifters had complete access to the merchandise. Without the threat of retail security, shoplifters were tearing the jewelry department up. They knew they could get away with whatever they wanted.

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.

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I worked at a major upscale department store. We had several entrance doors in our location, and I had gone to start locking them all up as we closed down for the night. As I was walking to lock up the last door, I heard the security alarms go off. I looked up and saw five guys with their arms loaded with expensive handbags running out the door. 

The security tags on the handbags set the alarm off notifying us of the problem. Unfortunately, these security tags did not deter these professional thieves. They knew they were going to be fast getting in and out, and would set the alarm off as they went.

What they didn’t count on was the camera system we had documenting their every move. Even though they disregarded the tags, the alarm let us know what was happening.

We were able to use this information to build a case with the police department, which led to their arrest. Had we not had the tags on to set the alarm off, we would not have noticed that night that the handbags had been stolen.

That would have given the criminals ample time to get away. If we had not known what time (or day) the loss took place, we might not have been able to track down the video, which is what the police needed to make their arrest.

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.

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Actual paying shoppers will display the same basic patterns or behaviors when they are out shopping. Even those that are window-shopping will do the same things, even if they do not make an actual purchase.

Shoplifters, on the other hand, have the intention of leaving the store with product that has not been paid for. By understanding what a shopper does, compared to what a shoplifter does will give you a better way to identify possible thefts in progress.

Shoppers look for their size of jeans, which is found somewhere, near the waistband, not at the bottom of the leg. Even if a shopper picks out a few jeans with similar sizes to try on, they still are more focused on the sizing found near the waistband.

Instead of looking at the tags or the waistbands, shoplifters follow the leg of each pair of jeans down to the end. They are checking for electronic article surveillance tags (EAS) commonly called security tags.

These shoplifters are trying to find pairs of jeans that did not have EAS tags on them. They want to be able to steal the jeans without being conspicuously identified by an alarm sounding as he exited the store. If they can find a pair of jeans without the tags, they have a better chance of making a clean escape.

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.

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I had a friend who was a manager for a national retailer. We used to share stories and exchange thoughts on how to approach certain situations in the workplace. Retail theft prevention was always a hot topic for us.

He firmly believed in managing to the small things. If you could manage the little things that went on, the big things would take care of themselves. I always had a hard time believing him. I spent most of my time running around putting out fires- taking care of the big things, as it were.

Well, since I was recently assigned to struggling store that wasn’t making much progress, I decided to give his philosophy a shot. I started to look not at the big issues, but how to stop shoplifting before the shoplifters got carried away.

I focused my retail theft prevention around the little products, the small pieces of merchandise that are easy to conceal. Instead of watching the big items, I focused on reducing the shoplifters who were testing the waters by stealing items that easily went unnoticed. I made sure my checkpoint systems sent a clear message that the small items were alarmed and tagged.

It took about three months, but I noticed a difference in the reduction of large and noticeable theft in the store.

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.

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Checkpoint Labels conveniently are used for retail theft prevention, but in a different way than Checkpoint Tags are. Where as the tags are designed to be visible to shoppers and shoplifters, the labels are usually hidden form view.

Checkpoint Labels are put in boxes, or inside of a pocket. Sometimes they are on the outside of a clamshell package.

Deactivated at the point of sale, but they are not removed from the merchandise, Checkpoint labels are the better solution for quick customer checkouts. Checkpoint Systems provides the deactivator pad that deactivates the labels. As long as the label passes over the deactivator pad, the label will be deactivated.

Checkpoint Tags on the other hand, are hard plastic tags used in almost every major retailer for retail theft prevention.

Apply the Checkpoint Tags before the merchandise is displayed on the sales floor. At the point of sale, an employee removes the hard tags with a Checkpoint Systems provided detacher.

The tags are removed in two parts- the pin and the button. Each part is put into a bin to be recycled for use with the next shipment of merchandise.

Since the Checkpoint Labels stay on the merchandise, they are not recycled onto new store merchandise like the Checkpoint Tags are.

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