Just because you are using security tags on clothes for loss prevention does not mean that you can’t continue to make your product and your displays look their very best. As a merchandising manager, I have spent countless hours trying to find the balance between my visual displays and following effective clothing security practices.

To be used in conjunction with your existing Checkpoint tags are the Alpha Security Fashion2 clothing security tags. These tags are customer friendly, fashion forward, and of course a huge deterrent for shoplifters.

The biggest difference these tags have over the basic Checkpoint tags is that they are much smaller. They are also available in black instead of just a standard white. This makes them less obvious visually in your presentations, but does not conceal them completely from the roving eye of a shoplifter.

Security tags on clothes are designed to respond as a clothing alarm. They should not be a distraction from marketing or sales promotions. By making these particular tags smaller, easier to color coordinate with darker fabrics, and be overall less obvious is a huge win. Your visual presentation will not be compromised in the same way it has been for years when you use big and bulky 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

A well-dressed man came into the store. He greeted and waved hello to all of the employees he came across. Because he was so outgoing and friendly, the employees completely disregarded him and ultimately did not provide customer service.

When the checkpoint tags went off at the door, the employees saw this man walking out the door with his arms piled full of clothes that had not been paid for.

Can you imagine their shock and disbelief at what happened?

Had there not been security tags on clothes the man was stealing, they never would have even noticed. The clothing alarm that made them look up to see what was going on never would have gone off.

This is a rare situation where the perpetrator was going to steal regardless of how many checkpoint tags there were. The only thing that would have stopped him was an employee actually giving excellent customer service.

By being so overtly friendly, this shoplifter was, in essence hiding in plain sight. He was counting on the employees’ dismissal in order to steal as much as he wanted. He knew that the employees were looking for someone lurking in the corners, not someone that was going to be so obvious.

This worked to his advantage since the employees ignored him as they assumed he was a low risk for shoplifting.

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

More experienced clothing alarm goes off. Since there is not a visual presence of any security tags on clothes, a responding employee must be extremely careful to not wrongfully accuse a customer of stealing.

Compare this scenario to a shoplifter carrying merchandise, or holding a bulging purse. The visual cue is present that there might be stolen product, which makes it much less discrete for a shoplifter leaving the store.

Concealing merchandise is about plausibly deniability. Even if the alarm responds to the concealed security tags on clothes, a shoplifter who is seen empty handed can blame the clothing alarm on something else. They can believably deny their attempt to shoplift.

When the shoplifters include the use of boosters or bolsters to conceal stolen items, they greatly increase their chance for success.

Boosters can include false casts on arms and legs. There are ways to add extra hidden pockets to an already puffy coat. Sometimes it is as simple as a booster under a woman’s dress that looks like a pregnancy belly, but is really a hollow shell designed to have stolen clothing stuffed inside of it.

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

Security training is not just about proper placement of clothing security tags. It is about how the clothing security system works as a whole and the role your employees play.

You have to teach your employees how to use the system. The more they know about how the clothing alarm responds to Checkpoint tags the better they will be at merchandising and customer service. Show them what happens when clothing security tags come close to the exit doors.

How close can you get with Checkpoint tags before the clothing alarm goes off? It is important to know that customers can be shopping close by with no intention of exiting the store and still set an alarm off.  Your employees need to know the difference so they can reassure the customers that they simply walked to close to the doors, and no one thinks they are shoplifting.

They also need to know how close to the doors they can merchandise product with clothing security tags or they will set off false alarms all day long. It never fails to amaze me how often employees are convinced that the clothing alarm is broken when it goes off. The reality is that someone changed the merchandising and put a rack of with security tags on clothes too close to the doors. It doesn’t require an expensive service call to fix it, but moving the rack a few more inches away.

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 goes beyond just putting security tags on clothes in your store. It involves taking a second look at the opportunities your store presents. Can you reduce your shelf quantities and still make a positive impact on your sales? If so, do it. Take those items and back stock them.

By giving your store a different approach to theft prevention than just using Checkpoint tags, you will be better off. Reducing your shelf quantity is just another enhancement to your clothing security.

If you sell multiples of an item and need a large representation of this item, don’t sacrifice your sales through a shelf quantity reduction. However, those situations are generally more of an exception than a rule.

The right way is to look at your current sales and make a determination if you can make the reductions. Clothing security tags are very important to reducing your shrink losses on a permanent basis, but they are not the only way to go. By remembering that there are other enhancements that you can quickly make will only help you be proactive to specific issues as they arise.

If you notice that you are no longer shrinking an item, it is easy to increase the shelf quantities at that time.

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

I was watching a suspected shoplifter over the weekend. She knew what to look for, as far as clothing security tags go. It told me that either she had done this before, or she had someone telling her how to decide which clothes to steal.

She was checking a selection of clothing for Checkpoint Tags. She would go through every pair of jeans, for example, and see if she could find a pair without a tag on them.

She would then remove the clothing item from its rack or table, proceed to a remote corner of the store, and shove it into her backpack. She would then scout out the area to see if anyone was visibly watching her. If no one else was in the area, she would go back to the clothing area and start looking through a new section of merchandise for security tags on clothes.

She repeated this process several times, until her backpack was almost bulging at the seam. When she could fit no more in, she would make her way to the exit. Since we were watching, we were able to make the apprehension. Unfortunately, after reviewing more video from the day, we realized that she had been in the store at least three other times. There’s no way to tell how much we lost in those stuffed bags of merchandise because our clothing security was not 100%.

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 

 

I was recently asked to do a consultation with one of the national clothing chain’s Organized Retail Theft Departments. They wanted a fresh set of eyes on how they could increase clothing security and decrease their inventory losses.

Since their inventory relied heavily on special buys doing daily counts on their clothing was impractical. They never received enough of a single item to be able to effectively track it though a single sku for accuracy. These were big purchases of designer clothing that were either a second run or otherwise greatly reduced item.

Once these items sold out, there was no rebuy of the merchandise. Inventory was taken once a year so it was potentially twelve months before a loss was identified. Needless to say tracking their losses was a difficult task.

I suggested that they start by drilling down the sales reports. It is there that they would be able to see what was there but also what was not. If they were not selling in a particular area they might be experiencing theft issues. If you don’t have the product to sell, your sales suffer.

Next is to evaluate the clothing security tags on those items and increase their usage accordingly. Since the company already utilizes Checkpoint tags for their clothing alarms, it is easy to increase security tags on clothes in a specific department that is down in sales. If the sales start to stabilize, the shrink problems should be going away leaving the merchandise to be sold instead of stolen.

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

Now the market has a new option for security tags on clothes like lingerie or other delicates – the Multi Tag by Alpha Security. These clothing security tags have a different design. Instead of using only one pin and a back, the Multi Tag uses a two-pin system. By eliminating the need to pierce the merchandise, you eliminate the risks of snagging or damaging these delicate fabrics.

There are two pins that stick out on either end of a flat bar. The bar is only about an inch wide, which makes it easy to use on small undergarments. These two pins stick into a plastic back that houses the clothing alarm components. When the two sides of the clothing security tags are clicked together, a small gap is created. It is in this gap that the merchandise is situated for proper usage of the tag. Don’t worry, the gap isn’t open in a way that a thief could pry to two pieces apart and defeat the tag.

The merchandise is run between the two pins and secured with the back. The pins can flank things like the thin straps commonly found on lingerie or swimsuits. These tags can even be used for accessories because the overall size of the tags is relatively small.

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

Moving Day can be a real pain; the packing, lifting, hauling, and then unpacking once one gets everything into the new place.

Oftentimes, I have a difficult time figuring out where to put everything in the new place. There was a rhyme and reason at the old place. Storage and organizers were tailored to work with that space’s particular nooks, crannies, and idiosyncrasies. Most of it will never fit in the same way at the new location.

You wouldn’t expect all your things to fit perfectly within a new space or situation, so why expect your clothing security tags to be a universal fit?

You must implement your Checkpoint tags to work effectively for security tags on clothes just as you must take the time to choose the best storage pieces so that your new space will be clean, organized, and efficient.

Security tags on clothes work only if they can be attached correctly and in a useful manner. You are missing a huge opportunity if you are trying to make only one or two types of Checkpoint tags apply in every situation.

Checkpoint tags are more than just a hard tag and a soft label. Checkpoint has spent countless hours perfecting their products so that they cover the spectrum of challenges that clothing security presents in an ever-changing environment.

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

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

As a merchandising manager, I have spent countless hours trying to find the balance between my clothing security and my visual display and merchandising guidelines. To be used in conjunction with your Checkpoint tags, the Alpha Security Fashion2 is smaller and more visually appealing. These clothing security tags are customer friendly, fashion forward, and of course a huge deterrent for shoplifters.

Just because you are using clothing security tags for loss prevention does not mean that you can’t continue to make your product and your displays look their very best. The biggest difference these tags have is that they are much smaller. They are also available in black instead of just a standard white. This makes them less obvious visually in your presentations, but does not conceal them completely from the roving eye of a shoplifter.

Security tags on clothes should not be a distraction from marketing or sales promotions. By making these particular tags smaller, easier to color coordinate with darker fabrics, and be overall less obvious is a huge win. There is the same high quality and reliability as a clothing alarm that comes with Checkpoint tags

Your visual presentation will not be compromised in the same way it has been for years when you use big and bulky clothing security tags.

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