I am generally a very well organized person – definitely not a space cadet.  I have a place for everything and everything in its place. I have To Do lists, Task lists, calendars, organizers, email reminders, etc. If you can name it, I have probably tried it at some point in my quest for organization.

Retail is a particularly challenging environment in which to achieve and maintain organization.  In the course of going from my office (around three departments and up a flight of stairs to another group of offices), I can be stopped by three to thirty people, each one requiring something of me. If I don’t record this in my notebook, I will likely forget; and if I lose the notebook in which I wrote the list, well things can easily start to fall apart.

Needless to say, I like to stay organized for the sake of my own survival. That’s why I like things that are easy to use, especially when it comes to clothing security.

Clothing security tags usually have two separate parts to them. This makes them easy to use and even easier to lose one part of the tag. Half a tag will do nothing for your clothing security. The Alpha Fashion2 Accessory Tag is a great product that eliminates this problem.  It is a Checkpoint tag, lanyard and pin all in one – no parts to lose, quick, and easy to use.

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

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

I frequently say to my toddler, “whenever you are ready”. It may seem sarcastic, but it helps me put things back into perspective by reminding me that when I am with her, I am on her time frame, not mine. It is one of the few times in life that I am challenged to slow down, not speed up.

“Whenever you are ready” is more likely to mean, “it should have been done 10 minutes ago” in my professional life. I put this same urgency into clothing security. It is a huge and potentially costly mistake to wait to attach clothing security tags such as Checkpoint tags until “someone” feels like doing it. A thief will likely show up and rob you blind while “someone” is waiting around to get the job done.

Shoplifters, especially professional ones, are looking for every opportunity to exploit these very situations. It only takes one unlocked door, one stack of jeans without clothing security tags, or one moment of inattentiveness to fuel a very costly situation.

Make sure that “whenever you are ready” means “do it right, and do it right now”.

Clothing security is about consistency and timeliness in execution. Having the finest clothing security such as Checkpoint tags does absolutely no good if they are left sitting in a basket somewhere, instead of where they belong – on your merchandise.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase a clothing alarm or clothing security tags and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system and to learn more about preventing shoplifting and employee theft.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or how clothing security tags 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. As far as clothing security goes, she knew what to look for. She was checking a selection of clothing for Clothing Security Tags. She would go through a table of shirts, for example, and see if she could find one without a tag on it.

If no one else was in the area, she would casually walk to a corner and stuff her bag with the un-sensor tagged merchandise. She would go back to the clothing area and start looking through a new section of merchandise for the checkpoint tags. Once she could fit no more in, she would make her way to the exit. Luckily for us, we were watching and 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 the security tags on clothes were not 100% accurate.

We learned an important lesson about why we need to stay consistent with our clothing security tags. I have a story that can help remind my employees that even if they don’t have the time to properly tag, it doesn’t mean that a shoplifter doesn’t have time to look for our errors.

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

Many years ago, 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 clothing security, it means all the difference in the world.

There is a reason why retailers almost universally use Checkpoint tags as their preferred brand of clothing security tags; in a word – Quality. Just because you use security tags on clothes doesn’t mean the crooks will simply throw their hands up and walk away. The unskilled ones will, but there are those out there that will make attempts to defeat the Checkpoint tags.

That means your clothing security tags need to be beyond reproach. No one should be able to come in with a pocketknife or a pair of pliers and pries open the tags to defeat them and bypass the clothing alarm. Your tags should be seamless and fool proof.

That is what happened to the actress. She tried to pry apart the Checkpoint Tags. When they didn’t easily open, the knife slipped cutting herself. This action not only prevented the tag from being disabled, but it also gave the store further proof, in court, of her intent to commit the crime she had been accused of.

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 where I worked. He started looking at hoodies, which was not anything suspicious. What I did find suspicious was when he started looking for the clothing security tags.

Not all of our hoodies had clothing security tags; so it didn’t take him long to find one without any clothing security. 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 hoodie.  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.

Without a Checkpoint tag, I knew the clothing alarm would not go off and alert any cashiers or managers to this man’s actions. Because I was too far away, I couldn’t get across the store in time. The man had exited the store and sped off in a car waiting for him in the parking lot.

Security tags on clothes would have helped us prevent this theft. Without one, none of the employees could readily identify the hoodie as one of ours that had not been paid for.

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 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