Of all the potential challenges I have faced with clothing security tags, the hardest is clothing alarms. These alarms are 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.

Just like many other sensory things (sights, smells) we become immune to repeated sounds over time.  Our employees similarly become immune to these alarms – especially when close to 95% of them are false alarms.

How do you solve the problem? Start with the basics of security tags on clothes. The first part is awareness. Your employees actually have to be aware of their surroundings and acknowledge when an alarm goes off.

Make sure you have consistent placement of your tags. It makes them 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.

The better you are with consistency in placing your Checkpoint tags, the better your overall performance will be. You have to train your employees to understand that your clothing security does not stop with the clothing security tags. Responding to and preventing false alarms are also a big part of their job and your success.

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 install a clothing alarm and put Clothing Security tags on your shoes, think about the reasons and ways people will try to steal 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, the shoplifter will simply walk out the door with their new pair of shoes.

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.

Regardless of the reason, it has been proven time and time again that the simple effort of putting security tags on clothes and shoes is an effective deterrent.

Using Checkpoint tags allows you to have the versatility to protect your shoes and the rest of your store’s clothes with interchangeable tags and labels.

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 should be no secret that you need clothing security tags to protect your merchandise. What you might not realize is that it is also not a secret as to which specific items need clothing security.

The first place is to start looking at your last inventory report. You are conducting inventories at least on a yearly basis right?

If you aren’t, you need to start. How will you ever know that you have a problem if you don’t have any way to manage or quantify your inventory losses?

If you have inventory items that you still carry that are still seeing losses of, this is where a clothing alarm can come in handy and are the ones that need Checkpoint tags first. If these items caught your eye, then you are probably missing either high dollars or high quantities of these items. These are your top shrink or your high shrink items.

Analyze your reports further and you will find which other items are on the list of losses. These are the items you need to make a decision regarding whether they will benefit from security tags on clothes.

If you find an item that you had shrink in, but you no longer carry the item determine if you have a comparable item. If so, you may consider using clothing security tags to be proactive in reducing your shrink.

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 tags on clothes are the front line of defense to reducing shrink from theft. A visual deterrent that only needs to be applied once, they are efficient and cost effective for both big box retailers and the small business owner.

One of the questions I am asked regarding clothing security tags is “What merchandise should I Tag?”

While the obvious decision would be to tag everything, that would end up being inefficient, expensive and unnecessary. Having too many Checkpoint tags is a distraction for you, your employees and mostly for your customers.

We shop with our eyes- especially when it comes to clothing. We are looking for the items that are visually appealing to us. We want pieces that can express our personality, or fit into an aesthetic appropriate for a certain event.

What we don’t want when we are clothing shopping is visual clutter. Clothing security is important to protecting your investment in inventory, but should not distract a paying customer.

You want your customers to be paying attention to what they are buying, not on what clothing alarm is going off at the front of the store. When too many false alarms are going off your customers start imagining not what they will look like in the new clothes they are going to buy. They start to visualize how they will look when a false alarm goes off at the doors.

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 first introduced to the idea of a clothing alarm using clothing security tags in the shoe department. As I walked through the stock room, you could see the carnage of old Checkpoint Tags thrown around; missing pieces, blue ink splatter on the ground. It was not a pretty sight.

Even worse, the reason we were there to begin with was from the number of customer complaints because the security tags on clothes had been put on the shoes with the bulky part on the inside.

Our customers could not try the shoes on without the tags being removed first. This was not the deterrent our store was looking for. This was not supposed to be a deterrent to our paying customers.

Our store manager quickly called us into action. We needed to undo all of the checkpoint tags and put them on correctly. That meant that all of the hard tags had to be reversed on almost a hundred pairs of shoes.

It was a very time intensive task. Once we were done, we knew we needed to train the department so it never happened again.

Loss prevention is frequently called “sales prevention” because too often the quest for clothing security overlooks the needs of the customers. It is important to remember that whatever policies and procedures are put into place, they must not stand in the way of the customer’s positive 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

It should be no secret that you need clothing security tags to protect your merchandise. What you might not realize is that it is also not a secret as to which specific items need clothing security.

The first place is to start looking at your last inventory report. You are conducting inventories at least on a yearly basis right?

If you aren’t, you need to start. How will you ever know that you have a problem if you don’t have any way to manage or quantify your inventory losses?

If you have inventory items that you still carry that are still seeing losses of, these are the ones that need Checkpoint tags first. If these items caught your eye, then you are probably missing either high dollars or high quantities of these items. These are your top shrink or your high shrink items.

Analyze your reports further and you will find which other items are on the list of losses. These are the items you need to make a decision regarding whether they will benefit from security tags on clothes.

If you find an item that you had shrink in, but you no longer carry the item determine if you have a comparable item. If so, you may consider using clothing security tags to be proactive in reducing your shrink.

A clothing alarm system will pay for itself in approximately 5 ½ months.

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

Our store recently apprehended a shoplifter in what we thought was a relatively routine case. A man walked into the men’s wear department, picked up a shirt, and headed toward the fitting room.

He walked out of the fitting room with the shirt within a few minutes and walked into a far corner of the store. We watched him as he removed the shirt from the hanger, rolled it up tightly, and carefully placed it under his arm thinking no one would see it.

The clothing alarm sounded as he was leaving the store as we expected it would. Because we knew he had not paid for the shirt, we assumed we would find the clothing security tag on the shirt.

I picked up the shirt to catalogue the item number and description after we got him back into our office for processing. I looked for the price tag to get the information needed, and as I turned the shirt around in my hand, it struck me that the shirt didn’t have the Checkpoint tag anywhere on the garment.

The suspect became adamant about going to the bathroom which set off an alarm in my head. As it turned out, he had also stuffed a pair of jeans into his jacket unseen. The jeans had alerted our clothing alarm with the checkpoint tag.

Without a tag on the jeans, not only would we have never discovered the jeans, but the alarm would not have sounded at all with the tag missing on the shirt. Bottom Line: it is much simpler to accost a thief with an alarm as well as to assure you have found everything upon discovery.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm and 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 please contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547.

 

I had the opportunity to be on the flip side recently.  After spending years trying to prevent losses and impart excellent clothing security measures for my stores, I recently had a partnership with one of the managers at a neighboring retailer.

We called each other frequently to share ORT information and discuss trends. One day he asked me to help him do some shoplifter awareness training for his store. He asked me to play the part of a customer and commence stealing. He wanted to discover if his associates were paying attention to what was going on in their respective departments.

I entered the store on the scheduled date and time. The first things I did was approach their accessories department and choose a large handbag. I quickly found one without the Checkpoint tags attached.  As I rode an escalator to the clothing department upstairs, I pulled the price tags, etc. off.  It now looked like the bag was mine to everyone on the second level.

I spent the next thirty minutes stuffing the bag with as much merchandise as I could fit into the bag. I used as many shoplifter-warning signs as I could think of. I scrutinized the items to find which ones did not have any clothing security tag attached and began selecting multiple pieces of clothing without regard to size or color.  My goal was to get out the door without sounding a clothing alarm.

I shopped the top five shrink areas and made it out the door with approximately $4,000 of merchandise.  My colleague recounted later some of the phone calls from associates as they observed my actions. I don’t feel too badly about being found out by some of the associates – they all learned a great deal that day. Not only did they learn more about how a shoplifter operates, but they also learned how critical Checkpoint tags and clothing security are to the process of controlling shrink.

Please note: This training exercise was conducted in an extremely controlled environment. We had approval from both corporate headquarters and all parties signed a written agreement. The associates were also aware that the test would be conducted on that day; and the entire test was filmed as well. All merchandise was returned in mint condition immediately after I exited the store.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm and clothing security tags.

For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm or clothing security tags please contact us via security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547. 

Did you watch the runway shows in Paris?  No?  Neither did I. I am always aware of the shows and that it is just a matter of time before they (or reasonable knock offs) begin to hit the shelves. The only reason I didn’t watch was a result of my preoccupation with a new shipment of clothing needing Checkpoint tags.

I am fortunate to work with a company that is adamant about placing security tags on clothes.  This company understands that consistency is crucial to proper clothing security as well as thoroughness of application. It has been documented time after time in post apprehension interviews with both shoplifters and employees with “sticky fingers”  that lawbreakers will diligently search out clothing that does not have a Checkpoint tag or any clothing security.

Security tags on clothes remain, above all, a visual deterrent. Clothing security tags thwart a shoplifter’s plan of attack to simply enter the store, steal stuff, and rush out the door. When they have to add a step – like “take security tags off clothes” – their plans falter. Potential shoplifters will most likely back off rather than run the risk of being caught in a situation that has suddenly left them unsure of the situation as well as their ability to thwart the system.

Plan now to include the hottest accessory around: clothing security tags.

Whether you own a high- end boutique with runway designs or last season’s middle market versions choose clothing security from a company that will offer creative solutions to your every requirement.

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

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

The sound of the clothing alarm used to haunt me in my dreams for a couple of reasons. One reason was that the cashiers in my store frequently forgot to deactivate or detach clothing security tags. In reality some would forget; others claimed they knew which pieces were tagged, so they only needed to deactivate those particular items. Needless to say, clothing alarms found a way to go off at the doors almost continually throughout the day.

Another reason for my frustration was that I was new to the business and I would race to my camera system to discover who set the alarm off every single time the alarm sounded.  Even if they were already out the door, I was determined to catch the thief in the act of stealing.

I no longer feel the need to prove something to myself or to my stores. I have also learned to train my cashiers more effectively on the value of proper deactivation. I have learned how to explain all components of clothing security as well as customer service and how they are interconnected.

I also learned to emphasize how critical it is to deactivate correctly the first time because it creates so much less work for everyone in the end.

It was as much a lesson for me to learn as it was for my cashiers. Those early experiences have fueled my success throughout my career.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase clothing alarm, clothing security tags, and Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information about EAS system please call 1.770.426.0547 or contact us via security tags on clothes.