I never worried about trying to prevent shoplifting out of the back office areas in my stores. So it never crossed my mind to install and Alpha Security Alpha Nano Gate outside the office.

In a few of my stores, I have employed a visual manager. Their job was to keep signage up to date, and create visual displays using new and popular merchandise. 

Since they routinely took multiple products off the sales floor to carry out their job responsibilities, no one ever questioned why they had merchandise in their hands. I guess we should have been concerned because they were taking the product back to their office instead of keeping the items out on the sales floor.

What we didn’t realize, until after it was too late, was that this manager had been stealing merchandise for years. It was only after they left to pursue anther job, did we uncover the massive quantity of discarded price tags, retail anti theft devices, and labels stashed back in their office.

They used the access given with their position to cover up the extra product they were taking home. We should have had a policy that all merchandise stays out of the office, and installed an Alpha Security Alpha Nano Gate to enforce that policy.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

With all of the exciting advancements in retail anti theft devices, it is easy to overlook the effectiveness and usefulness of an old stand by- the Alpha Security Ink Tag.

The ink tag is a combination of typical retail anti theft devices (EAS tags) and vials of dye. Generally there is a glow in the dark ink and a dark blue or red dye in each tag. The point being, even if a shoplifter runs out of the store with merchandise that still bears an EAS tag, they will effectively destroy the merchandise when they tamper with the EAS tag to remove them.

These tags prevent shoplifting by providing the risk of getting caught by an alarm, in addition to ruining whatever they are trying to steal. If the merchandise is worthless, there is no point in stealing it. Clothing cannot be resold or worn easily when the ink stains the fabric beyond repair.

A suspected shoplifter who tampers with these tags will also get the ink stained on their hands. Investigator/ law enforcement will use those stains as evidence in court since the ink can be matched to the broken ink vials in the tags.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Alpha Security has just released their latest in retail anti theft devices. It is called the Banded Hard Tag. The tag’s functionality provides for the same features to prevent shoplifting that their other retail anti theft devices do. The difference is in the physical design of the Banded Hard Tag.

Instead of the conventional two part hard tag that consists of a pin and a “button”, the Alpha Security Banded Hard Tag is designed out of just one piece of molded plastic. By only having one piece to control instead of two, retailers will find a variety of benefits from using this new design.

The tags are small, measuring a mere 1.78”L x 0.637”W x 0.844”D. They prevent shoplifting of standard clothing items. Additionally, they provide protection for other merchandise that has historically been difficult to attach EAS hard tags to. Shoes, zippered bags (like comforters and sheet sets), and intimates can now benefit from shoplifting protection.

Even if the band is cut on the Banded Hard Tag, the pin will continue to protect the merchandise. Even better, there are replacement bands and pin to minimize long term costs associated with maintaining the EAS tags.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

A common retail practice when selling just about anything is to mark down merchandise for a quicker sale. By marking down merchandise, it helps the retailer recoup at least minimal margin dollars on these items while clearing inventory for new products. The exception is for miss- mates caused by a lack of retail anti theft devices.

Earrings, and similar jewelry sold in pairs, are faced with a specific problem of being separated from its mate. It is actually pretty easy for an earring to get lost in a store setting. Customers can get pairs of earring tangled trying to take one off of a rounder or peg hook. They can take them off the jewelry cards and accidentally drop one. Sometimes someone who has an uneven number of piercing and doesn’t want to pay for a full set can steal them.

Regardless of how it happened, retailers are left with the same problem of what to do with the remaining earring. Since the half a set can’t be sold at full price, a markdown is generally taken. These marked down earrings are rarely successful in being sold. It is a last chance effort on recovering some money instead of taking it as a total loss.

The Alpha Security Alpha Jewel Lok is a locking mechanism that protects the merchandise, not the packaging. These locks affix to the posts of the earrings, preventing removal from the jewelry card. The Alpha Jewel Lok keeps the pairs together, preventing the need to prematurely mark down pairs of earrings. 

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547

Alpha Security has a new addition to their Alpha Jewel Lok line of retail anti theft devices. This new lock is designed specifically for collectable or high priced pins.

Just as with other kinds of jewelry, collectable pins are not immune to theft. Up until Alpha Security developed and released the Alpha Jewel Lok to prevent shoplifting, there were very minimal security solutions. Most of them involved an EAS label affixed to the jewelry card that was relatively easy to peel off and defeat.

The Alpha Jewel Lok is a successful solution, not just because the locks give maximum product and benefit denial, but because they are a great merchandising solution.  The low profile of the lock has a minimal impact on merchandising space. The cards will still fit on the existing spinner racks or peg hooks without reducing the inventory count within the space.

The lock also can’t be seen from the front of the card. That makes customers happy because they can look and feel every detail of the pins, and the vendor’s branding is not negatively impacted. The EAS components are still active within these small design retail anti theft devices.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

As business owners and managers, we understand the correlation between an employee’s productivity and their overall work- life happiness. As an employer, we often find ourselves going out of our way to make their lives easier to make them happier- hopefully making them more engaged and loyal employees. It doesn’t cross our minds that an employee’s happiness can also prevent shoplifting.

Even one of the world’s premier developers of retail anti theft devices, Alpha Security, will readily admit that their products are only as good as the employees who use them. 

If you are going to use retail anti theft devices as a shoplifting deterrent, they will only be effective if the devices actually make it onto the merchandise. They will do no good left in a box in the stockroom. It takes employees to attach the devices onto the merchandise.

When an employee is happy and engaged in their job, they are more likely to commit their time to seemingly mundane tasks like EAS tagging and compliance. A happy employee will go above and beyond to ensure the tagging is done correctly, and to the completion level you are looking for.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

The Alpha Security Alpha Spider Wrap has a close cousin- the Alpha Spider Web. These retail anti theft devices are designed for products in blister packs and clamshells.

The Spider Web’s unique multi-strand steel cable mesh bag presents an excellent visual deterrent that allows open merchandising without the risk. The open mesh allows customers to read the product’s packaging to make purchasing decisions. It also provides breakthrough anti shoplifting security for even the most irregular-shaped packages with multi-strand steel cable for tough protection.

The key features of the Alpha Spider Web are its thin, sleek design. It is easy to apply and remove while still being tough, secure and reusable. It protects hard-to-secure clamshell merchandise because the two mesh bag sizes expand easily to accommodate different package sizes in both AM and RF models.

Spider Web 15” – AM 15.00”H x 7.00”W x 3.00”D 10 

Spider Web 15” – RF (38.10 cmH x 17.78 cmW x 7.62 cmD) 

Spider Web 17” – AM 17.00”H x 7.00”W x 3.00”D 10 

Spider Web 17” – RF (43.18 cmH x 17.78 cmW x 7.62 cmD)

The 15” Spider Web fits packages with girth up to 21.25”and the 17” Spider Web fits packages with girth up to 23.25”.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547