Theft is the most common, and the most financially devastating, loss to a business. Compared to the financial damage done to inventory levels by broken or misplaced items, theft is much more widespread and damaging.

It is more likely that a thief would steal multiples of an item, than it is to have multiples of the same items damaged. It is also more likely to have several different thieves or groups of thieves targeting certain items of merchandise, creating poor sell through of those items.

Additionally, broken or damaged items can potentially be sent back to the vendor or a clam placed against the courier to help get back some of the financial loss. 

Shoplifters are harder to get a financial recourse from. Even when a shoplifter is apprehended, it can be very hard to charge them with prior incidents. Unless you have evidence that cannot be contested, you will only be able to claim the loss that was incurred during current incident that the shoplifter was apprehended during.

By stopping a shoplifter, you may have stopped the cause of the losses, but are still out the inventory from those prior incidents.

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 

Lately retail anti theft devices similar to the Alpha Security Alpha Shark Tag have been in the headlines. The severity and frequency of wardrobing and one major retailer’s solution to stop this form of refund fraud have come to light.

The majority of the spotlight on refund fraud has focused on wardrobing. Wardrobing is when a customer purchases clothing for a specific use- special occasion, interview, etc. – and fully intends to return it after wearing it to that occasion.

While wardrobing focuses on the returns of clothing, there is more to this kind of return fraud than just clothes. Surprisingly, electronics are also targeted for one time use. Since retail anti theft devices like the Alpha Shark Tag are designed to target clothing returns, electronics are still an open market.

In one of the articles I read, a gentleman bought an expensive projector for a client presentation at his work. After carefully saving and memorizing where every piece of plastic and twist tie went, he proceeded to package up this projector exactly as it was originally boxed. This was, of course, after he had used it for the presentation. His boss had even applauded his ingenuity at saving the company money for not having to actually buy that particular piece of equipment.

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 

While I am a firm believer that all employees need to be held to the same accountability and responsibility standards, it is critical to your business that any part time employees are properly trained and managed to ensure the success of your retail operations. In particular, any attempts to prevent shoplifting through customer service or retail anti theft devices must be monitored closely on a continual basis.

Part time employees might make for a better financial situation, but this is generally a case of you get what you pay for. Because part time employees are less likely to have guaranteed hours or might not be eligible for benefits, they are also less likely to be truly engaged in your business.

When the responsibility falls onto part time employees, retail anti theft devices generally are more likely to be used inconsistently. It can be a tedious task of applying retail anti theft devices, and then removing them during check out. 

Part time employees simply do not care if a customer is inconvenienced by an alarm or if they actually contribute to the store security process. Even if they are held to the same standards as full time employees, there is a reality that the follow through of the part time employees might be lacking.

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 shoplifter thrives on disorganization, unattended corners of a store, and a lack of employee presence. If you do not keep your store, clean, organized, and recovered promptly, a shoplifter can slip by undetected. Understanding how to prevent shoplifting requires a need to look past retail anti theft devices as the sole solution.

If you have a table of jeans that are thrown about and disorganized, you have no way of knowing if something is missing. A table of carefully folded and laid out jeans is more likely to be noticed if one, or several, jeans are missing.

The same goes for high theft items that can be taken to an isolated corner. Sometimes moving a shelf or a table can create a better sightline for your employees to see what is going on.

Similarly, your employees need to engage all customers. If they ignore your paying customers, you can be rest assured that they are ignoring the shoplifters too.

Retail anti theft devices play an important part in the overall success of a store’s ability to prevent shoplifting. Stores need to also realize that retail anti theft devices can only be so successful to prevent shoplifting if these other operational controls have fallen to the wayside.

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 Nano Gate has proven results that prevent shoplifting. When used in retail environments that need additional security in a more localized area, the Alpha Nano Gate has come to the rescue. 

What many retailers are overlooking is how well the Alpha Nano Gate works in preventing employee theft.

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 and back to their office/ stock area to carry out their job responsibilities, no one ever questioned why they had merchandise in their hands, or in piles back on their desk.

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, labels and retail anti theft devices.

They used their access to cover up the extra product they were taking home. If we had better controls in place, and used the Alpha Nano Gate to prevent merchandise back in the office, we may have prevented these losses.

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 

An Alpha Security ink tag is a step up from common retail anti theft devices. The ink tags utilize a basic EAS tag and add two separate vials of dye (staining ink) to the plastic casement of the tag. Since the vials are visible, and there is a warning not to tamper with the vials, a normal shopper will not suffer any adverse consequences from the Alpha Security ink tags.

These tags provide the normal risk of getting caught by an alarm if the tags are not removed from the merchandise prior to leaving the store.

A suspected shoplifter who tampers with these tags will get ink stains on their hands. A knowledgeable investigator or law enforcement officer can potentially use those stains as evidence in court since the ink can be matched to the broken ink vials in the tags.

In addition to the ink spilling onto a shoplifter’s hands, the ink will also stain the merchandise. 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.

The addition of the ink vials provides an additional layer of protection to prevent shoplifting.

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 

Protecting merchandise such as shoes, zippered bags (like comforters and sheet sets), and intimates has historically been difficult. To attach EAS hard tags to these products resulted in damaging delicate materials, causing an imposition to customers attempting to try on the clothing, or just in general looked tacky and out of place. Retailers no longer need to abandon hope of finding a way to prevent shoplifting. Alpha Security has a product named the Banded Hard Tag.

Instead of the conventional two-part retail anti theft devices, the 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. Due to this size, the Alpha Security Banded Hard Tags will easily and discreetly fit zippers on home good’s bags, eyes of shoes, or onto delicate and sheer intimates. Don’t think that because the retail anti theft devices are small they won’t prevent shoplifting other clothing items.

The Alpha Security Banded Hard Tags are a versatile solution for all of your merchandise.

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 

If you are selling collectable pins in your store, you might have had an issue with how to prevent shoplifting. Collectable pins have a very distinct resell market and are perfect gifts and vanity items. Due to their distinct merchandising format, pins can be hard to find security solutions for. The best way to merchandise them is on a card- hung on spinners or peg hooks.

The Alpha Security Alpha Jewel Lok was developed as a more 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 Alpha Jewel Lok 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 Alpha Jewel Lok can’t be seen from the front side 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.

Retail anti theft devices have come a long way to protect jewelry products. By finding a unique way to prevent shoplifting, Alpha Security helps you keep your noteworthy collection of pins and accessories in stock and for sale.

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