Selling clothing comes with several inherent risks like in-store damage, wardobing, return fraud, and shoplifting, just to name a few. You’re in the business of selling clothing because you enjoy pleasing the customers that come in to buy it, taking pride and showing off your merchandise. You certainly want to protect your clothing from these inherent risks, but it may be difficult to keep your merchandise and your pride from being stolen, stained, or swindled. It is important to protect clothing from theft, but it is also important to create the best customer experience possible for your customers. Here is a brief list of some Dos and Don’ts when it comes to clothing security.
Do secure your merchandise consistently. It may not be necessary to have clothing security tags on each and every single item. It is more cost-efficient and pleasing to the customer to only secure those items that are likely to be stolen. If you have noticed your stock levels decreasing on certain lines of clothing, this is a good indicator that it is a hot item for theft. Secondly, if you have been fortunate enough to avoid such theft, high sales volume of a particular line is also a good indicator for potentially high-theft items.
Do place your security tags on clothes in the same location for each style. This is an aspect of clothing security that is often overlooked. It is very easy for one employee to think that the clothing security tags look good on the sleeve of a jacket, and another to think the tag should go underneath a collar. Ensuring that the tags are in the same location on every item will allow the cashier to make sure they know where to look for the tag so that it can be properly removed. This is important to ensure a good customer experience, and to not embarrass the customer or inconvenience them by having them return to the store with the tag still on the clothing.
Don’t leave your best-selling or most expensive items unprotected! Sure, you want your customers to be able to try on the clothing and see how it will look on so that they will buy it. There are many different places to put on clothing security tags that will allow the customers to still have an enjoyable shopping experience, and to see how the item will look on. Likewise, the time and energy put into protecting these items will pay off in a big way!
Don’t leave your tag removal devices laying around! This is another concept that is often overlooked with a good merchandise security strategy. If your register areas are in the middle of the sales floor, or even if there is a stand-alone register secluded from regular traffic, make sure that your security device removal tools are tied or bolted down and protected! Two things can happen if they go missing: first, employees won’t have them when they need them to help honest customers and, second, a shoplifter could pick one up and have a field day with it! If it falls into their hands, you now have a gaping hole in your wall of defense against them.
There are certainly many other things to consider regarding clothing protection including proper fitting room attendance, cleanliness, placement of clothing on the sales floor, and many more. When it comes to clothing protection, little is more important than using security tags. Make sure you use them right to protect your merchandise.
For more information contact us: Clothing Security or call 1.770.426.0547
Selling clothing comes with several inherent risks like in-store damage, wardobing, return fraud, and shoplifting, just to name a few. You’re in the business of selling clothing because you enjoy pleasing the customers that come in to buy it, taking pride and showing off your merchandise. You certainly want to protect your clothing from these inherent risks, but it may be difficult to keep your merchandise and your pride from being stolen, stained, or swindled. It is important to protect clothing from theft, but it is also important to create the best customer experience possible for your customers. Here is a brief list of some Dos and Don’ts when it comes to clothing security.
Do secure your merchandise consistently. It may not be necessary to have clothing security tags on each and every single item. It is more cost-efficient and pleasing to the customer to only secure those items that are likely to be stolen. If you have noticed your stock levels decreasing on certain lines of clothing, this is a good indicator that it is a hot item for theft. Secondly, if you have been fortunate enough to avoid such theft, high sales volume of a particular line is also a good indicator for potentially high-theft items.
Do place your security tags on clothes in the same location for each style. This is an aspect of clothing security that is often overlooked. It is very easy for one employee to think that the clothing security tags look good on the sleeve of a jacket, and another to think the tag should go underneath a collar. Ensuring that the tags are in the same location on every item will allow the cashier to make sure they know where to look for the tag so that it can be properly removed. This is important to ensure a good customer experience, and to not embarrass the customer or inconvenience them by having them return to the store with the tag still on the clothing.
Don’t leave your best-selling or most expensive items unprotected! Sure, you want your customers to be able to try on the clothing and see how it will look on so that they will buy it. There are many different places to put on clothing security tags that will allow the customers to still have an enjoyable shopping experience, and to see how the item will look on. Likewise, the time and energy put into protecting these items will pay off in a big way!
Don’t leave your tag removal devices laying around! This is another concept that is often overlooked with a good merchandise security strategy. If your register areas are in the middle of the sales floor, or even if there is a stand-alone register secluded from regular traffic, make sure that your security device removal tools are tied or bolted down and protected! Two things can happen if they go missing: first, employees won’t have them when they need them to help honest customers and, second, a shoplifter could pick one up and have a field day with it! If it falls into their hands, you now have a gaping hole in your wall of defense against them.
There are certainly many other things to consider regarding clothing protection including proper fitting room attendance, cleanliness, placement of clothing on the sales floor, and many more. When it comes to clothing protection, little is more important than using security tags. Make sure you use them right to protect your merchandise.
For more information contact us: Clothing Security or call 1.770.426.0547
Have you been thinking about purchasing an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system, but aren’t sold on the benefits of having it in your store? Will it really save you money and help stop shoplifting? Installing a good EAS system in your store will absolutely save you money in the long run, by deterring and alerting you to theft by customers and employees. If you are also worried about the system taking up your advertising space at the doors, Checkpoint Systems will make you very happy. Checkpoint is not only a leading brand in EAS systems, but they also have the option to have an Ad Panels integrated right into the EAS antennas.
Checkpoint systems have consistently been a staple for most companies when making efforts to stop shoplifting and employee theft in their stores. Although you will have to invest money for the initial setup of the equipment and tagging supplies, the return on that investment will likely be huge. Once you have the system installed and in place, there are so many different products on the market that will are compatible with the system. After that, you have to figure out which products you have in your store that you want to try attaching tags or labels to in order for them to set off the alarm at the doors when someone tries to steal them. For instance, if you sell cosmetics items in your store and have been experiencing an increased amount of theft in that area, you may want to start by placing Checkpoint security tags on those products to start. You want to test, and then continually evaluate your strategy, making changes whenever you feel that it’s necessary.
Be sure that you hold a training session with your team when you receive the new equipment. Train them on how to properly place the labels and tags on the merchandise, and also how to remove them quickly and efficiently at the checkout. This will ensure that the merchandise protection devices are working as they are intended, and also keep your customers happy by not having them wait in line for longer than needed.
When you walk into a store, you are supposed to see the EAS antennas. That is part of the benefit of having them at the doors. You want people to notice they are there, so they will think twice about trying to steal something from your business. While you want people to notice them, that doesn’t mean that they have to be an eyesore. They could actually be sight for sore eyes with the ad panels you can place into them. The system comes standard with a welcome sign, but you can customize the ads to have whatever you want displayed on them for your customers. It could be weekly sales items, a specific product highlight, or even a big event coming up that you want to inform everyone about. If that’s not good enough for you, some Checkpoint systems are even available with different colors and data integration. So if you were looking for a versatile solution for the theft problem in your store that also allows you to save space with integrated advertising panels, you just found it.
For more information contact us: (Checkpoint Systems) or call 1.770.426.0547
Have you been thinking about purchasing an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system, but aren’t sold on the benefits of having it in your store? Will it really save you money and help stop shoplifting? Installing a good EAS system in your store will absolutely save you money in the long run, by deterring and alerting you to theft by customers and employees. If you are also worried about the system taking up your advertising space at the doors, Checkpoint Systems will make you very happy. Checkpoint is not only a leading brand in EAS systems, but they also have the option to have an Ad Panels integrated right into the EAS antennas.
Checkpoint Systems have consistently been a staple for most companies when making efforts to stop shoplifting and employee theft in their stores. Although you will have to invest money for the initial setup of the equipment and tagging supplies, the return on that investment will likely be huge. Once you have the system installed and in place, there are so many different products on the market that will are compatible with the system. After that, you have to figure out which products you have in your store that you want to try attaching tags or labels to in order for them to set off the alarm at the doors when someone tries to steal them. For instance, if you sell cosmetics items in your store and have been experiencing an increased amount of theft in that area, you may want to start by placing Checkpoint Labels on those products to start. You want to test, and then continually evaluate your strategy, making changes whenever you feel that it’s necessary.
Be sure that you hold a training session with your team when you receive the new equipment. Train them on how to properly place the labels and tags on the merchandise, and also how to remove them quickly and efficiently at the checkout. This will ensure that the merchandise protection devices are working as they are intended, and also keep your customers happy by not having them wait in line for longer than needed.
When you walk into a store, you are supposed to see the EAS antennas. That is part of the benefit of having them at the doors. You want people to notice they are there, so they will think twice about trying to steal something from your business. While you want people to notice them, that doesn’t mean that they have to be an eyesore. They could actually be sight for sore eyes with the ad panels you can place into them. The system comes standard with a welcome sign, but you can customize the ads to have whatever you want displayed on them for your customers. It could be weekly sales items, a specific product highlight, or even a big event coming up that you want to inform everyone about. If that’s not good enough for you, some Checkpoint Systems are even available with different colors and data integration. So if you were looking for a versatile solution for the theft problem in your store that also allows you to save space with integrated advertising panels, you just found it.
For more information contact us at losspreventionsystems.com or call 1.770.426.0547
Checkpoint N10 is the new model on the block and it is an answer to the shoplifting problems in many different types of retailers. When sales floor space is so valuable, like in convenience stores in particular, this new system can start deterring thefts and help solve the common issues that plague this business.
Typically, the top categories for external shrink in convenience stores are single beers, large cases of single beers, novelties and gadgets, and phone accessories. With the addition of the Checkpoint N10 system, the staff can add Checkpoint Labels to these and other newly targeted items. The labels tell the would be thief that the alarm will sound if they attempt to remove the merchandise without having them deactivated. In many cases, this alone will be enough to stop the rampant impulse theft in it’s tracks.
The other major problem the grab and run types of theft. When the clerk gets busy with other customers, or is simply being slack and not paying attention, the system can alert them to an attempt or a successful removal of inventory. How many times has the manager or owner arrived to discover a major theft of premium beers? It is so much worse when the employee working that shift had no idea the external event happened. The Checkpoint N10 can alert the employee immediately, and help them get valuable information about the thieves and the getaway method. Since many successful thefts happen in a matter of minutes, any identification details can help the police catch the crooks. Knowing what the people look like, what they were wearing, any details about a vehicle, and which direction they went are key factors to share to get them being caught.
My husband used to work third shift in a c-store. This was back when cigarettes were sold out on the sales floor. The cartons were displayed in an open case, so the customer just reached in and got what they wanted to bring to the checkout counter. On the night shifts, one of his duties was to inventory the cigarette cartons and record them on a ledger. My husband was on duty on night when a couple of women came in and shopped around. After a while one woman came up and bought a soda, and the other woman went on to the car. He turned around when the second woman exited, and thought something did not seem right about how the first woman was moving when she was getting into the car. He shook it off and went back to work. A while later he went out to begin his inventory of the cigarette cartons and to his horror, discovered there had been a huge wipeout. He immediately knew it had been the pair he had in the store earlier, and remembered the woman walking funny. He knew then she obviously had some sort of compartment under her dress where she had stuffed all of those cartons.
This was in the nineties, so there was no recording of the incident, and my husband could only remember a few details as far as the descriptions of the women and their car.
This would not happen in today’s world, as stores have taken more precautions on how to display and merchandise cigarettes and many other items that are often stolen. However, this is a great example of how the Checkpoint N10 system can help alert a clerk to a theft attempt or even a successful grab and run. If you can’t stop the thief, at least get all the information you can as quickly as possible.
For more information contact us at 1.770.426.0547 or Antishoplifting.net
Checkpoint N10 is the new model on the block and it is an answer to the shoplifting problems in many different types of retailers. When sales floor space is so valuable, like in convenience stores in particular, this new system can start deterring thefts and help solve the common issues that plague this business.
Typically, the top categories for external shrink in convenience stores are single beers, large cases of single beers, novelties and gadgets, and phone accessories. With the addition of the Checkpoint N10 System, the staff can add Checkpoint Labels to these and other newly targeted items. The labels tell the would be thief that the alarm will sound if they attempt to remove the merchandise without having them deactivated. In many cases, this alone will be enough to stop the rampant impulse theft in it’s tracks.
The other major problem the grab and run types of theft. When the clerk gets busy with other customers, or is simply being slack and not paying attention, the system can alert them to an attempt or a successful removal of inventory. How many times has the manager or owner arrived to discover a major theft of premium beers? It is so much worse when the employee working that shift had no idea the external event happened. The Checkpoint N10 can alert the employee immediately, and help them get valuable information about the thieves and the getaway method. Since many successful thefts happen in a matter of minutes, any identification details can help the police catch the crooks. Knowing what the people look like, what they were wearing, any details about a vehicle, and which direction they went are key factors to share to get them being caught.
My husband used to work third shift in a c-store. This was back when cigarettes were sold out on the sales floor. The cartons were displayed in an open case, so the customer just reached in and got what they wanted to bring to the checkout counter. On the night shifts, one of his duties was to inventory the cigarette cartons and record them on a ledger. My husband was on duty on night when a couple of women came in and shopped around. After a while one woman came up and bought a soda, and the other woman went on to the car. He turned around when the second woman exited, and thought something did not seem right about how the first woman was moving when she was getting into the car. He shook it off and went back to work. A while later he went out to begin his inventory of the cigarette cartons and to his horror, discovered there had been a huge wipeout. He immediately knew it had been the pair he had in the store earlier, and remembered the woman walking funny. He knew then she obviously had some sort of compartment under her dress where she had stuffed all of those cartons. This was in the nineties, so there was no recording of the incident, and my husband could only remember a few details as far as the descriptions of the women and their car.
This would not happen in today’s world, as stores have taken more precautions on how to display and merchandise cigarettes and many other items that are often stolen. However, this is a great example of how the Checkpoint N10 System can help alert a clerk to a theft attempt or even a successful grab and run. If you can’t stop the thief, at least get all the information you can as quickly as possible.
For more information contact us at 1.770.426.0547 or Antishoplifting.net
