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Retail Anti-Theft Device Solutions for Difficult To Protect Merchandise
There are times in retail you come across some things that seem to be beyond the ability of a store to adequately protect. How does a retailer prevent the theft of merchandise like sunglasses or a golf club? The method I have seen used most often is EAS source tagging in UPC tags. The problem with these retail anti-theft devices is that the tags can usually be removed with little effort. Alpha hard tags have developed a number of products that can prevent shoplifting of items that can be difficult to protect, among these the O tag and the Eyewear tags.
I worked in a store that served a tourist community that visited for primarily one of two reasons, to visit the beach or to golf. Because we are a destination for beach goers, we carried a large selection of sunglasses, some of which were quite pricey. Our displays for the glasses were a wall fixture and the standing glasses fixtures which can turn. To prevent shoplifting we had EAS source tagging for the majority of our glasses. For those that were not source tagged we manually tagged them ourselves. The issue we ran into was that shoplifters would just tear off the hang tags and wear the glasses out of the store, or place them in a purse or bag.
Alpha hard tags have created an eyewear tag to specifically prevent shoplifting of sunglasses, and standard reading glasses. These retail anti-theft devices fit on the arm of a pair of glasses and while they allow a customer to try on the glasses, they also provide a deterrent to theft. The hard tag is large enough to be a visual deterrent to theft and comes with either RF or AM alarm capability to work with an EAS system. Looking at the devices, it appears any attempt at tampering with the eyewear tag will result in breaking the glasses.
As I mentioned, golf is a significant tourist draw for our area and thus, golf club theft in our store tended to be a problem. Much like the sunglasses, they proved to be difficult to protect and the retail anti-theft devices we generally employed were EAS tags and security tape on the boxed clubs. Unless it was an attempted rollout, the problem we were faced with was box stuffing. Thieves would take single clubs and add them to a boxed set, or switch out clubs from a boxed set and put more expensive individual clubs in the box. If cashiers were not paying attention to the broken seal on the box or looking for re-taped boxes, (the thief would put clear tape over the box since they did not have access to our security tape) a box stuffer would get away with their crime.
The O tag is an Alpha hard tag designed to protect difficult to secure items with a tubular design. The beauty of the device is that it comes in two sizes, the smaller which allows it to be placed on something as thin as golf club. The larger device can be fitted to an item with the thickness of a baseball bat handle. In our situation, trying to protect golf clubs, the O tag would have made box switching of clubs more difficult. The device would have made it hard to fill the box and the fact it would alarm at the doors would have provided a deterrent. The thief would have also faced the challenge of removing the tags, even if they had gotten them past the doors.
Alpha Hard Tags can take the challenge out of trying to protect those difficult items in your store. Don’t leave yourself vulnerable to thieves because you can’t think of a way to protect your merchandise. Retail anti- theft devices like eyewear tags and O tags are just a sample of the strategies Alpha Hard Tags can offer you.
For more information on Retail Anti-Theft Devices contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
There are times in retail you come across some things that seem to be beyond the ability of a store to adequately protect. How does a retailer prevent the theft of merchandise like sunglasses or a golf club? The method I have seen used most often is EAS source tagging in UPC tags. The problem with these retail anti-theft devices is that the tags can usually be removed with little effort. Alpha hard tags have developed a number of products that can prevent shoplifting of items that can be difficult to protect, among these the O tag and the Eyewear tags.
I worked in a store that served a tourist community that visited for primarily one of two reasons, to visit the beach or to golf. Because we are a destination for beach goers, we carried a large selection of sunglasses, some of which were quite pricey. Our displays for the glasses were a wall fixture and the standing glasses fixtures which can turn. To prevent shoplifting we had EAS source tagging for the majority of our glasses. For those that were not source tagged we manually tagged them ourselves. The issue we ran into was that shoplifters would just tear off the hang tags and wear the glasses out of the store, or place them in a purse or bag.
Alpha hard tags have created an eyewear tag to specifically prevent shoplifting of sunglasses, and standard reading glasses. These retail anti-theft devices fit on the arm of a pair of glasses and while they allow a customer to try on the glasses, they also provide a deterrent to theft. The hard tag is large enough to be a visual deterrent to theft and comes with either RF or AM alarm capability to work with an EAS system. Looking at the devices, it appears any attempt at tampering with the eyewear tag will result in breaking the glasses.
As I mentioned, golf is a significant tourist draw for our area and thus, golf club theft in our store tended to be a problem. Much like the sunglasses, they proved to be difficult to protect and the retail anti-theft devices we generally employed were EAS tags and security tape on the boxed clubs. Unless it was an attempted rollout, the problem we were faced with was box stuffing. Thieves would take single clubs and add them to a boxed set, or switch out clubs from a boxed set and put more expensive individual clubs in the box. If cashiers were not paying attention to the broken seal on the box or looking for re-taped boxes, (the thief would put clear tape over the box since they did not have access to our security tape) a box stuffer would get away with their crime.
The O tag is an Alpha hard tag designed to protect difficult to secure items with a tubular design. The beauty of the device is that it comes in two sizes, the smaller which allows it to be placed on something as thin as golf club. The larger device can be fitted to an item with the thickness of a baseball bat handle. In our situation, trying to protect golf clubs, the O tag would have made box switching of clubs more difficult. The device would have made it hard to fill the box and the fact it would alarm at the doors would have provided a deterrent. The thief would have also faced the challenge of removing the tags, even if they had gotten them past the doors.
Alpha Hard Tags can take the challenge out of trying to protect those difficult items in your store. Don’t leave yourself vulnerable to thieves because you can’t think of a way to protect your merchandise. Retail anti- theft devices like eyewear tags and O tags are just a sample of the strategies Alpha Hard Tags can offer you.
For more information on Retail Anti-Theft Devices contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
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Shoplifters Are Networking and Sharing Tips, but Are Stumped When It Comes To Defeating Alpha Security Devices
In addition to utilizing retail anti-theft devices like those from Alpha Security, you also need to keep up to date on current theft trends and other ways to help prevent shoplifting. You probably know that it’s a good idea to network with other stores, or at least other locations within your company if you have more than one location. Why is this important? It’s important because that’s exactly what the shoplifters are doing. If you spend a few minutes searching the internet for shoplifting related information, you will find that there are large communities of shoplifters that have no problem posting about ways to get away with shoplifting, ways to try to remove merchandise protection devices, what they have taken, where they have taken it, and even posting pictures of all the merchandise they have gotten away with from the stores.
One area of a particular website had detailed information, including references to websites that sell retail anti-theft devices, and tips on how to try to remove them from the products. When it came to some Alpha Security devices, they showed pictures of some of the devices on the products, but it didn’t seem like they had any idea to remove them from the merchandise without having the actual key. However, they did show pictures of the devices, and linked to websites that sold the Alpha Security products. Many of these shoplifters even brag about how good they are, but while browsing over some of the information, it appeared that they were very inexperienced, or were just plain making things up in an attempt to sound like they knew what they talking about.
Some of the tips listed in this particular shoplifter community could be very damaging to stores that don’t have a solid plan to prevent shoplifting and don’t use retail anti-theft devices. Some of the posts actually confirm that the people know what they are doing is illegal and serious, but they just don’t care. Another section of the blogs described how to disguise yourself and act like you are stealing, in order to get the attention of loss prevention employees, so you will know what they will look like next time you are in the store. There are then posts of people asking for information on the best places to steal a certain type of merchandise. For example, one person asked where they could steal a hair straightener, and they received a response from another user saying that they should go to a specific store, in which they know that there is only one employee working first thing in the morning and they are usually busy stocking merchandise and don’t pay any attention to customers.
If that wasn’t enough, some users post about getting caught and what the process is in the store, and what the procedures are for loss prevention during processing. Others even take it a step further and go into detail about the court process for shoplifting and exactly what steps were involved, and what they were sentenced to for the thefts they committed. I was completely shocked at some of the information that I saw while looking at some of these postings. I strongly suggest that you do your own research if you want to see what kinds of things shoplifters are talking about to try and get around what you are doing to prevent shoplifting in your stores.
For more information about Alpha Security, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
In addition to utilizing retail anti-theft devices like those from Alpha Security, you also need to keep up to date on current theft trends and other ways to help prevent shoplifting. You probably know that it’s a good idea to network with other stores, or at least other locations within your company if you have more than one location. Why is this important? It’s important because that’s exactly what the shoplifters are doing. If you spend a few minutes searching the internet for shoplifting related information, you will find that there are large communities of shoplifters that have no problem posting about ways to get away with shoplifting, ways to try to remove merchandise protection devices, what they have taken, where they have taken it, and even posting pictures of all the merchandise they have gotten away with from the stores.
One area of a particular website had detailed information, including references to websites that sell retail anti-theft devices, and tips on how to try to remove them from the products. When it came to some Alpha Security devices, they showed pictures of some of the devices on the products, but it didn’t seem like they had any idea to remove them from the merchandise without having the actual key. However, they did show pictures of the devices, and linked to websites that sold the Alpha Security products. Many of these shoplifters even brag about how good they are, but while browsing over some of the information, it appeared that they were very inexperienced, or were just plain making things up in an attempt to sound like they knew what they talking about.
Some of the tips listed in this particular shoplifter community could be very damaging to stores that don’t have a solid plan to prevent shoplifting and don’t use retail anti-theft devices. Some of the posts actually confirm that the people know what they are doing is illegal and serious, but they just don’t care. Another section of the blogs described how to disguise yourself and act like you are stealing, in order to get the attention of loss prevention employees, so you will know what they will look like next time you are in the store. There are then posts of people asking for information on the best places to steal a certain type of merchandise. For example, one person asked where they could steal a hair straightener, and they received a response from another user saying that they should go to a specific store, in which they know that there is only one employee working first thing in the morning and they are usually busy stocking merchandise and don’t pay any attention to customers.
If that wasn’t enough, some users post about getting caught and what the process is in the store, and what the procedures are for loss prevention during processing. Others even take it a step further and go into detail about the court process for shoplifting and exactly what steps were involved, and what they were sentenced to for the thefts they committed. I was completely shocked at some of the information that I saw while looking at some of these postings. I strongly suggest that you do your own research if you want to see what kinds of things shoplifters are talking about to try and get around what you are doing to prevent shoplifting in your stores.
For more information about Alpha Security, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
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EAS Labels: Shoplifters Can Just Remove Them. Let Them Try With Layered Protection!
“What stops them from just removing it?” That is a question I get all the time from associates and customers alike in regard to the effectiveness of electronic article surveillance or EAS labels. After all the labels are only placed on the product with a strong adhesive. The EAS label can be removed with a little effort very quickly and the product is then defenseless against the shoplifter leaving undetected with the product concealed on his or her person. In some cases, if that is the only retail anti-theft devices that you are using in your store to prevent shoplifting the answer might be that nothing stops them from removing the EAS label and walking out of your store with the product.
However, based on the value of the product, using just one EAS label is not the best way to prevent shoplifting of your merchandise. Maybe a couple of examples from my experiences will help illustrate this a little better. In one case, a shoplifter brought in his own cable-cutters into the store to cut the cables on the leather jackets and cut off the EAS hard tag. It was a great plan and he had some quality side-cutters to do the job; however, he did not count on us just placing some inexpensive EAS labels inside the pockets and inside the lining of the jacket. When he went to leave with a nice smug look on his face (that was quickly replaced with wide-eyes and open-mouthed surprise) he was stopped at the door, detained and turned over to the police for shoplifting. Those inexpensive hidden Checkpoint labels activated by door alarms saved the loss of a very expensive garment.
In a second example, a professional shoplifter had figured out how to remove our laptops from our heavily secured and alarmed display brackets without activating the alarm. He had stolen 4 laptops previously undetected except through CCTV (closed-circuit television) tape reviews. His undoing the next time he tried his very-thought out criminal endeavor was Checkpoint labels had been placed inside the battery compartments of the laptops. His combined endeavors earned him a felony arrest and conviction. You have probably figured out the key to protecting high-dollar merchandise by now: layered protection.
The layered protection I have discussed so far has actually only consisted of multiple EAS labels to be detected by your electronic article surveillance. There are many more options in ways to stop shoplifting through EAS. Checkpoint Security Systems also offers hard tags, specialty tags and then products from the Alpha Division as well. The high-risk product protection devices include spider wraps, which are alarmed wired cables and that surround the merchandise making it impossible to break into the box or packaging and remove the package without setting off the alarm on the spider wrap or should the shoplifter decide to try to leave with the spider wrap intact they will be detected by the electronic article surveillance anyway. There is also Alpha keepers that add to the Checkpoint label by placing the entire product inside a hardened polycarbonate box that is alarmed and requires a special magnetic key to open.
Defense-in-layers is a key axiom in physical security and applies to efforts to stop shoplifting as well. Should one layer of your system be compromised another layer will activate to detect a breach of your system. When you plan out your retail theft prevention strategies you need to think in term of layers. Your first layer in mind should be your merchandise inventorying and display policies, ensuring that you have strong policies and compliance as to what merchandise is to be protected by EAS labels and how they are protected, be it by multiple layers of Checkpoint labels, spider-wraps, or Alpha cases. Your next layer is your sales associates, making sure that they are providing good customer service that makes the would-be shoplifter feel very uncomfortable and your final layer is the electronic article surveillance antennae at the door. If you think in terms of layers, the next time someone asks that question about removing the tag, you can say “Let them try; layered protection has them covered.”
For more information on Checkpoint Systems contact us: 1.770.426.0547 or www.antishoplifting.net.
“What stops them from just removing it?” That is a question I get all the time from associates and customers alike in regard to the effectiveness of electronic article surveillance or EAS labels. After all the labels are only placed on the product with a strong adhesive. The EAS label can be removed with a little effort very quickly and the product is then defenseless against the shoplifter leaving undetected with the product concealed on his or her person. In some cases, if that is the only retail anti-theft devices that you are using in your store to prevent shoplifting the answer might be that nothing stops them from removing the EAS label and walking out of your store with the product.
However, based on the value of the product, using just one EAS label is not the best way to prevent shoplifting of your merchandise. Maybe a couple of examples from my experiences will help illustrate this a little better. In one case, a shoplifter brought in his own cable-cutters into the store to cut the cables on the leather jackets and cut off the EAS hard tag. It was a great plan and he had some quality side-cutters to do the job; however, he did not count on us just placing some inexpensive EAS labels inside the pockets and inside the lining of the jacket. When he went to leave with a nice smug look on his face (that was quickly replaced with wide-eyes and open-mouthed surprise) he was stopped at the door, detained and turned over to the police for shoplifting. Those inexpensive hidden Checkpoint labels activated by door alarms saved the loss of a very expensive garment.
In a second example, a professional shoplifter had figured out how to remove our laptops from our heavily secured and alarmed display brackets without activating the alarm. He had stolen 4 laptops previously undetected except through CCTV (closed-circuit television) tape reviews. His undoing the next time he tried his very-thought out criminal endeavor was Checkpoint labels had been placed inside the battery compartments of the laptops. His combined endeavors earned him a felony arrest and conviction. You have probably figured out the key to protecting high-dollar merchandise by now: layered protection.
The layered protection I have discussed so far has actually only consisted of multiple EAS labels to be detected by your electronic article surveillance. There are many more options in ways to stop shoplifting through EAS. Checkpoint Security Systems also offers hard tags, specialty tags and then products from the Alpha Division as well. The high-risk product protection devices include spider wraps, which are alarmed wired cables and that surround the merchandise making it impossible to break into the box or packaging and remove the package without setting off the alarm on the spider wrap or should the shoplifter decide to try to leave with the spider wrap intact they will be detected by the electronic article surveillance anyway. There is also Alpha keepers that add to the Checkpoint label by placing the entire product inside a hardened polycarbonate box that is alarmed and requires a special magnetic key to open.
Defense-in-layers is a key axiom in physical security and applies to efforts to stop shoplifting as well. Should one layer of your system be compromised another layer will activate to detect a breach of your system. When you plan out your retail theft prevention strategies you need to think in term of layers. Your first layer in mind should be your merchandise inventorying and display policies, ensuring that you have strong policies and compliance as to what merchandise is to be protected by EAS labels and how they are protected, be it by multiple layers of Checkpoint labels, spider-wraps, or Alpha cases. Your next layer is your sales associates, making sure that they are providing good customer service that makes the would-be shoplifter feel very uncomfortable and your final layer is the electronic article surveillance antennae at the door. If you think in terms of layers, the next time someone asks that question about removing the tag, you can say “Let them try; layered protection has them covered.”
For more information on Checkpoint Systems contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or www.antishoplifting.net.
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Target Harden Your Business With Alpha Hard Tags to Prevent Shoplifting
Shoplifting has long been a threat to retailers nationwide but never has it been considered as much as a threat as it is now. Recent studies having it overtaking internal theft as the greatest threat to retail businesses today. Part of that threat is from the growing concern with organized retail crime (ORC) which is targeting small shops as well as large businesses to effectuate their goals. This makes it more important than ever to do everything we can to prevent shoplifting from taking our merchandise. To that end, we have to consider ways in which we can “target harden” our merchandise and keep it out of the hands of organized crime as well as the everyday opportunistic shoplifter.
This has to be thought out clearly as the merchandise being targeted by organized crime is not much different than what the opportunistic shoplifter is trying to get his or her hands on. Everyone likes high-end electronics and all those sweet gadgets that our genius inventors are coming up with but everything from razor blades and eyeglasses to anything else you can hang on a hook is a potential target for shoplifting.
We are not alone in the fight, however. We have many technological partners who have been fighting right alongside of us to stop shoplifting. Electronic article surveillance (EAS), everyone will agree, was one of the greatest technological advances ever made on the behalf of retailers to help attack shoplifting. Checkpoint Systems has leveraged EAS technology in their systems to help us protect our merchandise. Their Alpha line of products is designed to protect this merchandise. The Alpha Jewel Lok is a specially designed EAS package that secures your jewelry and keeps it leaving from your store without being detected by your EAS system. Alpha has many other retail anti-theft devices that are designed for specific applications. The eyewear tag protects your high-end sunglasses as well as prescription and reading glasses which are an easy target of shoplifters due to their ease of concealability. The Alpha ink tag ensures that you clothing items stay in your store, are detected by your EAS system or as a last resort have no serviceability when the ink stains the garment when the supposedly successful shoplifter tries to remove the Alpha ink tag. There is also the Alpha hang tag that protects those razor blades and other merchandise that you hang on hooks. Checkpoint Systems and Alpha, have a retail anti-theft solution for about any product you want to protect.
All of these solutions help us keep our merchandise in our stores and out of the hands of the criminal enterprise member as well as that young teen who happened to see that cool piece of jewelry hanging from your jewelry rack and wants to help herself to it. Think about it. What else could you do? You could lock that piece of jewelry in the cabinet and get it out every time the customer wants to see it. Is that worth it for low cost or mid cost merchandise? The Alpha Jewel Lok will work to protect it without you having to go to the expense of that staff member opening and closing cabinets all day.
We could also do the same thing with those razorblades in order to prevent shoplifting. You could put them in that locking cabinet and have a staff member get it out each time the customer wanted to try to figure out which razor blade he needed for his razor. Instead you can put the blades on the rack with confidence and let the Alpha hang tag protect it.
Whether it is the Alpha jewel lok, the Alpha hang tag, the Alpha ink tag or another Alpha product, you have an electronic article surveillance partner out there to help you stop shoplifting. We need to leverage that partnership and ensure that we target harden, reducing the expense to our business and to pass on costs to the consumer. All the shrink losses in our business from internal theft, shoplifting, and pure loss need to be reduced but there is so much we can do to “target harden” our business and prevent shoplifting.
For more information on Alpha hard tags contact us or call 1.770.426.0547.
Shoplifting has long been a threat to retailers nationwide but never has it been considered as much as a threat as it is now. Recent studies having it overtaking internal theft as the greatest threat to retail businesses today. Part of that threat is from the growing concern with organized retail crime (ORC) which is targeting small shops as well as large businesses to effectuate their goals. This makes it more important than ever to do everything we can to prevent shoplifting from taking our merchandise. To that end, we have to consider ways in which we can “target harden” our merchandise and keep it out of the hands of organized crime as well as the everyday opportunistic shoplifter.
This has to be thought out clearly as the merchandise being targeted by organized crime is not much different than what the opportunistic shoplifter is trying to get his or her hands on. Everyone likes high-end electronics and all those sweet gadgets that our genius inventors are coming up with but everything from razor blades and eyeglasses to anything else you can hang on a hook is a potential target for shoplifting.
We are not alone in the fight, however. We have many technological partners who have been fighting right alongside of us to stop shoplifting. Electronic article surveillance (EAS), everyone will agree, was one of the greatest technological advances ever made on the behalf of retailers to help attack shoplifting. Checkpoint Systems has leveraged EAS technology in their systems to help us protect our merchandise. Their Alpha line of products is designed to protect this merchandise. The Alpha Jewel Lok is a specially designed EAS package that secures your jewelry and keeps it leaving from your store without being detected by your EAS system. Alpha has many other retail anti-theft devices that are designed for specific applications. The eyewear tag protects your high-end sunglasses as well as prescription and reading glasses which are an easy target of shoplifters due to their ease of concealability. The Alpha ink tag ensures that you clothing items stay in your store, are detected by your EAS system or as a last resort have no serviceability when the ink stains the garment when the supposedly successful shoplifter tries to remove the Alpha ink tag. There is also the Alpha hang tag that protects those razor blades and other merchandise that you hang on hooks. Checkpoint Systems and Alpha, have a retail anti-theft solution for about any product you want to protect.
All of these solutions help us keep our merchandise in our stores and out of the hands of the criminal enterprise member as well as that young teen who happened to see that cool piece of jewelry hanging from your jewelry rack and wants to help herself to it. Think about it. What else could you do? You could lock that piece of jewelry in the cabinet and get it out every time the customer wants to see it. Is that worth it for low cost or mid cost merchandise? The Alpha Jewel Lok will work to protect it without you having to go to the expense of that staff member opening and closing cabinets all day.
We could also do the same thing with those razorblades in order to prevent shoplifting. You could put them in that locking cabinet and have a staff member get it out each time the customer wanted to try to figure out which razor blade he needed for his razor. Instead you can put the blades on the rack with confidence and let the Alpha hang tag protect it.
Whether it is the Alpha jewel lok, the Alpha hang tag, the Alpha ink tag or another Alpha product, you have an electronic article surveillance partner out there to help you stop shoplifting. We need to leverage that partnership and ensure that we target harden, reducing the expense to our business and to pass on costs to the consumer. All the shrink losses in our business from internal theft, shoplifting, and pure loss need to be reduced but there is so much we can do to “target harden” our business and prevent shoplifting.
For more information on Alpha hard tags contact us or call 1.770.426.0547.
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Only Eight Miles Away
I work for a small retail pharmacy and I have recently been transferred to a different location. It’s only about eight miles from my previous store. I have a long list of stuff to correct in this store, but one of my blue chips is utilizing Alpha Keepers. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but they have plenty of them already. In fact, this store has a multitude of sealed boxes of Alpha Keepers upstairs in their loft. I could build a small fort with them if I had the time. Instead, I’ve been bringing them downstairs and installing them in many areas I used at my previous store. I was in an inner city setting and now my store is out in the middle of nowhere. The store setting is completely different, but considering boosters are our primary problem, the targets will still be the same.
In our business, we must use Alpha Keepers to protect health and beauty products. It’s what we specialize in selling other than the prescription drugs we dispense, so it’s imperative to be in stock on the additional items our customers and patients may be in need of. We sell a lot of high retail stomach remedies and allergy medications that are very popular in the flea market setting. The boosters are hired by the flea market vendors to come in and steal specific items they want for their booths. They come in and wipe out entire sections of merchandise. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to recognize their huge shoplifter bags they carry, or we realize what they are up to before they are able to escape. More often, however, they come in and help themselves and create losses for the store. The boosters get away many more times than they are caught, and they are paid pennies on the dollar for the actual value of the stolen items. Yet, they keep coming back and keep stealing, taking the chances and hoping we don’t catch on. None of our stores are immune to boosters, so I was really stunned to see that this store was not using the tools, like the Alpha Keepers, that were so readily available to them.
The staff is not new and they all act as though they want to prevent shoplifting. I even found a note in the office that was written to the previous manager just a few weeks ago. The assistant had noticed that a certain cold medication was being stolen on a regular basis. She had a small stack of papers stapled together that were the records of what had been stolen in the last months. A box or two was listed on each sheet. But, other than the note, she had not acted on the issue she had discovered. So when we received a truck a couple days ago, when I got those items out of the delivery boxes, I immediately encased them in Alpha Keepers before displaying them on the shelves in the cough and cold section. I actually had to add them to that exact same item in my previous store. That specific medicine is popular among teens for abuse. Apparently, if you take enough of them the cough suppressant makes you high. I’ll never understand how someone decided to try to take enough cold medicine to get a buzz, but I’m nobody’s judge. I do know how to stop the theft of these particular boxes, and the answer is not hiding them behind the checkout counter. All I need to do is lock them into Alpha Keepers and they will remain on the shelf until sold to an honest customer.
For more information on what Alpha Keepers can do for you, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Preventshopliftingloss.net
I work for a small retail pharmacy and I have recently been transferred to a different location. It’s only about eight miles from my previous store. I have a long list of stuff to correct in this store, but one of my blue chips is utilizing Alpha Keepers. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but they have plenty of them already. In fact, this store has a multitude of sealed boxes of Alpha Keepers upstairs in their loft. I could build a small fort with them if I had the time. Instead, I’ve been bringing them downstairs and installing them in many areas I used at my previous store. I was in an inner city setting and now my store is out in the middle of nowhere. The store setting is completely different, but considering boosters are our primary problem, the targets will still be the same.
In our business, we must use Alpha Keepers to protect health and beauty products. It’s what we specialize in selling other than the prescription drugs we dispense, so it’s imperative to be in stock on the additional items our customers and patients may be in need of. We sell a lot of high retail stomach remedies and allergy medications that are very popular in the flea market setting. The boosters are hired by the flea market vendors to come in and steal specific items they want for their booths. They come in and wipe out entire sections of merchandise. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to recognize their huge shoplifter bags they carry, or we realize what they are up to before they are able to escape. More often, however, they come in and help themselves and create losses for the store. The boosters get away many more times than they are caught, and they are paid pennies on the dollar for the actual value of the stolen items. Yet, they keep coming back and keep stealing, taking the chances and hoping we don’t catch on. None of our stores are immune to boosters, so I was really stunned to see that this store was not using the tools, like the Alpha Keepers, that were so readily available to them.
The staff is not new and they all act as though they want to prevent shoplifting. I even found a note in the office that was written to the previous manager just a few weeks ago. The assistant had noticed that a certain cold medication was being stolen on a regular basis. She had a small stack of papers stapled together that were the records of what had been stolen in the last months. A box or two was listed on each sheet. But, other than the note, she had not acted on the issue she had discovered. So when we received a truck a couple days ago, when I got those items out of the delivery boxes, I immediately encased them in Alpha Keepers before displaying them on the shelves in the cough and cold section. I actually had to add them to that exact same item in my previous store. That specific medicine is popular among teens for abuse. Apparently, if you take enough of them the cough suppressant makes you high. I’ll never understand how someone decided to try to take enough cold medicine to get a buzz, but I’m nobody’s judge. I do know how to stop the theft of these particular boxes, and the answer is not hiding them behind the checkout counter. All I need to do is lock them into Alpha Keepers and they will remain on the shelf until sold to an honest customer.
For more information on what Alpha Keepers can do for you, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Preventshopliftingloss.net
