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Can Loss Prevention Be Free When You Buy A Dummy EAS System?
Can Loss Prevention be free for a small retail store owner? After a recent search of the internet to see what people are trying to sell in the name of low-budget retail theft prevention I found that there are bargain basement deals out there. For a couple of hundred dollars a business owner can purchase fake electronic article surveillance towers for $199. For about another $30 that same owner can purchase fake electronic article surveillance labels. Maybe it isn’t free but it is almost as close as you will ever get to free isn’t it?
The website that offered the faux tags states that the tags they sell, “Gives the visual illusion you have a working EAS system at your door that will beep if product is removed.” I would like to see the Loss Prevention Calculator that can show me the amount of shortage I will save if I purchase their fake tags. I suppose I could save all kinds of virtual money if I purchased from these people. Maybe these companies will take virtual currency as payment for their fake products. After shoplifters figure out that the tags and the towers you have installed don’t do anything, how much theft do you think your nearly free Loss Prevention system is going to prevent? As a former Loss Prevention Manager, I can tell you that your free/low cost system is not going to prevent much if any theft.
I imagine someone is thinking that maybe this is the only way a business can afford any type of theft prevention. Ask ME the question, “Can Loss Prevention be free?” and I will have a different answer for you and it doesn’t involve a dummy tower or look-alike labels. Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. offers store owners the opportunity to own a brand new system within their budgets. They even provide the option of financing a system through Navitas Credit Corp. The fact is a new Sensormatic retail anti-theft system can save a store so much money from theft reduction that it will pay for itself over time. Go to the Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. website and open up the ROI Calculator tab near the top of the page. It goes to their free-to-use Loss prevention Calculator and provides you with a way to enter some basic information and the calculator does the rest. It estimates how much shrink you are losing annually and by the month. It also shows roughly how much you can reduce your shortage with the installation of a Sensormatic system. The final number and this is the big one, the Loss Prevention Calculator will show you approximately how many months it will take for a new system to pay for itself! In other words, EVERY storeowner can afford a system.
Here is another thing for you to consider when it comes to shortage reduction. The electronic article surveillance systems are primarily meant to stop theft. However, these systems can also have an impact on operational shortage for a store. According to the 2015 Global Retail Theft Barometer administrative shortage accounted for almost 16% of shortage. A store with a fully functioning retail anti-theft system is going to be able to prevent missed merchandise from going out the door. An example of this is when a cosmetic item is overlooked in the bottom of a shopping cart. The customer did not intend to overlook it but they did and so did the cashier. The item goes out to the parking lot where it gets picked up by the customer who thinks they paid for it and it rolled out of the bag. It may be missed altogether and another customer finds it in the shopping cart and takes it. The loss was not intentional but it is loss through operational error. If that cosmetic item is protected with an electronic article surveillance label the towers at the doors will detect it before it leaves the building. The customer can choose to pay for it or simply return it and no harm is done. Try THAT with a dummy anti-theft system.
Can Loss Prevention Be Free? Not if you purchase a non-functioning anti-theft system. It can’t be because you won’t be preventing theft for long. Spend the money up front on a NEW system and see real results almost from the time you have it set up. A few months down the road and it is possible your new system will have paid for itself. Try the Loss Prevention Calculator and see for yourself.
Get more information on the Loss Prevention Calculator, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
Can Loss Prevention be free for a small retail store owner? After a recent search of the internet to see what people are trying to sell in the name of low-budget retail theft prevention I found that there are bargain basement deals out there. For a couple of hundred dollars a business owner can purchase fake electronic article surveillance towers for $199. For about another $30 that same owner can purchase fake electronic article surveillance labels. Maybe it isn’t free but it is almost as close as you will ever get to free isn’t it?
The website that offered the faux tags states that the tags they sell, “Gives the visual illusion you have a working EAS system at your door that will beep if product is removed.” I would like to see the Loss Prevention Calculator that can show me the amount of shortage I will save if I purchase their fake tags. I suppose I could save all kinds of virtual money if I purchased from these people. Maybe these companies will take virtual currency as payment for their fake products. After shoplifters figure out that the tags and the towers you have installed don’t do anything, how much theft do you think your nearly free Loss Prevention system is going to prevent? As a former Loss Prevention Manager, I can tell you that your free/low cost system is not going to prevent much if any theft.
I imagine someone is thinking that maybe this is the only way a business can afford any type of theft prevention. Ask ME the question, “Can Loss Prevention be free?” and I will have a different answer for you and it doesn’t involve a dummy tower or look-alike labels. Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. offers store owners the opportunity to own a brand new system within their budgets. They even provide the option of financing a system through Navitas Credit Corp. The fact is a new Sensormatic retail anti-theft system can save a store so much money from theft reduction that it will pay for itself over time. Go to the Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. website and open up the ROI Calculator tab near the top of the page. It goes to their free-to-use Loss prevention Calculator and provides you with a way to enter some basic information and the calculator does the rest. It estimates how much shrink you are losing annually and by the month. It also shows roughly how much you can reduce your shortage with the installation of a Sensormatic system. The final number and this is the big one, the Loss Prevention Calculator will show you approximately how many months it will take for a new system to pay for itself! In other words, EVERY storeowner can afford a system.
Here is another thing for you to consider when it comes to shortage reduction. The electronic article surveillance systems are primarily meant to stop theft. However, these systems can also have an impact on operational shortage for a store. According to the 2015 Global Retail Theft Barometer administrative shortage accounted for almost 16% of shortage. A store with a fully functioning retail anti-theft system is going to be able to prevent missed merchandise from going out the door. An example of this is when a cosmetic item is overlooked in the bottom of a shopping cart. The customer did not intend to overlook it but they did and so did the cashier. The item goes out to the parking lot where it gets picked up by the customer who thinks they paid for it and it rolled out of the bag. It may be missed altogether and another customer finds it in the shopping cart and takes it. The loss was not intentional but it is loss through operational error. If that cosmetic item is protected with an electronic article surveillance label the towers at the doors will detect it before it leaves the building. The customer can choose to pay for it or simply return it and no harm is done. Try THAT with a dummy anti-theft system.
Can Loss Prevention Be Free? Not if you purchase a non-functioning anti-theft system. It can’t be because you won’t be preventing theft for long. Spend the money up front on a NEW system and see real results almost from the time you have it set up. A few months down the road and it is possible your new system will have paid for itself. Try the Loss Prevention Calculator and see for yourself.
Get more information on the Loss Prevention Calculator, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
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Don’t Settle For Stagnant Shortage Results – Use Sensormatic Labels
If I were to ask retail owners if they would like to stop shoplifting from taking place in their stores I feel certain I would receive a 100% response in the affirmative. I would also guarantee a 100% affirmative response if I were to ask retailers if they would like to increase profits. Interestingly to me however is the fact that a recent 2018 National Retail Security Survey, found that there was a 22.2% decrease in the use of “Acousto-magnetic, electronic security tags” from 2017-2018 (pg. 10). This category would include Sensormatic labels of all types, including the HBC labels for health and beauty products and the Ultra strip III rolls. Now before I hit the panic button let me be clear, there were increases in other categories of Retail Loss Prevention Systems. For example the report listed budget increases for “Theft deterrent devices” which would include Sensormatic Safers, wraps, etc. So not all areas of retail theft protection have been neglected but the reporting that a 22.2% decrease in acousto-magnetic tag spending is concerning to me. As a former Loss Prevention Manager I believe this is a poor decision on the part of retailers.
The report indicates that shortage remains about flat to previous years at 1.33% (pg.5). Let me ask you a question, if your store sales remained flat to previous years would you be excited about this? Certainly not! You would take steps to improve profits. Well, shrink reduction is one place to start and it can be done quickly and results will be seen almost immediately. Bringing that 1.33% down by half is not unreasonable. Remember, that percentage is an average percentage for retailers. Your store(s) could very well be experiencing shrink much higher than this. As we break down shortage we find from the report that external theft accounted for 36.5% of store losses in 2017. Internal theft or employee theft resulted in an additional 30% of store losses. Combined, on average this could be 66.5% of your merchandise shortage and does not include an estimated 5.4% attributed to vendor theft or fraud. Bill Bregar, owner of Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. knows how theft takes a significant bite out of store profits. Bill has developed and operated Loss Prevention programs at the National Director level for major retailers. He draws on that experience to help business owners improve their profits through improved sales and reduced shortage. Like me, Bill DOES recommend the use of Sensormatic labels and hard tags to prevent shoplifting and internal theft to his clients.
I mentioned that you could bring shrink down by almost half and it can be done quickly. Bill agrees with me here as well and if you will take a look at the ROI calculator on the Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. website you will see that is the amount his company estimates you would reduce shrink by if you were to install a retail anti-theft system and use Sensormatic labels and tags. Sitting stagnate and accepting 1.33% losses is an unacceptable proposition when that figure can be easily improved upon.
One other aspect of the report that concerned me is that approximately 42% of stores in this survey experienced shrinkage of 1.5% and higher (with 9% of stores experiencing over 3% in shortage) (pg. 5). And what are some of the types of anti-theft measures that are increasingly being used in stores? “Simulated, visible CCTV” and “Observation mirrors” are listed as seeing a 27.0% and 9% increase since 2017 respectively (pg. 10). I have nothing against CCTV or the use of mirrors in stores. I used live CCTV and recorded video to catch shoplifters and dishonest employees. Mirrors can help with seeing corners that may be out of the line of sight of employees. Using simulated CCTV may deter a minimal amount of theft but Sensormatic labels are a much more effective method to stop shoplifting. They act as a deterrent AND they set off alarm towers providing trained employees an opportunity to recover merchandise before it gets out the door. Mirrors are only effective if employees are watching them and going to those corners but do your employees have time to be watching mirrors? Unless you have a Loss Prevention Associate working the benefits are negligible at best.
Investing in a Sensormatic system is the smart choice for store owners. They are proven to stop shoplifting and employee theft. I have first-hand experience recovering merchandise that was going to be stolen had an electronic article surveillance alarm not set off an alarm tower. Don’t waste money on technology that will not provide the same results. Keep merchandise out of the hands of thieves and in the store where it will be bought and see sales soar. Invest in Sensormatic security systems!
Need information on Sensormatic labels? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
If I were to ask retail owners if they would like to stop shoplifting from taking place in their stores I feel certain I would receive a 100% response in the affirmative. I would also guarantee a 100% affirmative response if I were to ask retailers if they would like to increase profits. Interestingly to me however is the fact that a recent 2018 National Retail Security Survey, found that there was a 22.2% decrease in the use of “Acousto-magnetic, electronic security tags” from 2017-2018 (pg. 10). This category would include Sensormatic labels of all types, including the HBC labels for health and beauty products and the Ultra strip III rolls. Now before I hit the panic button let me be clear, there were increases in other categories of Retail Loss Prevention Systems. For example the report listed budget increases for “Theft deterrent devices” which would include Sensormatic Safers, wraps, etc. So not all areas of retail theft protection have been neglected but the reporting that a 22.2% decrease in acousto-magnetic tag spending is concerning to me. As a former Loss Prevention Manager I believe this is a poor decision on the part of retailers.
The report indicates that shortage remains about flat to previous years at 1.33% (pg.5). Let me ask you a question, if your store sales remained flat to previous years would you be excited about this? Certainly not! You would take steps to improve profits. Well, shrink reduction is one place to start and it can be done quickly and results will be seen almost immediately. Bringing that 1.33% down by half is not unreasonable. Remember, that percentage is an average percentage for retailers. Your store(s) could very well be experiencing shrink much higher than this. As we break down shortage we find from the report that external theft accounted for 36.5% of store losses in 2017. Internal theft or employee theft resulted in an additional 30% of store losses. Combined, on average this could be 66.5% of your merchandise shortage and does not include an estimated 5.4% attributed to vendor theft or fraud. Bill Bregar, owner of Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. knows how theft takes a significant bite out of store profits. Bill has developed and operated Loss Prevention programs at the National Director level for major retailers. He draws on that experience to help business owners improve their profits through improved sales and reduced shortage. Like me, Bill DOES recommend the use of Sensormatic labels and hard tags to prevent shoplifting and internal theft to his clients.
I mentioned that you could bring shrink down by almost half and it can be done quickly. Bill agrees with me here as well and if you will take a look at the ROI calculator on the Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. website you will see that is the amount his company estimates you would reduce shrink by if you were to install a retail anti-theft system and use Sensormatic labels and tags. Sitting stagnate and accepting 1.33% losses is an unacceptable proposition when that figure can be easily improved upon.
One other aspect of the report that concerned me is that approximately 42% of stores in this survey experienced shrinkage of 1.5% and higher (with 9% of stores experiencing over 3% in shortage) (pg. 5). And what are some of the types of anti-theft measures that are increasingly being used in stores? “Simulated, visible CCTV” and “Observation mirrors” are listed as seeing a 27.0% and 9% increase since 2017 respectively (pg. 10). I have nothing against CCTV or the use of mirrors in stores. I used live CCTV and recorded video to catch shoplifters and dishonest employees. Mirrors can help with seeing corners that may be out of the line of sight of employees. Using simulated CCTV may deter a minimal amount of theft but Sensormatic labels are a much more effective method to stop shoplifting. They act as a deterrent AND they set off alarm towers providing trained employees an opportunity to recover merchandise before it gets out the door. Mirrors are only effective if employees are watching them and going to those corners but do your employees have time to be watching mirrors? Unless you have a Loss Prevention Associate working the benefits are negligible at best.
Investing in a Sensormatic system is the smart choice for store owners. They are proven to stop shoplifting and employee theft. I have first-hand experience recovering merchandise that was going to be stolen had an electronic article surveillance alarm not set off an alarm tower. Don’t waste money on technology that will not provide the same results. Keep merchandise out of the hands of thieves and in the store where it will be bought and see sales soar. Invest in Sensormatic security systems!
Need information on Sensormatic labels? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
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Retail Theft Prevention – Lessons For Those Considering A Career In Loss Prevention Part 3
How to detect shoplifters, pan-tilt-zoom cameras, closed circuit television and VCR’s (yeah, we didn’t have DVR’s then) and Sensormatic security systems were all the tools I learned to use as a Loss Prevention Associate. After four and a half years I moved into a position as a Loss Prevention Manager for a new store and found out how much I DIDN’T know about retail theft prevention. I also found I had to change my mindset about what Loss Prevention is really all about. Now, 28 years later I have my own advice to give that could make a leap into retail theft prevention a successful jump.
Security Officer, Police Officer or Something Else?
Let’s set the record straight right from the start. Do not go into Loss Prevention thinking you are a police officer. You may stop shoplifters and you might even put them in jail via a warrant or a police officer issued citation. You are not the police officer. You will have to learn to be diplomatic and you will have to sensitive. You may have to keep children from crying while doing paperwork on the apprehension of their mother. You have to be fair in how you handle every incident. You will have to keep calm while someone curses you out. Mess up and your actions can cost your store a lot of money. You should know that you are working to make the store and company more profitable. Go in with the mindset that you are there to reduce risk and optimize sales and profit. It changes how you will view your work.
Human Resources
Go into a Loss Prevention Manager position and be prepared to interview and hire people. As I mentioned in Part 2 surround yourself with people who can do what you can’t. If you don’t know how Sensormatic security systems work, hire someone who has experience with one. If you aren’t good at report writing find someone who has a background in clerical work or a degree in communications. This is not an easy step since it means you have to be honest with yourself about your own short comings. You may be called upon to help in new hire orientations. Be ready to brush up on public speaking skills. You will want to be the person that knows company policies and procedures because you may be investing dishonest employee activity. You may also have to assist the store in investigating worker’s comp. claims, and accident investigations. Knowledge of company policies can help your store minimize the risk of costly lawsuits.
Operations Expert
As a Loss Prevention professional, you need to know what affects the profitability of the store. It may be retail theft prevention, vendor shortages, operational errors on the front lanes or how empty shelves are influencing sales. YOU must know what stock shortage is and how it happens. Empty shelves mean lost money for the store. You should be the first person to notice and identify problems. Is there theft? Is there a breakdown in the stocking process? Are vendors causing issues? Learn about how a Sensormatic security systems can include a door counting sensor. Customer traffic counting data can be used to determine the time of day customers are shopping. Payroll can be more effectively managed to optimize customer service and sales (you could be a hero to a store manager). Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. can provide more details on how a door counting sensor can help a store if your manager is curious. You won’t know everything about shortage immediately but knowing that it involves more than just shoplifters and dishonest employees will prepare you in advance so you can start to learn it.
Counselor
I know this may sound odd to you but trust me you will have many co-workers and managers coming to you with gripes, complaints, concerns and gossip. These people trust you because they believe you will maintain confidentiality. You must be able to listen and give advice. You may get tips that will be useful in retail theft prevention but through casual conversation. You have to listen closely. Know when to stop a conversation and how to tell someone you have no choice but to refer something to another department (such as a report of assault or sexual misconduct).
I hope all of these tips will help you understand that the role of a Loss Prevention professional is more than just stopping shoplifters. You will be a jack-of- all- trades and if you do the job properly, you will learn more than you ever dreamed you would about running a retail store. Now go forth and make a store profitable!
Need information on Sensormatic Systems? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 today
How to detect shoplifters, pan-tilt-zoom cameras, closed circuit television and VCR’s (yeah, we didn’t have DVR’s then) and Sensormatic security systems were all the tools I learned to use as a Loss Prevention Associate. After four and a half years I moved into a position as a Loss Prevention Manager for a new store and found out how much I DIDN’T know about retail theft prevention. I also found I had to change my mindset about what Loss Prevention is really all about. Now, 28 years later I have my own advice to give that could make a leap into retail theft prevention a successful jump.
Security Officer, Police Officer or Something Else?
Let’s set the record straight right from the start. Do not go into Loss Prevention thinking you are a police officer. You may stop shoplifters and you might even put them in jail via a warrant or a police officer issued citation. You are not the police officer. You will have to learn to be diplomatic and you will have to sensitive. You may have to keep children from crying while doing paperwork on the apprehension of their mother. You have to be fair in how you handle every incident. You will have to keep calm while someone curses you out. Mess up and your actions can cost your store a lot of money. You should know that you are working to make the store and company more profitable. Go in with the mindset that you are there to reduce risk and optimize sales and profit. It changes how you will view your work.
Human Resources
Go into a Loss Prevention Manager position and be prepared to interview and hire people. As I mentioned in Part 2 surround yourself with people who can do what you can’t. If you don’t know how Sensormatic security systems work, hire someone who has experience with one. If you aren’t good at report writing find someone who has a background in clerical work or a degree in communications. This is not an easy step since it means you have to be honest with yourself about your own short comings. You may be called upon to help in new hire orientations. Be ready to brush up on public speaking skills. You will want to be the person that knows company policies and procedures because you may be investigating dishonest employee activity. You may also have to assist the store in investigating worker’s comp. claims, and accident investigations. Knowledge of company policies can help your store minimize the risk of costly lawsuits.
Operations Expert
As a Loss Prevention professional, you need to know what affects the profitability of the store. It may be retail theft prevention, vendor shortages, operational errors on the front lanes or how empty shelves are influencing sales. YOU must know what stock shortage is and how it happens. Empty shelves mean lost money for the store. You should be the first person to notice and identify problems. Is there theft? Is there a breakdown in the stocking process? Are vendors causing issues? Learn about how a Sensormatic security systems can include a door counting sensor. Customer traffic counting data can be used to determine the time of day customers are shopping. Payroll can be more effectively managed to optimize customer service and sales (you could be a hero to a store manager). Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. can provide more details on how a door counting sensor can help a store if your manager is curious. You won’t know everything about shortage immediately but knowing that it involves more than just shoplifters and dishonest employees will prepare you in advance so you can start to learn it.
Counselor
I know this may sound odd to you but trust me you will have many co-workers and managers coming to you with gripes, complaints, concerns and gossip. These people trust you because they believe you will maintain confidentiality. You must be able to listen and give advice. You may get tips that will be useful in retail theft prevention but through casual conversation. You have to listen closely. Know when to stop a conversation and how to tell someone you have no choice but to refer something to another department (such as a report of assault or sexual misconduct).
I hope all of these tips will help you understand that the role of a Loss Prevention professional is more than just stopping shoplifters. You will be a jack-of- all- trades and if you do the job properly, you will learn more than you ever dreamed you would about running a retail store. Now go forth and make a store profitable!
Need information on Sensormatic Systems? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 today
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Clothing Security In An Apparel Store
Are you having clothing security issues from shoplifting in your apparel store? The solution to this issue is a two step process. You must adopt both steps as one is useless without the other. But before you can implement those steps, you have to do something else. You must make the commitment to clothing security or any other retail segment security and be willing to make this a permanent part of your business. When I was Director of Loss Prevention for several major retailers, I would ask Operations Management for simply 3% of their time on a daily basis. That’s it, 3% or 18 minutes of their 10 hour day dedicated to shoplifting prevention. You can do the same. If you do, I assure you that your shoplifting losses will drop significantly.
So what should you do in that 18 minutes? Glad you asked!
First and foremost is train and reemphasize shoplifting prevention techniques to your team. Teaching them is one thing but reminding them on a constant basis until it becomes second nature will drive shoplifters away and increase your customer service to good customers. The premise of this is simple, good customers love customer service, shoplifters hate it. If you are providing good customer service and a customer is resisting that then this should be an immediate red flag. In that case what should you do? Well, provide even more customer service! This may involve staying at a discrete distance and keeping an eye on them. A shoplifter will hate this but a good customer will either be indifferent or pay little attention.
The reason they hate this is that shoplifters must have privacy to steal from you, if only for a few seconds. Deny them that and, do it consistently and they will go elsewhere to steal. Shoplifters will steal where they have the least interference. However, that leads us to the next step.
The second step is to add a Sensormatic system to your store. And as a shameless plug, yes, Loss Prevention Systems sells Sensormatic systems. Now that we have that out of the way, let us get back to the issue at hand.
You and your staff cannot be everywhere at once. From an economic standpoint we cannot spend as much payroll as we would like or know we should. So, you need an edge. A Sensormatic system at the customer doors and tags and/or labels on your merchandise will cover your sales floor during those frequent times that shoplifters either look for or even create. If a shoplifter picks up a piece of your merchandise with a clothing security tag on it and they try to leave the store, the Sensormatic system will go into alarm, alerting you and your staff.
Clothing security tags are easy for your staff to apply and they are easy for your staff to remove. Not so much for a shoplifter. If they try to remove your clothing security tags, they will damage the merchandise. We even have Sensormatic tags that have ink vials inside. If a significant amount of pressure is put on the ink tag. then the vials break and ruin the merchandise. Routine handling of an ink tag will not cause it to release ink. But apply a tool to it and, well you get the idea.
Sensormatic tags have some of the highest quality in the industry. Sensormatic systems are commercial grade and go through extensive testing both for tag detection and wear and tear in the toughest retail environments. All of this combines to keep both your payroll dollars and inventory shrink low and sales higher. Because if you have the merchandise to sell because shoplifters cannot steal it, you are more profitable.
Loss Prevention Systems will also provide you with the live training you need for you and your staff, as often as you need it. So let’s fix your shoplifting problems once and for all.
Clothing Security is important to us. Contact us today at 1770-426-0547.
Are you having clothing security issues from shoplifting in your apparel store? The solution to this issue is a two step process. You must adopt both steps as one is useless without the other. But before you can implement those steps, you have to do something else. You must make the commitment to clothing security or any other retail segment security and be willing to make this a permanent part of your business. When I was Director of Loss Prevention for several major retailers, I would ask Operations Management for simply 3% of their time on a daily basis. That’s it, 3% or 18 minutes of their 10 hour day dedicated to shoplifting prevention. You can do the same. If you do, I assure you that your shoplifting losses will drop significantly.
So what should you do in that 18 minutes? Glad you asked!
First and foremost is train and reemphasize shoplifting prevention techniques to your team. Teaching them is one thing but reminding them on a constant basis until it becomes second nature will drive shoplifters away and increase your customer service to good customers. The premise of this is simple, good customers love customer service, shoplifters hate it. If you are providing good customer service and a customer is resisting that then this should be an immediate red flag. In that case what should you do? Well, provide even more customer service! This may involve staying at a discrete distance and keeping an eye on them. A shoplifter will hate this but a good customer will either be indifferent or pay little attention.
The reason they hate this is that shoplifters must have privacy to steal from you, if only for a few seconds. Deny them that and, do it consistently and they will go elsewhere to steal. Shoplifters will steal where they have the least interference. However, that leads us to the next step.
The second step is to add a Sensormatic system to your store. And as a shameless plug, yes, Loss Prevention Systems sells Sensormatic systems. Now that we have that out of the way, let us get back to the issue at hand.
You and your staff cannot be everywhere at once. From an economic standpoint we cannot spend as much payroll as we would like or know we should. So, you need an edge. A Sensormatic system at the customer doors and tags and/or labels on your merchandise will cover your sales floor during those frequent times that shoplifters either look for or even create. If a shoplifter picks up a piece of your merchandise with a clothing security tag on it and they try to leave the store, the Sensormatic system will go into alarm, alerting you and your staff.
Clothing security tags are easy for your staff to apply and they are easy for your staff to remove. Not so much for a shoplifter. If they try to remove your clothing security tags, they will damage the merchandise. We even have Sensormatic tags that have ink vials inside. If a significant amount of pressure is put on the ink tag. then the vials break and ruin the merchandise. Routine handling of an ink tag will not cause it to release ink. But apply a tool to it and, well you get the idea.
Sensormatic tags have some of the highest quality in the industry. Sensormatic systems are commercial grade and go through extensive testing both for tag detection and wear and tear in the toughest retail environments. All of this combines to keep both your payroll dollars and inventory shrink low and sales higher. Because if you have the merchandise to sell because shoplifters cannot steal it, you are more profitable.
Loss Prevention Systems will also provide you with the live training you need for you and your staff, as often as you need it. So let’s fix your shoplifting problems once and for all.
Clothing Security is important to us. Contact us today at 1770-426-0547.
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Eco-Friendly Bags Or Booster Bags? Clothing Security Depends On A Sensormatic System
I know recycled bags are an “in” thing now but I have to ask retailers, how do you address clothing security when customers are using these bags in your store? I can direct my question to any retailer but I ask about clothing retailers because of a suspicious person I saw the other night. As I was shopping with my wife yesterday I would have bet my bottom dollar I was going to see another shoplifter in action. We had just entered this store and I saw a woman with a very oversized tote bag and I told my wife that the woman was going to steal because she had a “shoplifter purse”. My wife glared at me and told me that we had to pick up some things and get home. She was not going to let me play store security that night. We picked up what we needed in health and beauty and went past the clothing department and I spotted the woman in the women’s clothing section and her bag looked a bit bigger. As far as I know this store does not use Sensormatic tags or any other anti-theft tag on clothing merchandise. They may use concealed electronic article surveillance (EAS) labels but not the hard tags. We continued our shopping in the grocery department and a few minutes later the woman walked by us with her and she had some merchandise in her hands. I pointed out to my wife that the bag looked even fuller than it had when I spotted her in the clothing department. I thought to myself that if she was filling that bag with clothes it wasn’t going to set off any electronic article surveillance towers. I watched as the woman placed the items that she was carrying into the bag, I just KNEW she was stealing now! The items went in and one of them stuck out the top of the bag and she made no attempt to zip the bag. Maybe I was wrong after all. It could be that this was one of these new recycled shopping bags to keep the environment cleaner.
In most instances had the woman in this story been stealing and concealing clothing in a recyclable bag or purse and clothing security tags were being used an EAS tower would detect the tagged goods. The promotion of recycled bags to reduce the need for shopping carts and single-use shopping bags would make sense in that case. The electronic article surveillance device protects the product against theft. On the other hand if a store is not utilizing anti-theft devices and is permitting the use of these types of bags that store is inviting shoplifting to take place. Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. founder Bill Bregar knows how criminals think and how to thwart their activity. That is why he recommends that his clients use Sensormatic tags and surveillance towers to prevent clothing theft. It stops thieves from taking your product while allowing stores the choice of how they want their customers to be able to shop.
I have no idea whether the woman in this case stole anything. I stopped watching when she left the merchandise in the bag exposed for anyone to see. What I do know is that there are more and more people bringing “shopping bags” bags into stores and putting merchandise in them. There are professional shoplifters who use foil lined bags to try to defeat retailers who put Sensormatic tags on clothing and set up EAS pedestals. Now these thieves can blend in more easily with regular shoppers. That is why it is more important than ever to put a Sensormatic system in your store. Sensormatic offers an AMS9060 controller for some of their compatible towers and this controller can be upgraded with a “Metal-Foil Detection plug- in card”. The card enables towers to detect foil lined bags if they are brought into a store. You can be confident that the shoppers with bags are real shoppers and not professional criminals.
Going green by allowing reusable shopping bags in stores is making clothing security and merchandise protection more difficult. It can lead to an increase in theft and shortage and that drains store profits. Find that perfect balance between being eco-friendly and remaining financially solvent. Use a Sensormatic security system and keep everyone happy. Oh and one final point, Sensormatic tags are reusable many times over and THAT is good for the environment!
Clothing Security is important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
I know recycled bags are an “in” thing now but I have to ask retailers, how do you address clothing security when customers are using these bags in your store? I can direct my question to any retailer but I ask about clothing retailers because of a suspicious person I saw the other night. As I was shopping with my wife yesterday I would have bet my bottom dollar I was going to see another shoplifter in action. We had just entered this store and I saw a woman with a very oversized tote bag and I told my wife that the woman was going to steal because she had a “shoplifter purse”. My wife glared at me and told me that we had to pick up some things and get home. She was not going to let me play store security that night. We picked up what we needed in health and beauty and went past the clothing department and I spotted the woman in the women’s clothing section and her bag looked a bit bigger. As far as I know this store does not use Sensormatic tags or any other anti-theft tag on clothing merchandise. They may use concealed electronic article surveillance (EAS) labels but not the hard tags. We continued our shopping in the grocery department and a few minutes later the woman walked by us with her and she had some merchandise in her hands. I pointed out to my wife that the bag looked even fuller than it had when I spotted her in the clothing department. I thought to myself that if she was filling that bag with clothes it wasn’t going to set off any electronic article surveillance towers. I watched as the woman placed the items that she was carrying into the bag, I just KNEW she was stealing now! The items went in and one of them stuck out the top of the bag and she made no attempt to zip the bag. Maybe I was wrong after all. It could be that this was one of these new recycled shopping bags to keep the environment cleaner.
In most instances had the woman in this story been stealing and concealing clothing in a recyclable bag or purse and clothing security tags were being used an EAS tower would detect the tagged goods. The promotion of recycled bags to reduce the need for shopping carts and single-use shopping bags would make sense in that case. The electronic article surveillance device protects the product against theft. On the other hand if a store is not utilizing anti-theft devices and is permitting the use of these types of bags that store is inviting shoplifting to take place. Loss Prevention Systems, Inc. founder Bill Bregar knows how criminals think and how to thwart their activity. That is why he recommends that his clients use Sensormatic tags and surveillance towers to prevent clothing theft. It stops thieves from taking your product while allowing stores the choice of how they want their customers to be able to shop.
I have no idea whether the woman in this case stole anything. I stopped watching when she left the merchandise in the bag exposed for anyone to see. What I do know is that there are more and more people bringing “shopping bags” bags into stores and putting merchandise in them. There are professional shoplifters who use foil lined bags to try to defeat retailers who put Sensormatic tags on clothing and set up EAS pedestals. Now these thieves can blend in more easily with regular shoppers. That is why it is more important than ever to put a Sensormatic system in your store. Sensormatic offers an AMS9060 controller for some of their compatible towers and this controller can be upgraded with a “Metal-Foil Detection plug- in card”. The card enables towers to detect foil lined bags if they are brought into a store. You can be confident that the shoppers with bags are real shoppers and not professional criminals.
Going green by allowing reusable shopping bags in stores is making clothing security and merchandise protection more difficult. It can lead to an increase in theft and shortage and that drains store profits. Find that perfect balance between being eco-friendly and remaining financially solvent. Use a Sensormatic security system and keep everyone happy. Oh and one final point, Sensormatic tags are reusable many times over and THAT is good for the environment!
Clothing Security is important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
