Are you having problems with shoplifters pilfering your high end liquors and wines? Have you recently started noticing open bottles on your sales floor? If you answered yes to either of the questions liquor bottle security may be your only answer.
Liquor bottle security is a new merchandising friendly way of stopping liquor thieves in their tracks. The new EASy Bottle system by Alpha Security is a great way to keep your products shopable for your paying customers and safe from would be thieves. These new bottle locks tightly fasten to the top of a bottle to keep it from being open with out a key that is kept at your cash register. A bottle lock is nearly impossible to get off without the key and a thief will not want to spend the time, or risk getting noticed, trying to break if off.
EASy bottle bottle security from Alpha Security are an inexpensive solution to your bottle security problems. Bottle locks can help prevent the thefts of people that think they can just walk in to your business and have a free drink. You can also deter the thieves that are looking to flat out steal and entire bottle of your liquor and wines, because it will be a struggle to get the bottle open, if at all.
When a shoplifter sees that you are utilizing bottle security they will certainly think twice about attempting to steal from you.
Investing in bottle locks for your high end wine and liquors makes the products available to those who really matter – your honest customers.
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There are many retail loss prevention controls that can be put in place . Have you ever noticed the back of your debit credit card? (I hope you all have any way!!) There is a strip on the back for your signature. This serves a purpose in that the retailer should check for a signature match on a slip when a purchase is made. If no signature is present, the retailer should ask for identification.
A few months ago, I walked in a Home Depot Store, purchased a $500 dollar item. That part of the story is not very remarkable. The way I purchased the item is. I used a company credit card, in a man’s name, (I am female). The cashier looked at me, said thank you and I left with my item. Not a good way for retail loss prevention to be obtained.
Credit card fraud is a huge problem in actual retail stores. The retailers have become very relaxed on their credit card acceptance policies. One reason is a retailer is not liable for fraudulent credit card charges. It gives them no incentive to check identities of the user. The second reason they are so negligent is they want to shorten customer’s time standing in a checkout line.
Would be credit card thieves contribute to inventory shrinkage through many different avenues. Preventing credit card fraud at your locations is one of the easiest ways to implement the first steps in a retail loss prevention program.
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As a Loss Prevention professional and a former Director of LP for several major businesses I found out pretty fast that if my only solution to shoplifting was apprehension that I would not be employed for long.
Why is this? Go back to the old saying: “Once the horse is out of the barn…” Prevention is always the solution in any anti shoplifting program. To get there we have to look at what is the most cost effective approach. Training, training and still more training. By training you and your employees you will deter shoplifting no mater which way you take in any anti shoplifting effort.
Retail theft as in the form of shoplifting will always be dependent on your ability to convince the shoplifter to go elsewhere. Training your employees in the art of using customer service as an anti shoplifting weapon is a cost effective approach. Shoplifters despise attention so let’s give them more than they can handle. Once an employee is trained to actually spot a shoplifter they can go into the customer service attack mode. Customer service them to death!
Of course people who are shoplifting are all different and come in many types. Training will help even the newest employee to become your retail theft weapon very quickly. Then once you have a core of people trained they can then train others.
What should make up a top shelf anti shoplifting training program? There should be amongst other topics training on: Identifying a person who is trying shoplifting in your store. How shoplifters steal, how to shut down the shoplifter and actually drive them crazy (that way they go some where else, maybe even your competitor) and apprehension (if it becomes necessary).
Train your staff and reinforce the training in a positive manner and you will see retail theft drop like a stone.
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OK you just figured out that you need a Loss Prevention Consultant! What now? Many people hold themselves up to be loss prevention consultants. What does a LP consultant do? There are a number of specialties in LP: shoplifting, employee theft, inventory control, LP training and auditing just to name a few. Sometimes safety falls under LP.
Quite a few people that consult in LP are generalists in most of these areas. Consider narrowing your search down by thinking carefully about what your needs are. For example loss prevention consultants who have auditing development skills can help you control losses by identifying and preventing shoplifting, theft, cash shortages and more.
Auditing is proactive. A LP consultant should design an audit to hunt down the causes of loss and bring them to the surface. Upper management then can make procedure changes that increase profitability. Audits should then be done on a regular but unannounced basis. All results should go directly to Senior Management.
Another proactive way loss prevention consultants assist businesses with is Training. LP training should target all employees from entry-level to middle management. Topics can include inventory control, vendor fraud, employee theft identification and prevention, dealing with employee theft, shoplifting, pre-employment interviewing and more.
A seasoned loss prevention consultant should have a minimum of 15 years of experience in several major companies. Ask for letters of reference or referrals. You should discuss their experience with them at length. Does this person fit with your business model and goals? Watch for individuals that talk like a police officer. A true LP professional is a businessman not a policeman.
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Over 60% of shoplifters steal from the same store when they get away with it the first time. Generally the store culture made them feel comfortable. This makes sense. If we create environments where the shoplifter is relaxed enough to continue they will also tell their friends. Your store will then attract more shoplifters.
Once caught, few shoplifters will return to the same store to make another attempt. The key is to deter them. If that doesn’t work make them feel very uncomfortable once they do pick up merchandise and attempt to conceal it or catch them. Checkpoint anti shoplifting systems handle all three levels, deterrence, attempt and catching the shoplifter.
Habitual shoplifters, after being apprehended, do return to the same store when there is no Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system in place. This is because the chance of being caught a second time is only 2%. Shoplifters want your merchandise either to keep or sell. The goal is to make them uncomfortable enough or stop them down completely. Send them down the street to another retailer that is not protecting themselves. You’re anti shoplifting efforts will be noticed among shoplifters.
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We recently conducted an investigation for one of our clients into a suspected embezzlement/theft by one of their employees. During this investigation, we found that the person of interest had been arrested and charged with seven counts of Credit Card Fraud, fined and served probation.
The employee had been hired as a temp-to-perm through a staffing agency that conducts employee background checks using a commercial database provider which is very unreliable. This commercial database provider returned “No Record Found”, missing the Credit Card Fraud, but in addition two other separate instances of cashing bad checks.
The employee confessed to stealing over $10,000 of the company’s money by manipulating the accounting system.
You should always conduct a new employee background checks when an employee comes on board. Do not depend on a staffing company to do a thorough job.
We specialize in employee theft investigations. However, why not let us prevent this type of loss through:
Employment background checks
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Loss Prevention Training
Our Operational audit program
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