FLY AWAY WITH SPIDER WRAPS

FLY AWAY WITH SPIDER WRAPS
To be honest, I’m sitting in an aisle seat, 32,000 feet above the ground somewhere between LaGuardia and St. Louis. I’m heading home after spending a week in New York City. It’s been a great week without work. I’ve not checked my work email, thought about my stores, or even pondered how many calls I’ll have to return once I get back into the office on Monday. Yet, here am I, working on my “other job”, where I get to help you all work through the ever-growing challenge on how to prevent shoplifting. As I’m blasting through the air at well over 500 miles an hour, I’m thinking maybe we should talk about Alpha spider wraps today. It has nothing to do with the spider I just saw on the seat back in front of me… 
It’s always a challenge to find that perfect balance of protection an aesthetics. It’s one of my biggest daily challenges when interacting with store managers. They all want “clean” displays and to afford their customers the ability to interact with the products they are selling. They also want to prevent shoplifting. Often, those two ideals clash with one another and one side has to give a little to the other in order to strike a fair balance. 
We recently went into the quad-copter business. I don’t like to call them “drones”. A drone is a military weapon. A quad-copter is an RC toy with four rotors and generally a camera. If you’ve been paying attention, these really appeal to the masses. Technology has enabled them to be smaller, cheaper, reliable and easier than ever to control. This line was a huge success during the holiday and it’s proving to be an even better, all year category. One problem I didn’t anticipate having was the amount of loss we’d experience from shoplifting. 
So how do you prevent shoplifting of a quad-copter? Most come packaged in some very awkwardly shaped boxes. From the very small, to the very large, a consistent packaging is not what these are known for. So naturally, we had a need for a versatile tagging method that provided a steady ROI. Our first choice was the Alpha spider wrap. These worked great in several areas. First, we could always find a wrap that fit the packaging. Second, it allowed us to openly display the product so the customer could read the box, learn the specs and ultimately buy the product with minimal assistance from an employee. Third was the level of protection it gave. Most shoplifters will be discouraged by just the look of an Alpha spider wrap. They know it means business. 
Perhaps you have some items in your store right now that may be a good fit for an Alpha spider wrap? You know, that awkwardly shaped item that you tend to put behind the glass so it doesn’t get stolen. That item that would probably sell much better if it were openly displayed and in the hands of your customers. You know what I’m talking about. 
Don’t’ let criminals dictate your store. Get those items out in the hands of your paying customers and out of the hands of the thieves!
Need information on Alpha Technology? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now. 

To be honest, I’m sitting in an aisle seat, 32,000 feet above the ground somewhere between LaGuardia and St. Louis. I’m heading home after spending a week in New York City. It’s been a great week without work. I’ve not checked my work email, thought about my stores, or even pondered how many calls I’ll have to return once I get back into the office on Monday. Yet, here am I, working on my “other job”, where I get to help you all work through the ever-growing challenge on how to prevent shoplifting. As I’m blasting through the air at well over 500 miles an hour, I’m thinking maybe we should talk about Alpha spider wraps today. It has nothing to do with the spider I just saw on the seat back in front of me… 

 It’s always a challenge to find that perfect balance of protection an aesthetics. It’s one of my biggest daily challenges when interacting with store managers. They all want “clean” displays and to afford their customers the ability to interact with the products they are selling. They also want to prevent shoplifting. Often, those two ideals clash with one another and one side has to give a little to the other in order to strike a fair balance. 

 We recently went into the quad-copter business. I don’t like to call them “drones”. A drone is a military weapon. A quad-copter is an RC toy with four rotors and generally a camera. If you’ve been paying attention, these really appeal to the masses. Technology has enabled them to be smaller, cheaper, reliable and easier than ever to control. This line was a huge success during the holiday and it’s proving to be an even better, all year category. One problem I didn’t anticipate having was the amount of loss we’d experience from shoplifting. 

 So how do you prevent shoplifting of a quad-copter? Most come packaged in some very awkwardly shaped boxes. From the very small, to the very large, a consistent packaging is not what these are known for. So naturally, we had a need for a versatile tagging method that provided a steady ROI. Our first choice was the Alpha spider wrap. These worked great in several areas. First, we could always find a wrap that fit the packaging. Second, it allowed us to openly display the product so the customer could read the box, learn the specs and ultimately buy the product with minimal assistance from an employee. Third was the level of protection it gave. Most shoplifters will be discouraged by just the look of an Alpha spider wrap. They know it means business. 

 Perhaps you have some items in your store right now that may be a good fit for an Alpha spider wrap? You know, that awkwardly shaped item that you tend to put behind the glass so it doesn’t get stolen. That item that would probably sell much better if it were openly displayed and in the hands of your customers. You know what I’m talking about. Don’t’ let criminals dictate your store. Get those items out in the hands of your paying customers and out of the hands of the thieves!

Need information on Alpha Technology? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.