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.