That $25 bottle actually cost you a lot more in real money liquor bottle security could have easily prevented. You have to make up for the theft of that bottle just to break even. If your store operates on a typical 2% profit margin. That’s the margin after payroll, tax, insurance, the light bill, and any other overhead you will have to sell and additional $1,250 JUST TO BREAK EVEN ($25/.02). That’s right, the next $1250 goes for making up for the $25 bottle the shoplifter stole. The most simple solution for your shrink problem: bottle security for your business.
Currently, Alpha Security is making the most reliable bottle lock systems on the market. They are high quality and very easy to use. One twist or push of a button and your bottle security ‘s in place. This liquor bottle security has really come of age. A bottle lock can be a low profile deterrant to theft. It requires an Alpha Security unlocking key kept by the register. Bottle locks are also reusable.
If you lose $500 a week in shoplifting losses that is $26,000 per year in theft that translates to $1.3 million dollars a year in actual losses to you. No company can make money in that environment.
One of the premier liquor bottle security options Alpha Security created is called EASy Bottle for (Electronic Article Surveillance). The EASy Bottle bottle lock is a solid black bottle lock that comes in several sizes. It prevents the bottle from being opened in the store and then a bottle lock alerts everyone in the store through the Checkpoint System at the doors. There are now newer versions such as Crystal Guard and EASy Guarde. Those bottle locks have clear acrylic tops and are a much lower profile. They fit on the shelf better and have a much smaller over all footprint. The EASy Bottle bottle locks , Alpha Security ‘s most well known bottle lock are still available.
Visit the Retail Loss Prevention Store for your bottle security needs
For more information about liquor bottle security or bottle locks contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
That $25 bottle actually cost you a lot more in real money liquor bottle security could have easily prevented. You have to make up for the theft of that bottle just to break even. If your store operates on a typical 2% profit margin. That’s the margin after payroll, tax, insurance, the light bill, and any other overhead you will have to sell and additional $1,250 JUST TO BREAK EVEN ($25/.02). That’s right, the next $1250 goes for making up for the $25 bottle the shoplifter stole. The most simple solution for your shrink problem: bottle security for your business.
Currently, Alpha Security is making the most reliable bottle lock systems on the market. They are high quality and very easy to use. One twist or push of a button and your bottle security ‘s in place. This liquor bottle security has really come of age. A bottle lock can be a low profile deterrant to theft. It requires an Alpha Security unlocking key kept by the register. Bottle locks are also reusable.
If you lose $500 a week in shoplifting losses that is $26,000 per year in theft that translates to $1.3 million dollars a year in actual losses to you. No company can make money in that environment.
One of the premier liquor bottle security options Alpha Security created is called EASy Bottle for (Electronic Article Surveillance). The EASy Bottle bottle lock is a solid black bottle lock that comes in several sizes. It prevents the bottle from being opened in the store and then a bottle lock alerts everyone in the store through the Checkpoint System at the doors. There are now newer versions such as Crystal Guard and EASy Guarde. Those bottle locks have clear acrylic tops and are a much lower profile. They fit on the shelf better and have a much smaller over all footprint. The EASy Bottle bottle locks , Alpha Security ‘s most well known bottle lock are still available.
Visit the Retail Loss Prevention Store for your bottle security needs
For more information about liquor bottle security or bottle locks contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
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.
For more information about Alpha security , EASy bottle , bottle lock , liquor bottle security , or bottle locks or contact us at bottle security or call 1.770.426.0547.
Regardless of what your opinion is of employee background checks, they should never be considered as foolproof. Several factors contribute to the fact that they may not be foolproof but one of them involves identify theft which can happen anywhere and to anyone.
I know of a manufacturing company that conducted criminal background checks and social security traces on all employees after hiring them permanently from a temp to hire agency. One particular employee who had been on the job several weeks was hired permanently and the company proceeded to conduct the employee background check according to its standard procedures. The social security trace indicated that the employee had a previous residence in a western state and this lead to the discovery of several serious charges and convictions. In the current state of residence, the employee background check uncovered an open warrant from the previous state.
After some negotiations with the employer, the state investigative agency came to the workplace and took the employee into custody for extradition to his previous residence. Once the individual was fingerprinted, it was determined that he was not the one that the warrant had been issued for. The employee actually turned out to be an illegal immigrant who had purchased the identification, a driver’s license and a social security card from a “broker” dealing in these falsified papers.
Several weeks later the employee showed up again at the plant with a new ID. But despite him having been an excellent worker, he was not rehired. Since the occurrence of this incident, this manufacturing company has changed its procedures requiring that criminal background checks are run on all contract workers that are being sent to their location.
By providing the background company with accurate identifying information, the hiring company can help ensure that it is obtaining accurate results whenever an employee background check is conducted. The hiring company should check a prospective employee’s identification carefully and ask additional questions of the applicant, if any read flags appear.
Keep in mind that it is best to run a criminal background check in every jurisdiction where the applicant has lived, worked, or attended school. Many metropolitan areas include several counties which should also be checked. But even then, it is possible to miss some information, such as a shoplifting charge that occurred while on vacation.
However, you should always conduct employee background checks regardless whether something may be missed or not since only through comprehensive employee background checks most criminal history will be uncovered.
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If you are currently operating a business with less than 100 employees, lack of internal controls will be the biggest internal control weakness allowing employees to steal. According to the 2010 Global Fraud Study published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, “Lack of Internal Controls” is the leading cause for employee theft at a rate of 47 percent. If you are operating a business with more than 100 employees, your chances are slightly improved and lack of internal controls is the cause of employee theft at a decreased percentage – 33.7 percent. Regardless of the size of your business, not having internal processes and procedures in place or adhering and/or enforcing them is the leading contributor to employee theft.
As a business leader you have total control over the internal procedures you have put in place and the processes that you follow day in and day out. We see our margins decreasing yet we elect to do little about enforcing our existing control or improving our internal controls. Shame on us!
But what are some of the reasons why businesses do not put sufficient emphasis on internal controls? We have good intentions by implementation processes and procedures to protect our businesses but if we don’t enforce them sufficiently, we are making idle threats and employees may not take us seriously. By drawing a line in the sand and making a stand on employee theft issues, we send a clear message to our associates indicating that employee theft or lesser violations will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
Other times we may get so busy with running our businesses which makes it hard for us to enforce our own procedures. Unfortunately those are the times that we may be faced with another serious employee theft investigation or a series of employee theft instances. Want to bring employee theft under control once and for all? Make your line in the sand a granite wall with no compromise that the waves will not affect.
We know from long experience in the loss prevention field that there are many reasons that employees steal. Some of those reasons involve greed, want or a need of some kind. We as employers can do little to effect the reasons except to do the best we can to screen out potential problems such as candidates with poor criminal histories; candidates that have a poor credit history who may be handling our money and drug abusers top the list.
For more information about employee theft contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia
