What do you normally think when you hear about a pharmacy theft? If you are like me, you probably assume it was pain medications. In many cases that is absolutely right; they make up a large percentage of prescription theft cases. However, if you are taking a look at incorporating RX Caps into your business, you definitely want to open your eyes to the other possibilities and reasons drug theft could be occurring.
Self medication is one unfortunate reason internal theft happens in pharmacies. There are so many random maladies and afflictions that can affect your employees’ daily lives that pain relievers cannot be the sole focus category for adding protection. Factoring in full time and part time, insurance coverage, and even drug costs, employees can come up with many justifications for stealing drugs from the pharmacy they work in. By adding RX Caps to your inventory stock bottles on the shelves, you can deter these thefts from ever happening.
In many surveys, a large percentage of pharmacists and technicians have admitted to just taking a few pills here and there. You may have an employee with a chronic illness or just a one time annoying cold. They may not want to take time off of work, or they may not have any more days available. The easier thing to do in some of their minds may be to simply take a few pills out of the bottles from the pharmacy inventory. Or they may just skim a few out of a patient’s bottle, figuring they will not miss one or two. There are liquid pain relievers and strong cough medicines they could just take a drink or two directly from the bottle. From skin disorders to chronic pain, prescription medications can be expensive, or the employee may not take the time to go to their doctor to get one written in the first place. An employee that has their mind made up to commit drug theft will not stop until they are caught. There is also the possibility of an employee that is a caregiver for a family member. With all the new medications coming on the market for diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and many cancers, the stress and costs of caring for a loved one can be that final push an otherwise honest employee needs to start stealing from the pharmacy.
RX Caps will stop them in their tracks before it ever happens, and they do not discriminate against any specific type of pills. From strong pain relievers to simple allergy medications, RX Caps will protect them all, and help you secure your valuable inventory.
They are attached to the lids of almost any size bottle, so it is locked shut until an authorized person opens it with the specific magnet key. The bottles will self alarm if a technician attempts to tamper with the RX Cap, and they will also sound an alarm if they are removed from a specific perimeter around the pharmacy. They are the necessary deterrence any drug dispensary needs to keep everyone working there walking the straight and narrow line of honesty.
For more information contact us Antishoplifting.net or call 1.770.426.0547
What do you normally think when you hear about a pharmacy theft? If you are like me, you probably assume it was pain medications. In many cases that is absolutely right; they make up a large percentage of prescription theft cases. However, if you are taking a look at incorporating RX Caps into your business, you definitely want to open your eyes to the other possibilities and reasons drug theft could be occurring.
Self medication is one unfortunate reason internal theft happens in pharmacies. There are so many random maladies and afflictions that can affect your employees’ daily lives that pain relievers cannot be the sole focus category for adding protection. Factoring in full time and part time, insurance coverage, and even drug costs, employees can come up with many justifications for stealing drugs from the pharmacy they work in. By adding RX Caps to your inventory stock bottles on the shelves, you can deter these thefts from ever happening.
In many surveys, a large percentage of pharmacists and technicians have admitted to just taking a few pills here and there. You may have an employee with a chronic illness or just a one time annoying cold. They may not want to take time off of work, or they may not have any more days available. The easier thing to do in some of their minds may be to simply take a few pills out of the bottles from the pharmacy inventory. Or they may just skim a few out of a patient’s bottle, figuring they will not miss one or two.
There are liquid pain relievers and strong cough medicines they could just take a drink or two directly from the bottle. From skin disorders to chronic pain, prescription medications can be expensive, or the employee may not take the time to go to their doctor to get one written in the first place. An employee that has their mind made up to commit drug theft will not stop until they are caught. There is also the possibility of an employee that is a caregiver for a family member. With all the new medications coming on the market for diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and many cancers, the stress and costs of caring for a loved one can be that final push an otherwise honest employee needs to start stealing from the pharmacy.
RX Caps will stop them in their tracks before it ever happens, and they do not discriminate against any specific type of pills. From strong pain relievers to simple allergy medications, RX Caps will protect them all, and help you secure your valuable inventory.They are attached to the lids of almost any size bottle, so it is locked shut until an authorized person opens it with the specific magnet key. The bottles will self alarm if a technician attempts to tamper with the RX Cap, and they will also sound an alarm if they are removed from a specific perimeter around the pharmacy. They are the necessary deterrence any drug dispensary needs to keep everyone working there walking the straight and narrow line of honesty.
For more information contact us at Antishoplifting.net or call 1.770.426.0547
When you are trying to prevent shoplifting, you will have many obstacles on the road to success. A good way to ensure your success is to do everything in your power toward preventing loss, like keeping your eyes open to indicators of theft and ways that you can reduce it. A couple of ways you can do this is by regularly walking areas of the sales floor and the stockroom to look for empty packages, and also revisiting your camera strategy if it doesn’t yield the results you need.
Shoplifting prevention can’t just stop at putting retail anti-theft devices on some of your merchandise. You also need to search for information that can help you determine the best course of action. Walking the sales floor and stockrooms in search of empty packages is a step in the right direction. You’ll want to do more than just walk around during your search. You need to be thorough and look behind other merchandise, under stockroom shelves, behind fixtures, and anywhere merchandise or packages could be hidden. When you find an empty package, don’t just throw it away. The package’s location and when you found it can help you figure out who took the product when you review video.
The same goes for the rest of your team, who should also be writing down their name, where they found the product, and what time. It could save you hours of reviewing video, instead of just blindly reviewing and hoping to find something. Once you review the video and see who took the product, you will be ready for them the next time they come into the store. You may even be lucky enough to have a serial number on the package, which can be useful for identification later if they pawn or sell the item. If you report an items stolen, police have the ability to look up pawn records and see who sold the item.
Another way you can use this information is to look at the camera and dome strategy in your store. You can plot where you find the empty packages on a map, and then see how the locations correspond with the cameras you already have in place. If you discover that there are a lot of empty packages found in one area or aisle, you can adjust cameras you already have or add more cameras to the areas that need more coverage. You may also find that you have several blind spots after assessing your camera strategy. You can also choose to add cameras that are visible, or cameras that are not so visible. What I mean is that you could decide to put a camera up in the ceiling in which the customers or employees can see, so it will also help deter the theft. The other option is to put up a covert camera, so you can determine who is leaving the empty packages without seeing a new camera in the area.
Any of these options will help you prevent shoplifting. If you absolutely can’t add more cameras, you could consider beefing up merchandise protection on the items that are being stolen, like maybe adding more retail anti-theft devices to a certain items to reduce theft.
For more information contact us: (prevent shoplifting) or call 1.770.426.0547
When you are trying to prevent shoplifting, you will have many obstacles on the road to success. A good way to ensure your success is to do everything in your power toward preventing loss, like keeping your eyes open to indicators of theft and ways that you can reduce it. A couple of ways you can do this is by regularly walking areas of the sales floor and the stockroom to look for empty packages, and also revisiting your camera strategy if it doesn’t yield the results you need.
Shoplifting prevention can’t just stop at putting retail anti-theft devices on some of your merchandise. You also need to search for information that can help you determine the best course of action. Walking the sales floor and stockrooms in search of empty packages is a step in the right direction. You’ll want to do more than just walk around during your search. You need to be thorough and look behind other merchandise, under stockroom shelves, behind fixtures, and anywhere merchandise or packages could be hidden. When you find an empty package, don’t just throw it away. The package’s location and when you found it can help you figure out who took the product when you review video.
The same goes for the rest of your team, who should also be writing down their name, where they found the product, and what time. It could save you hours of reviewing video, instead of just blindly reviewing and hoping to find something. Once you review the video and see who took the product, you will be ready for them the next time they come into the store. You may even be lucky enough to have a serial number on the package, which can be useful for identification later if they pawn or sell the item. If you report an items stolen, police have the ability to look up pawn records and see who sold the item.
Another way you can use this information is to look at the camera and dome strategy in your store. You can plot where you find the empty packages on a map, and then see how the locations correspond with the cameras you already have in place. If you discover that there are a lot of empty packages found in one area or aisle, you can adjust cameras you already have or add more cameras to the areas that need more coverage. You may also find that you have several blind spots after assessing your camera strategy. You can also choose to add cameras that are visible, or cameras that are not so visible. What I mean is that you could decide to put a camera up in the ceiling in which the customers or employees can see, so it will also help deter the theft. The other option is to put up a covert camera, so you can determine who is leaving the empty packages without seeing a new camera in the area.
Any of these options will help you prevent shoplifting. If you absolutely can’t add more cameras, you could consider beefing up merchandise protection on the items that are being stolen, like maybe adding more retail anti-theft devices to a certain items to reduce theft.
For more information contact us: Prevent Shoplifting or call 1.770.426.0547
As the owner or manager of a retail store, you know the inventory on your shelves is an investment. You buy the items, decide what margin of profit you need from them, and put them out for sale. If those items are stolen, you lose the inventory you paid for plus the profit you would have made. When this happens, it is a no-win situation for the store, and the business cannot survive with regularly scheduled theft occurring. Checkpoint Labels can be the difference in detecting, and even more important, deterring loss of product from your shelves.
If an item is likely to become, or has already been a target for theft, there is a solution already out there to help protect it. With their wide variety of designs, sizes, and shapes, there is a Checkpoint Label for nearly everything a store can choose to sell. There are clear round labels available for bottles, for example. They are great because they can be placed right over the package label, without defacing the brand name or confusing the customer. There is also the clear label that can be placed directly over the UPC of the bottle or box, that not only blends in with the package itself so a person contemplating theft may not even know it is there, but also allows it to still be scanned at the register without needing to be removed, so there is no slowing of the checkout process.
If a customer sees you have the Checkpoint System in place as soon as they enter your building, they are less likely to attempt to steal from you if they were the type that would steal on impulse. However, there are those that plan to steal from you, regardless of your product protection efforts, and you have to get one step ahead of them. Or five. With Checkpoint Labels, you get that advantage you need. Many times I find a way to insert the label inside the box, so it is unseen, and the shoplifter gets a not so nice surprise when the system alarms as they attempt to leave. Of course, they stop and stammer out some excuse for having the item, but the most important thing is they either give it back or pay for it.
As I was walking the aisles of my store this weekend, I noticed a small stash of name brand pain relievers sitting in the hair care section. I investigated a bit, checking the boxes for damage, and the only constants I saw was they were high retail, high demand, and they all had Checkpoint Labels adhered right over the brand name on the front of the boxes. It appeared the would-be thief had attempted to peel off one or two of them. That’s another benefit of these; they are designed to stick… and they do not come off easily. Think about it: if you are an honest, cash paying customer, do you really care if one of these is on your box that is just sitting in the medicine cabinet? You probably would not even notice it at all. You would just be grateful the store had the product you came in with the intent to buy. As far as the cache of boxes I found, they are back over on the shelf tonight, instead of on their way to the local flea market.
For more information contact us: 1.770.426.0547 or Antishoplifting.net
As the owner or manager of a retail store, you know the inventory on your shelves is an investment. You buy the items, decide what margin of profit you need from them, and put them out for sale. If those items are stolen, you lose the inventory you paid for plus the profit you would have made. When this happens, it is a no-win situation for the store, and the business cannot survive with regularly scheduled theft occurring. Checkpoint Labels can be the difference in detecting, and even more important, deterring loss of product from your shelves.
If an item is likely to become, or has already been a target for theft, there is a solution already out there to help protect it. With their wide variety of designs, sizes, and shapes, there is a Checkpoint Label for nearly everything a store can choose to sell. There are clear round labels available for bottles, for example. They are great because they can be placed right over the package label, without defacing the brand name or confusing the customer. There is also the clear label that can be placed directly over the UPC of the bottle or box, that not only blends in with the package itself so a person contemplating theft may not even know it is there, but also allows it to still be scanned at the register without needing to be removed, so there is no slowing of the checkout process.
If a customer sees you have the Checkpoint System in place as soon as they enter your building, they are less likely to attempt to steal from you if they were the type that would steal on impulse. However, there are those that plan to steal from you, regardless of your product protection efforts, and you have to get one step ahead of them. Or five. With Checkpoint Labels, you get that advantage you need. Many times I find a way to insert the label inside the box, so it is unseen, and the shoplifter gets a not so nice surprise when the system alarms as they attempt to leave. Of course, they stop and stammer out some excuse for having the item, but the most important thing is they either give it back or pay for it.
As I was walking the aisles of my store this weekend, I noticed a small stash of name brand pain relievers sitting in the hair care section. I investigated a bit, checking the boxes for damage, and the only constants I saw was they were high retail, high demand, and they all had Checkpoint Labels adhered right over the brand name on the front of the boxes. It appeared the would-be thief had attempted to peel off one or two of them. That’s another benefit of these; they are designed to stick… and they do not come off easily. Think about it: if you are an honest, cash paying customer, do you really care if one of these is on your box that is just sitting in the medicine cabinet? You probably would not even notice it at all. You would just be grateful the store had the product you came in with the intent to buy. As far as the cache of boxes I found, they are back over on the shelf tonight, instead of on their way to the local flea market.
For more information contact us: 1.770.426.0547 or Antishoplifting.net
Selling clothing comes with several inherent risks like in-store damage, wardobing, return fraud, and shoplifting, just to name a few. You’re in the business of selling clothing because you enjoy pleasing the customers that come in to buy it, taking pride and showing off your merchandise. You certainly want to protect your clothing from these inherent risks, but it may be difficult to keep your merchandise and your pride from being stolen, stained, or swindled. It is important to protect clothing from theft, but it is also important to create the best customer experience possible for your customers. Here is a brief list of some Dos and Don’ts when it comes to clothing security.
Do secure your merchandise consistently. It may not be necessary to have clothing security tags on each and every single item. It is more cost-efficient and pleasing to the customer to only secure those items that are likely to be stolen. If you have noticed your stock levels decreasing on certain lines of clothing, this is a good indicator that it is a hot item for theft. Secondly, if you have been fortunate enough to avoid such theft, high sales volume of a particular line is also a good indicator for potentially high-theft items.
Do place your security tags on clothes in the same location for each style. This is an aspect of clothing security that is often overlooked. It is very easy for one employee to think that the clothing security tags look good on the sleeve of a jacket, and another to think the tag should go underneath a collar. Ensuring that the tags are in the same location on every item will allow the cashier to make sure they know where to look for the tag so that it can be properly removed. This is important to ensure a good customer experience, and to not embarrass the customer or inconvenience them by having them return to the store with the tag still on the clothing.
Don’t leave your best-selling or most expensive items unprotected! Sure, you want your customers to be able to try on the clothing and see how it will look on so that they will buy it. There are many different places to put on clothing security tags that will allow the customers to still have an enjoyable shopping experience, and to see how the item will look on. Likewise, the time and energy put into protecting these items will pay off in a big way!
Don’t leave your tag removal devices laying around! This is another concept that is often overlooked with a good merchandise security strategy. If your register areas are in the middle of the sales floor, or even if there is a stand-alone register secluded from regular traffic, make sure that your security device removal tools are tied or bolted down and protected! Two things can happen if they go missing: first, employees won’t have them when they need them to help honest customers and, second, a shoplifter could pick one up and have a field day with it! If it falls into their hands, you now have a gaping hole in your wall of defense against them.
There are certainly many other things to consider regarding clothing protection including proper fitting room attendance, cleanliness, placement of clothing on the sales floor, and many more. When it comes to clothing protection, little is more important than using security tags. Make sure you use them right to protect your merchandise.
For more information contact us: Clothing Security or call 1.770.426.0547
Selling clothing comes with several inherent risks like in-store damage, wardobing, return fraud, and shoplifting, just to name a few. You’re in the business of selling clothing because you enjoy pleasing the customers that come in to buy it, taking pride and showing off your merchandise. You certainly want to protect your clothing from these inherent risks, but it may be difficult to keep your merchandise and your pride from being stolen, stained, or swindled. It is important to protect clothing from theft, but it is also important to create the best customer experience possible for your customers. Here is a brief list of some Dos and Don’ts when it comes to clothing security.
Do secure your merchandise consistently. It may not be necessary to have clothing security tags on each and every single item. It is more cost-efficient and pleasing to the customer to only secure those items that are likely to be stolen. If you have noticed your stock levels decreasing on certain lines of clothing, this is a good indicator that it is a hot item for theft. Secondly, if you have been fortunate enough to avoid such theft, high sales volume of a particular line is also a good indicator for potentially high-theft items.
Do place your security tags on clothes in the same location for each style. This is an aspect of clothing security that is often overlooked. It is very easy for one employee to think that the clothing security tags look good on the sleeve of a jacket, and another to think the tag should go underneath a collar. Ensuring that the tags are in the same location on every item will allow the cashier to make sure they know where to look for the tag so that it can be properly removed. This is important to ensure a good customer experience, and to not embarrass the customer or inconvenience them by having them return to the store with the tag still on the clothing.
Don’t leave your best-selling or most expensive items unprotected! Sure, you want your customers to be able to try on the clothing and see how it will look on so that they will buy it. There are many different places to put on clothing security tags that will allow the customers to still have an enjoyable shopping experience, and to see how the item will look on. Likewise, the time and energy put into protecting these items will pay off in a big way!
Don’t leave your tag removal devices laying around! This is another concept that is often overlooked with a good merchandise security strategy. If your register areas are in the middle of the sales floor, or even if there is a stand-alone register secluded from regular traffic, make sure that your security device removal tools are tied or bolted down and protected! Two things can happen if they go missing: first, employees won’t have them when they need them to help honest customers and, second, a shoplifter could pick one up and have a field day with it! If it falls into their hands, you now have a gaping hole in your wall of defense against them.
There are certainly many other things to consider regarding clothing protection including proper fitting room attendance, cleanliness, placement of clothing on the sales floor, and many more. When it comes to clothing protection, little is more important than using security tags. Make sure you use them right to protect your merchandise.
For more information contact us: Clothing Security or call 1.770.426.0547
Have you been thinking about purchasing an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system, but aren’t sold on the benefits of having it in your store? Will it really save you money and help stop shoplifting? Installing a good EAS system in your store will absolutely save you money in the long run, by deterring and alerting you to theft by customers and employees. If you are also worried about the system taking up your advertising space at the doors, Checkpoint Systems will make you very happy. Checkpoint is not only a leading brand in EAS systems, but they also have the option to have an Ad Panels integrated right into the EAS antennas.
Checkpoint systems have consistently been a staple for most companies when making efforts to stop shoplifting and employee theft in their stores. Although you will have to invest money for the initial setup of the equipment and tagging supplies, the return on that investment will likely be huge. Once you have the system installed and in place, there are so many different products on the market that will are compatible with the system. After that, you have to figure out which products you have in your store that you want to try attaching tags or labels to in order for them to set off the alarm at the doors when someone tries to steal them. For instance, if you sell cosmetics items in your store and have been experiencing an increased amount of theft in that area, you may want to start by placing Checkpoint security tags on those products to start. You want to test, and then continually evaluate your strategy, making changes whenever you feel that it’s necessary.
Be sure that you hold a training session with your team when you receive the new equipment. Train them on how to properly place the labels and tags on the merchandise, and also how to remove them quickly and efficiently at the checkout. This will ensure that the merchandise protection devices are working as they are intended, and also keep your customers happy by not having them wait in line for longer than needed.
When you walk into a store, you are supposed to see the EAS antennas. That is part of the benefit of having them at the doors. You want people to notice they are there, so they will think twice about trying to steal something from your business. While you want people to notice them, that doesn’t mean that they have to be an eyesore. They could actually be sight for sore eyes with the ad panels you can place into them. The system comes standard with a welcome sign, but you can customize the ads to have whatever you want displayed on them for your customers. It could be weekly sales items, a specific product highlight, or even a big event coming up that you want to inform everyone about. If that’s not good enough for you, some Checkpoint systems are even available with different colors and data integration. So if you were looking for a versatile solution for the theft problem in your store that also allows you to save space with integrated advertising panels, you just found it.
For more information contact us: (Checkpoint Systems) or call 1.770.426.0547
Have you been thinking about purchasing an Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system, but aren’t sold on the benefits of having it in your store? Will it really save you money and help stop shoplifting? Installing a good EAS system in your store will absolutely save you money in the long run, by deterring and alerting you to theft by customers and employees. If you are also worried about the system taking up your advertising space at the doors, Checkpoint Systems will make you very happy. Checkpoint is not only a leading brand in EAS systems, but they also have the option to have an Ad Panels integrated right into the EAS antennas.
Checkpoint Systems have consistently been a staple for most companies when making efforts to stop shoplifting and employee theft in their stores. Although you will have to invest money for the initial setup of the equipment and tagging supplies, the return on that investment will likely be huge. Once you have the system installed and in place, there are so many different products on the market that will are compatible with the system. After that, you have to figure out which products you have in your store that you want to try attaching tags or labels to in order for them to set off the alarm at the doors when someone tries to steal them. For instance, if you sell cosmetics items in your store and have been experiencing an increased amount of theft in that area, you may want to start by placing Checkpoint Labels on those products to start. You want to test, and then continually evaluate your strategy, making changes whenever you feel that it’s necessary.
Be sure that you hold a training session with your team when you receive the new equipment. Train them on how to properly place the labels and tags on the merchandise, and also how to remove them quickly and efficiently at the checkout. This will ensure that the merchandise protection devices are working as they are intended, and also keep your customers happy by not having them wait in line for longer than needed.
When you walk into a store, you are supposed to see the EAS antennas. That is part of the benefit of having them at the doors. You want people to notice they are there, so they will think twice about trying to steal something from your business. While you want people to notice them, that doesn’t mean that they have to be an eyesore. They could actually be sight for sore eyes with the ad panels you can place into them. The system comes standard with a welcome sign, but you can customize the ads to have whatever you want displayed on them for your customers. It could be weekly sales items, a specific product highlight, or even a big event coming up that you want to inform everyone about. If that’s not good enough for you, some Checkpoint Systems are even available with different colors and data integration. So if you were looking for a versatile solution for the theft problem in your store that also allows you to save space with integrated advertising panels, you just found it.
For more information contact us at losspreventionsystems.com or call 1.770.426.0547
