Clothing Allowance- Clothing Security

For many clothing retailer’s, fashion and brand image are a crucial marketing tool designed to entice customers to make purchases with increasing regularity. New fashions are systematically introduced to keep customers interested in the next and new trends and styles. Employees are therefore encouraged to dress the part- wearing the latest trends and hottest new items- turning them into walking billboards of free advertising.
To encourage the employees to wear the store or brand clothing can come from a few different steams. One way is to make a dress code mandate to only wear proprietary branded clothing to work. To achieve this, employees may be given generous employee discounts on their purchases, or they may be given a clothing allowance.
Both are cost effective ways for an employee to dress the part while at work. Sometimes, though, these benefits can be taken advantage of and, if not properly monitored, can cause an opening in your store’s clothing security.
The downside of having employees dress in store clothing is that it makes it harder to spot an employee who is stealing merchandise. Because more products are in the hands of an employee’s personal wardrobe, tracking every item can turn into a daunting task. 
Some retailers have turned to requiring all employee purchases to be made with the store’s proprietary credit card. This makes it easier for someone to track all purchases by transaction and sku number in case there is a question. It is, unfortunately not very practical if a store does not have their own credit card.
The next idea would be to sign off on all employee purchases, not only at the time they are rung up, but at the time the purchase leaves the store. This helps to ensure that no additional product finds its way into the bag without being paid for first. 
In the case of a clothing allowance, a manger should facilitate the process. The clothing in question should have the price tags removed by the manager and kept for record retention. By having a manager remove the price tags, the employee cannot come back later on and try to refund the clothing for a store credit, cash, etc. Doing so would not only constitute as fraud by the employee, but could seriously jeopardize any contractual relationship between a vendor and the retailer, if the vendor were to find out.
If the allowance is part of a spiff from a specific vendor, the manager will be responsible for ensuring the vendor has the required paperwork submitted and credit is actually obtained. Having manager authorization also helps to make sure that an employee does not try to steal additional merchandise under the guise of a clothing allowance. The employee would not be able to leave and convince an unsuspecting employee that it was ok for them to leave with the product.
With operational controls in place as a form of clothing security, employees who need store clothing as part of their work attire are less likely to be able to cheat the system. Any employee attempting to circumvent the processes should stick out like a sore thumb alerting management to potential theft issues.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547 

For many clothing retailer’s, fashion and brand image are a crucial marketing tool designed to entice customers to make purchases with increasing regularity. New fashions are systematically introduced to keep customers interested in the next and new trends and styles. Employees are therefore encouraged to dress the part- wearing the latest trends and hottest new items- turning them into walking billboards of free advertising.

To encourage the employees to wear the store or brand clothing can come from a few different streams. One way is to make a dress code mandate to only wear proprietary branded clothing to work. To achieve this, employees may be given generous employee discounts on their purchases, or they may be given a clothing allowance.

Both are cost effective ways for an employee to dress the part while at work. Sometimes, though, these benefits can be taken advantage of and, if not properly monitored, can cause an opening in your store’s clothing security.

The downside of having employees dress in store clothing is that it makes it harder to spot an employee who is stealing merchandise. Because more products are in the hands of an employee’s personal wardrobe, tracking every item can turn into a daunting task.

Some retailers have turned to requiring all employee purchases to be made with the store’s proprietary credit card. This makes it easier for someone to track all purchases by transaction and sku number in case there is a question. It is, unfortunately not very practical if a store does not have their own credit card.

 The next idea would be to sign off on all employee purchases, not only at the time they are rung up, but at the time the purchase leaves the store. This helps to ensure that no additional product finds its way into the bag without being paid for first.

 In the case of a clothing allowance, a manger should facilitate the process. The clothing in question should have the price tags removed by the manager and kept for record retention. By having a manager remove the price tags, the employee cannot come back later on and try to refund the clothing for a store credit, cash, etc. Doing so would not only constitute as fraud by the employee, but could seriously jeopardize any contractual relationship between a vendor and the retailer, if the vendor were to find out.

 If the allowance is part of a spiff from a specific vendor, the manager will be responsible for ensuring the vendor has the required paperwork submitted and credit is actually obtained. Having manager authorization also helps to make sure that an employee does not try to steal additional merchandise under the guise of a clothing allowance. The employee would not be able to leave and convince an unsuspecting employee that it was ok for them to leave with the product.

 With operational controls in place as a form of clothing security, employees who need store clothing as part of their work attire are less likely to be able to cheat the system. Any employee attempting to circumvent the processes should stick out like a sore thumb alerting management to potential theft issues.

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

 For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

 

One Style Fits All- Retail Anti Theft Devices

For years, Alpha Security has found pride in developing and producing product specific retail anti theft devices. These devices were designed to make retailer’s jobs easier, while providing proven solutions to reduce inventory shrink through theft. While retailers ranging from specialty boutiques to big box have welcomed this business model with open arms, it is not for everyone.
For some small businesses there is only a minimal need to have diversified anti theft devices. It could be a matter of having a small range within their product assortments, so they do not need to have multiple styles and sizes of these anti shoplifting devices.
For other small businesses, there simply is not a budget that allows for maintaining a large stockpile of multiple devices. Having to spend the money to purchase enough quantities of each style is more than allowable. These retailers are faced with decisions on what they can effectively buy that will make for the biggest impact. They hope that they can either offset the rest of their shrink losses, or retrofit their existing stockpile of anti theft devices into working for other products.
To stay at the top of their game, Alpha Security came up with a new twist on their retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting at retailers who have a wider assortment of products, but do not have excess budgets to make multiple purchases. They created a one style fits all solution. 
They modified their existing CableLok security device to now have an adjustable cable. The cable can be fitted to a wide variety of lengths, making it practical for multiple product uses within a retailer’s store. The cable can be cinched down to the size needed for the specific product you want to secure. Instead of having to make a longer or shorter cable work, one style can be made to fit many sizes.
Instead of needing several different devices for clothing, and sporting goods, for example, the new adjustable cable can be used in all of these applications.
Additional suggested product security uses include briefcases and handbags. For hard line stores, the same cable can be used on grills, lawn mowers and other outdoor power equipment, hand tools (electric and battery operated) clam shell packages of merchandise, display merchandise like a stroller or vacuum, and even laundry detergent bottles. 
Many of these items have been historically problematic to secure, as other anti theft options are not conducive to the packaging. Laundry detergent, for example, cannot be pierced and secured with a stickpin based EAS tag. Soft labels are easily peeled off of the plastic exterior, and would not be useful inside the product as they could cause a customer service issue when the tags fall into a washer unexpectedly.
The adjustable CableLoks come in both Alpha 2 Alarm, Alpha 3 Alarm, AM and RF styles. This will help to provide a seamless and cost effective transition into your existing security system.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.
For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

For years, Alpha Security has found pride in developing and producing product specific retail anti theft devices. These devices were designed to make retailer’s jobs easier, while providing proven solutions to reduce inventory shrink through theft. While retailers ranging from specialty boutiques to big box have welcomed this business model with open arms, it is not for everyone.

For some small businesses there is only a minimal need to have diversified anti theft devices. It could be a matter of having a small range within their product assortments, so they do not need to have multiple styles and sizes of these anti shoplifting devices.

For other small businesses, there simply is not a budget that allows for maintaining a large stockpile of multiple devices. Having to spend the money to purchase enough quantities of each style is more than allowable. These retailers are faced with decisions on what they can effectively buy that will make for the biggest impact. They hope that they can either offset the rest of their shrink losses, or retrofit their existing stockpile of anti theft devices into working for other products.

To stay at the top of their game, Alpha Security came up with a new twist on their retail anti theft devices to prevent shoplifting at retailers who have a wider assortment of products, but do not have excess budgets to make multiple purchases. They created a one style fits all solution.

They modified their existing CableLok security device to now have an adjustable cable. The cable can be fitted to a wide variety of lengths, making it practical for multiple product uses within a retailer’s store. The cable can be cinched down to the size needed for the specific product you want to secure. Instead of having to make a longer or shorter cable work, one style can be made to fit many sizes.

Instead of needing several different devices for clothing, and sporting goods, for example, the new adjustable cable can be used in all of these applications.

Additional suggested product security uses include briefcases and handbags. For hard line stores, the same cable can be used on grills, lawn mowers and other outdoor power equipment, hand tools (electric and battery operated) clam shell packages of merchandise, display merchandise like a stroller or vacuum, and even laundry detergent bottles.

Many of these items have been historically problematic to secure, as other anti theft options are not conducive to the packaging. Laundry detergent, for example, cannot be pierced and secured with a stickpin based EAS tag. Soft labels are easily peeled off of the plastic exterior, and would not be useful inside the product as they could cause a customer service issue when the tags fall into a washer unexpectedly.

 The adjustable CableLoks come in both Alpha 2 Alarm, Alpha 3 Alarm, AM and RF styles. This will help to provide a seamless and cost effective transition into your existing security system.

 Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate,  Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.

 For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

Youthful Indiscretion- Bottle Locks

Some people readily dismiss teenage shenanigans as simply youthful indiscretion. They feel like there is no real harm done, and that kids will be kids. In some situations, those dismissals are fine. In other situations, the consequences of those actions can be much more far reaching than a simple slap on the wrist can cure. A breach in liquor bottle security is one of those situations.
Without liquor bottle security, like using bottle locks, teenage miscreants can easily come into a liquor store, grab a bottle, and hide in a corner somewhere while they open the bottle and start drinking. In some cases, teens have brought a flask or other container in and filled it with the liquor from one of these bottles. Both methods serve the same purpose of obtaining alcohol for underage drinking.
While it might be easy for some to chalk underage drinking up to youthful indiscretion, there are some very serious consequences that can arise from these actions. If the teens drink and drive, or through another way hurt themselves or others, potentially life-threatening damages can happen. At that point, who is to blame? Will the teens be charged? Most likely they will, depending on the seriousness of the infraction, they might even be tried as an adult.
The next question inevitably will be as to where they obtained the liquor. Did someone give it to them? Did they get it themselves, and if so did they steal it, or did they purchase it? Either way, they may be able to track this liquor back to your store’s location. Even if the liquor was stolen, you might be on the hook for some of the liability.
Whether or not you are found guilty within this litigation may come down to your liquor bottle security policies and procedures. Just like bars and nightclubs have a civic and legal responsibility to prevent underage drinking, so do liquor stores. Some stores have been found guilty purely through the concept of gross negligence.
A store that does not use bottle locks to prevent unauthorized consumption is one thing. It’s another if this same store has inattentive employees, teens are allowed into the store unsupervised, and there is a history (known or not) of underage drinking from the store’s liquor inventory.
Sometimes owners are the last to know that there is a problem in one of their stores. If the employees do not self regulate their customers, a teenage drinking problem can quickly get out of hand. It may be that the situation is not reported until an unfortunate incident has occurred, bringing the full story to light.
Once a teen has been able to sneak liquor out or consume in store, the word can spread very quickly. Friends tell other friends and soon it becomes common knowledge that there is a lack of effective liquor bottle security to prevent underage drinking. A more and more teens try to get away with this unauthorized consumption; the risk of more serious side effects takes place. 
A liquor store found guilty of allowing underage drinking will be faced with criminal and or civil litigation, fines, fees, and the potential to completely loose their liquor license.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

Some people readily dismiss teenage shenanigans as simply youthful indiscretion. They feel like there is no real harm done, and that kids will be kids. In some situations, those dismissals are fine. In other situations, the consequences of those actions can be much more far reaching than a simple slap on the wrist can cure. A breach in liquor bottle security is one of those situations.

Without liquor bottle security, like using bottle locks, teenage miscreants can easily come into a liquor store, grab a bottle, and hide in a corner somewhere while they open the bottle and start drinking. In some cases, teens have brought a flask or other container in and filled it with the liquor from one of these bottles. Both methods serve the same purpose of obtaining alcohol for underage drinking.

While it might be easy for some to chalk underage drinking up to youthful indiscretion, there are some very serious consequences that can arise from these actions. If the teens drink and drive, or through another way hurt themselves or others, potentially life-threatening damages can happen. At that point, who is to blame? Will the teens be charged? Most likely they will, depending on the seriousness of the infraction, they might even be tried as an adult.

The next question inevitably will be as to where they obtained the liquor. Did someone give it to them? Did they get it themselves, and if so did they steal it, or did they purchase it? Either way, they may be able to track this liquor back to your store’s location. Even if the liquor was stolen, you might be on the hook for some of the liability.

Whether or not you are found guilty within this litigation may come down to your liquor bottle security policies and procedures. Just like bars and nightclubs have a civic and legal responsibility to prevent underage drinking, so do liquor stores. Some stores have been found guilty purely through the concept of gross negligence.

A store that does not use bottle locks to prevent unauthorized consumption is one thing. It’s another if this same store has inattentive employees, teens are allowed into the store unsupervised, and there is a history (known or not) of underage drinking from the store’s liquor inventory.

Sometimes owners are the last to know that there is a problem in one of their stores. If the employees do not self regulate their customers, a teenage drinking problem can quickly get out of hand. It may be that the situation is not reported until an unfortunate incident has occurred, bringing the full story to light.

Once a teen has been able to sneak liquor out or consume in store, the word can spread very quickly. Friends tell other friends and soon it becomes common knowledge that there is a lack of effective liquor bottle security to prevent underage drinking. As more and more teens try to get away with this unauthorized consumption; the risk of more serious side effects takes place. 

A liquor store found guilty of allowing underage drinking will be faced with criminal and or civil litigation, fines, fees, and the potential to completely loose their liquor license.

Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.

For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 

 

How Anti-Shoplifting Devices can Save you Thousands!

It’s really not a secret that shoplifting costs your store thousands of dollars per year. Thieves think of our stores as soul-less entities that can absorb losses like a paper napkin. Even for giant corporations, that’s simply not true. Whether you manage 500 stores, or just 1, you can’t afford to let dishonest people to rob you blind! With technology advancing on a daily basis, you can bet that there is an anti-shoplifting tool out there that meets your needs, and most importantly, your budget. 
I work in the investigations department of my company and I often think back to all of the shoplifters and dishonest employees I’ve dealt with. Some make me furious at the amount of money my stores lost, while some just make me laugh. My company is heavily invested in the firearm and accessory business. Obviously, we don’t keep firearms accessible, however the line of accessories such as scopes, mounts, range finders and binoculars are displayed in a way that allows the customer to interact with the product. We used several anti-shoplifting devices to keep the displays secured. Any given item had at least 3 layers of protection. You wouldn’t think someone would try to steal an item that was so secured. This job never really surprises me anymore. 
A store called me one morning and stated that they did their morning display audit and noticed that 4 of their most expensive scopes were gone. They were not sold and they had to have gone missing within the last 24 hours. I immediately went to the camera system and started my investigation. Just as the manager said, the day before, I could clearly see the scopes on display. A few hours on the camera and I found my shoplifter. At first I saw him looking at all the anti-shoplifting devices securing the product, then he walked away for a while. When he came back, he seemed to be frustrated with the system of locks and alarms connecting the scopes to the display shelf. At this point, I was still very confused on how he was able to remove the merchandise, so I stared at my CCTV monitor like I was watching a blockbuster thriller! I watched as my suspect seemingly had a light bulb go off over his head. He bent down out of view and we he re-emerged, he simple cut the cables to the scopes and removed them from the store. What just happened?
The store was only a few minutes down the road, so I headed over to inspect. I went to the area where I saw him bend down and saw a surge protector, exposed. That power pack was the source of power for the entire security display. During some routine cleaning, an associate had moved it and it remained outside of the cage. My shoplifter simply turned off the power to the alarms. I was not a happy person. When I first talked to the manager, he was quick to blame the fixture as a waste of money that didn’t secure his merchandise. There’s a lesson in this case, and unfortunately for his manager, it was an expensive lesson. No matter what controls you have in place to prevent losses in your store, they are only as effective as those who implement the. 
For more information, contact us: Anti-Shoplifting, or call 1.770.426.0547

It’s really not a secret that shoplifting costs your store thousands of dollars per year. Thieves think of our stores as soul-less entities that can absorb losses like a paper napkin. Even for giant corporations, that’s simply not true. Whether you manage 500 stores, or just 1, you can’t afford to let dishonest people to rob you blind! With technology advancing on a daily basis, you can bet that there is an anti-shoplifting tool out there that meets your needs, and most importantly, your budget. 

 I work in the investigations department of my company and I often think back to all of the shoplifters and dishonest employees I’ve dealt with. Some make me furious at the amount of money my stores lost, while some just make me laugh. My company is heavily invested in the firearm and accessory business. Obviously, we don’t keep firearms accessible, however the line of accessories such as scopes, mounts, range finders and binoculars are displayed in a way that allows the customer to interact with the product. We used several anti-shoplifting devices to keep the displays secured. Any given item had at least 3 layers of protection. You wouldn’t think someone would try to steal an item that was so secured. This job never really surprises me anymore. 

 A store called me one morning and stated that they did their morning display audit and noticed that 4 of their most expensive scopes were gone. They were not sold and they had to have gone missing within the last 24 hours. I immediately went to the camera system and started my investigation. Just as the manager said, the day before, I could clearly see the scopes on display. A few hours on the camera and I found my shoplifter. At first I saw him looking at all the anti-shoplifting devices securing the product, then he walked away for a while. When he came back, he seemed to be frustrated with the system of locks and alarms connecting the scopes to the display shelf. At this point, I was still very confused on how he was able to remove the merchandise, so I stared at my CCTV monitor like I was watching a blockbuster thriller! I watched as my suspect seemingly had a light bulb go off over his head. He bent down out of view and we he re-emerged, he simply cut the cables to the scopes and removed them from the store. What just happened?

The store was only a few minutes down the road, so I headed over to inspect. I went to the area where I saw him bend down and saw a surge protector, exposed. That power pack was the source of power for the entire security display. During some routine cleaning, an associate had moved it and it remained outside of the cage. My shoplifter simply turned off the power to the alarms. I was not a happy person. When I first talked to the manager, he was quick to blame the fixture as a waste of money that didn’t secure his merchandise. There’s a lesson in this case, and unfortunately for his manager, it was an expensive lesson. No matter what controls you have in place to prevent losses in your store, they are only as effective as those who implement them. 

For more information, contact us at Anti-Shoplifting, or call 1.770.426.0547

 

Jewel Loks Speak from Beyond the Grave

Preventing theft of bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry items are the life-purpose of the Alpha Jewel Lok. When attached properly to the merchandise they are protecting, they simply hang relatively unnoticed, at least by those who intend to purchase the merchandise. But shoplifters should beware – this dainty device has a solid grip on its lovely jewel, and will not be letting go easily. In most cases, a person without a key intended to remove the device will ruin the merchandise it protects while trying to remove it, meaning shoplifters will have to pry the jewelry from the security device’s cold, dead hands.
I have had the pleasure of working with these jewelry tags for quite some time. In the store where I worked, we had been seeing jewelry flying off of the tables and spinning-racks – and not in a good way. It seemed as though we were bleeding jewelry at a profusely alarming rate. Necklaces and bracelets were being stolen in greater quantities than they were being purchased! This was before we started using Alpha jewelry locking devices.
Once we started placing the security tags on our jewelry, it was as if we tied a tourniquet just above the wound. Immediately, we noticed that the stock of sales-floor items was no longer being littered by popped price tags and empty boxes. Happily, we noticed that the items were still being shopped but, even more importantly, not lifted. These puny protectors were creating a profound improvement!
As with any defensive system, however, they were not impenetrable. There were still those determined few who would risk devaluing the merchandise by breaking it, to get through and take the items out of the store. Their goal was to snatch the jewelry, break off the Alpha Jewel Lok, dump it with the price tags, and make their way out of the store undetected. Unfortunately for one repeat offender in our store, these small safeguards had more to say when she left them buried behind.
We had begun to notice that a large number of these jewelry security tags were being found stashed under merchandise next to the jewelry, along with several jewelry price tags. One day, we discovered a few. Then a couple days later, there were several. A little while after that, there were dozens! They still were unopened and undefeated, evidenced by the fact that they were attached to what was left of the now-broken missing merchandise. We knew that we had sprung a new theft leak.
We began paying attention to the area and carefully watched those who shopped the area. Within a couple of days, we were able to spot the thief as she fiddled with the security tag, and then quickly grabbed several items, paying no attention to price or style. Sure enough, she went around the corner and started breaking the necklaces off of the devices. As she attempted to leave the store with the unpaid merchandise, the merchandise was recovered. She was faced now with the hard evidence of the Jewel Loks left behind; not only from this incident, but from the others as well. Her five-hundred dollar crime had quintupled into a twenty-five hundred dollar felony with restitution, thanks to these guardian gravestones that haunted the shady shoplifter and testified from beyond the grave.
For more information contact us: Alpha Jewel Lok or call 1.770.426.0547

Preventing theft of bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry items are the life-purpose of the Alpha Jewel Lok. When attached properly to the merchandise they are protecting, they simply hang relatively unnoticed, at least by those who intend to purchase the merchandise. But shoplifters should beware – this dainty device has a solid grip on its lovely jewel, and will not be letting go easily. In most cases, a person without a key intended to remove the device will ruin the merchandise it protects while trying to remove it, meaning shoplifters will have to pry the jewelry from the security device’s cold, dead hands.

I have had the pleasure of working with these jewelry tags for quite some time. In the store where I worked, we had been seeing jewelry flying off of the tables and spinning-racks – and not in a good way. It seemed as though we were bleeding jewelry at a profusely alarming rate. Necklaces and bracelets were being stolen in greater quantities than they were being purchased! This was before we started using Alpha jewelry locking devices.

Once we started placing the security tags on our jewelry, it was as if we tied a tourniquet just above the wound. Immediately, we noticed that the stock of sales-floor items was no longer being littered by popped price tags and empty boxes. Happily, we noticed that the items were still being shopped but, even more importantly, not lifted. These puny protectors were creating a profound improvement!

As with any defensive system, however, they were not impenetrable. There were still those determined few who would risk devaluing the merchandise by breaking it, to get through and take the items out of the store. Their goal was to snatch the jewelry, break off the Alpha Jewel Lok, dump it with the price tags, and make their way out of the store undetected. Unfortunately for one repeat offender in our store, these small safeguards had more to say when she left them buried behind.

We had begun to notice that a large number of these jewelry security tags were being found stashed under merchandise next to the jewelry, along with several jewelry price tags. One day, we discovered a few. Then a couple days later, there were several. A little while after that, there were dozens! They still were unopened and undefeated, evidenced by the fact that they were attached to what was left of the now-broken missing merchandise. We knew that we had sprung a new theft leak.

We began paying attention to the area and carefully watched those who shopped the area. Within a couple of days, we were able to spot the thief as she fiddled with the security tag, and then quickly grabbed several items, paying no attention to price or style. Sure enough, she went around the corner and started breaking the necklaces off of the devices. As she attempted to leave the store with the unpaid merchandise, the merchandise was recovered. She was faced now with the hard evidence of the Jewel Loks left behind; not only from this incident, but from the others as well. Her five-hundred dollar crime had quintupled into a twenty-five hundred dollar felony with restitution, thanks to these guardian gravestones that haunted the shady shoplifter and testified from beyond the grave.

For more information contact us: Alpha Jewel Lok or call 1.770.426.0547