Having more than one person in on a theft job can be problematic. As a result many employee theft investigations are based on employees who have acted solo. The good news for retailers is that by using the buddy system you have a better chance to deter internal theft.
One of the easiest times for an employee to steal is when they open and close down the tills. If there is only one person in the building, temptation has a funny way of sneaking in. Faced with large sums of cash and no one to provide a check and balance, employees are more easily swayed towards cash theft.
When two or more employees are present inside the building and part of the opening and closing process, temptation is easier to be held at bay. Faced with the prospect of this additional employee walking in on them, many would be thieves choose not to steal.
The same rule applies for refunds and returns. If an employee can access and perform refunds at will, there is little stopping them from taking advantage of the opportunity to perform their own fraudulent refund.
When another employee (or manager) has to sign off and validate those returns, internal theft is less likely. The employee knows that if someone starts to question where the customer, or the product is (or the refund can be validated via CCTV) it won’t take long to determine if the refund is fake or not.
For more information on employee theft, employee theft investigation or internal theft contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase CCTV Systems that can help you stop Employee Theft and Internal Theft problems and help with your Employee Theft Investigation.
Having more than one person in on a theft job can be problematic. As a result many employee theft investigations are based on employees who have acted solo. The good news for retailers is that by using the buddy system you have a better chance to deter internal theft.
One of the easiest times for an employee to steal is when they open and close down the tills. If there is only one person in the building, temptation has a funny way of sneaking in. Faced with large sums of cash and no one to provide a check and balance, employees are more easily swayed towards cash theft.
When two or more employees are present inside the building and part of the opening and closing process, temptation is easier to be held at bay. Faced with the prospect of this additional employee walking in on them, many would be thieves choose not to steal.
The same rule applies for refunds and returns. If an employee can access and perform refunds at will, there is little stopping them from taking advantage of the opportunity to perform their own fraudulent refund.
When another employee (or manager) has to sign off and validate those returns, internal theft is less likely. The employee knows that if someone starts to question where the customer, or the product is (or the refund can be validated via CCTV) it won’t take long to determine if the refund is fake or not.
For more information on employee theft, employee theft investigation or internal theft contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase CCTV Systems that can help you stop Employee Theft and Internal Theft problems and help with your Employee Theft Investigation.
When working or managing a Pro Shop for a golf course, it is easy to let your guard down to problems like pro shop theft- specifically golf club theft. It is easy to take for granted that there are members of the golf course or country club that might in fact steal from a pro shop.
Most golf courses have some form of sign in, or identifying process. A credit card is taken to reserve tee times or golf carts. In private clubs, an application is filled out and members are supposed to take accountability for their guests. Regular members and customers of the pro shops are easily identified because of their loyalty and time spent at the pro shops trying to improve their game. With all of these measures in place, it is easy to become complacent and to blindly trust the people coming in and out of your pro shops.
That doesn’t mean that you should. Pro shop theft and golf club theft can happen just as easily as in any other retail environment. A guest with no loyalty to a club can steal from you as a means to keep up with their affluent friends. A regular can take advantage of your trust by stealing when an opportunity presents itself.
Golf club theft is actually easier than what it sounds. Even though the clubs are long, they are thin and relatively easy to slide into a player’s golf bag, or inside of clothing. Since a single club can run hundreds of dollars, any shoplifting or theft is going to make a significant financial impact. Pro shop theft includes the wider array of merchandise, since pro shops often carry high end, or quality golfing attire and accessories. While these items might not have a single significant impact, over time, they too can add up to a huge loss in profitability.
When working or managing a Pro Shop for a golf course, it is easy to let your guard down to problems like pro shop theft- specifically golf club theft. It is easy to take for granted that there are members of the golf course or country club that might in fact steal from a pro shop.
Most golf courses have some form of sign in, or identifying process. A credit card is taken to reserve tee times or golf carts. In private clubs, an application is filled out and members are supposed to take accountability for their guests. Regular members and customers of the pro shops are easily identified because of their loyalty and time spent at the pro shops trying to improve their game. With all of these measures in place, it is easy to become complacent and to blindly trust the people coming in and out of your pro shops.
That doesn’t mean that you should. Pro shop theft and golf club theft can happen just as easily as in any other retail environment. A guest with no loyalty to a club can steal from you as a means to keep up with their affluent friends. A regular can take advantage of your trust by stealing when an opportunity presents itself.
Golf club theft is actually easier than what it sounds. Even though the clubs are long, they are thin and relatively easy to slide into a player’s golf bag, or inside of clothing. Since a single club can run hundreds of dollars, any shoplifting or theft is going to make a significant financial impact. Pro shop theft includes the wider array of merchandise, since pro shops often carry high end, or quality golfing attire and accessories. While these items might not have a single significant impact, over time, they too can add up to a huge loss in profitability.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.
For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Golf Club Security, Golf Club Theft, Pro Shop Theft, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547
There is an interesting case of social media working as an extension of in store clothing security. A woman went to a local clothing boutique and stole a dress. Afterwards she wore the dress and posted a selfie with her not only wearing the dress but indicating that it was a new dress.
About the same time, the clothing boutique owner posted onto his social media that a dress had been stolen. He had a picture and a description of the dress that turned out to be a one of a kind, distinctly patterned dress. Someone saw the posting from the local clothing boutique, and also saw the woman’s posting wearing the same dress and notified local law enforcement.
The woman was subsequently arrested and prosecuted for the theft. Because of the distinct look of the dress, it was easy for the law enforcement to make a positive identification.
Had the dress not been as distinct, an arrest may not have happened. It was more through luck than of proactive planning that gave this story a happy ending.
Social media is not to be used as a replacement for clothing security. Had the dress been nondescript, or had someone not followed both the store and the shoplifter’s social media profiles a connection (and the woman’s arrest) would never have been made. Clothing security tags, on the other hand do not rely on luck to be effective. They are a proven weapon against shoplifting.
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
There is an interesting case of social media working as an extension of in store clothing security. A woman went to a local clothing boutique and stole a dress. Afterwards she wore the dress and posted a selfie with her not only wearing the dress but indicating that it was a new dress.
About the same time, the clothing boutique owner posted onto his social media that a dress had been stolen. He had a picture and a description of the dress that turned out to be a one of a kind, distinctly patterned dress. Someone saw the posting from the local clothing boutique, and also saw the woman’s posting wearing the same dress and notified local law enforcement.
The woman was subsequently arrested and prosecuted for the theft. Because of the distinct look of the dress, it was easy for the law enforcement to make a positive identification.
Had the dress not been as distinct, an arrest may not have happened. It was more through luck than of proactive planning that gave this story a happy ending.
Social media is not to be used as a replacement for clothing security. Had the dress been nondescript, or had someone not followed both the store and the shoplifter’s social media profiles a connection (and the woman’s arrest) would never have been made. Clothing security tags, on the other hand do not rely on luck to be effective. They are a proven weapon against shoplifting.
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
A video surfaced on the internet, made by someone attempting to defeat a bottle lock on a bottle of vodka. They claimed that they bought the bottle at a local supermarket, which forgot to remove the lock at the time of purchase. Once they made it home and discovered the lock, they were unable to return to the store since it had closed down for the night.
In some ways, it was actually a fascinating process to watch. The person had found four or five different tools to use in the process, as well as needing at least to extra sets of hands.
They reduced the video time to a few minutes, but had actually spent two hours working, and twisting, and prying bits and pieces off of the lock. The video showed them using various tools to cut, bend, burn, and mangle the lock off. As they progressed through the video, they commented on how difficult of a job it was to remove the bottle lock, especially since they were trying to make sure the bottle didn’t break in the process.
Eventually they did succeed, but the video makers readily admitted that it would have been less frustrating just to wait until the store opened back up the next day. Had they been actual shoplifters, they would not have gone back for a second theft attempt after seeing how much time and effort was involved at removing the security device.
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
A video surfaced on the internet, made by someone attempting to defeat a bottle lock on a bottle of vodka. They claimed that they bought the bottle at a local supermarket, which forgot to remove the lock at the time of purchase. Once they made it home and discovered the lock, they were unable to return to the store since it had closed down for the night.
In some ways, it was actually a fascinating process to watch. The person had found four or five different tools to use in the process, as well as needing at least to extra sets of hands.
They reduced the video time to a few minutes, but had actually spent two hours working, and twisting, and prying bits and pieces off of the lock. The video showed them using various tools to cut, bend, burn, and mangle the lock off. As they progressed through the video, they commented on how difficult of a job it was to remove the bottle lock, especially since they were trying to make sure the bottle didn’t break in the process.
Eventually they did succeed, but the video makers readily admitted that it would have been less frustrating just to wait until the store opened back up the next day. Had they been actual shoplifters, they would not have gone back for a second theft attempt after seeing how much time and effort was involved at removing the security device.
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
The following article is based on feedback from one of our customers that has implemented the Visi Plus System in their stores. This is what he told us after using this system for a few months.
One of my stores recently started to use a traffic counter to test whether we wanted to roll them out to the rest of our stores. We started to evaluate the data the people counting reports provided and compared them to our daily sales. We were able to utilize a simple conversion system to see what our average ticket was. The results after the first month were actually quite surprising to us.
We sell a wide mix of low and high dollar items. We never realized that even though our sales stayed relatively consistent throughout the week, we actually had two different factors driving that business. What found out was that on the weekends we had a higher customer count, and during the week we had a higher ticket average. Without comparing the daily sales to the traffic counts, we never would have realized that we actually had a staffing problem that was holding us, and our sales back.
Since we had consistent sales regardless of day of the week, we had consistently spread our payroll hours over the entire week. What we should have done was increase our staffing levels on the weekend to accommodate the higher customer traffic entering into the store. During the week we still needed some employees to make sure that the customers coming in and making larger purchases had the employees attention to ask and answer all of their questions.
Once we changed our staffing structure around, we noticed in the next month our sales starting to increase, as well as our overall ticket average. By increasing the staff on the weekends, we actually found many of our customers were able to make larger purchases because they were able to get the employees attention long enough to ask and answer all of their questions.
Our customers had been avoiding shopping on the weekend for large purchases because we could not provide the correct levels of customer service. Had we not seen the accurate data from the traffic counting reports, we would have continued to miss out on these valuable sales opportunities.
The following article is based on feedback from one of our customers that has implemented the Visi Plus System in their stores. This is what he told us after using this system for a few months.
One of my stores recently started to use a traffic counter to test whether we wanted to roll them out to the rest of our stores. We started to evaluate the data the people counting reports provided and compared them to our daily sales. We were able to utilize a simple conversion system to see what our average ticket was. The results after the first month were actually quite surprising to us.
We sell a wide mix of low and high dollar items. We never realized that even though our sales stayed relatively consistent throughout the week, we actually had two different factors driving that business. What found out was that on the weekends we had a higher customer count, and during the week we had a higher ticket average. Without comparing the daily sales to the traffic counts, we never would have realized that we actually had a staffing problem that was holding us, and our sales back.
Since we had consistent sales regardless of day of the week, we had consistently spread our payroll hours over the entire week. What we should have done was increase our staffing levels on the weekend to accommodate the higher customer traffic entering into the store. During the week we still needed some employees to make sure that the customers coming in and making larger purchases had the employees attention to ask and answer all of their questions.
Once we changed our staffing structure around, we noticed in the next month our sales starting to increase, as well as our overall ticket average. By increasing the staff on the weekends, we actually found many of our customers were able to make larger purchases because they were able to get the employees attention long enough to ask and answer all of their questions.
Our customers had been avoiding shopping on the weekend for large purchases because we could not provide the correct levels of customer service. Had we not seen the accurate data from the traffic counting reports, we would have continued to miss out on these valuable sales opportunities.
