If you have worked in the loss prevention industry for any length of time, you have probably heard all of the jokes. Loss Prevention is often called “Lost Sales”, “Customer Prevention”, or “Sales Prevention”. The poor reputation of loss prevention has come from years of security products and solutions that are only one sided, and have not been customer friendly. Checkpoint Security Systems is making a notable change to be more customer friendly, and less security driven.
One of the biggest customer deterrents is to lock away merchandise. Every retail industry from home improvement to apparel to specialty markets saw a significant decrease in sales and customer satisfaction when merchandise was locked up. Checkpoint Security Systems has such a wide variety of customer friendly security solutions that actually help enhance customer satisfaction.
Without the need to physically lock up merchandise, customers can now freely shop the products they want. However, open merchandising does lend itself to the potential for shoplifters to take advantage of the situation. Remember Checkpoint Security Systems? This is where they come in to play.
Checkpoint Security Systems offers a wide range of Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags that can be applied in a variety of settings. They have worked to create Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags that are specific to your merchandise, and also promise effective security solutions.
These Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags are made of a higher quality material and construction with better technology. That means that their anti theft devices are less likely to be defeated, and are more likely to be deactivated or removed easily at the point of checkout.
When you combine all of the benefits of Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags, you will see how they are not just for inventory security, but are also for customer satisfaction.
If you have worked in the loss prevention industry for any length of time, you have probably heard all of the jokes. Loss Prevention is often called “Lost Sales”, “Customer Prevention”, or “Sales Prevention”. The poor reputation of loss prevention has come from years of security products and solutions that are only one sided, and have not been customer friendly. Checkpoint Security Systems is making a notable change to be more customer friendly, and less security driven.
One of the biggest customer deterrents is to lock away merchandise. Every retail industry from home improvement to apparel to specialty markets saw a significant decrease in sales and customer satisfaction when merchandise was locked up. Checkpoint Security Systems has such a wide variety of customer friendly security solutions that actually help enhance customer satisfaction.
Without the need to physically lock up merchandise, customers can now freely shop the products they want. However, open merchandising does lend itself to the potential for shoplifters to take advantage of the situation. Remember Checkpoint Security Systems? This is where they come in to play.
Checkpoint Security Systems offers a wide range of Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags that can be applied in a variety of settings. They have worked to create Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags that are specific to your merchandise, and also promise effective security solutions.
These Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags are made of a higher quality material and construction with better technology. That means that their anti theft devices are less likely to be defeated, and are more likely to be deactivated or removed easily at the point of checkout.
When you combine all of the benefits of Checkpoint Labels and Checkpoint Tags, you will see how they are not just for inventory security, but are also for customer satisfaction.
The need for Checkpoint systems is often based off of the determination of actual losses a library incurs. That means an inventory should be taken to determine what materials are being lost and the costs incurred through their replacements. What many libraries are realizing is that while books are a constant loss, the losses from other materials and resources incur a much higher cost to replace.
These items are primarily in the form of magazines or electronic devices. Computers, DVDs, and audiotapes in much higher demand, and often create a larger financial loss. The replacement cost of a computer alone can easily far outweigh the cost of replacing close to 100 books- depending upon actual costs, of course.
In addition to common checkout errors where these items leave the library without notice, these items are also more intentionally stolen.
Electronics can easily be added into a personal collection, or can be sold to pawn shops or on ebay. It is not uncommon for a friend to swap or sell disks to another friend to get items they specifically want. As more retailers protect their inventories, thieves will intentionally target places that offer similar products with fewer security risks- leading them to public libraries. Checkpoint systems will deter these same thieves that are looking for a quick and easy score, just as they do in the retail sector.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on a Library Theft Detection System, Library Theft Prevention, or a Checkpoint System and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your library or call 1.770.426.0547
The need for Checkpoint systems is often based off of the determination of actual losses a library incurs. That means an inventory should be taken to determine what materials are being lost and the costs incurred through their replacements. What many libraries are realizing is that while books are a constant loss, the losses from other materials and resources incur a much higher cost to replace.
These items are primarily in the form of magazines or electronic devices. Computers, DVDs, and audiotapes in much higher demand, and often create a larger financial loss. The replacement cost of a computer alone can easily far outweigh the cost of replacing close to 100 books- depending upon actual costs, of course.
In addition to common checkout errors where these items leave the library without notice, these items are also more intentionally stolen.
Electronics can easily be added into a personal collection, or can be sold to pawn shops or on ebay. It is not uncommon for a friend to swap or sell disks to another friend to get items they specifically want. As more retailers protect their inventories, thieves will intentionally target places that offer similar products with fewer security risks- leading them to public libraries. Checkpoint systems will deter these same thieves that are looking for a quick and easy score, just as they do in the retail sector.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on a Library Theft Detection System, Library Theft Prevention, or a Checkpoint System and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your library or call 1.770.426.0547
As retailers continue to expand and grow, the old adage still rings true- if you can measure it, you can manage it. Basically, if you have a tangible metric in place you have a way to quantify success or failure. Based off of those metrics you can set goals and mark improvements. The latest metric reporting in retail comes in the way of people counting.
People counting is a measurable way to count customers that are coming into your store. If you are using a system like VisiPlus for your people counting, you have a categorized report that breaks down how many people you have in your store during each hour of the day.
This might seem like random information; until you start to see the ways it can benefit your overall store performance. One of the most common ways VisiPlus is used it to determine ticket/ basket averages. Take the day’s sales and divide that total by the total number of customers as reported. The total will be your sales per customer. Now that you know your current rate you should be able to set goals to increase your average ticket. By incrementally increasing sales per customer, you will increase your overall sales in a more manageable way. You can also use this same computation over time to see if you are making the necessary increases.
People counting is also a great way to compare your payroll and staffing levels. It makes a logical sense to put more staff where you have more customer traffic. By having the VisiPlus reports, you have a definitive number of customers at a specific time. You can then make adjustments to your employee schedules to ensure you have enough coverage to satisfy more fully these customer demands.
On more than one occasion, a retailer has looked at the results from their actual people counting reports and has found that they had inappropriate staffing level at the proper times.
Without adding additional employees or payroll hours, these retailers were able to increase customer satisfaction and sales just by reallocating their existing hours to different times of the day.
As retailers continue to expand and grow, the old adage still rings true- if you can measure it, you can manage it. Basically, if you have a tangible metric in place you have a way to quantify success or failure. Based off of those metrics you can set goals and mark improvements. The latest metric reporting in retail comes in the way of people counting.
People counting is a measurable way to count customers that are coming into your store. If you are using a system like VisiPlus for your people counting, you have a categorized report that breaks down how many people you have in your store during each hour of the day.
This might seem like random information; until you start to see the ways it can benefit your overall store performance. One of the most common ways VisiPlus is used it to determine ticket/ basket averages. Take the day’s sales and divide that total by the total number of customers as reported. The total will be your sales per customer. Now that you know your current rate you should be able to set goals to increase your average ticket. By incrementally increasing sales per customer, you will increase your overall sales in a more manageable way. You can also use this same computation over time to see if you are making the necessary increases.
People counting is also a great way to compare your payroll and staffing levels. It makes a logical sense to put more staff where you have more customer traffic. By having the VisiPlus reports, you have a definitive number of customers at a specific time. You can then make adjustments to your employee schedules to ensure you have enough coverage to satisfy more fully these customer demands.
On more than one occasion, a retailer has looked at the results from their actual people counting reports and has found that they had inappropriate staffing level at the proper times.
Without adding additional employees or payroll hours, these retailers were able to increase customer satisfaction and sales just by reallocating their existing hours to different times of the day.
Throughout my many years of working in retail security, I frequently found magazines as one of my top stolen items. I would have employees reading them in the break room and then take them home, I had customers flip through the pages for a recipe and then tear that page out. Thousands of dollars in losses each year came directly from our magazine rack. These were not items that we had monitored or secured through our Checkpoint Systems. It was simply an overlooked loss.
If you are working in a library then you probably already know that the most commonly stolen items are magazines. I had a friend explain to me that magazines are most current and have pictures and other pieces of information that people want to keep for them selves. I did not have a doubt in my mind when he told me this, because I had seen it all too often myself in my own job.
When you affix a Checkpoint Systems label to the magazine, you are sending a signal that the magazine is being monitored. Secondly, if someone ignores or doesn’t see the label, the alarms will sound, signaling that the magazine has not been properly checked out. Just like in our retail stores, combating theft is all about giving the would- be thief a warning (the library theft prevention label) and then a follow up (the alarm) if the warning was ignored.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on a Library Theft Detection System, Library Theft Prevention, or a Checkpoint System and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your library or call 1.770.426.0547
Throughout my many years of working in retail security, I frequently found magazines as one of my top stolen items. I would have employees reading them in the break room and then take them home, I had customers flip through the pages for a recipe and then tear that page out. Thousands of dollars in losses each year came directly from our magazine rack. These were not items that we had monitored or secured through our Checkpoint Systems. It was simply an overlooked loss.
If you are working in a library then you probably already know that the most commonly stolen items are magazines. I had a friend explain to me that magazines are most current and have pictures and other pieces of information that people want to keep for them selves. I did not have a doubt in my mind when he told me this, because I had seen it all too often myself in my own job.
When you affix a Checkpoint Systems label to the magazine, you are sending a signal that the magazine is being monitored. Secondly, if someone ignores or doesn’t see the label, the alarms will sound, signaling that the magazine has not been properly checked out. Just like in our retail stores, combating theft is all about giving the would- be thief a warning (the library theft prevention label) and then a follow up (the alarm) if the warning was ignored.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on a Library Theft Detection System, Library Theft Prevention, or a Checkpoint System and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your library or call 1.770.426.0547
Payroll is the biggest expense most small businesses face. It is also the single most controllable expense. So how do you maximize your employees and your payroll hours to get the biggest benefit? You can reduce your payroll hours to the most meager skeleton crew, or you can start people counting with a store traffic counter like VisiPlus.
VisiPlus is an in store device that conducts people counting. It will track customers entering/ exiting and provide you a report that breaks those numbers down by hour of the day. It is a simple to read chart that gives you the numbers you need to determine how to best allocate your payroll hours.
Many of the businesses that are using a store traffic counter (like VisiPlus) are surprised at the results. When they do a side-by-side comparison of people counting, sales, and employee coverage they realize that the numbers simply do not match.
Sometimes they see hours where they have a larger staff, but lower sales. They also see instances where they have a low staff, low sales, and a high customer count. In that case it is an easy fix- by putting more employees on the schedule during the higher customer times, they are seeing an increase in sales as the level of customer service is increased. By eliminating staff in low sales times helps better balance the allocated payroll hours.
Another situation that comes up is low sales, high customers, and high employee counts. A few managers, after noticing the discrepancy realized that these were times where a certain few individuals were working together and spending more time in the back chatting, instead of working on the sales floor. Through some correctional counseling, these bad seed employees were terminated, replaced with more productive employees, and the sales increased. Had the business not analyzed the store traffic counter/ people counting reports, they would never have realized the damage a few employees were doing to their sales.
Payroll is the biggest expense most small businesses face. It is also the single most controllable expense. So how do you maximize your employees and your payroll hours to get the biggest benefit? You can reduce your payroll hours to the most meager skeleton crew, or you can start people counting with a store traffic counter like VisiPlus.
VisiPlus is an in store device that conducts people counting. It will track customers entering/ exiting and provide you a report that breaks those numbers down by hour of the day. It is a simple to read chart that gives you the numbers you need to determine how to best allocate your payroll hours.
Many of the businesses that are using a store traffic counter (like VisiPlus) are surprised at the results. When they do a side-by-side comparison of people counting, sales, and employee coverage they realize that the numbers simply do not match.
Sometimes they see hours where they have a larger staff, but lower sales. They also see instances where they have a low staff, low sales, and a high customer count. In that case it is an easy fix- by putting more employees on the schedule during the higher customer times, they are seeing an increase in sales as the level of customer service is increased. By eliminating staff in low sales times helps better balance the allocated payroll hours.
Another situation that comes up is low sales, high customers, and high employee counts. A few managers, after noticing the discrepancy realized that these were times where a certain few individuals were working together and spending more time in the back chatting, instead of working on the sales floor. Through some correctional counseling, these bad seed employees were terminated, replaced with more productive employees, and the sales increased. Had the business not analyzed the store traffic counter/ people counting reports, they would never have realized the damage a few employees were doing to their sales.
