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Perplexed By Plexi-glass Panels, A Retail Loss Prevention Manager Offers Alpha Keepers As Better Retail Anti-Theft Devices
I will admit it I can be curious especially when it comes to retail anti-theft devices but my wife says I’m nosey. If I’m out shopping and I see something that looks like it is supposed to deter theft in some way I’m probably going to check it out. Not long ago I was visiting a chain store with my wife and we wandered through the household supplies section. I observed merchandise on the shelf and the front of the shelf had a clear, plexi-glass cover over it that appeared to be protecting the merchandise. I didn’t see a lock and there wasn’t enough space to remove a single item at a time so then I wondered if it was designed to prevent shoplifting or just keep items from falling off the shelf. When we got to the other end of the store we found more of these plexi-glass shields in use to protect health and beauty products and I couldn’t resist the temptation. I had to know what they would do so I tried to lift one up. Yikes! A chiming noise sounded all the way to the front of the store. Hmmm, would it do it again? It sure did and before I could test it once more my wife made me stop. Then it dawned on me, these were retail anti-theft devices to stop shoplifting and the chime was to alert employees to come to the area and offer assistance. We continued looking around this area for several minutes but no one came to see if I needed help. Since I have extensive experience in Retail Loss Prevention I was annoyed, what is the purpose of having any type of device to prevent shoplifting if it isn’t going to be used as intended? This is one of the reasons I like Alpha Keepers so much. They protect merchandise and still allow customers to take the product off the shelf and walk around with it or take it to the checkout counter.
Alpha Keepers are superior to lock up display cases, show cases and even plexi-glass shields. Alpha Keepers are made of a clear, polycarbonate material making them super-strong and difficult to break. They have a hinged, locking door that requires a special detachment tool to open them, keeping thieves from gaining access to the item in the box. Keepers also come in a variety sizes to cover a wide variety of merchandise. They can protect health and beauty products to electronics items such as SD cards. Since the Alpha boxes are clear, customers can pick up the box, view the packaging and read information to help them make an informed purchasing decision. Show cases only permit limited viewing and if a patron wants a closer look they have to find an employee to open the case and hover over them while the patron examines the product. Think about how uncomfortable this can be if the merchandise is some type of personal hygiene product! The employee also has to stay with the patron as long as that person wants to continue to browse products for example in a videogame display case. A Keeper requires no hovering and your employees can be productive with other customer service issues or tasks.
In the experience I referenced above, I have to assume the purpose of a chiming noise was to get an associate to check on me to ensure I wasn’t cleaning off the shelf of all the products. The lack of response did not impress me and I can only assume this was not an isolated incident. Had I been a thief there was nothing the system was doing to protect health and beauty products or the air fresheners at the other end of the store (not that I knew there was a high demand on the black market for air fresheners or scented candles). Alpha Keepers would be a better alternative for this store to prevent shoplifting. The only time an associate would need to respond to any noise would be to the electronic article surveillance antenna alarm if a criminal attempted to exit the building with merchandise protected in a Keeper box.
Rather than use retail anti-theft devices such as display cases that hinder customer access to products and require significant employee payroll hours over the course of a year to maintain, why not use Alpha Keepers? You will increase sales through increased customer access and you will decrease shortage through real product protection.
Alpha Keepers are important and we can help you with them. Call 1.770.426.0547and let’s talk.
I will admit it I can be curious especially when it comes to retail anti-theft devices but my wife says I’m nosey. If I’m out shopping and I see something that looks like it is supposed to deter theft in some way I’m probably going to check it out. Not long ago I was visiting a chain store with my wife and we wandered through the household supplies section. I observed merchandise on the shelf and the front of the shelf had a clear, plexi-glass cover over it that appeared to be protecting the merchandise. I didn’t see a lock and there wasn’t enough space to remove a single item at a time so then I wondered if it was designed to prevent shoplifting or just keep items from falling off the shelf. When we got to the other end of the store we found more of these plexi-glass shields in use to protect health and beauty products and I couldn’t resist the temptation. I had to know what they would do so I tried to lift one up. Yikes! A chiming noise sounded all the way to the front of the store. Hmmm, would it do it again? It sure did and before I could test it once more my wife made me stop. Then it dawned on me, these were retail anti-theft devices to stop shoplifting and the chime was to alert employees to come to the area and offer assistance. We continued looking around this area for several minutes but no one came to see if I needed help. Since I have extensive experience in Retail Loss Prevention I was annoyed, what is the purpose of having any type of device to prevent shoplifting if it isn’t going to be used as intended? This is one of the reasons I like Alpha Keepers so much. They protect merchandise and still allow customers to take the product off the shelf and walk around with it or take it to the checkout counter.
Alpha Keepers are superior to lock up display cases, show cases and even plexi-glass shields. Alpha Keepers are made of a clear, polycarbonate material making them super-strong and difficult to break. They have a hinged, locking door that requires a special detachment tool to open them, keeping thieves from gaining access to the item in the box. Keepers also come in a variety sizes to cover a wide variety of merchandise. They can protect health and beauty products to electronics items such as SD cards. Since the Alpha boxes are clear, customers can pick up the box, view the packaging and read information to help them make an informed purchasing decision. Show cases only permit limited viewing and if a patron wants a closer look they have to find an employee to open the case and hover over them while the patron examines the product. Think about how uncomfortable this can be if the merchandise is some type of personal hygiene product! The employee also has to stay with the patron as long as that person wants to continue to browse products for example in a videogame display case. A Keeper requires no hovering and your employees can be productive with other customer service issues or tasks.
In the experience I referenced above, I have to assume the purpose of a chiming noise was to get an associate to check on me to ensure I wasn’t cleaning off the shelf of all the products. The lack of response did not impress me and I can only assume this was not an isolated incident. Had I been a thief there was nothing the system was doing to protect health and beauty products or the air fresheners at the other end of the store (not that I knew there was a high demand on the black market for air fresheners or scented candles). Alpha Keepers would be a better alternative for this store to prevent shoplifting. The only time an associate would need to respond to any noise would be to the electronic article surveillance antenna alarm if a criminal attempted to exit the building with merchandise protected in a Keeper box.
Rather than use retail anti-theft devices such as display cases that hinder customer access to products and require significant employee payroll hours over the course of a year to maintain, why not use Alpha Keepers? You will increase sales through increased customer access and you will decrease shortage through real product protection.
Alpha Keepers are important and we can help you with them. Call 1.770.426.0547and let’s talk.
Do you find that you get skeptical, as I do, when you get bombarded with offers for “Free” stuff? My wife and I once got a dog from an ad that said, “Puppy, free to good home”. Once we got to the residence to look at the puppy, we found out there was a catch the puppy was sick and on some very expensive medications. We didn’t have the money for this “free” puppy. I once saw an advertisement for a free check of my credit score, but when I got to the website I found I was going to have to put in a credit card number. It wasn’t going to bill me for the first month but it would if I didn’t cancel after the promo period, so it needed my credit card. That didn’t seem free any longer and I passed on the offer. As a retail owner or manager you are keenly aware of the costs associated with operating your business and one of those costs is shortage. Every time you lose something to theft your profit line takes a hit. Then you consider purchasing an electronic article surveillance (EAS) system but you don’t think you have the money for it. What is the bigger cost to you, losing products to theft or expenditures for Loss Prevention? Now what if I were to mention to you that there is a free offer for you with nothing to buy, no credit card information to enter, no hidden costs to think about? There is such an offer it is the Free Loss Prevention calculator.
Now I know you are thinking to yourself, “I’ve heard of graphing calculators, business calculators and desktop calculators but what is a Free Loss Prevention Calculator?” The Loss Prevention Calculator is a tool that can be used by a retail store owner to determine how long it would take for a Checkpoint System to pay for itself. Now you are asking the inevitable follow-up question, “Can Loss Prevention Be Free?” To which my answer is an emphatic, YES it can be FREE! The calculator allows a user to input estimated annual sales information, it has a built in estimated merchandise shrinkage amount of 1.2% and estimates a Checkpoint System can reduce a store’s shortage to .65%. The final entry allows the user to input how much money they would be willing to invest in an EAS system. As the final field is filled in the Loss Prevention Calculator calculates how much a system would cost per month AND how many months it would take for the system to pay for itself in shortage reduction.
Can Loss Prevention Be Free? It can be when you consider how much you lose every single day to shoplifting. One of the things we like to do in Loss Prevention is to demonstrate how shortage is not a once a year number to be analyzed and forgotten about after inventory takes place. We take total inventory shortage losses and break them down to how much goes missing every day. When a manager realizes that shortage is a daily occurrence there is a new urgency to address it. The Free Loss Prevention Calculator shows that the installation of a Loss Prevention System can cut that amount by nearly half and it is not out of the question it could be more than that. That savings in shrink over a number of months pays for the amount that is invested in the system. After it is paid for, the system then adds profit to the store with the continued impact on theft reduction.
There’s always a catch right? I mentioned my encounters with feeling like there was “hook” to free offers, so there must be one with the Free Loss Prevention Calculator. You’re sure someone is going to call after you use the tool trying to “sell” you something. You couldn’t be more wrong! The Loss Prevention Calculator can be used over and over again with different numbers to see what the best outcome would be for your budget. You can print a PDF document of the results and if you decide that the time is right for you to inquire further or actually invest in a Loss Prevention system, you initiate the contact.
Can Loss Prevention be free? Yes it can by paying for itself over time. Is the Free Loss Prevention Calculator free? It is as well, requiring no registration, email or credit card to use it. What do you have to lose by checking it out? Nothing!
Need information on the Free Loss Prevention Calculator? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
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Free Offers Don’t Always Turn Out To Be Free; The Free Loss Prevention Calculator Is And Will Show You How A Loss Prevention System Can Pay For Itself
Do you find that you get skeptical, as I do, when you get bombarded with offers for “Free” stuff? My wife and I once got a dog from an ad that said, “Puppy, free to good home”. Once we got to the residence to look at the puppy, we found out there was a catch the puppy was sick and on some very expensive medications. We didn’t have the money for this “free” puppy. I once saw an advertisement for a free check of my credit score, but when I got to the website I found I was going to have to put in a credit card number. It wasn’t going to bill me for the first month but it would if I didn’t cancel after the promo period, so it needed my credit card. That didn’t seem free any longer and I passed on the offer. As a retail owner or manager you are keenly aware of the costs associated with operating your business and one of those costs is shortage. Every time you lose something to theft your profit line takes a hit. Then you consider purchasing an electronic article surveillance (EAS) system but you don’t think you have the money for it. What is the bigger cost to you, losing products to theft or expenditures for Loss Prevention? Now what if I were to mention to you that there is a free offer for you with nothing to buy, no credit card information to enter, no hidden costs to think about? There is such an offer it is the Free Loss Prevention calculator.
Now I know you are thinking to yourself, “I’ve heard of graphing calculators, business calculators and desktop calculators but what is a Free Loss Prevention Calculator?” The Loss Prevention Calculator is a tool that can be used by a retail store owner to determine how long it would take for a Checkpoint System to pay for itself. Now you are asking the inevitable follow-up question, “Can Loss Prevention Be Free?” To which my answer is an emphatic, YES it can be FREE! The calculator allows a user to input estimated annual sales information, it has a built in estimated merchandise shrinkage amount of 1.2% and estimates a Checkpoint System can reduce a store’s shortage to .65%. The final entry allows the user to input how much money they would be willing to invest in an EAS system. As the final field is filled in the Loss Prevention Calculator calculates how much a system would cost per month AND how many months it would take for the system to pay for itself in shortage reduction.
Can Loss Prevention Be Free? It can be when you consider how much you lose every single day to shoplifting. One of the things we like to do in Loss Prevention is to demonstrate how shortage is not a once a year number to be analyzed and forgotten about after inventory takes place. We take total inventory shortage losses and break them down to how much goes missing every day. When a manager realizes that shortage is a daily occurrence there is a new urgency to address it. The Free Loss Prevention Calculator shows that the installation of a Loss Prevention System can cut that amount by nearly half and it is not out of the question it could be more than that. That savings in shrink over a number of months pays for the amount that is invested in the system. After it is paid for, the system then adds profit to the store with the continued impact on theft reduction.
There’s always a catch right? I mentioned my encounters with feeling like there was “hook” to free offers, so there must be one with the Free Loss Prevention Calculator. You’re sure someone is going to call after you use the tool trying to “sell” you something. You couldn’t be more wrong! The Loss Prevention Calculator can be used over and over again with different numbers to see what the best outcome would be for your budget. You can print a PDF document of the results and if you decide that the time is right for you to inquire further or actually invest in a Loss Prevention system, you initiate the contact.
Can Loss Prevention be free? Yes it can by paying for itself over time. Is the Free Loss Prevention Calculator free? It is as well, requiring no registration, email or credit card to use it. What do you have to lose by checking it out? Nothing!
Need information on the Free Loss Prevention Calculator? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
Do you find that you get skeptical, as I do, when you get bombarded with offers for “Free” stuff? My wife and I once got a dog from an ad that said, “Puppy, free to good home”. Once we got to the residence to look at the puppy, we found out there was a catch the puppy was sick and on some very expensive medications. We didn’t have the money for this “free” puppy. I once saw an advertisement for a free check of my credit score, but when I got to the website I found I was going to have to put in a credit card number. It wasn’t going to bill me for the first month but it would if I didn’t cancel after the promo period, so it needed my credit card. That didn’t seem free any longer and I passed on the offer. As a retail owner or manager you are keenly aware of the costs associated with operating your business and one of those costs is shortage. Every time you lose something to theft your profit line takes a hit. Then you consider purchasing an electronic article surveillance (EAS) system but you don’t think you have the money for it. What is the bigger cost to you, losing products to theft or expenditures for Loss Prevention? Now what if I were to mention to you that there is a free offer for you with nothing to buy, no credit card information to enter, no hidden costs to think about? There is such an offer it is the Free Loss Prevention calculator.
Now I know you are thinking to yourself, “I’ve heard of graphing calculators, business calculators and desktop calculators but what is a Free Loss Prevention Calculator?” The Loss Prevention Calculator is a tool that can be used by a retail store owner to determine how long it would take for a Checkpoint System to pay for itself. Now you are asking the inevitable follow-up question, “Can Loss Prevention Be Free?” To which my answer is an emphatic, YES it can be FREE! The calculator allows a user to input estimated annual sales information, it has a built in estimated merchandise shrinkage amount of 1.2% and estimates a Checkpoint System can reduce a store’s shortage to .65%. The final entry allows the user to input how much money they would be willing to invest in an EAS system. As the final field is filled in the Loss Prevention Calculator calculates how much a system would cost per month AND how many months it would take for the system to pay for itself in shortage reduction.
Can Loss Prevention Be Free? It can be when you consider how much you lose every single day to shoplifting. One of the things we like to do in Loss Prevention is to demonstrate how shortage is not a once a year number to be analyzed and forgotten about after inventory takes place. We take total inventory shortage losses and break them down to how much goes missing every day. When a manager realizes that shortage is a daily occurrence there is a new urgency to address it. The Free Loss Prevention Calculator shows that the installation of a Loss Prevention System can cut that amount by nearly half and it is not out of the question it could be more than that. That savings in shrink over a number of months pays for the amount that is invested in the system. After it is paid for, the system then adds profit to the store with the continued impact on theft reduction.
There’s always a catch right? I mentioned my encounters with feeling like there was “hook” to free offers, so there must be one with the Free Loss Prevention Calculator. You’re sure someone is going to call after you use the tool trying to “sell” you something. You couldn’t be more wrong! The Loss Prevention Calculator can be used over and over again with different numbers to see what the best outcome would be for your budget. You can print a PDF document of the results and if you decide that the time is right for you to inquire further or actually invest in a Loss Prevention system, you initiate the contact.
Can Loss Prevention be free? Yes it can by paying for itself over time. Is the Free Loss Prevention Calculator free? It is as well, requiring no registration, email or credit card to use it. What do you have to lose by checking it out? Nothing!
Need information on the Free Loss Prevention Calculator? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
