Checkpoint Hard Tags-5 WC blog 126
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Checkpoint Hard Tags Keep Softlines Secure From Shoplifters
There are a lot of ways to prevent clothing theft and in my experiences of more than 25 years working in retail I think I have seen most of them. I have seen limits on how many of a certain item will be placed on a sales floor. I have also seen shoes displayed as singles, with the matching shoe in the stockroom with all the other boxed shoes. Over the years I have also seen the evolution of clothing hard tags and the increased use of them in stores. Of all the anti-theft strategies, with a few rare exceptions, the best option to stop shoplifting, in my opinion, has always been the use of Checkpoint hard tags. I say this because there are several benefits of using Checkpoint tags over other strategies and I will discuss those benefits momentarily. First, it would be best to tell you what Checkpoint Hard Tags are and how they work.
Checkpoint hard tags are devices that are attached to clothing to stop shoplifting. The tags, specifically the Gen 3 Hard Tags, are electronic article surveillance two-piece discs that are attached to garments. The two pieces are pinned together almost seamlessly, making it nearly impossible for a shoplifter to pry them apart. These discs are well over an inch in diameter, giving them a strong visual deterrence to would-be thieves. And, for those retailers who may sell higher end clothing, the disc shape gives it a neat, clean visual effect that does not detract from the item it is attached to.
So what is the benefit of using Gen 3 Checkpoint Hard Tags over limiting the number of items on a sales floor? You may be thinking that limiting quantities means that shoplifters can’t get away with more than one or two items as opposed to a full fixture arm. As a former Loss Prevention Manager, I saw shoplifters clean off entire 4-way fixtures of clothes, so I am familiar with the concern. The issue is, those instances involved clothes that were not protected with Checkpoint Tags. Because they are electronic article surveillance compatible, most shoplifters don’t want to take the risk of activating a store alarm so they leave tagged clothing alone. Putting one or two items out that are not protected will simply lead to the eventual theft of those one or two items. The other negative of limiting quantities is the replenishment of the item(s). If the garment is sold and there are no more on the floor, how long does it take for someone to notice and fill the floor from the stockroom? If it’s not on the floor, there is the chance you lose sales since customers can’t look at it to buy it.
As for shoes being displayed as a single and the remainder being kept in a stockroom, such a strategy will stop shoplifting, but when I have seen it used it always requires a salesperson to be available to find the size and style of shoe I need. It also seems that inevitably there will be more customers that enter the department and therein lays the issue, there needs to be adequate staffing to be available to render immediate assistance to all the customers. Do you have the staff or payroll available to provide that level of service for one group of clothing? Checkpoint Tags allow for merchandise to be protected without the need to constantly run to the stockroom to retrieve shoes, let the customer try them on and re-stock them, if the customer chooses not to purchase them.
The combination of electronic article surveillance and Gen 3 Checkpoint Hard Tags are the best solution to stop shoplifting of your clothing lines. The tags can be placed on almost any garment so the more items you protect, the better your chances will be to boost sales and reduce shortage due to theft.
Get more information on Checkpoint Hard Tags, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
There are a lot of ways to prevent clothing theft and in my experiences of more than 25 years working in retail I think I have seen most of them. I have seen limits on how many of a certain item will be placed on a sales floor. I have also seen shoes displayed as singles, with the matching shoe in the stockroom with all the other boxed shoes. Over the years I have also seen the evolution of clothing hard tags and the increased use of them in stores. Of all the anti-theft strategies, with a few rare exceptions, the best option to stop shoplifting, in my opinion, has always been the use of Checkpoint hard tags. I say this because there are several benefits of using Checkpoint tags over other strategies and I will discuss those benefits momentarily. First, it would be best to tell you what Checkpoint Hard Tags are and how they work.
Checkpoint hard tags are devices that are attached to clothing to stop shoplifting. The tags, specifically the Gen 3 Hard Tags, are electronic article surveillance two-piece discs that are attached to garments. The two pieces are pinned together almost seamlessly, making it nearly impossible for a shoplifter to pry them apart. These discs are well over an inch in diameter, giving them a strong visual deterrence to would-be thieves. And, for those retailers who may sell higher end clothing, the disc shape gives it a neat, clean visual effect that does not detract from the item it is attached to.
So what is the benefit of using Gen 3 Checkpoint Hard Tags over limiting the number of items on a sales floor? You may be thinking that limiting quantities means that shoplifters can’t get away with more than one or two items as opposed to a full fixture arm. As a former Loss Prevention Manager, I saw shoplifters clean off entire 4-way fixtures of clothes, so I am familiar with the concern. The issue is, those instances involved clothes that were not protected with Checkpoint Tags. Because they are electronic article surveillance compatible, most shoplifters don’t want to take the risk of activating a store alarm so they leave tagged clothing alone. Putting one or two items out that are not protected will simply lead to the eventual theft of those one or two items. The other negative of limiting quantities is the replenishment of the item(s). If the garment is sold and there are no more on the floor, how long does it take for someone to notice and fill the floor from the stockroom? If it’s not on the floor, there is the chance you lose sales since customers can’t look at it to buy it.
As for shoes being displayed as a single and the remainder being kept in a stockroom, such a strategy will stop shoplifting, but when I have seen it used it always requires a salesperson to be available to find the size and style of shoe I need. It also seems that inevitably there will be more customers that enter the department and therein lays the issue, there needs to be adequate staffing to be available to render immediate assistance to all the customers. Do you have the staff or payroll available to provide that level of service for one group of clothing? Checkpoint Tags allow for merchandise to be protected without the need to constantly run to the stockroom to retrieve shoes, let the customer try them on and re-stock them, if the customer chooses not to purchase them.
The combination of electronic article surveillance and Gen 3 Checkpoint Hard Tags are the best solution to stop shoplifting of your clothing lines. The tags can be placed on almost any garment so the more items you protect, the better your chances will be to boost sales and reduce shortage due to theft.
Get more information on Checkpoint Hard Tags, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
Eyewear Tag-5 WC Blog 117
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Designer Eyewear Frame And Sunglass Theft Making You See Red? The Eyewear Tag Is the Cure To Your Problem
I admit it, I am a cheapskate. When it comes to sunglasses or just about anything else, if it’s cheap enough I’ll probably buy it (and occasionally regret the decision later for not spending more). The sunglasses I have in each of our cars, $1 a pair. My “good” shoes, $19.99 a pair on sales, blue jeans, $10.00 a pair. I just don’t see a need to spend a lot of money for some things. However, there are people who are very insistent on quality when shopping, especially when it comes to eyewear. Many brands of eyeglass frames and sunglasses are very high priced. For example one popular sun glass company has glasses as high as $285.00 for a pair of “Aviator Titanium” on their web site. Another eyewear company has a pair of designer eyeglass frames for $310.00 on their website. When these glasses and frames are available in stores, the risk for theft is high. To prevent shoplifting of eyewear, retailers and optometrist offices should be securing their merchandise with the Alpha Eyewear Tag.
The Alpha Eyewear Tag is a retail anti-theft device designed to fit on the arm of a pair of glasses or sunglasses. The device is small enough to allow a customer to try on a pair of glasses but large enough to make it obvious that the merchandise belongs to the store. There is no room for a potential thief to try to say that the glasses were worn into the store. This tag also comes with radio frequency or acoustic magnetic protection based on what a store orders. Regardless of the system a store has, the electronic article surveillance (EAS) antennas will detect the tags on the glasses (assuming the correct type of tag was ordered). Anyone attempting to walk out the door with a pair of glasses would set off the alarm at the doors.
Is theft of glasses a real concern for a retailer? According to the 2014-2015 Global Retail Theft Barometer survey, sunglasses were the number four shortage category within the Apparel and Fashion Accessories category. When I worked in retail loss prevention, both in a department store and in a big box retail store we experienced a significant amount of theft in the sunglasses department. During the summer months especially it was easy to catch shoplifters simply by focusing attention on this area of the store. A “customer” would pick up a pair of sunglasses, try them on and if they liked them, they would pop the tag off and drop them in a purse or wear them out of the store. The EAS tag hanging from the glasses could not prevent shoplifting since the tag was easy to remove. The Alpha Eyewear Tag makes it much more difficult to remove since it is a hard tag and as I mentioned before, damage would probably result before the tag would come off.
If you still have doubts about whether you should use an Eyewear Tag on your merchandise, consider these stories. From Heraldcourier.com, Nov. 8, 2015, a man and woman were wanted in Burlington, North Carolina, according to police for going into a particular store twice and stealing 55 pairs of eyeglasses valued at $9,735. In a Jan. 19, 2016 report on Fox2now.com, it was reported that three men and a woman stole $900 worth of sunglasses and a few hours later they hit an eye care store and stole 12 pair of Ray Ban sunglasses totaling more than $2,700. The detectives handling the case said that, “It is very likely the expensive frames are sold for top dollar on the black market”. I believe the use of retail anti-theft devices used on these glasses would have prevented the theft at these locations.
The Eyewear Tag by Alpha Security can help prevent shoplifting of your sunglasses and designer eyewear frames. Your profits will climb as your shortage goes down when you use these retail anti-theft devices.
Need more information on Eyewear Tag? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
I admit it, I am a cheapskate. When it comes to sunglasses or just about anything else, if it’s cheap enough I’ll probably buy it (and occasionally regret the decision later for not spending more). The sunglasses I have in each of our cars, $1 a pair. My “good” shoes, $19.99 a pair on sales, blue jeans, $10.00 a pair. I just don’t see a need to spend a lot of money for some things. However, there are people who are very insistent on quality when shopping, especially when it comes to eyewear. Many brands of eyeglass frames and sunglasses are very high priced. For example one popular sun glass company has glasses as high as $285.00 for a pair of “Aviator Titanium” on their web site. Another eyewear company has a pair of designer eyeglass frames for $310.00 on their website. When these glasses and frames are available in stores, the risk for theft is high. To prevent shoplifting of eyewear, retailers and optometrist offices should be securing their merchandise with the Alpha Eyewear Tag.
The Alpha Eyewear Tag is a retail anti-theft device designed to fit on the arm of a pair of glasses or sunglasses. The device is small enough to allow a customer to try on a pair of glasses but large enough to make it obvious that the merchandise belongs to the store. There is no room for a potential thief to try to say that the glasses were worn into the store. This tag also comes with radio frequency or acoustic magnetic protection based on what a store orders. Regardless of the system a store has, the electronic article surveillance (EAS) antennas will detect the tags on the glasses (assuming the correct type of tag was ordered). Anyone attempting to walk out the door with a pair of glasses would set off the alarm at the doors.
Is theft of glasses a real concern for a retailer? According to the 2014-2015 Global Retail Theft Barometer survey, sunglasses were the number four shortage category within the Apparel and Fashion Accessories category. When I worked in retail loss prevention, both in a department store and in a big box retail store we experienced a significant amount of theft in the sunglasses department. During the summer months especially it was easy to catch shoplifters simply by focusing attention on this area of the store. A “customer” would pick up a pair of sunglasses, try them on and if they liked them, they would pop the tag off and drop them in a purse or wear them out of the store. The EAS tag hanging from the glasses could not prevent shoplifting since the tag was easy to remove. The Alpha Eyewear Tag makes it much more difficult to remove since it is a hard tag and as I mentioned before, damage would probably result before the tag would come off.
If you still have doubts about whether you should use an Eyewear Tag on your merchandise, consider these stories. From Heraldcourier.com, Nov. 8, 2015, a man and woman were wanted in Burlington, North Carolina, according to police for going into a particular store twice and stealing 55 pairs of eyeglasses valued at $9,735. In a Jan. 19, 2016 report on Fox2now.com, it was reported that three men and a woman stole $900 worth of sunglasses and a few hours later they hit an eye care store and stole 12 pair of Ray Ban sunglasses totaling more than $2,700. The detectives handling the case said that, “It is very likely the expensive frames are sold for top dollar on the black market”. I believe the use of retail anti-theft devices used on these glasses would have prevented the theft at these locations.
The Eyewear Tag by Alpha Security can help prevent shoplifting of your sunglasses and designer eyewear frames. Your profits will climb as your shortage goes down when you use these retail anti-theft devices.
Need more information on Eyewear Tag? Give us a call at 1.770.426.0547 now.
Tablet/I-pad Theft-4 , CPN10-4 , Thunder Tag-3
Stop Theft In The Medical Field
Did you know there is an actual book called “How to Steal from a Medical Practice”? It’s true, and this guy knows all about it because he had a terrible experience with his office’s billing manager. She stole $20,000 from his practice in a year and a half. Her punishment: restitution only because it was her first offense. Then she got a billing manager job at another office in a neighboring town within a week of the hearing. Theft from medical offices has been a problem for decades and it is really growing out of hand. It’s not just internal theft of money either. The staff takes prescription drugs that are meant for patient samples. The patients themselves steal supplies from the exam rooms. In the age of technology, there is the threat of patients and staff alike stealing the devices that now hold medical records. Tablet and i-pad theft is a whole new issue for medical practices, and unless they have been equipped with some form of anti-theft device, they are near impossible to recover.
Many offices are converting their old records keeping systems over to newer, faster, and smaller hand held devices instead of having to be tied down to an old bulky desk top system. They can hold the devices and take notes on them, while still being able to make eye contact with the patient and make the experience much more personal. The devices take up much less space, and they are very user friendly. In fact, many offices have even made the switch from handing their patients a clipboard of papers to fill out their information and registration, to handing them an i-pad or tablet and allowing them to just type in what is needed and make updates and changes to their personal information. (I just went to the doctor a couple weeks ago, and wrote down the same stuff on three different forms so that would be awesome!)
Unfortunately, there could be major problems if the office discovers that there has been an I-pad or tablet theft. It really depends on the intentions of the thief, of course. They could be just stealing it to try and sell at a pawn shop. Or the tablet theft could have been for the purpose of attempting to hack the device for medical records or financial information. It’s one thing to have to just buy a new I-pad, but to have to deal with all the repercussions of identity theft is a whole huge issue.
Medical practices need product protection tools just like retailers. A nice combination that will protect those valuable electronic devices against theft are the Checkpoint N10 System and the Alpha Thunder Tag. Together, these two are unstoppable. The Checkpoint N10 is very similar to the systems that many stores use to prevent shoplifting. But, while it has the same theft detection power, this one is smaller, sleeker, and designed for the professional setting of the medical office. The Alpha Thunder Tag is the partner that protects your practice from i-pad theft. It adheres directly to the tablet, and it is the catalyst that will activate the alarm on the Checkpoint N10 if there is a theft attempt. If a patient or a staff member attempts to leave the premises with one of your devices, you will be immediately alerted. You don’t have to wait and hope it never happens to your office; take a look at the Checkpoint N10 System and the Alpha Thunder Tag.
Stopping theft in the Medical Field is important and we can help. Contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
Did you know there is an actual book called “How to Steal from a Medical Practice”? It’s true, and this guy knows all about it because he had a terrible experience with his office’s billing manager. She stole $20,000 from his practice in a year and a half. Her punishment: restitution only because it was her first offense. Then she got a billing manager job at another office in a neighboring town within a week of the hearing. Theft from medical offices has been a problem for decades and it is really growing out of hand. It’s not just internal theft of money either. The staff takes prescription drugs that are meant for patient samples. The patients themselves steal supplies from the exam rooms. In the age of technology, there is the threat of patients and staff alike stealing the devices that now hold medical records. Tablet and i-pad theft is a whole new issue for medical practices, and unless they have been equipped with some form of anti-theft device, they are near impossible to recover.
Many offices are converting their old records keeping systems over to newer, faster, and smaller hand held devices instead of having to be tied down to an old bulky desk top system. They can hold the devices and take notes on them, while still being able to make eye contact with the patient and make the experience much more personal. The devices take up much less space, and they are very user friendly. In fact, many offices have even made the switch from handing their patients a clipboard of papers to fill out their information and registration, to handing them an i-pad or tablet and allowing them to just type in what is needed and make updates and changes to their personal information. (I just went to the doctor a couple weeks ago, and wrote down the same stuff on three different forms so that would be awesome!)
Unfortunately, there could be major problems if the office discovers that there has been an I-pad or tablet theft. It really depends on the intentions of the thief, of course. They could be just stealing it to try and sell at a pawn shop. Or the tablet theft could have been for the purpose of attempting to hack the device for medical records or financial information. It’s one thing to have to just buy a new I-pad, but to have to deal with all the repercussions of identity theft is a whole huge issue.
Medical practices need product protection tools just like retailers. A nice combination that will protect those valuable electronic devices against theft are the Checkpoint N10 System and the Alpha Thunder Tag. Together, these two are unstoppable. The Checkpoint N10 is very similar to the systems that many stores use to prevent shoplifting. But, while it has the same theft detection power, this one is smaller, sleeker, and designed for the professional setting of the medical office. The Alpha Thunder Tag is the partner that protects your practice from i-pad theft. It adheres directly to the tablet, and it is the catalyst that will activate the alarm on the Checkpoint N10 if there is a theft attempt. If a patient or a staff member attempts to leave the premises with one of your devices, you will be immediately alerted. You don’t have to wait and hope it never happens to your office; take a look at the Checkpoint N10 System and the Alpha Thunder Tag.
Stopping theft in the Medical Field is important and we can help. Contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
