I was in a store the other day and saw a box of Cracker Jacks and a thought came to me about the Loss Prevention System, Inc. (LPSI) Free Loss Prevention Calculator. Now I had better go back a bit for some readers. Cracker Jacks today aren’t like they used to be. A LONG time ago you used to get some little trinket surprise in the box. You never knew what the surprise would be but you knew something would be in the bottom of the box. We enjoyed the snack but many of us also bought the treat for the joy of the hidden treasure. In a manner of speaking LPSI offers a kind of surprise to retailers when they use the Loss Prevention ROI Calculator and learn that Loss Prevention can be free.
When a store owner starts to look into the purchase of a Loss Prevention anti-theft system it is often the result of high shortage numbers primarily attributable to theft. There are also owners or managers who think about purchasing a security system but are reluctant to do so out of an unfounded concern over what a system would cost them. Sadly, some of these owners have looked in all the wrong places for the best value. They get prices for systems and they may get prices on tags but they have no idea what they are purchasing and no one is explaining the value of what they are investing in. By visiting the LPSI website and their Loss Prevention ROI Calculator, a storeowner is going to be in for a pleasant surprise. Just like finding that hidden toy in a box of Cracker Jacks, the owner is going to find out that the ROI Calculator is a Free Loss Prevention Calculator. There is no charge to use it, no pushy salesman with a pop-up chat box trying to interact with you just a calculator that requires a few key pieces of information.
The second surprise comes when the user of the calculator learns that shortage in the store can be reduced by almost half with a Sensormatic security system installation. The calculator estimates a system will reduce your losses due to theft from 1.2% to .65% (which approximates average national shortage figures). Surprise number three is when you learn that over a period of time a retail anti-theft system will pay for itself. You read that correctly, the amount of money a system will save in shortage reduction will eventually pay for the system and the Free Loss Prevention Calculator will tell you how long it will take to do so. No boxed candy snack is going to give you three surprises!
And to borrow a phrase from those as seen on the television commercials, “Wait there’s more!” After you use the Free Loss Prevention Calculator and decide you might be interested in a Sensormatic system, a visit to LPSI’s home page reveals that if you purchase a Loss Prevention System from them you get more than just a Sensormatic tower and installation. LPSI includes free, live Loss Prevention training for the life of your Sensormatic system when you purchase a system from them. You ALSO receive free training on how to use your Sensormatic system when you make the purchase from them. A system requires more than just haphazardly putting labels on merchandise or walking up to someone who has set off an alarm and asking if they have something they didn’t pay for. There are right and wrong ways to do things and LPSI will teach your team the best methods for optimizing your system.
Purchasing something and getting a bonus item with it that was not expected is always a pleasant surprise. You may be in the market for a new anti-theft system just to get control over inventory shortage. Before you search the internet for a dealer who may not be interested in more than selling you a tower and tags take a look at the LPSI’s Loss Prevention ROI Calculator and their website. Learn how they are interested in more than selling you a tower, they are interested in the success of your business. Their commitment to their clients makes them stand far above other Loss Prevention consultation businesses and even Loss Prevention system dealers. Check out their website today and find out why they are an award winning company in the field of Loss Prevention.
Get more information on the Free Loss Prevention Calculator, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 today.
Sensormatic Customer Counting Systems
Have you ever wanted effective customer counting systems in your retail? How about incorporating retail traffic counting into a Sensormatic security system? We can do it. In fact, given the low cost it is simply not smart to leave it out of a Sensormatic system.
But, what will it do for you? We have a long time customer with eight stores that incorporated retail traffic counting into the systems we installed. Besides the obvious like counting traffic by time of day, day of the week, etc., a number of other surprise benefits arose. Our customer told me that in the first year the people counting portion of the system saved them in excess of $100K!
They found that there were stores that were opening too early/late and some that were closing to early/late. They combined our people counting systems data with their sales data and these revelations jumped out at them. They made adjustments to the hours in individual stores and their sales climbed significantly.
They also found that they were better able to adjust staffing needs to accommodate customer traffic. It makes sense. Why have staff on the floor when the customer traffic is low? On the other hand if you know there is a spike every Wednesday between 2:00 PM and 3:45 PM, you would want to make sure you have enough folks on the floor to accommodate.
But you may be saying to yourself now “I have my sales data to tell me that”. Sales data is only a piece of the puzzle. Sales data tells you how many customers made a purchase. It does not tell you how many lost opportunities there were because customers could not get assistance, make a decision or find something. On top of that, we know that properly trained staff will have add-on sales. “I think this scarf would look lovely with the blouse you picked out”. So we have more opportunities to increase the sales with the customers we have already attracted to the store. That is the benefit of having the right people on the sales floor at the right time.
All of this leads us to the big elephant in the room, payroll! We know that our largest expense tends to be labor. A retail traffic counting system will help you to reduce or use your payroll dollars much more efficiently as I have demonstrated above.
Sensormatic systems have retail traffic counting built in on many models. You will receive automated reports and can access the system dashboard at any time. Most Sensormatic systems have a built in network card to attach to your high speed router. The software monitoring is called SMaaS which stands for Shrink Management as a Service. This cloud based loss prevention service is designed to help enhance your stores productivity, increase reliability and boost system performance.
Additional features of SMaaS include the ability for you to have the systems power themselves up/down to a lower rate of energy consumption. Over a year’s period of time that will add up. You can also access real time data involving Sensormatic systems alarms, maintenance issues and much more. Here is the full list of features:
• Will help ensure reliability and optimal Sensormatic system performance with 24/7/365 remote monitoring and management of connected EAS equipment health statuses. This monitoring is provided by Sensormatic.
• Correct equipment issues in a proactive way with notification of service required to rectify problems
• Gather insights to help make effective data-driven decisions that will impact your shrink and bottom line results
• You are emailed notifications when your systems activity exceed a predetermined threshold so you know when an exception has occurred
• Minimize your Sensormatic systems downtime to help you spend less time managing
• Highly scalable and customizable cloud infrastructure and EAS event reporting
Contact Loss Prevention Systems today or call 1-770-426-0547 to learn more about Sensormatic Security Systems, retail traffic counting, people counting systems and customer counting systems.
Have you ever wanted effective customer counting systems in your retail? How about incorporating retail traffic counting into a Sensormatic security system? We can do it. In fact, given the low cost it is simply not smart to leave it out of a Sensormatic system.
But, what will it do for you? We have a long time customer with eight stores that incorporated retail traffic counting into the systems we installed. Besides the obvious like counting traffic by time of day, day of the week, etc., a number of other surprise benefits arose. Our customer told me that in the first year the people counting portion of the system saved them in excess of $100K!
They found that there were stores that were opening too early/late and some that were closing to early/late. They combined our people counting systems data with their sales data and these revelations jumped out at them. They made adjustments to the hours in individual stores and their sales climbed significantly.
They also found that they were better able to adjust staffing needs to accommodate customer traffic. It makes sense. Why have staff on the floor when the customer traffic is low? On the other hand if you know there is a spike every Wednesday between 2:00 PM and 3:45 PM, you would want to make sure you have enough folks on the floor to accommodate.
But you may be saying to yourself now “I have my sales data to tell me that”. Sales data is only a piece of the puzzle. Sales data tells you how many customers made a purchase. It does not tell you how many lost opportunities there were because customers could not get assistance, make a decision or find something. On top of that, we know that properly trained staff will have add-on sales. “I think this scarf would look lovely with the blouse you picked out”. So we have more opportunities to increase the sales with the customers we have already attracted to the store. That is the benefit of having the right people on the sales floor at the right time.
All of this leads us to the big elephant in the room, payroll! We know that our largest expense tends to be labor. A retail traffic counting system will help you to reduce or use your payroll dollars much more efficiently as I have demonstrated above.
Sensormatic systems have retail traffic counting built in on many models. You will receive automated reports and can access the system dashboard at any time. Most Sensormatic systems have a built in network card to attach to your high speed router. The software monitoring is called SMaaS which stands for Shrink Management as a Service. This cloud based loss prevention service is designed to help enhance your stores productivity, increase reliability and boost system performance.
Additional features of SMaaS include the ability for you to have the systems power themselves up/down to a lower rate of energy consumption. Over a year’s period of time that will add up. You can also access real time data involving Sensormatic systems alarms, maintenance issues and much more. Here is the full list of features:
• Will help ensure reliability and optimal Sensormatic system performance with 24/7/365 remote monitoring and management of connected EAS equipment health statuses. This monitoring is provided by Sensormatic.
• Correct equipment issues in a proactive way with notification of service required to rectify problems
• Gather insights to help make effective data-driven decisions that will impact your shrink and bottom line results
• You are emailed notifications when your systems activity exceed a predetermined threshold so you know when an exception has occurred
• Minimize your Sensormatic systems downtime to help you spend less time managing
• Highly scalable and customizable cloud infrastructure and EAS event reporting
Contact Loss Prevention Systems today or call 1-770-426-0547 to learn more about Sensormatic Security Systems, retail traffic counting, people counting systems and customer counting systems.
Electronic Article Surveillance – 3 WC Blog 760
Sensormatic Hard Tags – 4
Rely On Sensormatic Hard Tags For All Your Loss Prevention Needs
Can electronic article surveillance tags from one company be used with an anti-theft system from another manufacturer? The answer is yes, but why would you want to do this? I thought about this the other day as I was looking at purses and wallets in a department store with my wife. Well, she was looking at the purses and wallets I was looking at the mix of Sensormatic hard tags and another company’s hard tags. What I was seeing was a very strange mix of devices and even strategies. I have been in the Loss Prevention business for a very long time and I could not make heads or tails of what they were trying to do. From the mix of tags to what was tagged to HOW merchandise was tagged the only way I could describe what I saw was it looked like a mess.
How bad could things be when we are only talking about electronic article surveillance tagging? The mix of tags was the first sign of confusion in this store. Sensormatic tags are top of the line for protecting merchandise. They are reliable and can be counted on to activate the pedestals at the doors in the event someone tries to leave without paying for merchandise that is tagged. When it comes to durability their tags are as tough as tags come. There is very little chance a criminal is going to be able to force Sensormatic hard tags off of any piece of merchandise without seriously damaging the product. Since that defeats what the crook is trying to do, steal for personal use or re-sale, the criminal is usually going to go elsewhere. It makes no sense that a retailer would choose to use another brand of tag when Sensormatic provides all the protection that is needed.
If the mix of tags wasn’t confusing enough to me I then looked at what the store had tagged and what they had not tagged. This was a mish-mash that I could not untangle in my mind. I observed a $108 handbag sitting out with no security tag. I found $50 wallets on open display with no electronic article surveillance tags and I even looked through the wallets for hidden tags (yes, I know where these tend to be concealed). I did find $50 key chains secured with two hard tags which brings me to my final head scratcher.
I was impressed when I saw the key chains with Sensormatic hard tags looped through them by lanyards which are accessories available from Sensormatic. I was perplexed when I then saw the Sensormatic tag was secured to a stationary fixture by a different company’s alarm cable lock! Despite my best effort I could not figure out what the Loss Prevention department was trying to do. First, the purpose of any Sensormatic tag is to allow the store to put merchandise on open display so customers can pick up merchandise, examine it and have the freedom to carry the item. Associates are freed up from having to unlock display cases or secure fixtures to “show” merchandise that might not be sold. The store owner can be reassured the merchandise will be safe with Sensormatic security tags attached to products. It increases sales and reduces shortage. The idea of securing a security device with another security device makes my head spin. To use two different brands to do something this convoluted just seems nutty to me.
If you are looking to prevent theft in your store look at a Sensormatic security system for the protection you need. Sensormatic hard tags and labels come in all of the varieties and styles necessary to keep your merchandise safe from predators while giving your customers the freedom they want to shop in your store. There are other brands on the market but none as good as a genuine Sensormatic tag. THAT is the sense of security every retailer needs to have in order to grow a business.
Sensormatic security tags are important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
Can electronic article surveillance tags from one company be used with an anti-theft system from another manufacturer? The answer is yes, but why would you want to do this? I thought about this the other day as I was looking at purses and wallets in a department store with my wife. Well, she was looking at the purses and wallets I was looking at the mix of Sensormatic hard tags and another company’s hard tags. What I was seeing was a very strange mix of devices and even strategies. I have been in the Loss Prevention business for a very long time and I could not make heads or tails of what they were trying to do. From the mix of tags to what was tagged to HOW merchandise was tagged the only way I could describe what I saw was it looked like a mess.
How bad could things be when we are only talking about electronic article surveillance tagging? The mix of tags was the first sign of confusion in this store. Sensormatic tags are top of the line for protecting merchandise. They are reliable and can be counted on to activate the pedestals at the doors in the event someone tries to leave without paying for merchandise that is tagged. When it comes to durability their tags are as tough as tags come. There is very little chance a criminal is going to be able to force Sensormatic hard tags off of any piece of merchandise without seriously damaging the product. Since that defeats what the crook is trying to do, steal for personal use or re-sale, the criminal is usually going to go elsewhere. It makes no sense that a retailer would choose to use another brand of tag when Sensormatic provides all the protection that is needed.
If the mix of tags wasn’t confusing enough to me I then looked at what the store had tagged and what they had not tagged. This was a mish-mash that I could not untangle in my mind. I observed a $108 handbag sitting out with no security tag. I found $50 wallets on open display with no electronic article surveillance tags and I even looked through the wallets for hidden tags (yes, I know where these tend to be concealed). I did find $50 key chains secured with two hard tags which brings me to my final head scratcher.
I was impressed when I saw the key chains with Sensormatic hard tags looped through them by lanyards which are accessories available from Sensormatic. I was perplexed when I then saw the Sensormatic tag was secured to a stationary fixture by a different company’s alarm cable lock! Despite my best effort I could not figure out what the Loss Prevention department was trying to do. First, the purpose of any Sensormatic tag is to allow the store to put merchandise on open display so customers can pick up merchandise, examine it and have the freedom to carry the item. Associates are freed up from having to unlock display cases or secure fixtures to “show” merchandise that might not be sold. The store owner can be reassured the merchandise will be safe with Sensormatic security tags attached to products. It increases sales and reduces shortage. The idea of securing a security device with another security device makes my head spin. To use two different brands to do something this convoluted just seems nutty to me.
If you are looking to prevent theft in your store look at a Sensormatic security system for the protection you need. Sensormatic hard tags and labels come in all of the varieties and styles necessary to keep your merchandise safe from predators while giving your customers the freedom they want to shop in your store. There are other brands on the market but none as good as a genuine Sensormatic tag. THAT is the sense of security every retailer needs to have in order to grow a business.
Sensormatic security tags are important and we can help you with it. Call 1.770.426.0547 and let’s talk.
