Preventing theft of bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry items are the life-purpose of the Alpha Jewel Lok. When attached properly to the merchandise they are protecting, they simply hang relatively unnoticed, at least by those who intend to purchase the merchandise. But shoplifters should beware – this dainty device has a solid grip on its lovely jewel, and will not be letting go easily. In most cases, a person without a key intended to remove the device will ruin the merchandise it protects while trying to remove it, meaning shoplifters will have to pry the jewelry from the security device’s cold, dead hands.
I have had the pleasure of working with these jewelry tags for quite some time. In the store where I worked, we had been seeing jewelry flying off of the tables and spinning-racks – and not in a good way. It seemed as though we were bleeding jewelry at a profusely alarming rate. Necklaces and bracelets were being stolen in greater quantities than they were being purchased! This was before we started using Alpha jewelry locking devices.
Once we started placing the security tags on our jewelry, it was as if we tied a tourniquet just above the wound. Immediately, we noticed that the stock of sales-floor items was no longer being littered by popped price tags and empty boxes. Happily, we noticed that the items were still being shopped but, even more importantly, not lifted. These puny protectors were creating a profound improvement!
As with any defensive system, however, they were not impenetrable. There were still those determined few who would risk devaluing the merchandise by breaking it, to get through and take the items out of the store. Their goal was to snatch the jewelry, break off the Alpha Jewel Lok, dump it with the price tags, and make their way out of the store undetected. Unfortunately for one repeat offender in our store, these small safeguards had more to say when she left them buried behind.
We had begun to notice that a large number of these jewelry security tags were being found stashed under merchandise next to the jewelry, along with several jewelry price tags. One day, we discovered a few. Then a couple days later, there were several. A little while after that, there were dozens! They still were unopened and undefeated, evidenced by the fact that they were attached to what was left of the now-broken missing merchandise. We knew that we had sprung a new theft leak.
We began paying attention to the area and carefully watched those who shopped the area. Within a couple of days, we were able to spot the thief as she fiddled with the security tag, and then quickly grabbed several items, paying no attention to price or style. Sure enough, she went around the corner and started breaking the necklaces off of the devices. As she attempted to leave the store with the unpaid merchandise, the merchandise was recovered. She was faced now with the hard evidence of the Jewel Loks left behind; not only from this incident, but from the others as well. Her five-hundred dollar crime had quintupled into a twenty-five hundred dollar felony with restitution, thanks to these guardian gravestones that haunted the shady shoplifter and testified from beyond the grave.
For more information contact us: Alpha Jewel Lok or call 1.770.426.0547
Preventing theft of bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry items are the life-purpose of the Alpha Jewel Lok. When attached properly to the merchandise they are protecting, they simply hang relatively unnoticed, at least by those who intend to purchase the merchandise. But shoplifters should beware – this dainty device has a solid grip on its lovely jewel, and will not be letting go easily. In most cases, a person without a key intended to remove the device will ruin the merchandise it protects while trying to remove it, meaning shoplifters will have to pry the jewelry from the security device’s cold, dead hands.
I have had the pleasure of working with these jewelry tags for quite some time. In the store where I worked, we had been seeing jewelry flying off of the tables and spinning-racks – and not in a good way. It seemed as though we were bleeding jewelry at a profusely alarming rate. Necklaces and bracelets were being stolen in greater quantities than they were being purchased! This was before we started using Alpha jewelry locking devices.
Once we started placing the security tags on our jewelry, it was as if we tied a tourniquet just above the wound. Immediately, we noticed that the stock of sales-floor items was no longer being littered by popped price tags and empty boxes. Happily, we noticed that the items were still being shopped but, even more importantly, not lifted. These puny protectors were creating a profound improvement!
As with any defensive system, however, they were not impenetrable. There were still those determined few who would risk devaluing the merchandise by breaking it, to get through and take the items out of the store. Their goal was to snatch the jewelry, break off the Alpha Jewel Lok, dump it with the price tags, and make their way out of the store undetected. Unfortunately for one repeat offender in our store, these small safeguards had more to say when she left them buried behind.
We had begun to notice that a large number of these jewelry security tags were being found stashed under merchandise next to the jewelry, along with several jewelry price tags. One day, we discovered a few. Then a couple days later, there were several. A little while after that, there were dozens! They still were unopened and undefeated, evidenced by the fact that they were attached to what was left of the now-broken missing merchandise. We knew that we had sprung a new theft leak.
We began paying attention to the area and carefully watched those who shopped the area. Within a couple of days, we were able to spot the thief as she fiddled with the security tag, and then quickly grabbed several items, paying no attention to price or style. Sure enough, she went around the corner and started breaking the necklaces off of the devices. As she attempted to leave the store with the unpaid merchandise, the merchandise was recovered. She was faced now with the hard evidence of the Jewel Loks left behind; not only from this incident, but from the others as well. Her five-hundred dollar crime had quintupled into a twenty-five hundred dollar felony with restitution, thanks to these guardian gravestones that haunted the shady shoplifter and testified from beyond the grave.
For more information contact us: Alpha Jewel Lok or call 1.770.426.0547
Conducting regular inventories on your liquor bottles is one of the easiest ways to manage your costs and your inventory levels. By conducting these inventories, you will be able to react to discrepancies faster than if you do not conduct an inventory in your nightclub. During these inventories, you specific brands and kinds of liquor need to be accounted for. For example, you should not inventory 20 bottles of tequila, but rather 5 bottles of brand A, 8 bottles of brand X super premium, etc. By having the specific bottles accounted for, you can determine more quickly what needs to be reordered to maintain inventory selling levels. It also helps determine if there is a theft issue going on.
What many clubs overlook are liquor bottle overages. It might seem like a great bonus having additional bottles that what you think you have paid your suppliers for. The reality is that there is not a physical way to have an overage all on its own. Bottles do not grow themselves back in a stock room. The only way for an overage to occur is through some kind of error.
It is possible that when a supplier brought you a shipment that they miscounted the bottles to be delivered and you were in fact given an extra bottle. The likelihood of that happening, is actually very slim. Most suppliers do a specific item count, as well as a total piece count on their shipments. If one number was off, the vendor probably would have caught the mistake in their piece count and you were probably shorted another bottle of product.
This can happen as an honest error, or it can happen through a form of vendor fraud. By giving you more bottles of a lower priced item, they still charge you for more expensive bottles driving up your liquor costs and decreasing your actual sales margins. If it isn’t the vendor creating inventory issues, you should probably look at your employees as the root cause of your inventory overages.
There is a surprising amount of theft that actually creates an overage- instead of a shortage. We see it is cash theft where an employee is creating fraudulent returns. There is usually an overage of cash, and a seemingly unrelated shortage in inventory.
For bartenders and bottle service waitresses, an inventory overage could be a result of miss charging customers, for their own gain. A bartender can short their pours and still charge customers the same price. Then they have additional product left in a bottle. They can then either take the additional shot for themselves, their friends, or they can sell it and pocket the cash. If they are not able to use the shot before the end of their shift, it will cause an overage in your inventory.
A waitress can do a similar scheme. By selling (ringing in your pos) a higher priced bottle, but giving the client a lower priced bottle for their table, they have created an overage. This allows them to go back and give a higher priced bottle to someone (or themselves) later on. If their shift ends and they have not switched out the second bottle, you are left with an overage in your inventory.
For more information on Bottle Caps, Bottle Lock, Bottle Locks, EASy Bottle or Bottle Services in your Nightclub please contact us at Bottle Service or call 1.770.426.0547
All of the most prominent nightclubs, bars and venues in New York, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Virginia Beach, Washington D.C., and Las Vegas use Bottle Services for their best clientele. Don’t let your nightclub miss out on this VIP experience.
Conducting regular inventories on your liquor bottles is one of the easiest ways to manage your costs and your inventory levels. By conducting these inventories, you will be able to react to discrepancies faster than if you do not conduct an inventory in your nightclub. During these inventories, your specific brands and kinds of liquor need to be accounted for. For example, you should not inventory 20 bottles of tequila, but rather 5 bottles of brand A, 8 bottles of brand X super premium, etc. By having the specific bottles accounted for, you can determine more quickly what needs to be reordered to maintain inventory selling levels. It also helps determine if there is a theft issue going on.
What many clubs overlook are liquor bottle overages. It might seem like a great bonus having additional bottles that what you think you haven’t paid your suppliers for. The reality is that there is not a physical way to have an overage all on its own. Bottles do not grow themselves back in a stock room. The only way for an overage to occur is through some kind of error.
It is possible that when a supplier brought you a shipment that they miscounted the bottles to be delivered and you were in fact given an extra bottle. The likelihood of that happening, is actually very slim. Most suppliers do a specific item count, as well as a total piece count on their shipments. If one number was off, the vendor probably would have caught the mistake in their piece count and you were probably shorted another bottle of product.
This can happen as an honest error, or it can happen through a form of vendor fraud. By giving you more bottles of a lower priced item, they still charge you for more expensive bottles driving up your liquor costs and decreasing your actual sales margins. If it isn’t the vendor creating inventory issues, you should probably look at your employees as the root cause of your inventory overages.
There is a surprising amount of theft that actually creates an overage- instead of a shortage. We see it is cash theft where an employee is creating fraudulent returns. There is usually an overage of cash, and a seemingly unrelated shortage in inventory.
For bartenders and bottle service waitresses, an inventory overage could be a result of miss charging customers, for their own gain. A bartender can short their pours and still charge customers the same price. Then they have additional product left in a bottle. They can then either take the additional shot for themselves, their friends, or they can sell it and pocket the cash. If they are not able to use the shot before the end of their shift, it will cause an overage in your inventory.
A waitress can do a similar scheme. By selling (ringing in your pos) a higher priced bottle, but giving the client a lower priced bottle for their table, they have created an overage. This allows them to go back and give a higher priced bottle to someone (or themselves) later on. If their shift ends and they have not switched out the second bottle, you are left with an overage in your inventory.
For more information on Bottle Caps, Bottle Lock, Bottle Locks, EASy Bottle or Bottle Services in your Nightclub please contact us at Bottle Service or call 1.770.426.0547
All of the most prominent nightclubs, bars and venues in New York, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Virginia Beach, Washington D.C., and Las Vegas use Bottle Services for their best clientele. Don’t let your nightclub miss out on this VIP experience.
Anyone who has ever spent time owning or managing multiple retail locations knows that not every store is created equally. Some individual stores are committed to executing every program, surpassing every goal, and maintaining all company standards. Others are lucky to get their doors open on time with any level of consistency. As such, finding ways to balance each store’s highs and lows to ensure the success and profitability of the company as a whole can be challenging.
Often, the key to multi unit success comes from the ability to amass and breakdown broad based data analytics. Some of the data is easy to find and easy to drill down. Sales numbers are one of those metrics. Each store reports their daily sales; those numbers are compared against individual store goals, while the total sales are evaluated on a chain wide basis. By using those numbers, an owner gets a better picture of where the company sits as a whole, and where the breakdowns are coming from.
What if there was a way to break down those numbers even further to make a more significant impact? Instead of just calculating sales data, can you use information collected to reduce extraneous payroll expenses or eliminate marketing programs that are not providing a return?
Using people counting systems like the popular VisiPlus traffic counter you can garner a completely different perspective on your sales data that will help you effect those financial changes. People counting systems are based on a small device placed near entrance doors that calculate how many people enter your stores each day.
A report is made that breaks the traffic down by hour of the day for each day of the week. These totals can be used to determine patterns for not only the individual store, but also for the entire company on a chain wide basis.
The patterns that the people counting systems might start to show can be a great eye opener. You might find that one store does all of their business after 6PM. Another location might have traffic and sales spread out evenly throughout the day. Maybe one location has a big Monday morning boom, and another is busy only on the weekends.
Now you can provide a much better forecast and goal for the sales of an individual location that will actually contribute to the success of the entire company. All too often, sales and payroll goals are broken down by store, by month and by day based off of last year’s comp, and forecasted averages.
By making realistic goals based off of actual traffic patterns will help your stores achieve their goals, also increasing internal morale and a feeling of true ownership by the employees. It will also offer an opportunity to provide necessary resources to ensure those successes actually take place.
Picture this- one of your stores is busy throughout the week, but has little store traffic (not just sales) on the weekend. Another store has high traffic (but little sales) on the weekends. Instead of hiring additional employees, can employees from the first store pick up hours in the second store on the weekend?
It eliminates the need to hire additional staff permanently for the second store. It also increases the likelihood that the additional staff can help turn the customer traffic into sales by being available to answer questions, locate products, and decrease checkout times. By rotating and flexing employees you can maximize the resources you already have, while reducing unnecessary costs that are decreasing your profitability.
Anyone who has ever spent time owning or managing multiple retail locations knows that not every store is created equally. Some individual stores are committed to executing every program, surpassing every goal, and maintaining all company standards. Others are lucky to get their doors open on time with any level of consistency. As such, finding ways to balance each store’s highs and lows to ensure the success and profitability of the company as a whole can be challenging.
Often, the key to multi unit success comes from the ability to amass and breakdown broad based data analytics. Some of the data is easy to find and easy to drill down. Sales numbers are one of those metrics. Each store reports their daily sales; those numbers are compared against individual store goals, while the total sales are evaluated on a chain wide basis. By using those numbers, an owner gets a better picture of where the company sits as a whole, and where the breakdowns are coming from.
What if there was a way to break down those numbers even further to make a more significant impact? Instead of just calculating sales data, can you use information collected to reduce extraneous payroll expenses or eliminate marketing programs that are not providing a return?
Using people counting systems like the popular VisiPlus traffic counter you can garner a completely different perspective on your sales data that will help you effect those financial changes. People counting systems are based on a small device placed near entrance doors that calculate how many people enter your stores each day.
A report is made that breaks the traffic down by hour of the day for each day of the week. These totals can be used to determine patterns for not only the individual store, but also for the entire company on a chain wide basis.
The patterns that the people counting systems might start to show can be a great eye opener. You might find that one store does all of their business after 6PM. Another location might have traffic and sales spread out evenly throughout the day. Maybe one location has a big Monday morning boom, and another is busy only on the weekends.
Now you can provide a much better forecast and goal for the sales of an individual location that will actually contribute to the success of the entire company. All too often, sales and payroll goals are broken down by store, by month and by day based off of last year’s comp, and forecasted averages.
By making realistic goals based off of actual traffic patterns will help your stores achieve their goals, also increasing internal morale and a feeling of true ownership by the employees. It will also offer an opportunity to provide necessary resources to ensure those successes actually take place.
Picture this- one of your stores is busy throughout the week, but has little store traffic (not just sales) on the weekend. Another store has high traffic (but little sales) on the weekends. Instead of hiring additional employees, can employees from the first store pick up hours in the second store on the weekend?
It eliminates the need to hire additional staff permanently for the second store. It also increases the likelihood that the additional staff can help turn the customer traffic into sales by being available to answer questions, locate products, and decrease checkout times. By rotating and flexing employees you can maximize the resources you already have, while reducing unnecessary costs that are decreasing your profitability.
