How many visitors enter your store every day? How does that correlate to your sales and staffing? These questions have always been on a Retailers knowledge wish list. Visitor Counting by Loss Prevention Systems and Checkpoint Systems can now help you to answer those questions.
Up to now most solutions involved manually counting visitors or putting a simple counter device at the entry that counted the number of times the door opens or the number of people that passed by it. The problems with those manual methods are many including human error and lack of data in a usable format.
This changes all of that. The VisiPlus system which can function with your Checkpoint ip enabled system or as a standalone automatically counts the visitors that enter and leave your store. That data is compiled by hour of the day. Then each night it is automatically sent to Checkpoints servers where it is compiled into one of two different reports of your choosing. One report is finished report that comes to you weekly in an Excel/PDF format. The other is a CSV flat file that comes to you every night so you can bring the data into your own accounting/IT systems to add sales and other information.
In addition to visitor traffic your reports include information on the number of EAS alarms. With all of this information you can then make better use of your resources such as payroll dollars. When should you have more staff on the floor? How much of their time during the day should be focused on customers and what of that staff could be used for other duties?
All of this is available to any of our customers. Do you have a single store operation or multiple locations? Loss Prevention Systems and Checkpoint can handle them all. Contact us today at 1-770-426-0547 or at [email protected] for more information.
When you are wondering if you have an internal theft situation, you can turn to exception based reporting to help guide you.
The exception based reporting is just that- exceptions to typical conduct, generally found on the POS system.
For example, if a cashier conducts a “NO Sale” They are generally opening the cash register drawer without conducting a sale. A legitimate reason for doing this would be because they incorrectly gave back a customer change, and need to fix it.
In exception based reporting, a second criteria is added- no sale following a voided transaction. That could mean that the employee rang up a customer who was going to pay in cash. Instead of hitting total at the end of the transaction, they voided the transaction out completely.
To make sure the customer still thinks they are buying your product, the cashier hits NO SALE and takes the customer’s money and gives them back their proper change.
Since the transaction was never completely processed, there is now additional cash in the drawer. At some point, the cashier will take this extra cash and pocket it, creating an employee theft situation. You would not see a cash shortage, but an inventory shortage.
In order to investigate this employee theft situation, you would either need to take a physical inventory of every single item in your store on a daily basis (not very realistic) or you could implement exception based reporting.
For more information on employee theft, employee theft investigation or internal theft contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia
One of the biggest deterrents for shop owners over the years has been the fact that the pins used on Checkpoint security tags are serrated. That basically means they have tiny ridges that help keep the pin locked into place. It is a part of anti-shoplifting standards used by Checkpoint Systems for retail theft prevention.
The reason why it is an unfortunate deterrent for shop owners is that these serrations can snag delicate or stretchy fabrics. These owners have been willing to take the risk of shoplifters over the risk of damaging their fabrics either while attaching the pins, or during the deactivation process. It is a hard decision to make; choosing between retail theft prevention and maintaining quality of merchandise standards for their customers.
Well there is good news for these shop owners. Checkpoint security systems have made a better option to help all shop owners stop shoplifting in their stores.
Now Checkpoint security tags come with the option of serrated pins or smooth ones. These smooth pins are much less likely to snag those problematic fabrics. This makes for a far better solution for retail theft prevention in these stores using the Checkpoint Security System for their own anti shoplifting needs.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Anti-Shoplifting devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop shoplifting in your store.
For more information on Anti-Shoplifting, Checkpoint Labels, a Checkpoint Security System, Checkpoint Security Tags, Checkpoint Systems, or Checkpoint Tags and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system
contact us at Retail theft prevention to Stop Shoplifting in your store or call 1.770.426.0547
