When working or managing a Pro Shop for a golf course, it is easy to let your guard down to problems like pro shop theft- specifically golf club theft. It is easy to take for granted that there are members of the golf course or country club that might in fact steal from a pro shop.
Most golf courses have some form of sign in, or identifying process. A credit card is taken to reserve tee times or golf carts. In private clubs, an application is filled out and members are supposed to take accountability for their guests. Regular members and customers of the pro shops are easily identified because of their loyalty and time spent at the pro shops trying to improve their game. With all of these measures in place, it is easy to become complacent and to blindly trust the people coming in and out of your pro shops.
That doesn’t mean that you should. Pro shop theft and golf club theft can happen just as easily as in any other retail environment. A guest with no loyalty to a club can steal from you as a means to keep up with their affluent friends. A regular can take advantage of your trust by stealing when an opportunity presents itself.
Golf club theft is actually easier than what it sounds. Even though the clubs are long, they are thin and relatively easy to slide into a player’s golf bag, or inside of clothing. Since a single club can run hundreds of dollars, any shoplifting or theft is going to make a significant financial impact. Pro shop theft includes the wider array of merchandise, since pro shops often carry high end, or quality golfing attire and accessories. While these items might not have a single significant impact, over time, they too can add up to a huge loss in profitability.
When working or managing a Pro Shop for a golf course, it is easy to let your guard down to problems like pro shop theft- specifically golf club theft. It is easy to take for granted that there are members of the golf course or country club that might in fact steal from a pro shop.
Most golf courses have some form of sign in, or identifying process. A credit card is taken to reserve tee times or golf carts. In private clubs, an application is filled out and members are supposed to take accountability for their guests. Regular members and customers of the pro shops are easily identified because of their loyalty and time spent at the pro shops trying to improve their game. With all of these measures in place, it is easy to become complacent and to blindly trust the people coming in and out of your pro shops.
That doesn’t mean that you should. Pro shop theft and golf club theft can happen just as easily as in any other retail environment. A guest with no loyalty to a club can steal from you as a means to keep up with their affluent friends. A regular can take advantage of your trust by stealing when an opportunity presents itself.
Golf club theft is actually easier than what it sounds. Even though the clubs are long, they are thin and relatively easy to slide into a player’s golf bag, or inside of clothing. Since a single club can run hundreds of dollars, any shoplifting or theft is going to make a significant financial impact. Pro shop theft includes the wider array of merchandise, since pro shops often carry high end, or quality golfing attire and accessories. While these items might not have a single significant impact, over time, they too can add up to a huge loss in profitability.
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, Golf Club Security, Golf Club Theft, Pro Shop Theft, 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
A video surfaced on the internet, made by someone attempting to defeat a bottle lock on a bottle of vodka. They claimed that they bought the bottle at a local supermarket, which forgot to remove the lock at the time of purchase. Once they made it home and discovered the lock, they were unable to return to the store since it had closed down for the night.
In some ways, it was actually a fascinating process to watch. The person had found four or five different tools to use in the process, as well as needing at least to extra sets of hands.
They reduced the video time to a few minutes, but had actually spent two hours working, and twisting, and prying bits and pieces off of the lock. The video showed them using various tools to cut, bend, burn, and mangle the lock off. As they progressed through the video, they commented on how difficult of a job it was to remove the bottle lock, especially since they were trying to make sure the bottle didn’t break in the process.
Eventually they did succeed, but the video makers readily admitted that it would have been less frustrating just to wait until the store opened back up the next day. Had they been actual shoplifters, they would not have gone back for a second theft attempt after seeing how much time and effort was involved at removing the security device.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
A video surfaced on the internet, made by someone attempting to defeat a bottle lock on a bottle of vodka. They claimed that they bought the bottle at a local supermarket, which forgot to remove the lock at the time of purchase. Once they made it home and discovered the lock, they were unable to return to the store since it had closed down for the night.
In some ways, it was actually a fascinating process to watch. The person had found four or five different tools to use in the process, as well as needing at least to extra sets of hands.
They reduced the video time to a few minutes, but had actually spent two hours working, and twisting, and prying bits and pieces off of the lock. The video showed them using various tools to cut, bend, burn, and mangle the lock off. As they progressed through the video, they commented on how difficult of a job it was to remove the bottle lock, especially since they were trying to make sure the bottle didn’t break in the process.
Eventually they did succeed, but the video makers readily admitted that it would have been less frustrating just to wait until the store opened back up the next day. Had they been actual shoplifters, they would not have gone back for a second theft attempt after seeing how much time and effort was involved at removing the security device.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase EASy Bottle bottle locks by Alpha Security and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Alpha Security, Bottle Lock, Bottle locks, Bottle Security, EASy Bottle or Liquor Bottle Security and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
The following article is based on feedback from one of our customers that has implemented the Visi Plus System in their stores. This is what he told us after using this system for a few months.
One of my stores recently started to use a traffic counter to test whether we wanted to roll them out to the rest of our stores. We started to evaluate the data the people counting reports provided and compared them to our daily sales. We were able to utilize a simple conversion system to see what our average ticket was. The results after the first month were actually quite surprising to us.
We sell a wide mix of low and high dollar items. We never realized that even though our sales stayed relatively consistent throughout the week, we actually had two different factors driving that business. What found out was that on the weekends we had a higher customer count, and during the week we had a higher ticket average. Without comparing the daily sales to the traffic counts, we never would have realized that we actually had a staffing problem that was holding us, and our sales back.
Since we had consistent sales regardless of day of the week, we had consistently spread our payroll hours over the entire week. What we should have done was increase our staffing levels on the weekend to accommodate the higher customer traffic entering into the store. During the week we still needed some employees to make sure that the customers coming in and making larger purchases had the employees attention to ask and answer all of their questions.
Once we changed our staffing structure around, we noticed in the next month our sales starting to increase, as well as our overall ticket average. By increasing the staff on the weekends, we actually found many of our customers were able to make larger purchases because they were able to get the employees attention long enough to ask and answer all of their questions.
Our customers had been avoiding shopping on the weekend for large purchases because we could not provide the correct levels of customer service. Had we not seen the accurate data from the traffic counting reports, we would have continued to miss out on these valuable sales opportunities.
The following article is based on feedback from one of our customers that has implemented the Visi Plus System in their stores. This is what he told us after using this system for a few months.
One of my stores recently started to use a traffic counter to test whether we wanted to roll them out to the rest of our stores. We started to evaluate the data the people counting reports provided and compared them to our daily sales. We were able to utilize a simple conversion system to see what our average ticket was. The results after the first month were actually quite surprising to us.
We sell a wide mix of low and high dollar items. We never realized that even though our sales stayed relatively consistent throughout the week, we actually had two different factors driving that business. What found out was that on the weekends we had a higher customer count, and during the week we had a higher ticket average. Without comparing the daily sales to the traffic counts, we never would have realized that we actually had a staffing problem that was holding us, and our sales back.
Since we had consistent sales regardless of day of the week, we had consistently spread our payroll hours over the entire week. What we should have done was increase our staffing levels on the weekend to accommodate the higher customer traffic entering into the store. During the week we still needed some employees to make sure that the customers coming in and making larger purchases had the employees attention to ask and answer all of their questions.
Once we changed our staffing structure around, we noticed in the next month our sales starting to increase, as well as our overall ticket average. By increasing the staff on the weekends, we actually found many of our customers were able to make larger purchases because they were able to get the employees attention long enough to ask and answer all of their questions.
Our customers had been avoiding shopping on the weekend for large purchases because we could not provide the correct levels of customer service. Had we not seen the accurate data from the traffic counting reports, we would have continued to miss out on these valuable sales opportunities.
College bookstores that employ security guards as a form of bookstore security are on the right path. However, a security guard can’t be in every nook and cranny of the store at every given point in time. This leaves a loophole in the bookstore security allowing for incidents like this to happen.
Two girls had gone to the bookstore and attempted to steal several textbooks, presumably for the upcoming semester. With their bags loaded up with their textbooks of choice, one of the security guards attempted to stop them. The two girls ran away to avoid getting caught.
One of the girls dropped her bag containing her student ID leading us to the now known suspect. As it turned out, the girl was having financial hardship, which is why she was in there to steal, rather than to pay for the books.
The girl that was with her was not under financial duress, she simply did not want to pay for the expensive textbooks. She wanted to spend the money on going out to bars and parties instead.
The end result was that both girls were dropped from their academic programs and not allowed back inside the college bookstore.
The bookstore took this as a learning opportunity to discuss and find ways to reduce the shoplifting and theft that was going on. Clearly having a security guard was not as efficient of a form of bookstore security as what they had previously thought. Both girls admitted this was not the first time they had come to the college bookstore to steal their textbooks.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Bookstore Security and Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on Checkpoint Systems and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your College Bookstores, School Bookstores, School Libraries, High School Library, or High School Bookstore call 1.770.426.0547
College bookstores that employ security guards as a form of bookstore security are on the right path. However, a security guard can’t be in every nook and cranny of the store at every given point in time. This leaves a loophole in the bookstore security allowing for incidents like this to happen.
Two girls had gone to the bookstore and attempted to steal several textbooks, presumably for the upcoming semester. With their bags loaded up with their textbooks of choice, one of the security guards attempted to stop them. The two girls ran away to avoid getting caught.
One of the girls dropped her bag containing her student ID leading us to the now known suspect. As it turned out, the girl was having financial hardship, which is why she was in there to steal, rather than to pay for the books.
The girl that was with her was not under financial duress, she simply did not want to pay for the expensive textbooks. She wanted to spend the money on going out to bars and parties instead.
The end result was that both girls were dropped from their academic programs and not allowed back inside the college bookstore.
The bookstore took this as a learning opportunity to discuss and find ways to reduce the shoplifting and theft that was going on. Clearly having a security guard was not as efficient of a form of bookstore security as what they had previously thought. Both girls admitted this was not the first time they had come to the college bookstore to steal their textbooks.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Bookstore Security and Library Theft Detection System devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system from Checkpoint Systems to stop inventory losses.
For more information on Checkpoint Systems and how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at Retail theft prevention to stop inventory losses in your College Bookstores, School Bookstores, School Libraries, High School Library, or High School Bookstore call 1.770.426.0547
When we spend money on our clothing security devices and components, there is a certain expectation of reliability to decrease and eliminate shoplifting. Unfortunately, some thieves work hard to find ways to defeat our systems.
A recent example is the theft of over two hundred pairs of underwear from a high-end clothing store. A man walked into the store with a large bag, went to the closest tables he could get to, and pushed as many pairs into the bag. He then ran out of the store. Eventually the police did catch up to the man, and found the merchandise, along with the bag he had used in the theft.
It turns out that the bag the shoplifter used had a foil lining- designed to bypass the clothing alarm used in conjunction with the clothing security tags on all of the merchandise in the store.
Many reputable dealers are using technology in their clothing security and clothing alarms that not only alerts employees to foil linings coming into the store, but also will not be defeated or bypassed by their use.
These advancements in clothing security technology help maintain the reliability of clothing security tags. By eliminating ways shoplifters can work around your system, you can continue to have the same expectation of results.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547
When we spend money on our clothing security devices and components, there is a certain expectation of reliability to decrease and eliminate shoplifting. Unfortunately, some thieves work hard to find ways to defeat our systems.
A recent example is the theft of over two hundred pairs of underwear from a high-end clothing store. A man walked into the store with a large bag, went to the closest tables he could get to, and pushed as many pairs into the bag. He then ran out of the store. Eventually the police did catch up to the man, and found the merchandise, along with the bag he had used in the theft.
It turns out that the bag the shoplifter used had a foil lining- designed to bypass the clothing alarm used in conjunction with the clothing security tags on all of the merchandise in the store.
Many reputable dealers are using technology in their clothing security and clothing alarms that not only alerts employees to foil linings coming into the store, but also will not be defeated or bypassed by their use.
These advancements in clothing security technology help maintain the reliability of clothing security tags. By eliminating ways shoplifters can work around your system, you can continue to have the same expectation of results.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store to purchase Checkpoint Tags, a Clothing Alarm, Clothing Security or Clothing Security Tags to put Security Tags on Clothes and an Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system.
For more information on Checkpoint tags, clothing security, clothing alarm, or clothing security tags how they can work with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system contact us at security tags on clothes or call 1.770.426.0547
Most common shoplifters will simply bypass stealing from a business that uses EAS tags, generically referred to as retail anti theft devices.
However, there are more organized, career criminals that will make attempts at defeating these devices. When you using Alpha 2 Alarm retail anti theft devices you increase your security level while you reduce the likelihood of even a career criminal attempting to defeat the EAS tags.
The Alpha Security Alpha 2 Alarm is a security functions that when you start to use it, you realize what a difference it can make. You also start to realize what you have been missing out on by not having it.
The Alpha 2 Alarm is a tamper evident component or the EAS device. When a shoplifter tampers with the device to remove it without using the authorized detacher, a siren is emitted directly from the device. Not only will it potentially stop the theft in progress, but it will also help you identify potential thieves in your store as their anonymity has been blown.
Don’t worry; these are not hypersensitive retail anti theft devices. They are to prevent shoplifting only. They will not alarm through the normal use or contact with a customer while they shop or try an item on.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate, Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.
For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
Most common shoplifters will simply bypass stealing from a business that uses EAS tags, generically referred to as retail anti theft devices.
However, there are more organized, career criminals that will make attempts at defeating these devices. When you are using Alpha 2 Alarm retail anti theft devices you increase your security level while you reduce the likelihood of even a career criminal attempting to defeat the EAS tags.
The Alpha Security Alpha 2 Alarm has a security function that when you start to use it, you realize what a difference it can make. You also start to realize what you have been missing out on by not having it.
The Alpha 2 Alarm is a tamper evident component or the EAS device. When a shoplifter tampers with the device to remove it without using the authorized detacher, a siren is emitted directly from the device. Not only will it potentially stop the theft in progress, but it will also help you identify potential thieves in your store as their anonymity has been blown.
Don’t worry; these are not hypersensitive retail anti theft devices. They are to prevent shoplifting only. They will not alarm through the normal use or contact with a customer while they shop or try an item on.
Visit the Loss Prevention Store for Alpha 2Alarm, Alpha 3Alarm, Alpha Fashion2, Alpha Jewel Lok, Alpha Nano Gate, Alpha Shark Tag, Alpha Spider Wrap and other retail anti-theft devices from Alpha Security to use in conjunction with your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system that can help you prevent shoplifting in your business.
For more information on how you can use Alpha Security retail anti-theft devices and your Electronic Article Surveillance or EAS system to prevent shoplifting contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
