Does you bar or nightclub offer bottle service with the addition of the EASy Bottle? If not, let me venture to describe how an average night goes at your place. First of all, your bottle service tables may or may not get booked up. People have heard the rumors about your business and they aren’t comfortable coming there. Nothing ruins a good night out like gunfire. Bottle service is supposed to offer the patrons an upscale experience, but the drinks are poured a little too freely there too, and there are a lot of fights that get reported. The members of the party are generally expected to split the cost of those top shelf liquors they are required to buy, but there’s the one guy that keeps making his drinks a lot stronger than the others. He is feeling ten foot tall and bulletproof, and of course, he’s got a big mouth to go with that feeling. And of course, this doesn’t even account for the times that minors have been a part of the group and gotten drinks there. Of course, so far those are just rumors, but this will definitely keep away some valuable business. I would never go to a bar where they had got caught serving drinks to people under the legal age.
That’s all a lot of hypothetical problems, but when you have a group of people that have several bottles of the strong stuff, you are asking for it if you have no control of the situation. With the EASy bottle system in use at your bar or nightclub, you are putting your business back in control. The bottle locks keep the bottles secured until the hostess opens them. She can easily and quickly open the bottles with one hand, and never keep the customers waiting. All the drinks will be poured consistently and evenly so you don’t have that one guy with super strong mixes, and the other people being forced to settle for weak ones. If they are all there to have a good time, and split the cost, then they all have the right to enjoy themselves. This can significantly reduce the threat of fights out on the dance floor and out in the parking lot. If the hostess sees that someone has had too much, she can cut them off. And it takes the threat of having a minor come in undetected right off the table. If the hostess sees someone new come into the party, she can immediately card him or her and ensure your business is following the law. If you were in the latter situation, you could be held responsible for any damages caused if they get into a wreck or any other trouble.
Bottle service with EASy bottle has another perk you may not have thought about. If you have bottle locks in place, you reduce the risk of losing bottles to dishonest employees as well. Attach them to all your bottles in your storage room, and you’ve got a winning situation back there. It’s like you’ve hired a whole extra security crew without having to pay them or give them benefits. You get all the benefits instead. You see, if your bottles are locked shut, they are useless to a thief. The bottle will break before that bottle lock comes off. Keep the magnet keys protected at all times, and you won’t have to worry about the free booze parties that happen way too often after a nightclub closes and the manager has gone home. Bottle locks keep your valuable extra inventory on the shelves until you need them, and there’s no way for someone to just sneak in and have a drink on the house during their break. This also stops dishonest bartenders from watering down your bottles.
Keep the trust of your community, give them a good safe time, and protect your inventory. You can’t lose with bottle service and the EASy bottle.
For more information on Bottle Service, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Bottle-services.net
Bottle Locks-4 , Alpha Security-2 , Liquor Bottle Security-2, Bottle Lock-1
It Was The Bearded Guy, Not The One Armed Man
I am stunned at the number of liquor store thefts that occur on a daily basis. All I have to do is key it into a search engine, and boom, there they are. Now, in my career as a store manager for a small retail pharmacy, I have come to some conclusions. If thieves are successful, they will continue until they are stopped. In my store, one of the most effective tools we use to stop rampant theft was a product by Alpha Security. Alpha Keepers are clear boxes that we utilize to display the most commonly targeted items. This allows us to keep the items on the sales floor, and give the customer the freedom to pick it up from it’s home shelf location, instead of forcing them to come to the front to ask for it.
There are similar products by Alpha Security that are perfect for the business that needs liquor bottle security. They are called, very simply, bottle locks. They fit right over the top of almost any size bottle, and they are an ingenious way to protect the valuable inventory. Another great reason to invest in bottle locks is that they have different levels of alarm capabilities. They can self alarm if they are tampered with or if someone attempts to remove them without the proper key. They will also set off the Checkpoint System if someone attempts to take a protected bottle too close to the door. They also have the ability to continue to self alarm if a thief is able to successfully remove a protected bottle from the store. The fact is that the bottle lock is such a heavyweight, the bottle itself will likely shatter before the lock breaks. So the risk is not worth the reward, so this will not be a common problem.
I read a recent story from over the summer where a brazen theft could have been stopped by bottle locks. A bearded man walked into a liquor store and headed straight over to the expensive top shelf vodkas. He stood there a moment, and then picked up three 1.75 liter bottles, that retailed over $50 each. Then he walked straight out the front door. The staff never noticed him. A moment later a woman came in and said she had just seen a bearded man running toward a waiting car near their front door, carrying the three bottles. She thought it was odd. She was in her car passing by, but was so bothered by the scene, she turned around and came back to alert the staff. She asked them if they had just had a thief, and they started looking around. It didn’t take them very long to discover the empty space on the shelf where the vodka had been. Of course they called the police, but with this reactive type of behavior, he probably won’t be caught. They didn’t have a clear shot of him on camera, so their only hope is that someone will turn him in. So if you partied with a bearded man over the summer, and he served very expensive liquor, you may be able to get a handsome reward for his arrest. Otherwise, this guy got away and had a good time with $150 worth of free booze. If he had tried that with a store that used bottle locks, he would more likely have been caught, if he even tried the theft there at all.
Another great benefit of real liquor bottle security tools like these, is their power of deterrence. It’s much better to prevent the loss than deal with the thief and the court system.
For more information on bottle locks, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Bottlelock.net
I am stunned at the number of liquor store thefts that occur on a daily basis. All I have to do is key it into a search engine, and boom, there they are. Now, in my career as a store manager for a small retail pharmacy, I have come to some conclusions. If thieves are successful, they will continue until they are stopped. In my store, one of the most effective tools we use to stop rampant theft was a product by Alpha Security. Alpha Keepers are clear boxes that we utilize to display the most commonly targeted items. This allows us to keep the items on the sales floor, and give the customer the freedom to pick it up from it’s home shelf location, instead of forcing them to come to the front to ask for it.
There are similar products by Alpha Security that are perfect for the business that needs liquor bottle security. They are called, very simply, bottle locks. They fit right over the top of almost any size bottle, and they are an ingenious way to protect the valuable inventory. Another great reason to invest in bottle locks is that they have different levels of alarm capabilities. They can self alarm if they are tampered with or if someone attempts to remove them without the proper key. They will also set off the Checkpoint Systems if someone attempts to take a protected bottle too close to the door. They also have the ability to continue to self alarm if a thief is able to successfully remove a protected bottle from the store. The fact is that the bottle lock is such a heavyweight, the bottle itself will likely shatter before the lock breaks. So the risk is not worth the reward, so this will not be a common problem.
I read a recent story from over the summer where a brazen theft could have been stopped by bottle locks. A bearded man walked into a liquor store and headed straight over to the expensive top shelf vodkas. He stood there a moment, and then picked up three 1.75 liter bottles, that retailed over $50 each. Then he walked straight out the front door. The staff never noticed him. A moment later a woman came in and said she had just seen a bearded man running toward a waiting car near their front door, carrying the three bottles. She thought it was odd. She was in her car passing by, but was so bothered by the scene, she turned around and came back to alert the staff. She asked them if they had just had a thief, and they started looking around. It didn’t take them very long to discover the empty space on the shelf where the vodka had been. Of course they called the police, but with this reactive type of behavior, he probably won’t be caught. They didn’t have a clear shot of him on camera, so their only hope is that someone will turn him in. So if you partied with a bearded man over the summer, and he served very expensive liquor, you may be able to get a handsome reward for his arrest. Otherwise, this guy got away and had a good time with $150 worth of free booze. If he had tried that with a store that used bottle locks, he would more likely have been caught, if he even tried the theft there at all.
Another great benefit of real liquor bottle security tools like these, is their power of deterrence. It’s much better to prevent the loss than deal with the thief and the court system.
For more information on bottle locks, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Bottlelock.net
LIMIT LOSSES IN YOUR BOTTLE SERVICE AREAS
Most of what I write is geared toward the retailer. That’s where my experience is and it’s where I think I can help the most amount of honest, hardworking people. A huge business that I often overlook is the bard and nightclub industry. While these aren’t my particular cups of tea, the potential for losses here are far higher than your average retail store. Bottle Service, especially, can make a club thousands of dollars per week. Transversely, if abused, they can single handedly shut a bar down.
We all know the pros of a good bottle service. A dedicated VIP area for your high paying clients, where they can truly be treated like royalty. This service of course, comes at a hefty price if you’re willing to pony up for the experience. Selling alcohol by the bottle can see your profits soar to nearly 1000% on a single bottle. A poorly trained bartender can cost you that profit and then some.
Like any high priced item in a retail store, high priced liquor should be protected. If I owned a bar, I would have all top shelf product secured with a bottle lock. This would prevent the booze from walking out with a dishonest patron or employee. Now obviously, this would be on the backstock and not the liquor on the bar. How long would it take for a round of shots if the bartender had to keep taking off a bottle lock before each pour?
As far as the bottle service areas and VIP section, there should be certain rules to follow to limit loses. First and foremost, accept payment first. It’s the same reason you have to pay for fuel first. Also, there have been plenty of stories where credit card companies will deny the high charge, and unless your customer has a few hundred bucks in cash, you could end up waiting days on payment. I actually read a news article on this just a few days ago.
On that instance, a patron was entertaining a few clients at a local bar. They were enjoying the bottle service offered by the club and at the end of the night, the bar ran his credit card. His bank initially declined the $1,000 charge as potentially fraud. Before the patron could make things right, he was hauled off to jail for felony theft. Now this patron has a record he has to work to clear and this club will undoubtedly gain some negative attention. This could’ve been prevented if the club would’ve ran the card PRIOR to beginning the service.
If you own or manage your own bar, you know just how profitable alcohol can be. There really isn’t an item in a retail store that comes close to the level of profitability that a single bottle of top shelf alcohol has. So it’s only naturally that you take some common sense steps to prevent losses in your bar. Whether it be a few “best practices” with your VIPs, or a few bottle locks to prevent theft, making a few simple changes can bolster your profits tenfold.
For more information, contact us: Bottle Service, or call 1.770.426.0547
Most of what I write is geared toward the retailer. That’s where my experience is and it’s where I think I can help the most amount of honest, hardworking people. A huge business that I often overlook is the bard and nightclub industry. While these aren’t my particular cups of tea, the potential for losses here are far higher than your average retail store. Bottle Service, especially, can make a club thousands of dollars per week. Transversely, if abused, they can single handedly shut a bar down.
We all know the pros of a good bottle service. A dedicated VIP area for your high paying clients, where they can truly be treated like royalty. This service of course, comes at a hefty price if you’re willing to pony up for the experience. Selling alcohol by the bottle can see your profits soar to nearly 1000% on a single bottle. A poorly trained bartender can cost you that profit and then some.
Like any high priced item in a retail store, high priced liquor should be protected. If I owned a bar, I would have all top shelf product secured with a bottle lock. This would prevent the booze from walking out with a dishonest patron or employee. Now obviously, this would be on the backstock and not the liquor on the bar. How long would it take for a round of shots if the bartender had to keep taking off a bottle lock before each pour?
As far as the bottle service areas and VIP section, there should be certain rules to follow to limit loses. First and foremost, accept payment first. It’s the same reason you have to pay for fuel first. Also, there have been plenty of stories where credit card companies will deny the high charge, and unless your customer has a few hundred bucks in cash, you could end up waiting days on payment. I actually read a news article on this just a few days ago.
On that instance, a patron was entertaining a few clients at a local bar. They were enjoying the bottle service offered by the club and at the end of the night, the bar ran his credit card. His bank initially declined the $1,000 charge as potentially fraud. Before the patron could make things right, he was hauled off to jail for felony theft. Now this patron has a record he has to work to clear and this club will undoubtedly gain some negative attention. This could’ve been prevented if the club would’ve ran the card PRIOR to beginning the service.
If you own or manage your own bar, you know just how profitable alcohol can be. There really isn’t an item in a retail store that comes close to the level of profitability that a single bottle of top shelf alcohol has. So it’s only natural that you take some common sense steps to prevent losses in your bar. Whether it be a few “best practices” with your VIPs, or a few bottle locks to prevent theft, making a few simple changes can bolster your profits tenfold.
For more information Bottle Service, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
When adults involve children in theft, they know they are less likely to be caught. I’m in the retail pharmacy business, and I’ve had to deal with this problem before. Once I had a man come in with a little boy that looked to be about three to four years old. He held the child’s hand while walking through the store, and no one, including me, paid him any attention. Then he went and wiped out a whole section of cough/cold items. I found it on video later when I discovered the empty shelves. Now I use tools from Alpha Security to protect those items.
That’s what I hope happens at a liquor store I read about recently. They showed a picture of the place. The point was to get out a picture of a woman that used a five year old girl to steal, but it also showed their lack of any type of liquor bottle security. It was the typical layout, with high shelves of bottles as far as you can see. So this woman comes into the store with the child and walks around with her in tow. Then when they are in an aisle alone, she looks around and points at a specific bottle. She then walks away and leaves the child there by herself. The little girl picked up the bottle and put it behind her back. Then she sneaks out the front door, and not a single staff member sees her. They never looked up, and they never suspected a thing. The staff saw the theft on video later, after they found the empty spot where the missing $40 bottle should have been. The police watched the video, and the little girl acted like she had done it all before. It was like she was completely comfortable stealing for the woman, presumably her mother.
The worst part is that the little girl has no idea what she’s doing is wrong; children simply aim to please adults. If the store had bottle locks on their inventory, this problem would have likely never happened. If the woman did instruct the child to still try and steal the liquor, the gadget would have caused an alarm to sound when she got too close to the door. I’m sure this horrible woman will simply explain it away, and pretend to scold the child if she does get caught in the act. The good thing is that if she tries it at enough places, someone is bound to catch on.
Either way though, the crime has already happened and now the store that was victimized needs to address their shortcomings. If they are losing inventory to five year old children, they are probably losing even more to adults. This store needs to take a look into the products offered by Alpha Security like bottle locks. At least if they have these on all the bottles, the store staff can monitor the inventory a little easier. The locks have different levels of alarm capabilities, so the store can decide on which ones to invest in. Liquor bottle security is nothing to take lightly. That store has to get that corrected so they are not involved in any incidents with any other minors getting alcohol. Whether they steal it or manage to buy it, the store they got it from can still be held responsible if anything bad happens to them because of it. Bottle locks can be the deterrence they need to stop it from ever happening.
For more information on bottle locks, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 or Bottlelock.net
RL-174
Bottle locks-5, bottle security-4
Prevent and Reduce Liquor Theft with Bottle Locks
These days it’s hard to watch or read the news without seeing a story about liquor thefts in grocery or liquor stores. While watching several of these stories lately, I started to see a trend. There were videos showing the thefts, and I could clearly see that none of the bottles of alcohol had bottle locks, or any other visible form of bottle security attached to them. For some of these stores, thefts like these are a regular occurrence, so why isn’t it a priority to protect the merchandise from theft? As a business owner or manager, it is important to keep up with new ways to increase your profit, and keep losses to a minimum, and the best way to protect your wine and liquor from theft is by using bottle locks. These devices are an easy to use, affordable solution that can help reduce liquor theft in your store.
I have seen many news stories about these kinds of thefts, but one of the most recent stories I saw was about a guy that walked into a store and walked out of that store with more than one bottle of liquor down his pants. The thief came into the store trying to return a bottle of alcohol that was likely stolen from another store. While he was waiting for his refund, he walks around the store and puts the bottles of liquor down his pants. Of course, he then gets the refund and walks out of the store with the merchandise in his pants. Again, I didn’t see any kind of bottle security measures whatsoever in the video. I just don’t understand why these stores aren’t taking advantage of merchandise protection devices to protect their products.
Another story I viewed recently was especially disturbing. It showed a woman in a liquor store teaching a young child how to steal a bottle of liquor. The woman walked with the child and showed her which bottle of alcohol to steal, and then began distracting the store clerk. While she was distracting the clerk, the child was struggling to get the heavy bottle of liquor that the woman wanted off the shelf. The child finally settles for a smaller bottle that she can lift, and makes her way out of the store while walking backwards, with the liquor hidden behind her back.
After watching this story, I couldn’t help but think of how terrible it is that someone would teach something like this to a child, and unfortunately, I’ve personally witnessed thefts similar to this one in the past. Could this story have had a different outcome if the liquor bottles were protected and locked? Obviously, bottle security doesn’t help with horrible parenting or teaching people right or wrong, so even if this liquor was protected, the theft would more than likely been committed at a different store that didn’t use bottle locks.
Although these two stories were much different in the details, there was a common theme in both of them, which was that the stores being targeted for theft didn’t use any kind of bottle security for their merchandise. If you don’t think this is going to matter to a thief, think again. Shoplifters want to get in and out of a store undetected, and as quickly as possible-with your merchandise. One thing that they don’t want is to go through the trouble of dealing with something that could potentially get them caught in the store, like bottle locks.
For more information about bottle locks, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
These days it’s hard to watch or read the news without seeing a story about liquor thefts in grocery or liquor stores. While watching several of these stories lately, I started to see a trend. There were videos showing the thefts, and I could clearly see that none of the bottles of alcohol had bottle locks, or any other visible form of bottle security attached to them. For some of these stores, thefts like these are a regular occurrence, so why isn’t it a priority to protect the merchandise from theft? As a business owner or manager, it is important to keep up with new ways to increase your profit, and keep losses to a minimum, and the best way to protect your wine and liquor from theft is by using bottle locks. These devices are an easy to use, affordable solution that can help reduce liquor theft in your store.
I have seen many news stories about these kinds of thefts, but one of the most recent stories I saw was about a guy that walked into a store and walked out of that store with more than one bottle of liquor down his pants. The thief came into the store trying to return a bottle of alcohol that was likely stolen from another store. While he was waiting for his refund, he walks around the store and puts the bottles of liquor down his pants. Of course, he then gets the refund and walks out of the store with the merchandise in his pants. Again, I didn’t see any kind of bottle security measures whatsoever in the video. I just don’t understand why these stores aren’t taking advantage of merchandise protection devices to protect their products.
Another story I viewed recently was especially disturbing. It showed a woman in a liquor store teaching a young child how to steal a bottle of liquor. The woman walked with the child and showed her which bottle of alcohol to steal, and then began distracting the store clerk. While she was distracting the clerk, the child was struggling to get the heavy bottle of liquor that the woman wanted off the shelf. The child finally settles for a smaller bottle that she can lift, and makes her way out of the store while walking backwards, with the liquor hidden behind her back.
After watching this story, I couldn’t help but think of how terrible it is that someone would teach something like this to a child, and unfortunately, I’ve personally witnessed thefts similar to this one in the past. Could this story have had a different outcome if the liquor bottles were protected and locked? Obviously, bottle security doesn’t help with horrible parenting or teaching people right or wrong, so even if this liquor was protected, the theft would more than likely been committed at a different store that didn’t use bottle locks.
Although these two stories were much different in the details, there was a common theme in both of them, which was that the stores being targeted for theft didn’t use any kind of bottle security for their merchandise. If you don’t think this is going to matter to a thief, think again. Shoplifters want to get in and out of a store undetected, and as quickly as possible-with your merchandise. One thing that they don’t want is to go through the trouble of dealing with something that could potentially get them caught in the store, like bottle locks.
For more information about bottle locks, contact us or call 1.770.426.0547
