Loss prevention Seminars can take many forms. Some of them are self-monitored, such as computer based learning programs, or handbook reviews. Any way you go about conducting this loss prevention training, the end result is the same- to train your employees so they have a more through understanding of how certain actions affect a store’s shrink and profit lines.

The supervisors in the store directly give the most common kind of loss prevention training. These kinds of trainings or mini loss prevention seminars center around store specific policies and procedures designed to minimize risk and exposure. Others are aimed toward store operations and how to handle day-to-day tasks and assignments. These are processes like in store recovery efforts, cash handling and close out procedures. It is also the way a company handles the receipt of products and goods.

Loss prevention seminars are a way for employees to understand what to look for and why thieves act the way they do. All of this loss prevention training is done because employees who are knowledgeable are also more comfortable with how to handle situations as they come up. Some times employees need to handle situations swiftly and still professionally. The more training they have, the more they will feel comfortable in handling the situation appropriately. If an employee is not comfortable, they will not act for fear of mishandling a situation and loosing their job.

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If an employee is thinking about stealing, they know that the more people who are aware of methods and red flags will make it more likely to be caught. The less of an emphasis on security, operational controls and checks, and internal audits means it is easier for employee theft to occur.

One tried and true way of preventing employee theft in your stores is to send your entire team of employees through a loss prevention workshop. When you take your team of employees to these loss prevention seminars, you are actually showing them why they should not steal.

These seminars are designed to create more eyes and ears in an otherwise oblivious location that will now be aware of what is going on at the store level. By sending your employees to loss prevention training sends a message that you are raising awareness of all facets of your business. Employee theft adamantly will not be tolerated.

The businesses that are most prone to employee theft and embezzlement are the ones who have minimal employee awareness and lackadaisical operational controls. Any actions you can take to improve on these substandard business practices will reduce the risk you have of an employee knowingly taking advantage of you and your company’s assets.

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One of the most commonly sought after loss prevention training programs are ones that focus on recognizing and prevention of shoplifting as opposed to other kinds of inventory losses. Shoplifting can happen to your store regardless of your location, client base and product assortment. Because of this commonality, these loss prevention seminars are equally well suited for a wide majority of retailers.

Since most shoplifters exhibit the same basic strategies and methods, the prevention tactics taught within these classes are therefore equally as universal as the crimes they are deterring and eliminating. When you understand what your store specific concerns are, it is easier to find a loss prevention training program or class that will fit your needs.

Why would you and your employees want to waste your time in an ineffective loss prevention workshop that is too generalized or does not focus enough on your particular problems or worries? Why spend hours listening to ways employee theft hurts you when you have bigger losses from shoplifting?

The smart decision is to work with the training facilitators to make sure they understand exactly what your expectations are. There is no point in spending your time and your hard earned money on programs that will not produce a return on your investment later on.

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Sometimes the best solution is the most obvious solution. Loss prevention seminars can give you tips and tricks to mitigate some of your inventory losses for free or for a minor expense to your bottom line. Even though EAS systems are proven deterrents to shoplifting, they are not an immediate fix. You have to decide which system you want, have it installed and then EAS tag or label your inventory.

In the mean time, you need to have alternative methods to mitigate shoplifting (and employee theft) losses in your stores. Taking a loss prevention workshop can help you with some industry proven tips and tricks to reducing your losses in lieu of an EAS system.

One of the tips is to remerchandise some of the more desirable products within your store.

Do you have small, high theft items on a shelf location in the middle of your store? Shoplifters seek out those items and then look for unwatched corners to conceal these items.

Why not move these high theft items closer to the POS system? They will have a better chance of being continually monitored, and anyone who picks one up can easily and immediately pay for it. Making these kinds of minor merchandising changes to your high theft inventory products can reduce shoplifting.

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Loss prevention seminars are extremely important if you are going to make shoplifting apprehensions in your store. The elimination of even one step can create a huge lawsuit and liability for your business.

First, you need to see the subject enter the store. The point is to see what they have, what they are wearing or carrying, so you can conversely know what merchandise they are stealing from you.

Secondly, you need to see them enter the area where the merchandise is sold. You absolutely need to see them select (pick up) the merchandise in question.

Again, this ensures you can verify the merchandise is absolutely your property and not theirs.

At this point you need to see them conceal the product or otherwise demonstrate that they are intending to steal.

Maintain constant observation of the merchandise. If you loose contact, can you be sure they did not discard the merchandise somewhere along the way? Some shoplifters do get spooked and drop the product.

Finally they need to exit the store and pass the last point of sales.

Loss prevention training is designed to assist retailers with making decisions to stop shoplifting or not. These loss prevention seminars are out there to further expound on these steps, and explain the subtle nuances that can arise during an actual shoplifting stop. That way the retailer can make a better determination if shoplifting apprehensions would be beneficial to their stores.

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When businesses take a stand against shoplifting losses within their walls, the community takes notice. Instead of going somewhere else, the community comes to you. They begin to share a positive message of your stores, thus growing your business as more customers come to you for their shopping needs.

The question is, however, how do you take that initial stand against shoplifting?

Many larger retailers are encouraging their employees to get their Loss Prevention Certification from the Loss Prevention Foundation. These retailers are ones who have the luxury of employing full time loss prevention personnel.

This formalized training and certification is expensive, too expensive for most small businesses. It would be difficult to get the return on that investment, especially if you were looking for loss prevention training that could be disseminated to your entire team of employees and managers. That doesn’t mean that it is not beneficial to have this kind of training.

By attending more affordable loss prevention seminars, you can get your entire team involved and educated. Benefits to this kind of loss prevention training include better job performance by providing awareness of methods and kinds of losses that retailer’s incur. They can improve competencies needed to resolve shrink losses and implications. They can also improve the perception of your company or business within the community.

When you find loss prevention seminars that are affordable to your entire team, you will get the same information and knowledge that you would through the loss prevention certification. The difference is more employees can attend, and you can gear the loss prevention seminars to the information that you need for your stores specifically.

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The best way is to learn the five steps retailers’ use and how to legally approach a shoplifter is to attend a loss prevention workshop. There they can walk you through the steps and answer most of the legal questions you might have when it comes to approaching and apprehending a shoplifter.

While it might seem like common sense as to how to make the approach, it is surprising how many employees make their own deviations and decide what is best at the time. I have seen the following examples happen when employees have accused customers of shoplifting.

You walk up to them, outright accuse them and demand to search their bags to find the (suspected) stolen items.

For others, the answer is to not confront them and to call the police to have them arrested. 

The rest of the employees have determined that the best approach is one of denial- “He was a shoplifter? Really? I didn’t notice.”

 If you accuse a shoplifter directly, you open yourself up to a variety of scenarios.

The first is an open/ aggressive confrontation can escalate into a potentially dangerous situation. The shoplifter might be armed, or prepared to fight his way out.

If you do not have any proof of the shoplifting act and are relying on your “gut feeling”, you might open yourself and your business up to a wrongful detainment/ accusation lawsuit. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars and potentially negative press. Same thing goes for calling the police without actual proof.

A passive/ non-existent approach can lead to shoplifters coming back because they do not fear getting caught.

For more information on Loss Prevention Seminars, Loss Prevention Training, or Loss Prevention Workshop contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia 

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Every year millions of well intentioned people make New Years resolutions. Just like every year businesses small and large alike, are making new budgets and goals. Regardless of whether your New Year starts in January, February or October, making a resolution to take a Loss Prevention Workshop is always a good idea.

One of the reasons why resolutions fail within the first three weeks is because the goals are not attainable or are so vague that it is nearly impossible to quantify or track any potential progress that has been made.

When you make a goal to attend Loss Prevention Training, you can set a quantifiable goal. Which class will you take? Who in your business will go? What should you expect to see as a result?

Now you have a specific date with specific attendees in mind. As far as the expected result, you have a few ways to measure that success. You can compare year-to-year shrink results to see if there is a decrease. You can also take the knowledge that was gained at the Loss Prevention Workshop and implement a set number of those ideas.

All of which will help you keep this goal in check long after the first three weeks are up. Just remember to keep it simple and keep it measurable.

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As a business owner or manager you have probably seen your share of employee theft over the years. It is a difficult problem in many ways. Not only do you suffer the financial losses caused by employee theft, but you can also suffer the emotional loss caused by this employee’s betrayal.

Over time, you might be more desensitized by these emotional losses and can begin to develop a general distrust for most employees. This makes it hard to be a good leader and a good listener. If you are not approachable, your current employees may not feel comfortable coming to you with information about an employee theft situation.

Let’s face it; your employees are probably going to be more aware of this theft before you are.

It might be time to participate in some loss prevention seminars. They will help you come to terms with your store’s past theft issues. They will also be able to help broach the subject with your current employees. Loss prevention workshops are designed to open up the lines of communication.

You might not be jaded from past experiences and still not be viewed as approachable. Sometimes, employees who are privy to theft happening in the store simply do not know what to do with the information. By providing a new outlet for communication, you have a better chance of eliminating or responding quickly to these instances of theft.

For more information on Loss Prevention Seminars, Loss Prevention Training, or Loss Prevention Workshop contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

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The need for loss prevention in your store or business has one main goal- to prevent opportunities. If you are not completely fluent in how to do this, you might want to explore a loss prevention workshop that can help you expand upon your loss prevention training.

In a nutshell, loss prevention is about reducing the opportunity for merchandise or cash losses in your business. It is about developing standard business practices and procedures that limit the scope by which you might suffer monetary or inventory loss. These losses create a financial burden that it is had to recover from.

Loss prevention seminars will give you some ideas and paths that you can go down to develop and implement these processes. There really is no need to try and reinvent the wheel. There are many practices that have already been developed that have been proven to eliminate or deter both employee theft and shoplifting.

You probably have policies and procedures in place for other functional areas of your store- things like sales, customer service, or human resources. So why would you not have these same policies for loss prevention in place. It is just as easy to give your employees loss prevention training as it is to train them on how to run a register or sell to a customer.

For more information on Loss Prevention Seminars, Loss Prevention Training, or Loss Prevention Workshop contact us or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia

Visit the Loss Prevention Systems for more information on Retail Employee Theft and Retail Shoplifting problems and view the Retail Loss Prevention Seminars, Retail Loss Prevention Training and Retail Loss Prevention Workshop we offer to help with your Employee Theft and Shoplifting problems.