Protect The Rest

May 7, 2012 by Staff Editor

I have had the unfortunate experience of having to apprehend juveniles for shoplifting in my stores. One of the big times seem to always be around the end of the school years with Prom looming in the background. I have caught, more than once, a love struck high school girl trying to steal her clothes and accessories for the prom to impress a young man.

Clothing security is important not only to your bread and butter clothing items, but also in your special occasion areas. The use of anti theft devices may seem unnecessary, but it is really a necessary precaution. Using Cheap tags or Cheap labels can help defray the costs of additional anti theft devices just for this time of year.

I know that the instances of theft have decreased each year the more product we use tags on. I see the girls come in, look at the dresses, take note of the tags and then leave. I even caught a few shoplifters the first year we used the hard tags, who told us how surprised they were to be caught. They had heard from older classmates that this was the place to go because we didn’t have any clothing security.

Don’t let your special occasion items slide out the door unpaid for. Protect them like you protect the rest of your merchandise.

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Keep Your Eyes Open

May 7, 2012 by Staff Editor

The need to have clothing security is not just about protecting your stores from shoplifters. It’s also about the need to dissuade your employees from taking advantage of you and your merchandise.

One instance that comes to mind surrounds a very well liked manager. Now perhaps I should begin by saying that we used Checkpoint tags for our clothing security. We were very good at making sure there were the appropriate type and quantity of security tags on clothes.

The problem wasn’t with the Checkpoint tags. The issue was with our detachers. We used hand held detachers in the store for several very legitimate reasons. We catered to several off site situations like clothing reviews or fashion columns in the local paper. It was very common to have our detachers running around the store in just about anyone’s hands.

We never really thought to control the access of the detachers until we started seeing one of our managers wearing several new items. He habitually complained about how little money he had, so to see him waltzing around the store in expensive new duds, more than one eyebrow was raised.

With his access to a detacher and no check and balance in pace, he was able to remove any of the clothing security tags he wanted. He then changed clothes at the store; either by layering the clothing under his own, or by outright changing clothes when he thought the shifts had changed.

Security tags on clothes were not effective because we failed to eliminate his liberty with a detacher. A simple check and balance of another set of eyes would have all but eliminated the opportunity for him to steal.

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Too Hot For Coats

May 3, 2012 by Staff Editor

Now I know that the Northeast just had a big storm blow through with an unusual amount of snow for this late in the spring. For the rest of the country, it is time for us to put our heavy winter coats away for the season.

Clothing security is more than just shrink reduction plans and high tech anti theft devices. It is about the complete picture of how to protect your clothes from theft- both internal and external.

Being able to identify common traits in shoplifters narrows down your scope of vision. It lets you hone in on the real shoplifters, not the offbeat customers.

One of the traits I watch for is someone who is wearing a heavy or bulky coat during uncharacteristically suited warm weather. Now it is possible that they really are just cold, but chances are, they are trying to steal and need someplace to conceal your merchandise.

It’s not a completely fool proof system. It is just one that stands out in my head as we make the transition to summer.

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The Green Solution

April 30, 2012 by Staff Editor

Many companies are making the transition into a more environmentally conscious mode. Whether it be all natural or organic foods, sustainable building designs or just reduction of waste, the green movement is sweeping the nation. More designers are using green materials in their clothes, so the next logical step is to use green anti theft devices for your clothing security.

Environmentally safe and inexpensive cheap tags are the ideal solution. EAS systems employ the use of hard tags to deter shoplifters. These two part plastic devices clamp a pin through the material creating an impenetrable bond. The EAS tags are virtually unbeatable without the proper detachers.

They are a green solution as the tags can be reused over and over again. If one half is lost, another piece can easily be used as all EAS tag halves work with each other. There is no need to create extra waste by disposing of the hard tags. The reusable nature of the tags also helps to keep the costs down by eliminating the need for continual reorders.

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Something To Prove

April 30, 2012 by Staff Editor

The sound of a clothing alarm going off used to haunt me in my dreams. It was for a couple of reasons. One was that the cashiers in my store seemed to forget to deactivate or detach the clothing security tags. Actually some would forget, others claimed they knew which pieces were tagged, so they only had to deactivate those items. Needless to say, the clothing alarms at the doors found a way to go off continually throughout the day.

The other reason was that I was new to the business and every time the alarm went off I would race to my camera system to see who set the alarm off. I was determined to catch someone in the act of stealing, even if they were already out the door.

That was many years ago. I no longer feel the need to prove something to myself or to my stores. I also learned how to train my cashiers better on the importance of proper deactivation. I knew how to explain all the parts of customer service and clothing security and how they are interrelated. I also knew how to explain that if they deactivate correctly the first time, it is that much less work for them later on.

It was a lesson just as much for me as it was for my cashiers. I took something away form those early experiences that helped my success throughout my career.

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All About the Customer Service

April 23, 2012 by Staff Editor

Very few things make me more proud than to have one of my employees come to me with their news of making a recovery. I’m not talking about recovering their area of the store, as in cleaning up. I am talking about recovering clothes from a potential shoplifter.

Every once in a while, one of my employees will respond to an EAS alarm and get a huge surprise. For example, just the other day a cashier heard the EAS go off and she went to offer assistance to that customer. Well, the lady that set off the alarm was so shocked not only because she missed the anti theft devices on our merchandise, but because someone had come to greet her.

She saw the cashier getting closer, and quickly pulled several clothing items out of her purse, threw them at the cashier and ran out the door. The cashier was in total awe and it took her a moment to realize that the clothes had all of our tags still on them. She had no intention of stopping a shoplifter; she was just trying to give good customer service. It was that service that prevented a loss for our store.

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Do You Know What The Norm Is?

April 23, 2012 by Staff Editor

When you start out as a rookie Loss Prevention agent the world is filled with shoplifters. Every person that walks through the door is a thief. You are so ready to catch your first crook that any and every little flinch is a signal that they are about to steal. Unfortunately, the subtleties of distinction cannot be taught in a manual or computer training lesson. To really evaluate the red flags, you must first know what is normal human shopping behavior.

I always start my new trainees out by countless hours of surveillance. It gives them a chance to hone their skills. It gives them a chance to really observe how we, as a society, shop for our clothes.

Some cultures try on clothing right in the middle of the selling floor, instead of in a fitting room. Others may use their forearms to measure a pair of jeans instead of trying them on at all.

Often my rookies will mistake that for a customer looking for the security tags on clothes. They are convinced that the clothing security tags will be torn off n a matter of seconds. I usually tell them to keep watching and let me know what happens.

Sometimes they will miss the security tags on clothes deterring a shoplifter because they see a customer put merchandise back down. They missed some of the other warning signs, and potentially would have given up completely on that case.

Training is important to be able to understand what to look for. Practical experience helps refine these observations to make accurate and effective shoplifting cases.

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Checkpoint Tags: Picking Up Where People Leave Off

April 23, 2012 by Staff Editor

I was alone at my first LP job when I started watching a woman on camera that entered with a crumpled, empty shopping bag. The previous day I finished training and was released to detain shoplifters. I hadn’t made a solo arrest yet; I was incredibly nervous and secretly hoped this was nothing. I wanted my first stop to be with another agent to assist with surveillance and back me up during the apprehension. Although I could feel myself shaking, I went to the sales floor to perform live observation; after all, it was my responsibility to maintain the store’s clothing security.

After locating the customer, I watched her check merchandise for Checkpoint tags and select a handful of tops without clothing alarms. She placed them on a rounder, held the shopping bag under the merchandise, and slipped each item off its hanger so it fell in. With this, I realized I must stop her when she exited. As she headed to the door, my nerves took over and I was hit with a wave of nausea. I was going to be sick and made a beeline for the restroom. I went to find the subject when my queasiness had passed, but of course she was gone. This wasn’t my proudest moment and while my boss was kind about it, I felt I had failed to preserve my store’s clothing security. Although I was trained and had good intentions, I’m still a human who is limited in my capacity to keep all merchandise from theft.

Employees can make mistakes; they call in sick, they take breaks, and no one can afford hiring enough people to watch all merchandise. Retailers that understand this utilize clothing security tags to fill in the gaps that naturally occur if a mission as significant as clothing security is left only to people. Clothing alarms are most effective when used uniformly and on merchandise that would hurt the store the most to lose. That way, if a rookie investigator has anxiety, it won’t break the business.

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Not Just For The Shoplifters

April 16, 2012 by Staff Editor

Clothing security is generally spoken of in the context of shoplifters. It is easy to qualify programs in terms of external theft. I suppose it is more tangible. In some stores, the only time you see loss prevention employees is when they have a shoplifter in custody. Or when they are walking out with the local police department who has taken custody of said shoplifter.

The use of anti theft devices on clothes is rarely thought of as a deterrent for employee theft. When only 20 – 30% of inventory losses are caused by external theft, it’s time to rethink the usefulness of EAS systems. When used for deterring

Internal theft, the return on your investment in clothing security is ten fold.

It only takes one employee to turn to suffer major losses. While it is possible to receive compensation from an employee for their theft, it is paid out over time. In some larger cases, that may equate to minimal monthly payments spread out over years. The merchandise that was stolen is rarely recovered.

Let your EAS live up to it’s fullest potential by protecting your clothes from internal theft.

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CLOTHING SECURITY Nuisance or Necessity

April 16, 2012 by Staff Editor

We’ve all seen them; we’ve all heard their piercing sound, those annoying little devices known as clothing security tags. Security tags on clothes can be especially inconvenient in the fitting room. But if we remove the inconvenient annoyance factor and actually look at the bottom line, make money and prevent loss; these tags will soon become the norm. Clothing security tags or Checkpoint tags were created to prevent loss and help protect a company’s assets.

High dollar items are always the first to be protected. This makes sense considering the dollar amount for this particular inventory. Checkpoint tags are good for items of high dollar. What about items of lesser value? Why not protect all assets of high or low value with checkpoint tags?

What about clothing security tags? Clothing security is not always priority but once considered over a period of time how much loss in clothing adds up; one might see the need for security tags on clothes. Clothing security is important considering consumers will always need clothes. Next to food, clothes are a necessity which means companies will always make money and always lose money from this particular kind of merchandise. The bonus to security tags on clothes is tagging can be very discreet and less annoying if thought through and placed properly on or within the item.

A clothing alarm can be used on items in bulk. Ever tried on a high dollar item and got your arm caught tangled in the cord connected to an alarm?

A clothing alarm helps prevent the consumer or shoplifter from having full access to a particular item(s). The lack of full access a clothing alarm has keeps the employee alert and aware of consumers or shoplifters around these particular items. After all great customer service is the best deterrent to shoplifting.

Keeping clothing security tags and other security tags on and within items keeps an honest man honest and sends a shoplifter somewhere else. If you take away the opportunity and use all preventive measures to protect all assets, profit made will most certainly outweigh loss.

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