Keeping Your Retail Store Secure Crime costs retail stores. Every year, millions of dollars are lost due to theft, vandalism, and crime at retail stores. When a criminal steals from a store, the costs associated with the crime add up for the business. Of course, the more obvious cost is the cost of the stolen […]
How to Get Criminals to Not Notice your Property
Don’t Make Your Retail Store a Target If you own a retail store, office, or other commercial property, you’ve likely spent quite a lot of time getting customers to notice your store. After all, the retail market is a competitive one and it’s important to do whatever you can to make potential customers take notice […]
How Your Own Property Can Be Used Against You by Criminals
Don’t Help Criminals Attack Your Property When it comes to protecting a retail store, office building, warehouse, or any other commercial property, it’s important to consider all potential weaknesses. One excellent way to do this is to try to think like a criminal. Imagine that you’re trying to break into your own property. How would […]
Ten Things Shoplifters Steal During the Holiday Season & How to Stop Them
How to Prevent Shoplifting this Holiday Season It isn’t just sales and store traffic that increase during the holiday season. Shoplifting increases as well. According to the Retail Holiday Season Global Forecast report by Checkpoint Systems, 37% of a store’s shrinkage occurs during the holiday season. This includes losses from employee theft, fraud, and shoplifting. […]
Jewelry Store Security
Protecting your Jewelry Store from Smash and Grab Robberies Jewelry stores remain major targets for smash and grab robbers. The reasons for this are obvious. Jewelry is of high value, it can very easily be resold and it’s small enough that it can quickly be carried from a store without the need for large, complicated […]
Protecting Your Retail Store This Holiday Season
Retail Security and the Holidays The holiday season is nearly upon us, and that means a lot for many retail stores. Not only is this a busy time of year for sales but it can also, unfortunately, be a busy time for criminals. Criminals often take advantage of the hustle and bustle of the season […]
How Criminals Get Away with Crimes
The Reason Criminals Aren’t Caught & How You Can Stop Them A criminal obviously doesn’t want to get caught committing a crime. For this reason, most criminals aim to commit crimes at locations and in situations where they feel like the chances of being caught in the act are very low. This is one major […]
Why Criminals Rob Restaurants
Theft and Loss at Restaurants If you own a restaurant, bar, night club or fast food location, you likely know that these businesses are targets for criminals. There are a number of crimes that restaurant owners need to be on the lookout for and prepared to protect themselves against. One of the most common is […]
Security Gates Don’t Have to Take Away Curb Appeal
Keeping Up Appearances with Security Gates One thing that we hear often is that store owners don’t want to install security gates because they’re worried about how they look. They don’t want to scare customers off with bars or gates. They worry that having security gates will make their properties “look like a jail.” While […]
Dealing with Summer Crime Increases
Crime Increases in the Summer Heat: What This Means for You Many studies have shown that crime, specifically violent crime, increases as the temperature increases. For example, a 2001 paper by the University of Iowa, entitled Heat and Violence, found that “hot summers produce a bigger increase in violence than cooler summers.” Other studies, including […]
