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. […]
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 […]
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In restaurant security, Retail Security, Shrinkage, storefront protection, Theft
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 […]
Inventory Control and Warehouse Racking Gates
Securing Merchandise with Warehouse Racking Gates When it comes to keeping businesses secure, some business owners only focus on the more obvious customer-facing areas. They protect windows and doors that face outwards to the street and storefronts where customers shop. They might take steps to secure merchandise that is on shop shelves. These are obviously […]
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In Access Control Security, Had a Break-In?, Retail Security, storefront protection, Theft
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 […]
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In Access Control Security, Civil Unrest, Had a Break-In?, Mobile Security, Retail Security, storefront protection, Theft
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 […]
How to Prevent Employee Theft
Preventing Employee Theft No business owner wants to believe that his or her employees are stealing from the company. Unfortunately, employee theft is quite common. In fact, a report issued in 2012 estimated that employee theft in Canada grew to more than 33 percent of theft-related incidents that year. This is up from 19 percent […]
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In Access Control Security, Had a Break-In?, Retail Security, Shrinkage, storefront protection, Theft
Stopping Summer Retail Crime
Preventing Smash and Grab Robberies, Vandalism and More The summer is finally here and, while that means more daylight, warmer weather and maybe even a vacation, it also means that certain crimes tend to become a bit more likely. Shoplifting During the summer, many retail stores (as well as other businesses) have fewer employees […]