Saturday 19 January 2013

The Benefits Of Electronic Article Surveillance

By Annabelle Newton


Shoplifting is a major concern for retail store owners. It can affect the profit earned by the store. It can reduce the potential of profit because you would not have merchandise left to sell. A good business owner would have to employ means to safeguard the source of his income and those of his employee. There are technologies that have been developed to make security easier. Installing electronic article surveillance on merchandise is one effective way to safeguard them.

EAS is one technological development aiming to prevent shoplifting in retail stores. There are tags attached on goods being sold which are only removed on purchase. Scanners are being positioned at exits to detect the tags when there is an attempt top take the goods out unpaid. There are alarms which sound off if there is a possible theft. Apart from tags, you can also use wired chips.

There are many benefits to the use of these devices for retail stores. One is that there would be a decrease in customer theft and in staff fraud. When people see that it would be difficult, if not impossible to accomplish their plan, they tend to forgo it. Seeing that they will risk getting caught will discourage this action.

If the theft does occur, this would be stopped right away since the tags on the goods set off the alarms. This will get your staff's attention to the person taking the goods out. You just need to ascertain that there is enough staff to go after him and man the store.

You also would not need to hire more staff than necessary. It is important for you to have enough but having EAS would eliminate the need to have someone to monitor the customers while they shop. This would give you more savings.

You have plenty of choices as to the tags you want to get. There are hard tags you can use and those wired chips. You may want visible tags or discrete ones. These choices make you choose how you want to counter theft. It may be ideal to use some concealed tags so when there are attempts to deactivate tags, they would not be included and would still set off alarms. This is very ideal for high value items that you have.

There are also manufacturers who tag their merchandise prior to distribution. This will lessen expenditures and man hour spent on attaching tags in store. Source tagging would allow tags to get concealed and they are more difficult to detach.

It really is important that you guard your investments. Operating a business is hard enough. The security would have to covered. You are going to need staff whom you can trust and systems that help keep everything safe. There are a lot of advancements that can help achieve that and using them would be very ideal.

Keeping your profit helps grow your business. Using systems that help keep it that way is wise and necessary. Electronic article surveillance would be very important in security for stores and important to have for store owners.




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