Steps to stop shoplifting in your business
By: News24
The police have noted with concern a recent spate of shoplifting incidents. Shop owners and assistants are urged to adhere to the following safety hints.
- Meet and greet shoppers and acknowledge their presence.
- Keep your store organized and tidy.
- Know common shoplifting tactics.
- Be extra aware of shoppers with oversized clothes and bags.
- Optimize your store’s layout and try to install low racks so that you can have a full view of the shop.
- Install security cameras.
- Add mirrors to your store.
- Use customer service as prevention immediately after a shopper entered the shop.
- Train your employees to be able to spot shoplifters, usually picking up and putting down goods on racks.
- Use retail inventory as a management tools to always know your stock levels.
- Identify at-risk items and place it in plain sight of shop assistants.
- Shoplifters can always assess how easy it is to steal from a shop by how soon after they enter they are spoken to by a member of staff.
- Work out where inside the store thefts are happening.
- As far as possible utilize electronic tagging on goods in store.
- Personal safety is in numbers so employ enough staff for your store.
- Security officers inside stores also assists as a deterent and help to tighten security against shoplifting.
- Keep a constant eye on fitting/dressing rooms.
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