Tag: eas system
Where Next for Electronic Article Surveillance?
Marketing textbooks tell us that every product, brand, and technology has a life cycle. First, there is the launch and introduction, then a period...
Consider BSI–Think Green (BSI)
Among the more significant technology expenditures retailers make in today's business are those for electronic article surveillance (EAS) and video systems. Once the decision...
Loss Prevention Strategies Built from a Different Mold
The Sport Chalet experience is focused on “premier sporting goods and expert advice.” There are some distinct anti-shrink and fraud-prevention features built into the...
New retail clothing security tag defeats all criminals… including ‘Britain’s Greatest Fraudster’
A London retailerIt spent 18 months collaborating with Swiss manufacturer Agon Systems over a new retail clothing security tag called The Concept Tag.
The Human Factor
In a merger completed just over a year ago joining two of the largest office supply product companies, Boise Office Solutions and OfficeMax, a lot of...
The Economics of EAS
Specialty apparel and department store retailers are having difficulty expanding electronic article surveillance (EAS) programs to take advantage of source tagging. Only a few...
Thinking Outside the Small Box
Brad Seehoffer, district loss prevention manager for thirty-eight Big Lots stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania, remembers the good old days of loss...
Implementing an e-Learning Strategy for Loss Prevention Training
In today’s economy, cutbacks, downsizing, and store closings have become a common means to streamline the bottom line of today’s retailers. Nowhere more than...
How EAS Source Tagging Rewrote Shrinkage History in the Music and Video Sector
History repeats itself until history is rewritten. For decades, prerecorded music and video products have been prone to high shrinkage. Whether it was the...
A Tale of Two Companies: A Roadmap for Merging LP Departments
LensCrafters is the largest chain of optical superstores with more than 860 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Sunglass Hut International is recognized as...