SECURITY
Retailers share top tips for protecting your store and staff
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BOOSTING RITY STORE SECU finds out the CHARLES WHITTING taking to keep steps retailers are and stock safe their stores, staff
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when real issue for stores, doing to Store security is a What are retailers Leiston they’re open and closed. thieves? – Ketul Desai, deter and deal with Londis, Suffolk
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Maqsood Akhtar, Blackthorn News & Food, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
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Girish Jeeva, Girish’s Premier,
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Arjan Sanghera, Nisa Local Banbury, Oxfordshire
system, ITS. It Glasgow sales with our EPoS our deliveries and and cleaning equiplots of “WE check that expensive meat look at what was I’ve been posting helped us understand because we would a few different things. We work with were being targeted so if “WE’VE done shoplifting on our LinkedIn page. data. are known to us, technology to ment and check it against our sales staff member on the missing 99% of our customers eye on things about have got other CCTV systems and us is having an extra know to keep an can be “WE’RE lucky that Retail AI and “The main thing for off. Poor visibility will know comes in, we real problems. someone we don’t products safe. so if a customer corners, it to put potential shoplifters high- keep our shopkeepers have to our radio system, in the shop �loor are any dark or hiddenis really helpful. them. I know other an eye on people and not putting “Retail AI is connectedputs it in their pocket, the music problem – if there to on the �loor there and speaker a real to grab and hard “It’s about keeping for all staff a picks up a productplays an audio warning over the loud 20 sec- lead to theft. Having someone where they’re easy are easily accessible staff room. price items in placesat the back of the store, even if there’s stops and it CCTV systems that the replays the past store in have also on It “We walk going place. and taken spot. If something’s try to pick it up can monitor what’s we ban them and don’t that a theft has just you can react instantly. members, so they it, people might still so CCTV camera on stealing something, we installed that. onds on the screen drop in theft since hear it and know If we catch them products where out with it. them again. “We’ve seen a marked times for theft as now. Put high-price know and everyone can have to deal with about the hot-spot the lunchtime or “They are that brazenthem and make sure customers knows we’ve got it for us and a deterrent to them. “You’ve got to think during eye on because you Everyone a warning you can keep an at the tills, and the well, and be more wary, for example, worth being careful what’s going on. It’s devices also ion It’s that. can’t tendencies. you’re doing “We’ve also got age-veri�icat that underage people might have aggressive than school rushes.” we’ve installed meansis a good thing.” don’t know if someone I’d always rather they took stock them- beer cave alcohol, which “If something happens, shopkeeper to put even really access I wouldn’t tell any us try to stop them. selves in that position.”
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