How to purchase an anti – shoplifting system?
Commonly addressed considerations factors when purchasing an anti – shoplifting systems:
- The number of entries in your store: all entries and doors to your store need to be protected in order to make sure everything is covered. Shoplifters can range from amateurs to highly trained professionals.
- The width of doors: shoplifting gates and towers are capable of detecting hard tags and labels within a certain radius. For a large store entry, you may need additional towers for proper coverage and protection. The distance between towers or antennas depends on what type of anti-theft tag or label you are using.
- Type of merchandise sold: merchandise sold in the store will determine what kind of anti-theft devices you will need. Hard tags and anti-theft labels are the most common type of anti-theft devices sold. Labels are more common for software, CDs, DVDs and other solid products. Anti-theft tags are commonly used with clothing and other types of apparel.
What are the 3 components included in a shoplifting
prevention system?
Gates, Towers and Antennas:
 Gates, Towers and Antennas are all terms referring to the same device. These devices are commonly seen on exits and entrances to department stores and other retailers. They have a built in transceiver that can detect anti-theft tags and labels attached to the goods. If an anti-theft tag or label has not been deactivated from the merchandise and is taken out of the store, the system will alert the store personnel of the possible theft. Different gates and antennas detect different frequencies. It is important to make sure anti-theft hard tags and labels use the same frequency as your gate or tower.
Depending of the width of entries and brands, some gates can be used as stand-alone units while others must operate in units of two or more. For a broad range of theft detection, especially for use in large entryways, towers and gates need to be linked together. You can see our entire selection of anti-theft systems at http://www.bullseyeprotection.com/DS.html
Labels and hard tags:
Labels and hard tags are electronic sensors attached to merchandise for theft protection. There are different methods by which a security tag can be attached to an item. The two most popular security tags are Hard tags (1), which are usually attached to apparel and clothing by using a thumbtack-like pin connected to a security hard alarm tag, and Labels or Soft tags (2), which are applied as a stick-on security label to a smooth flat surface on the item.
 While Soft tags can only be used once, hard tags can be reused and may last for decades. Hard tags can be removed with a tag detacher. You can see our entire hard tag selection at http://www.bullseyeprotection.com/HT.html
 Labels (2) work much in the same way as hard tags. They are paper thin, self-adhesive tags used to protect any type of non-metallic, hard goods item such as film, video tapes, books, cosmetics, pharmaceutical items, or security cases for CD (DVD, or cassette) protection. If they are deactivated by customers, they will make a gate or tower system alert store personnel. They need to be deactivated with the use of an RF Deactivator at the point-of-sale. For information about the labels we sale, visit http://www.bullseyeprotection.com/SL.html
Deactivators and Detachers:
 Used at the point of sale to electronically deactivate labels and detach reusable hard tags as items are purchased, a Detacher (1) is the mechanism used to remove a hard tag or the pin from a security hard tag or labels or soft tags, a tag deactivator (2) is used to turn off or deactivate the tag.
Deactivators and detachers are commonly used at cash registers. You can see our deactivators and detachers at http://www.bullseyeprotection.com/DD.html |
