Retail Storage Cabinets Part 2: Loss Prevention and Your Business

If you're going into business and you're carrying retail products, have you given any thought to loss prevention?  You should, and this article will cover why.

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Retail Storage Cabinets: Help Stop Shoplifting

Shoplifting is a big problem in the retail industry.  People often equate shoplifting with poorer areas of the Valley, or low-end stores and shopping plazas.  This is far from the truth, as  even places as upscale as Scottsdale Fashion Square and the Biltmore Fashion Park have filed police reports regarding shoplifting.   One of the worst offenders for shoplifting? Customers that actually buy something at the same store. Yes, you read that correctly.  Some shoplifters feel that because they spent some money at the store in question that it allows them to get a little extra too.  Loss prevention is critical for any business, but particularly a retail establishment.

According to the National Association of  Shoplifting Prevention: "

• Many shoplifters buy and steal merchandise in the same visit. Shoplifters commonly steal from $2 to $200 per incident depending upon the type of store and item(s) chosen. 
• Shoplifting is often not a premeditated crime. 73 percent of adult and 72 percent of juvenile shoplifters don't plan to steal in advance. 
• 89 percent of kids say they know other kids who shoplift. 66 percent say they hang out with those kids. 
• Shoplifters say they are caught an average of only once in every 48 times they steal. They are turned over to the police 50 percent of the time. 
• Approximately 3 percent of shoplifters are "professionals" who steal solely for resale or profit as a business. These include drug addicts who steal to feed their habit, hardened professionals who steal as a life-style and international shoplifting gangs who steal for profit as a business. "Professional" shoplifters are responsible for 10 percent of the total dollar losses. 
• The vast majority of shoplifters are "non-professionals" who steal, not out of criminal intent, financial need or greed but as a response to social and personal pressures in their life. 
• The excitement generated from "getting away with it" produces a chemical reaction resulting in what shoplifters describe as an incredible "rush" or "high" feeling. Many shoplifters will tell you that this high is their "true reward," rather than the merchandise itself.

Information and statistics provided by the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention(NASP), a non-profit organization; www.shopliftingprevention.org.

Install Retail Storage Cabinets for Loss Prevention

There is no such thing as being totally theft-proof, nor is there such a thing as a foolproof security system.  However, the harder you make it on a shoplifter or a thief, the more likely they are to try their luck somewhere else.  That's where a retail storage cabinet with a lock comes in.

So remember, you want to improve your bottom line.  You want any shoplifting losses to be minimal.  One way to do that?  Install retail storage cabinets today.

For more information on retail storage cabinets, click here.

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Retail Cabinets: Get Your Business Organized

Retail cabinets help your business get organized so that you can not only store products for sale, you can do it in such a way that the customer won't even know.

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Why Custom Retail Storage Cabinets Matter

Why should you install retail cabinets?  Well, unless you own the building that you're in, retail is one of the most expensive properties around.  If you're in a high end shopping center or a mall, rent is charged per square foot.  While you may have a storeroom in the back, if it follows the usual pattern it is both packed from floor to ceiling, and it is not very big.  Retail businesses have to balance having enough inventory on hand, using their storage space effectively, and not crowding their sales floor.

A custom storage cabinet for a retail business makes use of the available showroom space, and is able to increase storage space at the same time  Since they can be built into displays, and have hidden doors, a salesperson or manager can access products easily and put them out for sale.  And because they are hidden, they can also help a store in a surprising way

Storage Cabinets and Loss Prevention

There is an old adage: "Out of sight, out of mind."  The same holds true where loss prevention is concerned.  Retail storage cabinets can help with this.  Since a lot of products can be stored under a display, or be incorporated into the display case itself, any potential shoplifters would be vary obvious in trying to open the cabinets and pilfer any items, particularly if the cabinets are locked.  And loss prevention is a big reason to get storage cabinets as well.  Here are some facts about shoplifting from the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention:

• More than $13 billion worth of goods are stolen from retailers each year. That's more than $35 million per day.
• There are approximately 27 million shoplifters (or 1 in 11 people) in our nation today. More than 10 million people have been caught shoplifting in the last five years.
• Shoplifting affects more than the offender. It overburdens the police and the courts, adds to a store's security expenses, costs consumers more for goods, costs communities lost dollars in sales taxes and hurts children and families.
• Shoplifters steal from all types of stores including department stores, specialty shops, supermarkets, drug stores, discounters, music stores, convenience stores and thrift shops.
• There is no profile of a typical shoplifter. Men and women shoplift about equally as often.
  

  
  

  Information and statistics provided by the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention(NASP) a nonprofit organization providing research-based shoplifting prevention initiatives including education, prevention, justice and rehabilitation programs. Contact NASP: Click here to email us

So, let's recap here.  More storage space.  Additional security.  Loss prevention.  All very good reasons to get retail storage cabinets.

Be sure to read part two of this series as well for more information on retail cabinets.

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Phoenix, AZ. 85019

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Garage Flooring Part 2: What It's Made Of

What is garage flooring made of?  Why should you install garage flooring?  Part two of our series will answer each of these questions.

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What is Garage Flooring Made Of?

What is garage flooring made of?Well, garage flooring is made of epoxy.  What's epoxy?  Well according to this Wikipedia article excerpt: "Epoxy resins, also known as polyepoxides are a class of reactive prepolymers and polymers which contain epoxide groups. Epoxy resins may be reacted (cross-linked) either with themselves through catalytic homopolymerisation, or with a wide range of co-reactants including polyfunctional amines, acids (and acid anhydrides), phenols, alcohols, and thiols. These co-reactants are often referred to as hardeners or curatives, and the cross-linking reaction is commonly referred to as curing. Reaction of polyepoxides with themselves or with polyfunctional hardeners forms a thermosetting polymer, often with strong mechanical properties as well as high temperature and chemical resistance. Epoxy has a wide range of industrial applications, including metal coatings, use in electronic and electrical components, high tension electrical insulators, fibre-reinforced plastic materials, and structural adhesives." [READ MORE]

Why should you install garage flooring? We covered this a bit in our last article, to sum up, however, it is very simple. You want to install garage flooring to make cleaning up in your garage easy, and to prevent spots on the concrete.  There are other reasons to add it to your home, though.

Install Resin Flooring: Make Even Your Garage Beautiful

Installing garage flooring also makes your garage look less like a garage and more like an auto dealer showroom.  Why?  Well, guess what they coat the floors of auto dealers with?  You guessed it: resin flooring.  It makes the floor tough and stain resistant, and when an auto dealer wants to show off a car, they don't want customers distracted by a dirty and spotted floor.

If you own a home, you want to make sure it looks its best, but not for anyone else's opinion.  There's a very good reason to keep your home.  You're telling yourself that you deserve to live somewhere nice.  So clean up the interior at least once a week, and if you want something to help, then use whatever tricks work.  One of the best one around has to be done only one time as a rule:  to install resin garage flooring.  

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Garage Flooring Part 1: Why You Want It

Part one of a series on garage flooring explores why you want it.

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Reasons to Install Garage Flooring

Do you know what part of your home gets the least amount of attention?  Well, we'll give you some clues.  It is usually attached to your home, doesn't have A/C usually, and it is the place that you probably spend about 20 minutes a year in if you're like most non-mechanics.  In short, it is your garage.  Most people have a bare concrete slab for their garage floor.  The one problem that concrete has is that it only looks new for a short period of time.  Then, after a while, it starts to look rather like a Holstein or a Dalmatian, namely, spots and blotches everywhere.  And the sad thing is that concrete is very porous, and thus absorbs the stains deep into the concrete.  And as most of the stains that drip onto concrete are oil based, they are usually there to stay.

That's where installing resin garage flooring comes into play.  It not only seals the garage floor and protects it from further stains, it also makes a garage floor look like the floor of a showroom.  However, it doesn't just keep your floor from staining.  Did you know that it also adds value to your home?

Increase Your Home's Market Value: Garage Flooring is One Way

When it comes time to sell your home, you want to sweeten the deal as much as you can.  It isn't just your home's location that is a selling point, it is the features of your home.  So something like a custom closet, hardwood floors, and a swimming pool would be considered features of the house up for sale, and increase its market price.  Another feature that would also add a lot of value to your home would be something like resin garage flooring.  It's tough, stain resistant, and waterproof: all excellent selling points.

So remember, you want to always keep your home in good condition.  Keep up your swimming pool and your hardwood floors if you have them.  And if you have a garage, think of ways to make it better as well.  One way to help is to install something that helps to clear up clutter like a set of cabinets, or if you want to start at the floor and work your way up, why not?  Install resin garage flooring today.

For more information on why you want to install garage flooring, be sure to read part two as well.

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4185 West Clarendon Ave.

Phoenix, AZ. 85019

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