'Tis the season to be mindful! Christmas is only a few short months away. As your sales will start to ramp up over the next few months, so will the opportunity for crime in your store. As a business owner, you are likely wary of the potential for crime at this time of year, so you can increase your security measures in your store in many ways. Here are just three ways a commercial locksmith could help to protect you, your staff and your shop.
Deter Shoplifting
Shoplifting is a major annoyance for every business owner, but you don't want to lock down every item in your shop for fear of putting off potential customers. At this time of year, it is mindful to consider a few shoplifting deterrents:
- Do you have lockable cases for your most valuable stock which is easily concealed by a shoplifter?
- Do you have a good security camera system to help identify shoplifters after items go missing?
- Are digital tags a good option for the stock since they alert your staff if items are removed from the store without the tag being deactivated?
Each of these three items could help reduce the amount of stock which gets removed from your store. A commercial locksmith can give you more information about each of them.
Update Your Keys
During the summer shopping spree, many businesses take on extra staff members to assist during this busy time of year, but are you also exposing the keys to your business to people who should not have them? Keys are very easily copied at any quick key cutting service, so when you get your keys back at the end of an employee's service, do you know for sure they have not been replicated? There are two ways to avoid this problem:
- Switch to smart lock keys which are digitally encrypted so you can activate and deactivate keys using your computer.
- Change the locks regularly so that any keys held without proper authority are rendered useless.
Again, a commercial locksmith can advise you on which one of these options best suits your business.
While you don't want to be overly paranoid about your shop during the summer months, it is a time when criminals take advantage due to the busy activity they see in the store. Give careful thought now to how you can better protect your business from sustaining any stock loss this year so that you can enjoy the profitability that this season's sales bring.
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