Loss Prevention with Security Turnstiles and Post & Rail Systems

With the growing financial crisis, retailers are being plagued by an increase in employee theft as well as consumer shoplifting.  According to Tom Blomberg , dean of the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University, “…when people are unemployed and economic hardship is more widespread, crime seems to be more frequent.”

Questions that face retailers are how to prevent merchandise loss from both employees and customers. While employing security staff, adding additional security monitoring systems, and educating employees to watch for potential problems, is among some of the remedies, however, they can be quite expensive. Some affordable solutions for retailers are to include such items as post and rail , waist-height and security turnstiles into their loss prevention plan.  By doing so helps deter would be shoplifters from “running” out of stores with merchandise. In addition, adding full-height security turnstiles at employee entrances helps reduce theft by allowing employees to enter through one section of the facility and exit through another.

In some instances, facilities such as casinos have installed post and rail systems as well as waist-height  turnstiles (with counters) to control employee counts and reduce theft of food while in their cafeterias. This has helped in their loss prevention.

If you are a retailer and would have any questions on how Hardware Specialties’ products can help your business with loss prevention, please call or email us .