This document provides 10 tips for preventing shoplifting, including keeping shelves low and aisles clear to increase visibility, providing adequate lighting and eliminating blind spots, utilizing security measures like CCTV and sensors, emphasizing good customer service, maintaining a neat store with tight inventory controls, developing policies for shoplifting incidents, limiting items in dressing rooms, making theft difficult by locking up small items and keeping valuables from exits, posting warning signs, and installing annunciators on unlocked doors.

1. 10 Tips for Preventing
Shoplifting

2. Tip #1
Keep shelves and
displays low and
aisles clear to
increase visibility

3. Tip #2
▸Provide adequate
lighting and
eliminate blind
spots within your
business premises

4. Tip #3
Where appropriate,
utilize security staff,
convex mirrors, CCTV,
electronic sensors,
cables, tags, locks
and chains

5. Tip #4
Emphasize on good
customer service; Eg
Your employees greeting
customers as they enter
the store. One phrase
every shoplifter hates to
hear is "Can I help you?"

6. Tip #5
Maintain a neat, orderly
store with tight inventory
controls

7. Tip #6
Develop a store policy
and provide training for
shoplifting incidents

8. Tip #7
Limit the number of
items allowed into
dressing rooms

9. Tip #8
Make it difficult to steal
merchandise. Lock
small valuable items in
cabinets and keep
other valuables away
from store exits

10. Tip #9
Post signs warning that
shoplifters will be
prosecuted

11. Tip #10
Install
annunciators on all
unlocked doors

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