What can retailers do to prevent loss from theft and burglary?
Security guards, cameras, and alarms aren’t a big deterrent for thieves anymore. Sometimes I think ski masks were invented the day security cameras were introduced. No one pays attention to alarm sounds and cops have so many false alarms, they don’t/can’t pay attention either. Okay, then guards must be the answer. If you watch the Apple store break-in video (click below-sorry about the 10 second commercial first), you see an example of $50k in annual security expenditures wasted. Burglars are just like other people-they like to park close, get in quickly, get their merchandise, (important step skipped here), and get back to their car and on their way. If it’s not convenient, they just won’t do their business with this retailer. Some burglars are even getting so lazy, they are trying to park their cars inside the stores and back into the glass doors. As you saw from the Apple store burglary video, the cameras got some really nice footage of 5 masked people and one scared security guard
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