Retail Security Systems - Electronic Article Solutions (EAS)

Reduce Stock Shrinkage

Stock shrinkage – losses caused by customer theft and staff fraud – is a fact of life for all retailers. Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) retail security systems can deter and detect theft while allowing customers to browse through openly displayed goods.

What is EAS?

Electronic article surveillance (EAS) is a technological method for preventing shoplifting from retail stores or pilferage of books from libraries. Special tags are fixed to merchandise or books. These tags are removed or deactivated by the clerks when the item is properly bought or checked out. At the exits of the store, a detection system sounds an alarm or otherwise alerts the staff when it senses active tags.

ADT's Solution

At ADT we provide a wide range of EAS solutions, based on Ultra-Max Acousto-Magnetic (AM) technology, the preferred solution for many of the world’s largest retailers. Virtually any item in your store can be protected with a Sensormatic security tag or label. High value items, such as clothing, can be protected with a prominent tag, while even small pocketable items can be protected with an adhesive label. With source tagging – the provision of anti-theft labels or tags to products at the point of manufacture – there is no need to use expensive staff time to apply them instore.

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White Papers

Electronic Article Surveillance - A Technology Comparison

Executive Summary

Worldwide retailers recognize that shrink or inventory loss is part of their daily challenge affecting their profitability in different ways – loss resulting from theft by customers and employees to poor inventory management and inefficient operations. The global economy continues to struggle through one of the most chaotic fiscal climates in history, causing many retailers to cut staff in an effort to help manage operating costs. Given current economic conditions, retailers recognize that additional investment in Loss Prevention (LP) is necessary to combat the increasing level of shrink.

Consequently retailers need to invest in technology solutions that reduce costs, improve productivity, enhance customer satisfaction and create new sources of competitive differentiation. Loss prevention technologies like electronic article surveillance (EAS) have been very effective in delivery a positive return on investment (ROI) for retailer’s shrink reduction efforts across the globe. According to a recent study by Retail Systems Research (RSR) shrink is increasing as a higher priority among retail executives, supporting their findings that nearly three times the number of top performing retailers use EAS technology as com pared to underperformers.

To help frame the discussion this white paper presents a historical view of EAS technology and its evolution. Also covered is a comparison of radio frequency (RF) to Acousto-magnetic (AM) solutions.

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