Black Friday Store Security in Florida

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Black Friday is the far and away the biggest (and baddest) shopping event of the year, with total sales from brick and mortar establishments totaling over $13 billion on Black Friday alone in 2015. For retailers, you have the extra challenge of early opening times, crowd control, shoppers sleeping in tents outside, and long list of potential problems; shoplifting, shrinkage, trampling, brawls, customer confrontations and more. These issues are a headache that eat away at your profit margins. Worse, a major incident on your premises can lead to a lengthy legal battle and financial trouble long after the holidays are but a bad memory.

Black Friday Store Security in Florida

The Holiday Season is when your store is the busiest, the your associates are the most distracted, your fitting rooms and store shelves are the most disorganized, the crowd is more agitated and it’s the time of year the police are the busiest. All of this amounts to one of the most hectic and dangerous environments a store owner will ever see.
ESS Global Corp has been providing black Friday store security in Florida for merchants of all types. Here are some of the major challenges we help you overcome.
black friday store security in florida
Crowd Control and Customer Safety – Simply dealing with the crowds on Black Friday is a challenge. In fact, the majority of deaths and injuries incurred on Black Friday is either due to folks trampled in stampedes or affected by pepper spray. In addition, controlling the biggest crowd of shoppers all year come store opening time, an increased Black Friday security presence can help to ensure that your customers are safe and secure.
Customer Shoplifting/ Employee Shrinkage – With such massive crowds, stores of every kind are unusually vulnerable to theft, especially in light of your staff being overstretched trying to provide service to so many people. Sadly, employee theft is more active during the holidays as well. Not only with your regular employees, but the seasonal help that also knows that come January, they won’t be collecting a paycheck anyways. Employee theft skyrockets because there is so much activity for supervisors to keep tabs on. While a security presence doesn’t guarantee that your Black Friday sales will be completely free of any shrinkage, a visible security force certainly helps.
Hire security for Black Friday
Hiring an ESS store security guard for Black Friday is a great way to help ensure the day goes smoothly, and vastly reduces shoplifting and shrinkage. Just the act of having a visible security presence is enough to prevent many would-be shoplifters. Depending on the size of your business, it may be necessary to take on more than one security guard in order to ensure that the majority of your store is under observation and surveillance.
ESSESS Global Corp has been providing black Friday store security in Florida for years.
Give us a call for a free consultation.

727-940-7926

Email: info@essglobalcorp.com

Holiday Store Security in Florida

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ESS Global Corp provides holiday store security in Florida because for small business owners, the holiday season can be a dream as well as a nightmare. The significant increase in shoppers does wonders for your bottom line and generates brand awareness that can last into the new year. But there is a dark backside to the holidays, because with these benefits comes the need to hire additional staff members as well as additional security.
Holiday store security in Florida
This holiday season as your store begins to fill up, dishonest shoppers and untrustworthy seasonal employees will see it as a more appealing place to take what they’d like without stopping to pay the bill. According to reports by Business News Daily, U.S. retailers are expected to lose over $9 billion dollars from crime this holiday season, mostly from employee theft and shoplifting.
U.S. retailers will lose $4.7 billion through employee theft, $3.8 billion though shoplifting and $400 million through vendor and distribution, according to a new study by the Center for Retail Research.

The losses will represent a 4 percent increase over the same period last year.

Holiday Store Security in Florida

Holiday store security in Florida
Obviously, a profit decrease is exactly the opposite of what you’d hope for the busiest quarter of the year. This is why setting a plan to manage the holiday season’s larger crowds will be crucial to the success of your holiday preparation efforts.
The top three product categories most likely to be stolen over the Christmas period are alcohol, women’s clothing and fashion accessories.
Other attractive targets for crooks and sticky-fingered employees are toys, perfume, health and beauty gift packs and electronic devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
Also making the top 10 list for thieves are toiletries for men, DVD gift sets and game consoles, food and Christmas decorations, electrical goods including hardware and DIY, watches and jewelry, and chocolates and confectionery.

Theodore Billiris - ESS Global Corp
Theodore Billiris – ESS Global Corp

“The holidays are an attractive time for criminal activities,” according to Theo Billiris at ESS Global. “Thieves take full advantage of busy stores and distracted employees to steal. Retailers need to know that this is the time of year where they face a much bigger threat from professional and semi-professional thieves. The holiday shopping season is when organized retail crime flourishes. Worse, this time of year, the average amount stolen per incident, in much higher than ‘normal’ loss throughout the year.”
ESS Global Corp provides holiday store security throughout Florida. Call the experts in security and keep your holidays calm and profitable.

727-940-7926

Email: info@essglobalcorp.com