Retail Access Control

Ensure the correct individuals enter the correct areas at the correct times.

Retailers fight a daily battle for innovation and delivery. Faced with the consolidation of key retail channels, extended hours and additional amenity offerings to serve the needs of their customers, retailers of all sizes face increased competition, increased concerns over security, energy saving initiatives and demand for virtual control of facilities.

Why rob a bank, when it's so easy to steal from your employer?

• Retail theft rose by 5.9% in 2009, the biggest increase since 2001.
• But it's not the shoplifters retailers have to worry about.
• Dishonest employees steal about 6.6 times more than shoplifters.
• One out of every 28 retail employees was caught thieving in 2009.

Need a laptop? Just grab one from the office

• In 2005, theft of office equipment cost employers $530 million.
• By 2007, it cost employers $656 million.
• By 2009, it cost $747 million.
• Want that equipment back?
• Good luck.
• 96% of stolen office equipment is never recovered.

Often, the most dangerous culprit is someone on the inside

According to Forrester Research, employee theft of sensitive information is 10 times costlier per incident than any accidental sharing of sensitive data. Forrester recommends, "Enterprises should focus more of their resources on stopping the most damaging incidents: deliberate theft by insiders and abuse by outsiders."

If it's left laying around, it could soon be in the competition's hands

• A maintenance crew supervisor at PPG surreptitiously collected diskettes, blueprints and other confidential research information.
• He then tried to sell the proprietary information to PPG's chief rival, Owens-Corning.
• He was finally caught in an FBI sting operation.

Want to buy Coca-Cola's recipe for $1.5 million?

• A trusted executive administrative assistant secreted confidential documents and a glass vial of a product sample out of the building in her bag.
• She then sent a letter to PepsiCo, offering the trade secrets for cash.
• Coca-Cola verified that the documents were valid and proprietary.

Access control records can even help catch thieving employees

• When laptops began disappearing after hours from a Manhattan office building, managers knew how to find who took them.
• Data from the facility access control system quickly narrowed the list of employees accessing those offices.
• When presented with records detailing his nighttime entries, the suspect confessed.

Installing an electronic access control system into your retail store will monitor personnel locations,
control where employees can gain access to and ensure the correct individuals enter the correct areas at the correct times.