Originally posted by Rapscallion
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A more effective (if slightly more costly) approach for large companies is to have plain clothed and uniformed security and an *EFFECTIVE* CCTV system that records on real time and has full Pan/Tilt/Zoom functions. Using that very system I pulled in (at one point) 8 shoplifters a week in a store approx 10mx30m. Word very quickly gets around that that store isn't the place to steal from.
Receipt checks don't work, nor do security tags (spider wraps and safer cases *do*. Limiting the stock on the shelf or securing it in a way that stops people from physically taking it also works).
Only by pulling the shoplifters and handing them over the police is effective in preventing theft in the long run.
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