Security
Securing your Future
Preventing losses is an important part of running a retail business. We take a look at how appropriate levels of security can help to protect profit margins as much as possible.
For a retailer, the content of any store is the lifeblood of a business. Therefore, it is important that the building and its contents are secure. As well as objects in the store, it is also important that people are protected, whether that is the customers, whose information needs to be protected when making transactions, or the employees who need to be protected from various health and safety issues. Appropriate levels of training and safety management can help to keep employees safe, but the protection of both customer data and material resources can be a more difficult task.
The protection of physical capital is something that is taken very seriously in retail, and for good reason. This can be anything from protecting the entrance
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when the shop is closed, to protective display cases and secure retail display units. As with most things, prevention of theft is always better than cure, and a visible deterrent such as video surveillance is a great way to discourage theft. Video surveillance is a great deterrent, and its main purpose is identification in case of an incident.
Advances in technology have developed the potential for identification, and companies such as Oncam Global have developed new security solutions that will allow retailers to monitor potential threats,
and help them to feel confident that any incidents can be quickly dealt with. Oncam Global has partnered with ClickIt to deploy its Grandeye 360 degree imaging technology portfolio into an integrated management and security solution for the retail market place. Oncam
designs, develops and deploys total security
solutions that provide superior operational readiness to maximise prevention and response. This is achieved by integrating the latest in command‐and‐control, facial recognition, biometrics, access‐control and other state‐of‐the‐art technologies with
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