Advantages of EAS!!!
At Shop Floor
- Out of Stock
- On-shelf availability
- Merchandizing
- Customer flow
- Product theft
In Point Of Sale
- Correct Staffing
- Efficiency and accuracy
- Sweet hearting
- Staff fraud
- Returns
- Customer service
At Store Exits
- EAS Alarm Handling
- Store Traffic
- Aesthetics
- Customer Flow
EAS Performance Chain
Effective Deterrence= Return of Investment
Performance is only as good as the weakest link in the EAS”Chain”
Efficient Operation= Scale of return
Breaking The “Links”
EAS Tag or Label Identification
Removal
Disabling
Operational System Performance
Detection of secure Items
Shielding Secured Items
System “Blinding ” or Jamming
False Alarms
Failure to remove tags
Failure to Deactivate Labels
Individual Alarm Identification
Elements of an EAS System
– EAS Label or Hard Tag
- An EAS tag is attached to each item to be protected
– Deactivation or Removal at Point of Sale
- EAS Hard Tag is removed
- Label deactivated
- The customer’s purchase will not set off an alarm
– Detection
- Detection equipment (Pedestals or Antennae) at the exit will detect a Hard Tag or live EAS label
- Attempted removal of an item that has not had the Hard Tag removed or the Label deactivated, will cause an alarm
