09.03.2024
With political unrest, social uncertainty, and increasing organized crime, protecting your retail store has never been more crucial. Preventing forced entry not only safeguards your assets but also ensures the safety of your staff and customers. A comprehensive security strategy focuses on all the layers of protection for your business: front, middle, and back.
Protecting the Front of Your Store
Burglars want in and out in three minutes or less. The more time required to thwart storefront defenses dramatically increases the burglar’s risk of capture. The more their risk, the less likely they will even attempt a break-in. Visible and invisible security deterrents can help stop burglars and vandals while building for a security foundation for your business.
Rolling shutters and retrofit security glass can help fortify your defenses. Shutters provide a great visible deterrent for criminals, and, depending on your business’s aesthetics, can be made from solid or perforated aluminum. Clear polycarbonate shutters provide less protection but ensure merchandise visibility off hours. Both are open during business hours and deployed (closed) during off-hours. Forced entry security glazing, like our Riot Glass®retrofit solutions, offer a set-it-and-forget-it option that maximizes visibility and requires no staff interaction.
Guarding the Heart of Your Business
Burglars expect both alarms and cameras once they enter a building but are hindered when encountering internal physical security.
Both the inventory room and merchandise floor can be equipped with physical security solutions. Inventory rooms can be outfitted with rolling shutters over interior doorways, while merchandise cases, whether built-in or standalone, can help protect those valuable products from outsider or employee theft. Safeguarding merchandise during both day and night, these cases reduce shoplifting risk and minimize daily stock rotation of items such as guns and jewelry. If your store has counters where more valuable or regulated products are kept, rolling security shutters and side-folding grilles are also great solutions.
Fortifying the Rear of Your Building
When stopped from entering the front of your business, burglars and vandals often look for other points of vulnerability, like secluded back entrances where bystander traffic is low. A retrofittable high-security exit door is a great way to guard these vulnerable areas of your building, particularly in dimly lit areas or alleyways that seem like easy targets. Intruders will use a variety of tools like drills, saws, crowbars, and sledgehammers, so utilizing premium doors that guard against these attacks can stop them in their tracks.
Burglars typically inspect a location prior to the break-in. Additional security measures will make criminals less inclined to attack your store.
Arming Your Store with Layers of Protection
Time is the greatest enemy for burglars attacking your store. By adding layers of protection to the front, middle, and back of your business, you’ll dramatically increase security for what matters most – your customers, your team, and your products.
