Protecting food, Promoting Sales - Century Solutions for Food retail segment helps to Enhance Security and Decrease Shrinkage - 11/04/2023
Retailers, especially hypermarkets, supermarkets and grocery stores have adopted Loss Prevention Solutions for a long time, for high-value products such as razors and razor blades, liquors and wines, cosmetics and electronic products.
However, nowadays the high inflation continues in many countries around the world. For example, France's annual inflation rate hit 6.3 percent in February, according to Insee-the national statistics agency, while food prices rose 14.8 percent over the year, overtaking energy as the biggest driver of inflation. Moreover, Insee expects inflation to ease in the coming months, but food prices will only rise more sharply.
According to Kantar, one of the world's leading consumer research companies, food prices in the UK have risen across the board over the past 12 months due to rising inflation - currently running at just over 11%. Soaring grocery prices, coupled with rising energy, petrol and the overall cost of living make that crisis drives consumers to some extreme situation that could eventually trigger risks.
Under such circumstances, retailers are forced to look for more anti-theft security solutions focusing their efforts on investment in basic food. Century, as the leading EAS/RFID integrated products & solutions provider for Retail, is offering a variety of protection solutions to safeguard this kind of food articles.
· Safers – more than 100 different sizes to give the strongest security within the best products visibility, using two different locking systems (SLS – Single Lock System & DLS Double Lock System ) to allow stores’ personnel to make the food products more attractive to clients by enhancing the visual desirability in the open display, by using transparent but strong safers, for articles such as chewing gum, cheese, vitamin C packs, milk, meat, Otherwise, Century safers also can protect meats at low temperatures, helping the stores to reduce shrinkage by thieves actions.
· CanGrip – specially engineered solution to protect high-value cans such as Baby formula and Coffee & Energetic drinks. This simple but effective tag can be quickly fitted. It's compatible with most common cans and has a generous size tolerance, minimal space impact on display shelf.
· Labels - a wide range of sizes be used for a diverse range of products, as well as customizable to suit different types of packaging, Century food labels are safe and difficult to remove. For example, Century RF Frozen labels, with unique designs for chilled or frozen products, like meat and cheese. These labels can work in harsh environments without weakening their specs, for a long period of time.
· Bottle Tags – Good-looking design for a variety of bottles, as a high integrity solution for wine and spirits protection, which is ideal to use in retail industry. These specific bottle tags are easy to attach or detach from the bottleneck, improving work efficiency and reducing labor costs.
Century is committed to offer a complete set of anti-theft security solutions for food segment, in a very extended and diversified manner, adapting to all types of products to be protected.
For more information, please contact us at info@century-retail.com.