Thieves were making news from coast to coast by attempting distraction, switch, and grab-and-run thefts in February. Items stolen range from loose diamonds, to gold chains, to luxury watches.
Compared to prior months, more crimes than usual were reported to the Jewelers' Security Alliance in January. Many were armed and smash-and-grab robberies, which resulted in high levels of violence and large losses of merchandise.
The locations of jewelry businesses can vary from a designer’s home, to Main Street, to an office on 47th Street in New York.
To the general public, however, jewelry businesses are often synonymous with one type of location in particular: shopping malls. The main square of a shopping center usually has at least one corner devoted to jewelry and, in larger malls, stores can be found on multiple levels.
If the crowds of Black Friday made you worry about your jewelry store security, you might be in for a surprise.
Business Insider reported that "Super Saturday" (which falls on December 17 in 2016) will have more shopper visits than the post-Thanksgiving pandemonium. Also, in terms of sales, Black Friday is one spot behind Super Saturday again - but both fall behind the Friday before Christmas, December 23.
So what does this mean for the security of your business?
