When a customer comes into your salon, you want your salespeople to look and play the part of tanning experts. With perfect golden color and experience with almost every product and service in the store, your team should guide clients through the interaction with your salon. It’s why so many salons offer their employees free tanning and discounts on lotion. But are these employee benefits hurting you more than you realize?

Employee freebies and discounts are standard fare in retail environments, where it’s important to look like you identify with the company’s brand. Even in restaurants, servers taste the menu so they can give recommendations to customers.

Unfortunately, employee theft and discount abuse are real issues that retailers deal with across the country. If left unchecked and unmanaged, it can have a real effect on your business’s revenue stream. But there are many ways to tackle loss prevention, so you can maintain these benefits with confidence.

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