And the winner is....

If you’re looking for a new Loss Prevention partner, let me offer a simple suggestion: Don’t start with the spreadsheet.

Start with your peers.

Call the LP managers you respect most.

Ask them which installers just quietly work — which installers the tech staff actually use, which installers pick up the phone after the install, and, finally, which installers are consistent with equipment, naming conventions, and project rollouts.

Find out who installed those. There’s your shortlist.

Next: meet the people, not the proposal.

Meet the person who’ll actually do the work — not just the person presenting the deck or selling the service. If they don’t listen well now, they won’t listen well later.

And most importantly, when it comes to price, ask why.

If someone is slightly more expensive but saves you site revisits, operational frustration, and months of workarounds, the maths solves itself.

Because a bad LP install rarely fails on day one - it fails slowly — then nobody trusts it anymore....then the boss wonders why you spent the money.

One last thing: If your installer thinks they’ll never see you again, they’ll quote like it too. The best partners think beyond this job and into your next ten.

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