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Adding a History Section[edit]

Hey, I want to add a history section to this article giving background information on when and why using ink tags became a common clothes store practice. It would include information on why clothes retailers were hesitant at first to use them and the reasons they decided to implement them in stores. Taylor.823. (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm moving the hitory section to here for now. I think a history section is needed but the current version is just too problematic. SpinningSpark 07:59, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History

Security Tag Systems, INC. designed the Ink Tag (1989), which precedes the Color Tag (1984) and Kno-Glo (1988), offering a condensed and lightweight prototype to its predecessors hard-to-remove options that gave off an odor and contained toxic chemicals.^[1] The Ink Tag sold for $3 apiece, half the price of past products on the market.^[1] Although the Ink Tags improvements were significant, clothes retailers were reluctant to introduce them into their security protocol. They were already using electronic article surveillance (EAS) products and didn't see a need for the Ink Tag.^[1]

When these EAS products started to lose effectiveness in the mid-1980s, shoplifting incidents skyrocketed.^[1] These clothes retailers decided the Ink Tag was essential to deter future shoplifters since they wouldn't benefit from stealing the item. Today's Ink tags are over an inch in diameter and reusable, making them an extremely affordable security option for retail stores.^[2] Other industries have adopted the design and idea behind the benefit denial system that has made the Ink Tag a success, leading to new security innovations like security coding.^[2] Now, the Ink Tag reduces shoplifting incidents more than EAS systems. The most significant difference is the Ink Tag's ability to stain items and take away the shoplifter's reward rather than being only hard to get off and possibly triggering an alarm.^[2]

It currently reads like an ad for Security Tag Systems. Why go out of historical order and open with the STS ink tag? That is not how the source handles them. The source takes them in historical order and gives equal coverage to Color Tag and Kno-Glo. As phrased the impression is given that STS invented the ink tag. The source makes clear that the STS Ink Tag was an Amercan version of an earlier European invention – something entirely missing from our text. It is factually incorrect; the Ink Tag did not precede the Color Tag and Kno-Glo as stated. That is obvious from the dates given and the source makes that absolutely clear. SpinningSpark 07:59, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d DiLonardo, Robert L. (2019-09-13). "The Improbable History of the Ink Tag". Loss Prevention Media. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
^ ^a ^b ^c DiLonardo, Clarke, Robert, Ronald (1996). "Reducing the rewards of shoplifting: An evaluation of ink tags" (PDF). Security Journal. 7: 11–14 – via Elsevier.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Types of Ink Tags[edit]

I finished the section on the history of ink tags and was intrigued by the different types of ink tags. I'm planning to add a section for types of ink tags so that people can get more detailed information on those. I noticed there aren't any Wikipedia pages for specific ink tags yet. If these particular types of tags interest anyone, it would be awesome to have Wikipedia pages for them to link those terms in this article.

Here are some of those terms: ADT Ink Tags, Inktag3 Ink Tag, SensorTags, CheckInk II Ink Tags, Sensormatic's Ultra Ink Tag, and Sensormatic's Supertag. I found these different types off of this website ^[1] Taylor.823. (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Beckert, Angie. "Types of Ink Tags". biz fluent. Retrieved 8 February 2022.

[:0-1] DiLonardo, Robert L. (2019-09-13). "The Improbable History of the Ink Tag". Loss Prevention Media. Retrieved 2022-02-08.

[:1-2] DiLonardo, Clarke, Robert, Ronald (1996). "Reducing the rewards of shoplifting: An evaluation of ink tags" (PDF). Security Journal. 7: 11–14 – via Elsevier.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[3] Beckert, Angie. "Types of Ink Tags". biz fluent. Retrieved 8 February 2022.

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