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Smash-and-Grab Is Only One Part of a Retailer’s Loss Prevention Story

Retail TouchPoints

Yet despite the growing frequency of ORC, retailers would be remiss to focus their loss prevention efforts solely on these brazen, smash-and-grab scenarios. In fact, according to the 2023 National Retail Security Survey conducted by NRF, Appriss Retail and the Loss Prevention Research Council, 68.8% Similarly, 57.8%

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The Role of Communication in Streamlining Retail Security Operations

Retail TouchPoints

Effective communication systems ensure loss prevention and security can quickly rule out suspicious activity. Clearer accountability: When something occurs, security can use documented recorded channels and logs to trace steps taken during the incident.

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Exclusive: How Daniel’s Jewelers is Using Vision AI to Better Serve its Customers

Retail TouchPoints

One prime example: the retailer’s partnership with RetailNext to use in-store traffic analytics for shaping everything from staffing strategies to improving store performance and even loss prevention. When David Sherwood joined the family business in 2001, the plan was to sell.

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

That’s why it’s important to understand the most common forms of theft and the measures you can take to prevent loss without deterring valued customers. External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022.

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Retail x Fintech: The Importance of Security in Retail’s Adoption of BOPIS and Payment Installment Plans

Retail TouchPoints

When they do, they create accounts and pass credit checks using stolen consumer information. They then order and intercept items before these can be delivered to the unsuspecting victim, who is mostly unaware of accounts opened in their name or goods purchased on their account. Tokenized Data is Useless to Fraudsters.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

Retail TouchPoints

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. The store knows what you took from the shelf and put in your cart and can charge you for it on your account that’s linked to their system.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

The software uses AI to help a retailer plan the introduction of new stock into a store and manage the pricing levels across its shelf life. Inventory is the second largest controllable expense and retailers are reporting back an improvement in markdown reduction losses of as much as 50 per cent through using the software to manage planning.