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Avoiding Stockouts: 5 Preventable Causes of Out-of-Stocks and What to Do About Them

Retail Times

Between shipment variances, misplaced products, returns, and stolen goods, retailers find that the inventory numbers they have on paper (or on screen) often don’t match what they have in their stores. For more information on how to reduce shrinkage, see our previous post on beefing up security and preventing loss in your store.

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Loss Prevention & Fraud Detection in Retail

Cisco Retail

Increasingly, Organized Retail Crime (ORC) and Cybercrime rank at the top of the list of Loss Prevention (LP) concerns, along with associate fraud and returns fraud. Losses can occur through theft, breakage/spoilage, administrative errors, supplier fraud (shorting orders), returns fraud (artificially inflating inventory), and more.