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Priorities for retail security heading into 2022

Cisco Retail

In the past year, loss prevention teams have had to adapt to new priority concern areas while 44% of retailers allocated more budget to loss prevention. So, what have been the top concerns in retail security from the past year? Multichannel Sales.

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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. Self-checkout kiosks are ubiquitous today, but they add to the security challenges retailers face.

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Facial Recognition: Will Consumers Welcome the Technology?

Wiser

Security and Loss Prevention. In retail, facial recognition can be leveraged by loss prevention teams to monitor shoppers for possible criminal behavior. Facial recognition can be deployed via security cameras, but it can also be installed in self-checkout registers, ATMs, kiosks, and other individual-use technologies.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. The palm images, after being entered in a kiosk at the 65 locations, link shoppers’ palms to payment cards. Happy New Year. INFLATION ON. YOUR MIND. OF YOUR HANDS.

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Perspectives on the Future of Service Provider Networking: Distributed Data Centers and Edge Services

Cisco Retail

Another is the new and emerging types of digital experiences such as cloud gaming, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), telesurgery using robotic assistance, autonomous vehicles, intelligent kiosks, and Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart cities/communities/homes.

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

Retail TouchPoints

This enables consumers to turn their mobile phone into a payment tool at a kiosk, or easily choose a card when completing a transaction on their favorite retail site. Prior to Entersekt, Bledsoe was a solution architect and sales engineer at VMware, working extensively on security and data loss prevention products.