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How retailers can combat shrink and create an enjoyable shopping experience

Inside Retail

Retail profitability can be critically impacted through stock loss with inferior or outdated protection systems. Retailers face continual challenges with increasingly sophisticated shoplifters causing in-store ‘shrinkage’. The result is costing retailers billions in stock loss each year.

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

Inside Retail

These technologies are helping retailers achieve efficiencies in operational functions including staff deployment and management, customer service, shrinkage reduction and lifecycle pricing. They also need clarity around what they need to do. You can discover more about Zebra Technologies’ new generation of connected software solutions here.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion.

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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Security and Loss Prevention Ensuring the security of your retail store and merchandise is paramount. Outsourcing security and loss prevention services to professionals can significantly reduce the risk of theft, shoplifting, and inventory shrinkage.

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Commonsense answer needed for retail crime

Mass Relators

Fueled by a surge in organized retail crime, shrinkage costs the industry almost $100 billion a year, according to National Retail Federation’s “2022 Retail Security Survey.” The study, conducted with the Loss Prevention Research Council, found that the average shrink rate in 2021 was 1.4%, resulting in losses of $94.5

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While tech giants have their heads in the clouds, this is why other retailers don’t need to follow suit

A1 Retail

As counterintuitive as it is, we all know losses are an accepted norm in retailing. Factored into the bottom line, as sales increase for stores, so will the losses of product inventory. Loss prevention teams call this inevitable outcome “external shrinkage”. But is this a prime example of too much, too soon?