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‘Not acceptable’: Drakes director exposes rising cost of retail theft

Inside Retail

Drakes Supermarkets is losing around $10 million each year largely due to theft in stores, according to company director John-Paul Drake. We lose approximately $10 million a year on shrinkage – that covers a range of things but the majority of that is goods that are unaccountable,” Drake said. “It’s Global problem.

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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

Factoring in the roughly US$700 million of inventory shrinkage that occurred in 2022, mainly attributed to retail crime, the company is on track to lose up to a total of US$1.2 billion due to organised retail crime over the past two years alone. It’s the best move they can make,” he noted.

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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?

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Retail’s use of facial recognition raises red flags for consumers

Inside Retail

Supermarket Woolworths has also been singled out after a slide from a 2020 training module, uploaded by a user on Reddit, claimed it uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence in its CCTV system, and had shared this data with police in order to help them apprehend suspects. Most customer’s “uncomfortable” with surveillance .

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