Retail Theft

Focus on Retail Theft

Hello Sweetheart: Internal Theft Sours Retail Relationships

Employees who choose to steal have incredible access to a store’s merchandise, plus awareness of, or even some control over, security measures that stores have in place. This level of access and knowledge creates opportunities for employees to steal or collaborate with external thieves, amounting to a greater loss for stores when compared to external thieves operating without insider assistance.

4 Technology Solutions for Deterring Retail Theft

Technological advances can address the modern demands of retailers, including surveillance, access control, customer experience, and point-of-sale. They can also help seamlessly make stores safer and less susceptible to theft.

By the Numbers: Retail Employee Theft in 2022

While some lost revenue for retailers can be attributed to shoplifters or clerical errors, a significant amount of losses are also caused by dishonest employees who steal from the stores they work in.

How Retailers Leverage Integration to Speed Internal Theft Investigations

Even as concerns grow over organized retail crime, insider theft remains a primary concern for retailers trying to combat shrink.

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How to Steal Like a Retail Insider

Dishonest retail employees have their way of cashing in on insider knowledge and access, but retailers have their methods of catching them, too.

How Intelligence and Clear Objectives Arm Retailers to Battle Crime

Executives are starting to evaluate and implement strategies they would have never before considered to confront the current surge of retail crime and violence head on.