Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

As consumer demands evolve and competition intensifies, retailers are increasingly looking to robotic solutions to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and drive efficiencies across the supply chain. Inventory management is another area where in-store robots will have a profound impact.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2025

Retailers invest heavily in loss prevention personnel, surveillance devices, electronic sensors and other security measures designed to make stealing as difficult as possible and they mostly succeed.

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Retail Customer Experience

JULY 15, 2025

Retailers need to expand their definition even further, going beyond crime and beyond their front doors to start unpacking total retail loss. The traditional definition of “shrink” is insufficient to capture the complexity of the challenge.

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Theatro

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Theatro at NRF 2025: A Must-See Experience As a pioneer in enabling voice-driven communication for frontline teams, Theatro transforms how retail employees collaborate and operate. Streamlined Onboarding : Discover how new hires can contribute immediately, guided by AI-powered workflows like Theatro GEN flows. Why Visit Theatro at NRF 2025?

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365 Retail

JANUARY 29, 2025

Through Retail Media Strategies, retailers can display location-based and personalised purchase recommendations on digital signage, encouraging customers to engage with promoted products and generating additional revenue through supplier cashback schemes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2025

What Retailers Can do About Gun Violence You can’t fix stupid or crazy, unfortunately, and because of that retailers tend to focus a lot on loss prevention and shrink and things like that, but there are things retailers can do to be more preventative [in cases of gun violence], said Acheson.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

This increased risk has forced retailers to reconsider their loss prevention strategies. It’s no longer just about stopping theft; protecting staff and customers from harm is now a top priority, prompting retailers to adopt more comprehensive and proactive approaches to loss prevention and safety.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Sensormatic Solutions has introduced an acousto-magnetic metal label designed to protect high-risk products with metal surfaces like cookware, canned foods and power tools. The new label helps retailers protect previously unprotectable items, while also reducing the labor demand associated with tagging and monitoring these products.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras? What are the most customer-friendly ways to protect high-value items from smash-and-grabs? Here are three possible areas of focus.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2024

In fact, 30% of respondents believe that the biggest area of opportunity for AI is in stores to aid omnichannel and loss prevention efforts; and Transforming customer experiences specifically through the use of generative AI. But many of these tasks may just represent the low-hanging AI fruit.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

The solution, designed to move the retailer closer to its strategic objective of selling more with less stock, also sets up Woolworths to use RFID for loss prevention and supply chain improvements in the future. We are excited to start this journey with them.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2021

Q-Walk will enable managers to create standardized question sets and surveys for all critical functions at the locations, including cleanliness, merchandising sets, loss prevention and compliance.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The new offering is designed to help deploy a variety of analytics that provide real-time insights on retail-specific use cases related to shopper behavior, loss prevention, safety and security, inventory, shopper demographics and other data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

As such, electronic article surveillance (EAS) hard tags, locks, alarms and other physical or visual deterrents to theft have become an expected part of the in-person shopping experience these days. Craig Szklany serves as VP and Product General Manager, Loss Prevention and Liability at Sensormatic Solutions.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This enables retailers to make data-driven decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance customer experiences, while also reducing costs and boosting profits. Loss prevention: Employs advanced surveillance techniques to detect and prevent shoplifting. Here are the key areas to apply AI in retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In pursuit of both goals, focusing on connected, data-driven technologies that can help meet high consumer expectations and support a safe and comfortable environment will help retailers not only enhance their customers’ experience, but also effectively deliver unified commerce services including BOPIS and curbside pickup.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unfortunately, while larger stores often have security measures like loss prevention personnel, anti-theft sensors and other helpful solutions, those measures usually aren’t financially feasible for small and mid-sized businesses.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2024

Early use cases for AI in retail include inventory management, dynamic pricing, customer service chatbots, loss prevention and personalized marketing. Examples can include customer service escalations, product recommendations for high-involvement purchases, new product introductions and other more complicated tasks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2024

One increasingly common way that bias can infect retail AI tools is through AI-powered loss prevention systems that monitor customer behavior, which have been adopted by a string of large retailers. Intellectual property concerns.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One prime example: the retailer’s partnership with RetailNext to use in-store traffic analytics for shaping everything from staffing strategies to improving store performance and even loss prevention.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

customer experience). They are far too centered on the store as a stand-alone entity and not as part of the overall customer experience, which means they tend to drastically undervalue the store’s contribution to that customer experience. However, sometimes the success of one area (i.e.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The cloud opens the doors to new efficiencies and reduced loss, especially when you consider the retail operations that include hundreds (if not thousands) of stores across a distributed network of stores and corporate headquarters. Get More: Elevating the Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

includes cloud technology solutions with rich mobile functionality for omnichannel, POS, merchandising, ERP, warehouse management, analytics and loss prevention. The Retail Management Suite from Jesta I.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding these key differences is crucial for companies of all sizes, as it directly impacts customer experience and ultimately, the bottom line. Packaging can also contribute to loss prevention strategies by incorporating security seals or tamper-evident features.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

ThirdChannel , a retail execution and in-store customer experience solution provider, has released a real-time safety auditing system that has been developed using the latest guidance from the CDC, WHO and state and local guidelines.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

That’s worrying in an increasingly competitive environment where customer engagement and user experience are becoming more important than ever.

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Retail Prophet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The post Are body cameras the future of retail loss prevention? Doug spoke recently with CTV’s Your Morning about the rise in usage among retailers, of body cameras, worn by staff to deter rising levels of theft. The question is, will they solve the problem, or simply create new ones. Let us know what you think!

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Retail Focus

APRIL 23, 2024

Meaningful change begins with one action, and many of our retail customers are taking stronger stances on eco-friendly initiatives. This new label can give retailers another easy, accessible way to do their part to protect the planet and move the needle on helping reduce environmental impact while maintaining precision loss prevention.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ramamurthy also noted that the new solution offers “multiple opportunities in different areas of store operations, including asset protection” and loss prevention, as well as supporting online customers by streamlining store-based fulfillment of online orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This technology has helped make shopping a more frictionless experience for shoppers, but retailers that choose to implement these solutions must place a heavier focus on security technology as well. Hedgie Bartol serves as a Segment Development Manager for Retail in North America at Axis Communications.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This includes monitoring the internet and social media, liaising with local law enforcement and working with individual retailers’ loss prevention officers. Mall of America also works with intelligence analysts to proactively look for threats.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

This year, we’ll hear senior-level executives’ perspectives on how customer experiences are evolving as content, community and commerce converge. With an emphasis on customer experience, RICE has three tailored tracks to reflect the distinct interests and needs of its key audience members.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2024

Using Machine Learning and LLMs to Detect Infringements As with many other types of loss prevention, much of the activity takes place behind the scenes. The numbers, as revealed in the CCU’s 2024 Brand Protection Report, are impressive: In 2023, Amazon invested more than $1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Aaron Stamm is a Retail Consultant at Acuity , which he joined in 2017, bringing with him more than 35 years of experience in a broad range of retail. Throughout his retail career, loss prevention remained a focus. With Acuity Stamm provides retailers with actionable insights and real value to benefit their businesses.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These integrated AI capabilities simplify the deployment and adoption of sophisticated machine learning algorithms to assist shoppers and improve loss prevention. Retail checkout is quickly transitioning from traditional front-end checkouts to those with more emphasis on customer self-service.

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Retail Customer Experience

JULY 30, 2024

Given the surge in theft, there is now a dramatic increase in requests for anti-theft and loss prevention solutions from retailers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Customer theft has long been recognised as retailers’ primary source of loss, accounting for about half of all crime-related losses. As a result, substantial investment and effort have been dedicated to this issue by Loss Prevention (LP) teams.

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