Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2021

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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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

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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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

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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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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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