Category: Loss Prevention
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Why Shrinkage Is a Workflow, Not a Mystery
Ask most retailers where their shrinkage comes from and you will hear a shrug, a percentage, and a story about “the usual suspects”. Treated…
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From Stock Variance to Investigation: Closing the Loop
Most retail teams are good at finding variances and poor at doing anything with them. A count reveals a gap, the gap gets a…
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The True Cost of Retail Shrinkage in South Africa
Every conference talk about retail shrinkage seems to open with a big, round, frightening number. The number is almost always someone else’s, from someone…
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Running Accurate Stock Counts Across Many Branches
A stock count in a single shop is a chore. A stock count across forty branches is a logistics problem, a data problem, and…
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Reducing Internal Theft: Process, Not Suspicion
Internal theft is the hardest kind of retail loss to talk about, because it forces a business to consider that some of its own…
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Run Loss Prevention Like an Operation
In many retailers, loss prevention is really a filing cabinet: incidents get written up, reports get filed, and the paperwork accumulates until someone needs…