Do stores keep track of shoplifters?
Many retailers, especially large department and grocery stores, use video surveillance. Some stores even have facial recognition software so they can easily identify people from the surveillance videos. Many locally-owned stores use social media to track down shoplifters.
What is the most common form of shoplifting?
Concealing – The most common method, concealing involves secreting items in bags, prams, and clothing and leaving the store. In clothing stores it often involves a customer taking multiple items into a change room and emerging with fewer after layering the rest under their own attire.
How often do stores check their cameras?
Typically, surveillance footage is checked only when there is an incident that needs to be reviewed. The standard timeframe to keep recorded video used to be in the 30 day range, but with modern digital recording and the decreasing costs of storage, holding a year or more worth of video is not uncommon.
How often do stores check inventory?
When and how frequently you perform a full stock take varies from one store to another. Some stores limit full physical inventory counts to once a year, others do them bi-annually, while others conduct them at frequent intervals.
How do you spot a shoplifter?
Shoplifters often have a distinctive behavioral profile that can be quickly spotted soon after they enter a retail store. Most stores these days have surveillance cameras to track and record the behavior of shoplifters.
What is an example of a profile of shoplifting?
For example, one profile is that people rarely shoplift while in the presence of their spouse, significant other, or parents. After scanning these persons they might quickly be bypassed as theft candidates. Shoplifting is a crime of opportunity and desire.
What do loss prevention agents do to prevent shoplifting?
They know all the hot spots and the best angles for surveillance. Frequent shoplifters are shocked when they attempt to steal in the wrong store, at the wrong, time, and come up against professional loss prevention agents. After thousands of hours, they become experts at monitoring shopper behavior.
Do retail store loss-prevention agents use “profiling” tactics?
The media often asks me if retail store loss-prevention agents use “profiling” tactics as a means of determining which customers are most likely to steal. The answer is undeniable, yes.