POS Video Auditing In the News
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'Returnaholics' Cost Retailers Billions of Dollars a Year May 18, 2010 - If you've noticed that returning items to stores isn't as easy as it used to be, rest assured: it isn't just you. |
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Retailers Improve Service with Smart Security May 4, 2010 - In these last few years, retailers have requested more integration between electronic systems used, for better protection and enhanced business intelligence. |
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Retailers Realize Security's Value May 4, 2010 - Smaller retailers do not have the budget for expensive network cameras. "In the grocery space, margins for security systems are in the 1- to 2-percent reach," said Derek Rodner, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy of Agilence. |
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Security Shrinks Losses for Retailers May 4, 2010 - Possibly the most price-sensitive market, most retailers struggle to allocate funding for security systems. |
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5 Top Tactics in Retail Theft Today April 30, 2010 - 2009 created "the perfect storm in retail shrink," according to Derek Rodner, vice president of product strategy at Agilence, a maker of retail loss prevention products. |
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Delivering Results in Loss Prevention From the Investigation to the Interview April 1, 2010 - Best practices for building strong LP cases and questioning associates |
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JONS Marketplace Cuts Shrink with POS Video System March 25, 2010 - In addition to being a highly effective loss prevention tool, JONS Marketplace found Hawkeye to be a valuable training tool |
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JONS Marketplace Leverages Video Surveillance, POS Data to Cut Shrink March 25, 2010 - JONS Marketplace reduces shrink to an all-time low after installing Hawkeye |
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Staffing Levels Playing Into Retail Crime March 5, 2010 - The economic downturn in 2009 created the perfect storm for retail theft |
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March 1, 2010 - Loss prevention technology allows grocers to uncover operational issues that impact profitability |
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March 1, 2010 - By synchronizing POS data with corresponding video using Hawkeye, JONS Marketplace was able to better identify shrink activities |
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March 1, 2010 - New Jersey Turnpike Authority uses Agilence to help monitor tolls |
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February 8, 2010 - JONS Marketplace gets an ROI in under 6 months with Hawkeye |
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JONS Marketplace Cuts Shrink with Video Auditing Tool January 26, 2010 - Manuel Sauceda, Director of IT at Jons, “Now, with the Agilence software, we have similar data as we did before, including the receipt documentation, but we now have the images and video as well." |
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Shoplifters Beware: New Tools Protect Small Business November 13, 2009 - Employees actually stole an estimated $15 billion dollars from retailers last year according to Univ. of FL criminologist Richard Hollinger |
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Fighting the Five-Finger Discount November 5, 2009 - Hollinger and other experts say that Agilence is onto something big. |
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The Fab Five Must-Have Technology Applications October 19, 2009 - "Can't do without, must-have technology" |
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New Device Helps Merchants Catch Crooked Cashiers October 12, 2009 - With the growth of organized retail crime, retailers are responding with increased security measures. |
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September 1, 2009 - Operational Shrink costs grocers billions of dollars each year. What can be done? |
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Agilence Loss Prevention Solution August 24, 2009- The new loss prevention system by Agilence Inc. identifies both cashier shrink activities and operational, training and policy issues. |
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An Integrated Approach to Combatting Retail Shrinkage September 1, 2009 - "We didn't need a worsening economy to make the problem bigger; more complex." |
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Agilence, Bass Security Partner to Bait Retail Market August 1, 2009- "gives us a best-of-breed product to deliver to our existing 100,000 retailers. We are able to approach our customers with the solution and in turn, [Agilence] has a customer base that may need an integrator." |
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July 16, 2009 - Journalist Craig Guillot interviews a regional drug chain abotu their usage of Agilence and how it has impacted the way they approach loss prevention. |
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Retail Crime Increased as U.S. Economy Worsened June 22, 2009 - Crimes against retailers are increasing, and they are costing the economy billions of dollars, said criminologist Dr. Richard Hollinger, who spoke... |
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On the Road: Turn LP into a Profit Center June 22, 2009 - Loss prevention (LP) is evolving into a revenue generator, with technology among the largest drivers of the change, according to retailers and vendors at the 2009 NRF Loss Prevention Conference & EXPO |
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Schneider Electric makes another video investment June 11, 2009 - "This was not a required financing," Rob Adams, managing partner at Next Stage . |
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May 26, 2009 - Kim Ann Zimmermann discusses the mysterious case of missing water and the serious implications it had on shrink. |
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FMI LP Conference Reviews Shrink Reduction Practices March 24, 2009 - Summary of Pedro Ramos's FMI LP session on Best Practices in Shrink Management. Interested in learning more? Join the webcast on April 1 at 1:pm ET. |
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Loss Prevention Technology for Retail Businesses March 24, 2009 - Retail chains lose billions of dollars annually by items being stolen and slipping through Point-of-Sale cash registers. It is common in most retail stores for like Walmart, Target, Walgreens to see sophisticated camera systems implemented by in-house loss prevention teams at the point of sale terminals. |
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Agilence Reduces Retail Cashier Shrink by 50% March 17, 2009 - Retail point-of-sale shrink accounts for over $14 billion annually. The current economic climate is causing shrink to increase at an alarming rate. |
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To Prevent Losses, Cameras Ring Up a Cashier's Every Move June 1, 2008 - Cashiers at some large supermarkets are being watched by video cameras, with every cash register transaction recorded by a computer. Analysts, using special software, are able to match video images to each transaction. |
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Agilence Wins Award for Best Communications / Electronics Company |
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Watchful Eyes |
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Surveillance Society: New High-Tech Cameras Are Watching You January, 2008 - In the era of computer controlled surveillance, your every move could be captured by cameras, whether you're shopping in the grocery store or driving on the freeway. Proponents say it will keep us safe, but at what cost? |
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DVR/POS Integration Yields Power
December, 2007 - Maintaining disparate pools of POS and LP (loss prevention) data is no way to get a full view of POS loss and training issues. Modern tools allow their integration. |
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N.J. Invests $1M in Camden Company September, 25, 2007 - The Edison Innovation Fund was created to support research and commercialization in growth sectors of the state's economy. |
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April, 2007 - Pathmark curbed fraud, cut POS errors 50%, improved employee training, and reduced turnover by integrating LP (loss prevention) and POS technologies. |
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Retailer on Path to Reduce Shrink January 29, 2007 - "This technology enables us to look at line item transaction information and view it seamlessly with the video," said Pedro Ramos, assistant vice president of loss prevention with Pathmark. |
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IP Centric Calls for Scalable Compression June 5, 2006 - Video compression, the shrinking of a video file to a fraction of its original size by reducing redundancies in the image, is an essential part of digital surveillance systems. |
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From the Super Bowl to the Super Market February, 2004 - Putting in technology is not all there is to it. The key is using it. If I have a CCTV system with no man-hours to monitor it, I might as well throw it away. I’ve got to use the system 100 percent. |