Retail Loss Prevention Solutions In the News

Shoplifters Beware

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

CNN Money

Fighting the Five-Finger Discount

November 5, 2009 - Hollinger and other experts say that Agilence is onto something big.

Supermarket News

The Fab Five Must-Have Technology Applications

October 19, 2009 - "Can't do without, must-have technology"

Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal

New Device Helps Merchants Catch Crooked Cashiers

October 12, 2009 - With the growth of organized retail crime, retailers are responding with increased security measures.

Grocery Headquarters

Hidden Menace

September 1, 2009 - Operational Shrink costs grocers billions of dollars each year.  What can be done?

Convenience Store News

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.

Chain Drug Review

An Integrated Approach to Combatting Retail Shrinkage

September 1, 2009 - "We didn't need a worsening economy to make the problem bigger; more complex."

Security Director News

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."

NRF Stores Magazine

Behavior Modification

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.

California Apparel News

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...

Retail Solutions Online

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

Security Systems News

Schneider Electric makes another video investment

June 11, 2009 - "This was not a required financing," Rob Adams, managing partner at Next Stage .

Grocery Headquarters

Where did all the water go?

May 26, 2009 - Kim Ann Zimmermann discusses the mysterious case of missing water and the serious implications it had on shrink.

Today's Grocer

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.

Microsoft

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.

Loss Prevention Magazine

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.

New Jersey Technology Council

Agilence Wins Award for Best Communications / Electronics Company
March 1, 2008 - Photos from the New Jersey Technology Council's 2008 Venture Conference "Best-in-Show" Winners

Supermarket News

Watchful Eyes
February 25, 2008 - Hannaford Bros. and Pathmark are using intelligent systems that interpret video images to identify employee theft and shoplifting

Popular Mechanics

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?

Integrated Solutions for Retailers 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.

Philadelphia Business Journal

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.

Integrated Solutions for Retailers

LP/POS Integration Success

April, 2007 - Pathmark curbed fraud, cut POS errors 50%, improved employee training, and reduced turnover by integrating LP (loss prevention) and POS technologies.

Security Director News

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.

Security Magazine

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.

Loss Prevention Magazine

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.