How do retail stores prevent stock loss?

There are many ways to minimize retail loss. Optimize your retail floor plan for visibility by keeping aisles short and your POS system near the exit. Add basic theft prevention devices like warning signage, security cameras, and sensors. Train your staff to look out for suspicious activities and keep employees stationed on the floor and near the doors. Retailers can also consult their point of sale for in-depth product reports and get actionable insights. Perpetual counts in real-time mean that you have up-to-date information, and shift reports can help identify worrisome activity from your employees. Retail loss prevention requires a holistic, thorough approach.

What does loss prevention mean?

Retail loss prevention is the process and strategy of minimizing product shrinkage and lost revenue. This includes loss of any kind, such as shoplifting, internal theft, spoilage, fraudulent activity, administrative errors, and supplier mistakes.

What are the best ways to avoid retail theft?

Use common best practices to protect your business. Try to allocate a portion of your budget to protection, potentially including security personnel, surveillance cameras, and anti-theft devices. Get a point of sale that can help you identify any problems. Real-time inventory updates, perpetual counts, in-depth KPIs, and employee shift reports can all help prevent loss. Finally, proper loss prevention training and cash handling procedures will also help avoid incidents of theft or other forms of loss in retail.

What are the most common causes of retail shrinkage?

The most common causes are theft, spoilage, and retail fraud . Retail theft still costs retailers tens of billions of dollars each year. And spoilage is nearly as bad. 40% of food in America, for instance, is lost to spoilage.

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Common Ways Retailers Lose Money (And How KORONA POS Minimizes It)

Internal & External Theft

Customize employee permission controls, view cashier actions, and transaction auditing

Inventory Loss

Automate inventory tracking for accurate stock levels and inventory counts

Operational Errors

Identify discrepancies and trends in data reports with real-time monitoring

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Retail Loss Prevention Systems Are Vital to Your Point of Sale Solution

Simple and Locked Price Changes

Loss prevention practices include adding authorization measures for attempts to add impromptu discounts to any sale and preventing cashiers from giving random discounts.

Complete Inventory Management

With in-depth inventory management software and reporting, you’ll be able to quickly identify discrepancies and take care of the problem before too much is lost.

Customizable Security Features

The KORONA POS theft prevention features are built to be fully customizable for retail businesses and are effective security measures for loss prevention efforts.

Accurate Balance Verification

Check the balance of each cashier or run balance reports for each terminal instead. You can even set an allowed balance difference that you deem acceptable.

Manage Cashier Actions

Create cashier roles and point of sale user permissions for your employees. Allow who can process returns, override prices, pull reports, and more. Easily grant and adjust authorization measures for each cashier right on your POS system or back office.

View Cashier Actions

Get the most in-depth sales reporting. See the number of completed or removed transactions, returns, receipts, or item cancellations, as well as discounts by the cashier. Discover any suspicious behavior or employee discrepancies.

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More Retail Loss and Theft Prevention Features From Your POS System

Receipt Voids

Some cashiers will void an entire ticket after the transaction and pocket the money if someone pays with cash. KORONA POS includes customizable features that require authentication preventing internal theft.

No Sale Tender

A blank receipt is often cashed out to open the cash drawer. KORONA POS allows you to prevent this. It’s better to keep the cash drawer closed as much as possible as part of loss prevention practices.

Force Drawer Closing

The KORONA POS retail loss prevention software doesn’t allow any new actions if the drawer is open. This stops potential risks and cashiers from operating the drawer ajar and is accessible at all times.

KORONA Studio Access

Customize access control systems and protect your retail business from employees entering the back-office system to alter prices so that they can purchase or sell items at a steep discount.

Item Voids

Prevent cashiers from voiding individual items with unauthorized removal. Even if you decide to allow voids, KORONA POS will record all actions in each staff member’s employee shift report.

Blind Balance

Add a setting that requires employees to drop their cash drawer blindly at the end of the shift. This loss prevention strategy stop risk of theft and allows you to notice patterns and pick out bad apples.

KORONA POS is a great, simple-to-use POS system that allows our business to make sales, track finances and employees, and create reports all for a great price

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