Monitoring retail losses. (Jack Eckerd Corp. Eckerd Drug Co.'s use of wireless video...

ALL RETAIL STORES EXPERIENCE losses due to some form of theft. The smaller the item and the larger the stock, the easier an item is to remove. These losses are insignificant to those that occur at the cash register from under ringing, failure to ring, and fraudulent refunds and voids.

Regardless of the actual dollar amount, when individual store losses occur throughout a chain, they can have a significant impact on corporate profits. This presents somewhat of a paradox to management.

While in-store theft represents a loss, installing a video security system