IDC Retail Insights has worked with Tyco Retail Solutions to test and assess the impacts of electronic article surveillance (EAS) on a major U.S. grocery retailer’s operations. The program demonstrated that EAS technology continues to be a vital shrink-reducing tool. Our test demonstrated that EAS technology:
- Reduces shrink with minimal process changes and limited resource requirements
- Easily pays for itself even with limited SKU tagging (In the test conducted, tagged merchandise consisted only a small percentage of all potential goods sold through stores.)
Additionally, IDC Retail Insights believes that performance improvements can be even more significant with increased tagging levels across other targeted departments. Retailers continue to invest in EAS to control shoplifting, even as they test and implement additional technologies such as RFID and video analytics.
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