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The clothing retailer required a solution to address shrinkage in stand-alone stores and concessions whilst laying the foundations for long-term plans to migrate to a combined RFID and source tagging programme. Adrian Roe, IT manager at Crombie explains: “We needed to address our shrinkage problem as it was eating away at our bottom line. Particularly in the current economic climate, rather than cut our budget in this area, we realised we had to invest in security to protect our margins from further erosion.”
“Checkpoint Systems is a market leader in this area and has a very good global labelling network. Coupled with the fact that it also supplies one of the UK’s leading department stores with its EAS technology, it made sense to enter into discussions, given that our RF labels had to be compatible with their systems for Crombie concession stores. And so far it has proven to be a prudent business decision,” he continues. “The EAS system has been installed for a number of months now and we have already seen a great improvement in our stock loss figures. One store in particular, that at one stage was recording the highest level of stock loss of them all, has already achieved a 50 per cent reduction in shrink.”
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