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Retailers Use Social Networking to Catch Thieves
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in having too many customers and not enough staff. This is especially true in the case of shoplifting. According to the Globe and Mail, shoplifting "accounts for more than a third of retail shrinkage" in Canada. This holiday season; however, the retailers...
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RFID Industry Touts Accuracy And Speed In Tracking Both People And Products
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and equipment like crash carts, oxygen tanks and defibrillators in seconds with a simple web page interface (you can see the page in our picture gallery). Danai said their long-range system could also be used in shoplifting detection. With their system, a shopkeeper...
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FCC Orders Comcast Allow Bittorrent Traffic
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policies. This disclosure, or more accurately lack of disclosure, is what led the FCC to investigate Comcast in the first place. Like a little boy caught shoplifting in a store, the company has repeatedly changed its story about traffic shaping policies. After...
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Amazon Dumps Plastic Packaging
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Packaging.” Exceptionally small products such as memory cards come in plastic clamshells many times its size (to deter shoplifting), and consumers who order online are then shipped the memory cards inside larger cardboard boxes. This leads to an unnecessarily...
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Still One Leg At A Time - Only Cooler
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with my cell phone, Pocket PC, and the OQO all in the front pockets with no one noticing. Don't even think of using these pants for shoplifting! While pondering the storage capacity of the pants it also occurred to me that I would have never before considered...
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Video Forensics: Catching the Crooks on Camera
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are shopping at your favorite retail store, look up at the ceiling. Chances are that you will probably see surveillance cameras, which many stores install to prevent shoplifting. Watching movies and your favorite episode of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation),...
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Everyone Hates Clamshell Packaging
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Americans each year sent to emergency rooms with injuries caused by plastic packaging. The clamshell packaging was originally designed to make it harder for shoplifters to steal the product, but online retailers such as Amazon.com have no such worry. Now it...