Loss Prevention
Keeping Track of Plastic Bags
In England, the law has just changed to double the minimum price retailers must charge, along with some additional requirements.
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Retail Technology
Amazon in the UK
Although nobody outside of the company has a precise idea of the costs and difficulties involved in fitting out a store, what we can say for certain is that even with Amazon’s inexhaustible budgets, deploying thirty stores has taken over three years.
Unshrink: In Practice
The Unshrink: In Practice event on Thursday February 25th was a great success. Thank you very much to those of you that were able to attend. You can watch the session again here, or search "Unshrink" from your prefered podcast venue for an audio version.
Loss Prevention
Unshrink: In Practice
Join us on Thursday February 25th at 3pm GMT - 10am EST as our panel tries to strike a balance between maximising the efficiency of store operations while minimising the risk of losses. Limited places are still available. Reserve yours today [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unshrink-in-practice-tickets-136966246731?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch]
Artificial Intelligence
On Bias
Our recommendation is that if your provider has any facial recognition components, or if you are unsure where their training data comes from, you have a long talk with them and then have a longer conversation with us.
unshrink
Unshrink - Challenge Your Assumptions
Our customers have told us how the data we gather has changed their perceptions about sources of loss within their stores. Here Chris Bell, our Head of Marketing, lays out three assumptions about how staff behaviour leads to loss.
India - The High Tech Nation
India has a very long association with technology. Some argue it is a history that goes back to the Bronze Age. What is certain is that IT has been a staple of the economy since the 1970s, when emergent mainframe computers needed teams of dedicated engineers and programmers to keep them running.
Ethics
Ethics and AI
As a company, SAI has always taken great care when developing our systems and training our models to ensure that we not only “do no harm”, but that we actively “do what is right”.
Packaging
Taking the P out of CPG
CPG brands are looking to re-invent themselves to face the new future, remaining relevant to a new generation of consumers in a new era of retail. One of the trends we are seeing is a move towards dramatically reducing environmental impact generally, and plastic packaging more particularly.
Checkout Stock Loss Report 2020
For twelve months our Valentine product has been monitoring staffed and self service checkouts, measuring and reporting inaccuracies in real time. This report is based on the data we have gathered.
Retail Technology
Moving Retail Beyond the Barcode
“The barcode is brilliant, cheap and reliable, but it has limitations that are hampering visibility of key cost-saving metrics. Intelligent cameras can illuminate these areas and deliver insights to many retail business units.”
Retail Week
SAI at Retail Week SixSixty Club
Hear Helen Wilde explain the SAI story and find out how Moving Beyond the Barcode with our Storewide Active Intelligence platform can help retailers' bottom line.