Automatic Product Identification & Shrinkage:
Scoping The Potential

A White Paper For ECR Europe
By
Adrian Beck, Scarman Centre, University Of Leicester, UK

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities offered by recent developments within the sphere of product Auto Identification (Auto ID) technologies to impact upon the problem of shrinkage in the retail sector and their suppliers (both manufacturers and third-party logistics providers).  Its purpose is not to provide specific strategies for its implementation, but to consider the potential to impact upon shrinkage in the short, medium and long term.  In this respect, this document aims to generate discussion, debate and above all, raise questions about how this rapidly developing technology might be used, rather than to be overtly prescriptive in suggesting how it should be used.

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Date article published: 11/03/2003