The most common type of theft in 2022 was embezzlement of money from the cash register: 80% of all cases, a Smartmetrics study showed. The company’s analysts with the help of computer vision studied how sellers steal at points of sale.
The continuous study involved 1.2 thousand points throughout Russia. According to Smartmetrics, an average of 100 checks at one point per month is considered stolen.
The analysts found that by the end of 2022, the number of cases of theft of money from the cash register increased by 2 times compared to 2021.
In addition, the number of transfers to employee cards by phone number and QR code was multiplied by 8. It is noted that this was facilitated by an increase in the proportion of cash settlements, a shortage of cash tape, as well as insufficient cash discipline at retail outlets.
The staff also uses other methods for theft: employees often take weight and extract products (fruits, vegetables, beer, etc.) from points of sale, tamper with bonus programs or bonus rubles.
Smartmetrics estimates the damage from such employee actions at hundreds of thousands of rubles, and sometimes companies lose up to 10% of their profits due to theft.
According to the director of Smart Technologies, Ilnar Safin, this is because in small networks business processes are often based on trust, rather than control systems, as in medium and large organizations.
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Source: RB
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