{"id":887,"date":"2011-05-10T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2024-11-18T23:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:34:50","slug":"can-biometric-technology-bring-law-and-order-to-the-wild-west-of-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/workforce-management\/can-biometric-technology-bring-law-and-order-to-the-wild-west-of-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Biometric Technology Bring Law and Order to the Wild West Of Retail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Wild West of Retail<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In these Wild West days of personal identification and loose security in retail, employees and customers can easily get away with pretending to be someone else or effortlessly take advantage of insecure store policies:<\/p>\n

Running late and need someone else to clock you in?\u00a0 No problem, just call a work buddy and they can take care of it for you.<\/p>\n

Need an override on a transaction but the manager is busy?\u00a0 No worries, grab their keys\/ID card\/PIN and take care of it yourself.<\/p>\n

Out of razor blades for shaving?\u00a0 Just grab a box from the storage room at work, no one will ever notice and besides, your employer will write it off as shrink<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Stole something and want to return it without a receipt? That\u2019s easy at a store that doesn\u2019t have a strict return policy.<\/p>\n

More and more retail establishments are recognizing that plugging holes in the cracking dam of their internal infrastructure lowers costs, raises profits, boosts operational efficiencies, strengthens role based security and tightens audit trails.<\/p>\n

Biometrics Is Changing The Landscape<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a new identity sheriff in town that is transforming the workforce management and retail point of sale environment and the shiny silver badge says \u201cbiometric technology\u201d.\u00a0 Biometric technology identifies an individual by their physiological characteristics and makes it virtually impossible to assume the identity of someone else.\u00a0 Retailers are belt tightening by enhancing internal security measures and incorporating biometric identification as part of their overall strategy.\u00a0 They seek to invest in technologies like biometrics that offer strong potential for high returns on investment (ROI), raise employee productivity, stop buddy punching<\/a><\/strong>, reduce shrink and establish employee and customer accountability.<\/p>\n

Biometrics offers all of these advantages and its practical and affordable applications to stem the tide of waste, corruption and fraud is quickly spreading across the retail landscape.<\/p>\n