> "Shrink", an industry term to describe all inventory losses from multiple causes, including theft.
Including? So what other things is it from if organized theft is only like 5%.
Including? So what other things is it from if organized theft is only like 5%.
Other losses include things expiring, getting misplaced, miscounted, etc.
Say, for example, a shipment is received and signed for, but there were only 99 boxes, not 100. Or maybe one of the boxes has the wrong product.
It could easily get overlooked for a long time and only really show up at a point when it's anyone's guess as to whether it was stolen, lost or never received.
That doesn't happen as often, but it does happen.