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New Software Catches “Sweethearting” As It Happens
"Sweethearting" is the term industry insiders use when describing the way some cashiers pretend to scan merchandise and then bag it for family or friends who don't end up paying. StopLift has developed a computer vision technology that can identify the practice as it happens, and by using the technology Hannaford Brows. discovered that as many as 20% of cashiers took part in the practice…
Preventing Sweethearting
ONe of the latest advances in the technological side of loss prevention is using "behavior recognition" software to detect employees in the act of sweethearting. Located Just outside of Boston not far from its MIT roots, a company called StopLift Checkout Vision Systems and its team of researchers have developed artificially intelligent video recognition software specifically designed to detect sweethearting…