You Are Losing More Money Than You Realize

Yep, you probably are! The shoplifter that walked out the door with your $45 item cost you MORE actual money than $45!

Many Retailers do not understand the actual impact of theft. For example:

You experience a $45 loss (shoplifting, employee theft, vendor fraud…). Is that $45 the total impact on the bottom line? Nope, you actually lost $2,250.00 in real money.

For your organization to simply recover or break even on a $45 loss, you would have to sell an additional $2,250.00 to break even!  ($45.00 divided by .02% profit margin). This is on top of your normal sales.      

WOW, how many more items are you going to have to order, receive, count, mark, prepare paperwork for, stock, and finally sell just to produce these extra sales? Theft/Shrinkage really cannot be recovered from because you should have had those sales to begin with.

Add to that the loss of sales because the stolen item was not available for sale to a legitimate customer.

You then begin to understand why one third of U.S. business failures are blamed on theft.

The obvious solution is to prevent the theft (we can help with that), errors and abuse that cause loss in the first place.                                       

Loss vs. Sales

So if we assume for a moment that your company has a 2% bottom line net profit margin. Two percent is considered an overall retail normal margin. Yours may be higher/lower. The net profit is your final profit after all expenses such as payroll, payment to vendors, rent, taxes, utilities….

The chart below shows the sales required to replace losses due to theft:             

AMOUNT OF LOSS 2% PROFIT MARGIN SALES    

           NEEDED TO REPLACE LOSSES    

   $100 $      5,000    

   $500 $    25,000

   $ 2,500           $  125,000           

   $ 5,000                   $  250,000           

   $ 7,500           $  375,000           

   $10,000          $  500,000           

   $12,500           $  625,000           

   $15,000           $  750,000           

   $17,500           $  875,000           

   $20,000           $1,000,000           

Inventory shrinkage cancels millions of dollars in sales.  That means all of your hard work for an entire year can be wiped out by a single loss.  Loss Prevention Systems can fix your shoplifting problems!