In accounting, shrinkage or shrink occurs when a retailer has fewer items in stock than were expected by the inventory list.
[3] During the same year, retailers in Europe and Asia Pacific reported average shrinkage of about 1.27% and 1.20% of sales, respectively.
[citation needed] There are different ways to manipulate a POS system, such as a cashier giving customers unauthorized discounts, creating fraudulent returns, or simply removing cash from the register.
Also exception reports and listings based on employees, refunds, price overrides, terminals etc.
The Security Research Project endeavors to study various elements of workplace related crime and deviance with a special emphasis on the retail industry.