Environment
A sports and outdoor clothing store in a shopping centre. Technical jackets, footwear and accessories are displayed openly on rails and tables, and the exit is a wide opening straight into the mall corridor with heavy foot traffic in both directions.
The problem
Outdoor jackets and branded footwear are among the highest-value garments in retail and among the most stolen. The exit is wide and always open, so a person can be out of the store and into the crowd in seconds. The store needed detection across the full width and tags that could be attached to garments quickly during replenishment.
What we chose
- A pedestal pair matched to the exit width, floor-mounted at the boundary between the store and the mall corridor.
- Reusable hard tags on jackets and footwear, pinned where they do not damage fabric, removed at the till with a detacher.
- Soft labels on accessories and boxed items, deactivated at the till.
Installation
Installed before opening. The pedestal spacing was set for the exit width and detection was tested with tagged jackets and shoes across the whole opening, including the edges where people tend to squeeze past. Mall corridors bring their own interference from neighbouring shops' systems and structural metal, so the system was tuned on site.
What the store gets
- Full-width detection at an exit that cannot be narrowed.
- Fast tagging during replenishment and fast removal at the till.
- An alarm that staff can act on immediately, at the boundary with the mall.
Sports and fashion retailers whose merchandise arrives RFID-labelled from the brand can take the next step: RFID loss prevention that identifies the exact item, and RFID inventory read points in the stockroom.