Global Retail Shrink Approaches $100 Billion — EAS Market Continues to Grow

I was reading an industry report last week and a few numbers made me stop and think.

Global supermarkets are expected to lose $98.7 billion to theft and inventory shrinkage in 2026. That's not a rounding error — it's nearly a hundred billion dollars. What's more striking: self-checkout-related shrinkage has risen from 19.7% of total shrink in 2021 to 27.4% in 2026. That's nearly 8 percentage points in five years.

Retailers are responding. Loss prevention budgets are increasing from 0.6% to 0.9% of total store operating expenses. Every dollar of that increase is driving EAS system purchases — and that's exactly where EMENO fits in.

EMENO's AM acoustic-magnetic antennas, AM100 mainboards, and AM hard tags are part of this business. The global EAS market was approximately $1.77 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow to $2.66 billion by 2032, at a CAGR of 6.2%. For a company like EMENO that specializes in EAS hardware, that trajectory matters.

EMENO doesn't build AI or software platforms. We build antennas, mainboards, and tags — the hardware that goes at the entrance and on the merchandise. The market is growing, and EMENO is shipping. Over 1000 units of AM9800X and AM8208 went to Europe in the first half of this year. That's proof that EAS remains a hardware-driven business at its core.

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