Organized Retail Crime - The Real Challenge Faced by the EAS Industry

The NRF (National Retail Federation) released a report in August regarding organized retail crime (ORC).

The core message of the report: Retailers have made progress in reducing theft, but ORC gangs remain a national problem.

From 2024 to 2025, retailers reported an average decrease of 12.4% in in-store theft incidents and an 8.1% decrease in merchandise theft incidents.

However, ORC gangs are evolving. They are increasingly involved in phone scams, gift card fraud, goods theft, and supply chain crimes. They are using AI tools to improve their criminal methods.

A specific case:

From the end of 2025 to April 2026, 24-year-old Terrence Boswell committed 27 thefts targeting multiple Walgreens pharmacies, mainly stealing cosmetics and batteries.

This is not ordinary theft; it is organized and systematic crime.

What can EAS do?

Sensormatic launched category-level loss analysis based on EAS at NRF 2026. Through precisely calibrated AM-EAS hard tags and systems, retailers can distinguish different product categories, identify high-risk products, and better understand the impact of organized retail crime.

EMENO does the hardware foundation for these systems - AM antennas, AM100 mainboards, AM hard tags, and AM soft labels.

When Sensormatic's product-level data helps retailers identify high-risk categories, they need precise AM detection to collect data. When Checkpoint integrates EAS and RFID, they need reliable tags and antennas to perform the detection.

EMENO does not do platforms or analysis. What they do is to provide the hardware that makes these systems operational.

ORC is evolving, and loss prevention technology is also evolving. EMOENO is doing what it does - laying a solid hardware foundation - so that those at the upper levels have something to work with.

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