Why Is My Shrink So High? Four Causes, and Most of Them Were Decided on a Drawing

A sightline is the only loss control a store will ever own that has no monthly cost. Supermarket shrink has four causes: theft, date expiry, damage and receiving fraud. Each has a layout decision sitting behind it. Fixture height and run length set what can be seen. Placement decides whether one person covers the few high-value lines. The goods-in office window decides what the receiving check shows. And a back-of-case route decides whether stock gets rotated at all.