John Hassard on NBC Tampa: Self-Checkout Theft
Retail loss prevention expert John Hassard spoke with WFLA (NBC Tampa) for their coverage of an incident where a school principal was accused of "skip scanning" $37.45 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart self-checkout in Polk County, FL.
“Anybody’s capable of this,” said John Hassard, an associate at Robson Forensic with decades of experience in loss prevention.
He suggests people think twice before thinking they can get away with theft at self-checkout.
“These successful rollouts of self-checkouts have included a lot of business intelligence systems behind them, a lot of algorithms, even seeing some artificial intelligence applied,” he said.
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Polk County principal accused of ‘skip scanning’ at Walmart self-checkout
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