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Retail security and analytics
Modernize retail security, reduce shrink, improve visibility, and uncover actionable insights with smarter cloud-based security solutions.
Security meets smarter retail intelligence
Retail leaders are being asked to do more with less. Loss prevention, employee safety, after-hours security, customer incidents, and store performance all compete for attention at the same time. When visibility is limited, teams are forced to react after the fact instead of getting ahead of problems early.
Piece incidents together faster with AI
When an incident happens, retail teams should not have to waste time bouncing between cameras, searching manually, or struggling to reconstruct what happened. Smarter search tools make it easier to find footage faster, follow people or vehicles across multiple camera views, and build a clearer timeline of events.
From suspicious activity and theft investigations to customer disputes and safety incidents, faster access to relevant footage helps teams reduce guesswork and respond with more confidence.
Help reduce fraud and improve transaction visibility
Retail fraud does not always look obvious in the moment. Returns abuse, chargeback disputes, sweethearting, missing merchandise claims, and point-of-sale inconsistencies can quietly erode margins when stores lack the right visibility.
With better video context and more searchable incident review, retailers can investigate suspicious activity faster, validate events more clearly, and support loss prevention efforts with stronger evidence.
Guard against after-hours intrusion
Retail threats do not stop when the doors lock. Break-ins, unauthorized access, loitering, and suspicious activity around storefronts, stockrooms, and parking areas can create serious exposure after hours.
Smarter alerts, better visibility, and proactive monitoring help retail teams identify unusual activity sooner and respond faster before minor incidents become larger losses.
Support faster incident response
When an employee feels unsafe or a situation escalates, response time matters. Retail teams need a faster way to alert the right people, review what is happening, and coordinate next steps without unnecessary delay.
Modern retail security solutions can help stores improve incident visibility, support internal response procedures, and make it easier to share relevant footage when needed.
Improve store performance with better visibility
Retail security is not only about preventing loss. It can also help teams better understand activity across the store. Visibility into customer movement, congestion points, and high-traffic areas can help support smarter staffing, better layouts, and stronger day-to-day store operations.
When retailers can connect security with operational awareness, they gain more value from the system beyond incident review alone.
Why Verkada by PC Solutions
Cloud-managed simplicity
Reduce the burden of traditional recorder-based systems with a modern platform designed for easier management and less on-site complexity.
Secure access to footage from anywhere
View footage, manage users, and stay connected to store activity from a browser or mobile device when visibility matters most.
Designed with privacy in mind
Standardize visibility across single stores, multi-site retail environments, and distributed operations with a platform designed to grow with you.
Easy for distributed teams to use
Give store leaders, operations teams, and security stakeholders a system that is intuitive, practical, and easier to manage day to day.
Designed with security in mind
Support stronger administrative control with modern security features that help protect system access, user management, and operational visibility.
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Get the confidence of a solution backed by strong support and a local partner that helps you plan, deploy, and optimize the right fit for your environment.
Use Cases
Loss Prevention
Find footage faster and connect incidents more clearly to reduce shrink and strengthen day-to-day loss prevention efforts.
Point-of-Sale Fraud Prevention
Pair transaction data with video evidence to investigate exceptions faster and improve visibility into suspicious retail activity.
AI Powered Retail Analytics
Use traffic and movement insights to improve staffing, store flow, and day-to-day operational decision-making.
Employee Safety
Give employees faster ways to call for help and improve visibility into incidents that need immediate response.
Distribution Center Security
Monitor warehouse activity more effectively to reduce blind spots, detect unauthorized access, and protect assets.
Parking Lot Security
Spot suspicious activity earlier with smarter alerts that improve visibility across lots, entrances, and surrounding areas.
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What You’ll Get From the Assessment
This is a focused conversation around the parts of your store, retail facility, or multi-site environment where visibility gaps tend to create shrink, investigation delays, employee safety concerns, and operational blind spots.
- Review of store entrances, exits, and customer flow areas
- Discussion around shrink, suspicious activity, and repeat offender patterns
- Identification of after-hours security and perimeter concerns
- Review of employee safety, parking lot, or back-of-house blind spots
- Discussion around investigation speed and evidence retrieval
- Practical recommendations tied to your store layout and operational goals
The goal is to make the conversation useful whether your team is actively evaluating solutions or simply trying to get a clearer handle on what your retail environment is dealing with.
What Retail Businesses Are Already Improving
Better visibility is helping retail teams do more than review incidents. It is helping them cut investigation time, document theft more clearly, and respond faster to repeat offender activity.
Faster investigations, with one retailer improving investigation speed by 85%
Recovered $7,200 in employee theft after replacing a DVR-based system that previously failed to capture the incident.
Reported a 50% reduction in shrinkage, contributing more than $60,000 in incremental profitability for the fiscal year.
Schedule Your Retail Security Assessment
If your business is dealing with shrink, customer incidents, after-hours security concerns, limited store visibility, employee safety issues, or operational blind spots that are hard to monitor, this is a practical place to start.
For Central Valley retail businesses.
No hard pitch.
Just a practical conversation about your store security concerns, operational blind spots, and what your team is working through.
Prefer to talk first? Call us at 559.825.3200.