Ward monitors Shrinkage so your Home team doesn't have to.
No dashboards. No queries. Shrinkage findings delivered every morning.
Ward's Shrinkage engine for Home retail
Ward identifies abnormal inventory loss patterns and distinguishes between theft, damage, spoilage, and administrative error.
Ward compares expected inventory against actual counts, segments loss by cause category, and flags store-level anomalies against your estate baseline.
What changes for your team
- Cause-level shrinkage attribution
- Store-vs-estate benchmarking
- Receiving dock anomaly detection
- Pattern recognition across time
Why shrinkage matters
in home retail.
Small hardware has the highest per-unit theft rates but lowest dollar impact; power tools have lower frequency but massive loss per incident. Ward segments shrinkage by value tier and department so loss prevention allocates resources where the dollar impact is highest, not just where the unit count is.
Power tool theft ring detection
Ward flags elevated power tool shrinkage at a geographic cluster of stores, concentrated during weekday afternoons — a pattern consistent with organized retail crime. Ward recommends immediate spider-wrap enforcement and receipt-checking at affected locations. LP investigation confirms a theft ring, and targeted intervention brings shrinkage back toward estate averages within weeks.
What a Ward card looks like.
Store #37 showing 4.2% shrinkage vs 1.8% estate average. Pattern suggests receiving dock discrepancy, not shoplifting.
Home shrinkage:
the shift.
- ×Project basket identification
- ×Seasonal pre-positioning
- ×Long-tail inventory
- ✓Cause-level shrinkage attribution
- ✓Store-vs-estate benchmarking
- ✓Receiving dock anomaly detection
Home KPI impact.
Ward requires 6\u201312 months to baseline seasonal categories. Pro vs DIY segment separation is critical for accurate modeling.
Questions about shrinkage.
Based on store count and data volume. POC engagements at a fixed fee.
TLS 1.3, AES-256 at rest. SOC 2 Type II in progress. On-prem available.
No. Ward sits on top as the intelligence layer that watches your data.
Home shrinkage
by data source.
More Home insight cards.
Insights surface
Ward’s agents detect what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it. Every insight includes a recommended action—not just a chart to interpret.
Insights become actions
Any insight card can be turned into a tracked ticket or task. Dispatched to the right person, on the right channel—mobile push, text, or email. Not every insight needs a ticket. But when one does, it has an owner.
Your team responds
Insights get voted up or down with reasoning. Tickets get completed or rejected. Every response is a signal—Ward learns what worked, what missed, and why.
Outcomes measured
Ward evaluates real results: revenue, margin, fill rate, labor cost. Did the action actually improve the number it targeted? Measured outcomes, not assumptions.
Agents get sharper
Every vote, every completed ticket, every measured outcome feeds back in. Ward learns from your team’s judgment and real-world results. Each cycle sharpens the next. Then it starts again.
Home retailers: see what Shrinkage problems Ward catches.
Root causes, not just alerts. See it on your data.
Find out what your data has been hiding.
Tell us about your operation. We’ll show you the problems Ward catches — and the ones your current tools miss.