Modernize Checkout While Reducing Weight–based Food Shrink
Digimarc restores trust at checkout while increasing revenues, boosting store profitability, and keeping cashiers safe—one product scan at a time.
Stop self-checkout swaps before they happen
Self-checkout makes it easier for bad actors to swap lower-cost items in place of high-priced, weight-based foods like hot wings, homestyle meals, and salad bars.
In our work with our retail customers, we’ve learned together that this happens more often than most loss prevention teams realize, and these often-hidden costs quickly add up.
Stop the shrink with Digimarc. While costly computer vision systems can detect weight-based fraud, Digimarc complements these solutions by actually preventing it at the point of sale—no cashier intervention needed. Our customers report annual savings of up to $10,000 per store in weight-based food shrink alone.
How our product swap prevention solution works
Digimarc makes your weight-based food containers ultra-detectable by checkout scanners, covering them with thousands of imperceptible digital watermarks—akin to invisible barcodes—coded to override inaccurate pricing and expedite the checkout process. When customers try to swap products, your scanners will auto-correct prices to reflect what’s real and true—with no employee interaction required.
Digimarc can help you:
Reduce weight-based shrink by over 40%, resulting in savings of up to $10,000 per store per year.
Achieve ~600% return on investment annually.
Improve pricing accuracy for a fair, frictionless customer experience.
Minimize awkward and potentially unsafe customer interactions for cashiers.
Accelerate checkout time for staffed and unstaffed lanes.
Digimarc and Picadeli bring security to the salad bar
“As Picadeli scales fresh meals via its AI-powered Salad Bar across the U.S., we’re committed to helping our retail partners eliminate shrink. Our collaboration with Digimarc addresses key challenges like PLU fraud to ensure profitable store operations and a frictionless consumer shopping experience. It’s an extension of our mission to innovate and disrupt the fresh food market with cutting-edge technologies.”
Patrik Hellstrand, CEO, Picadeli US
How customers succeed with Digimarc
Using our Product Swap Prevention solution, one Digimarc customer, a regional grocery chain, was able to reduce weight-based shrink by over 40% and achieve a 400% return on investment!
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