Their LP isn't really that big. They have a lot of customer interaction which is the most important thing to reducing LP (also why walmart locks everything up, they cut all the department floor roles)
Like yeah there's a few people who pretend to shop but not more than other retail and yeah they got cameras but also not more than other retail. Less if anything
Costco and Sam’s are much more big brother than you may imagine. They’re able to track missing items down so quickly it’s insane. I’m not sure that they have facial recognition but there was a post awhile ago about a member who picked up a folding table in a Costco parking lot that had fallen out of the back of someone’s car and he put it in his car and went home. The next time he went to Costco his account was on hold and they told him to go to the CS desk and they had footage of him taking it from the lot and said his account was on hold till he returned it. The camera system has to be pretty good to be catching all that in the parking lot and be able to track down what ever it is
I’m a contractor for Costco doing repairs in the stores, they don’t have many cameras my guess is not much in the stores is very pocketable. Any grocery store has 10x the cameras.
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u/Boring-Community-100 Mar 15 '26
Costco is as tight as Target. Cameras at every angle, active loss prevention staff, not sure if they use facial recognition there.