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PURCHEK®

Push Back Against
Pushout Theft

Protect Your People, Products, and Profits with Purchek® Technology

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Stop Organized Retail Crime with Purchek® Technology

Gatekeeper Systems’ Purchek® technology is a highly effective loss prevention solution that improves retail store safety, retains merchandise, prevents theft, and enhances shopper experience.

Adaptable to various retail environments, the system operates discreetly, ensuring enjoyable experiences while actively deterring and preventing theft.

Upgrade your shopping carts with smart technology that secures merchandise and ensures items remain inside until purchased.

Additionally, video classification and theft investigative services offer retail partners unique insights into daily in-store theft behaviors and valuable ROI validation. Retailers can also combine Purchek® with CartControl® for a powerful, multi-faceted loss prevention solution that delivers layered, ongoing ROI.

How Purchek® Works

Purchek® Pushout Theft Technology

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Why Consider Purchek® Technology?

Confrontation-Free

Stops the shopping cart or trolley, not the person, eliminating confrontation and reducing the opportunity for violence.

Retain Unpaid Merchandise

Loss prevention, not loss detection. Intelligent, automatic patented technology ensures your unpaid merchandise never leaves the store.

Increase Profits

Retains your merchandise while improving safety and reducing labor.

Positive Shopper Experience

Ensures an open and inviting shopper experience, invisible to customers and always on duty.

Shopper Analytics and Loss Insights

HD Event Video + Classification provides meaningful insights on repeat offender activity and validates ROI.

How Purchek® Technology Works

Purchek® technology is a fully automated, cart-behavior based system. It prevents goods in carts from leaving the store location unless they meet the criteria for exit. Without authorization, the wheels will lock at the exit, an alarm sounds, and a video event is triggered. This often results in the thief leaving empty-handed, without incident or confrontation.

Leverage your fleet of shopping carts as a large-scale shoplifting prevent system, ensuring security without disrupting paying customers.

Beyond theft prevention, Purchek® technology provides valuable insights into in-store theft patterns, helping retailers refine security strategies and validate ROI.

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Select Customer Journey

Standard Customer

Pushout Theft

System is completely invisible to shopper

Customer engages in a payment transaction.

Customer completes shopping trip without noticing the Purchek® technology

System is completely invisible to shopper

Thief bypasses all Point of Sales (POS) locations

SmartWheel® device locks at the exit, disabling the cart, automatically triggering an alarm and video recording event

Merchandise is commonly abandoned as thief flees

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Event-Based Video and Classification Services

Gatekeeper Systems offers a comprehensive range of technologies and managed services that enhance performance and provide complete store oversight, augmenting your Loss Prevention team with focused resources.

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23%

of reported pushout thieves are violent

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$1,290+

reported average pushout theft loss per cart

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94.6%

of retailers are affected by organized retail crime

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Pushout Theft Solutions – Comparison Matrix

How Much Will You Save with Purchek® Pushout Theft Protection?

Step 1: Merchandise Recovered

Please start by entering the number of stores and the average number of carts per store. Next, enter the estimated number and value of pushout theft attempts per week.

The frequency of pushout thefts tends to differ based on the type and location of stores, often surpassing the anticipated levels set by store management.

Conservative default numbers have been prepopulated for these values. Adjust the numbers to see scenarios based on different assumptions.

Step 2: Profitable Sales Required to Offset Loss Merchandise

Select from the drop-down menu, the retail margin that best matches your stores. The calculator will now show the sales dollars you need to generate to offset the stolen goods. Remember that when merchandise is stolen, you don't only need to recover the margin lost from the stolen goods, but the value of the goods themselves.

Step 3: Additional Savings Considerations

In addition to the losses from the stolen merchandise, there are many other areas to consider when calculating your Return on Investment (ROI) for our Purchek® Solution. Additional areas of benefit to consider are explained here.

Step 4: Connect with Gatekeeper Systems for more information

Reach out for a no-obligation follow up contact from Gatekeeper Systems.

Disclaimer: Savings shown are for illustrative purposes and are no guarantee. Proper evaluations to estimate your expected savings, based on similar stores and trends, are available from Gatekeeper Systems.

Step 1

# of Stores

1100

Avg # of Carts Per Store

11,000

The average number of pushout thefts/week will vary based on the risk level of the store. A default value of 3 is a very conservative estimate.

# of Pushouts Per Week, Per Store

150

The average dollar amount of pushout merchandise will vary based on the risk level of the store. A default value of $250 is a very conservative estimate.

Avg. Pushout Amount

$1$5,000

Potential Annual Merchandise Recovered with Purchek® Pushout Theft Protection:

Step 2

Typical Retail Margin

Total Sales Needed to Offset the Losses from Stolen Goods:

Step 3

Comprehensive Breakdown

The preferred response to a disabled cart is the bad actor abandoning the cart, leaving the goods recoverable by store associates.

Recovered Merchandise

Our data shows that once the Purchek® Pushout Theft Prevention System is installed in your stores, there is an up to 80% reduction in pushout attempts, addressing repeat offender and ORC activity. Seasoned thieves are aware of our systems and avoid stores that have them installed.

Additional Theft Deterrence

With Gatekeeper Systems' Purchek® Technology apprehending the thieves, your store associates and other shoppers have no need to engage.

Employee and Shopper Safety

Loss Prevention Technology systems, like Purchek® can reduce your legal fees and claims associated with shoplifting, workman's comp, instore injuries and reduce costs associated with prosecution, litigation and court appearances.

Legal Fees

Purchek® Technology can reduce the amount of labor hours spent on cycle counting inventory and replenishing inventory lost to thieves. Additional labor savings can be realized in the administrative aspect of high pushout theft in your store like filing and managing incident reports. The solution can also reduce the need of greeters or security guards near your exits.

Labor & Operational Savings

If you've already invested in Gatekeeper Systems' Cart Containment Solution, you're already started in equipping your store for Purchek® Pushout Prevention Technology. The SmartWheel® devices installed already on your cart are the same ones utilized in the Purchek® Solution.

Leverage Existing Gatekeeper Systems Investments

Additional services can be added to your Purchek® System, including high resolution event reporting with transferrable videos and classification. Theft investigation services will flag repeat offenders and ORC activity and provide trend analysis.

High Resolution Event Reporting*

Additional trend and insight data is available, not only about your fleet of carts, but also about your store traffic and behavior insights.

Valuable Trends and Insights*

* Optional Service

Step 4

Name*

Company Name*

Email*

Country*

State / Province

Thank You

Thanks for providing information about your stores. We will send you a customized report that provides additional information about Gatekeeper Systems’ Purchek® Pushout Theft Protection Solution. Please connect with us directly for more detailed information.

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$1,000,000,000

Estimated Value of Merchandise Recovered

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