The cameras are already running. They just never act on what they see.
Retailers bleed profit in places a recording never catches. Under-ringing at the register, shoplifting on the floor, sweethearting between staff and friends. Disengaged employees. A spill or a loiterer that turns into an incident. Operations that drift out of step.
A traditional camera system records and waits. The footage exists, but nobody watches it until something has already gone wrong, and by then the money is gone. One manager cannot stare at every feed across a shift, let alone match a moment on screen to the line on a receipt.
So the losses stay invisible. They blend into shrink and bad days, and the store keeps paying for them without ever seeing the cause.
