Retail Theft

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Stop theft while it's still in the aisle.

Retail Theft watches the cameras you already own. Concealment, aggression towards staff and banned faces, spotted in real time, with an alert on your staff's phones in under four seconds.

Works with Hikvision, Dahua, UniFi Protect and any ONVIF camera.

Built by operators who run their own UK stores

ICO-registered face recognition, day one

Footage never leaves your building

Fitted by your installer in an afternoon

Watch a theft not happen

This is the product working: the same interface your staff see, from first gesture to a banned face at the door.

00 · 00 · 01

It reads the gesture

Not motion: intent. The AI tracks body movement on every camera and recognises the moment an item goes into a pocket, a bag, a pram.

CAM 04 · GROCERY AISLE 2REC
Ceiling camera view of a supermarket aisle, a hooded figure at the shelves

00 · 00 · 04

Staff know in under four seconds

Snapshot, camera, confidence, on every staff phone while the person is still in the aisle. A tap to confirm keeps the AI learning.

Alerts14:32
CONCEALMENT

Aisle 2 · Cam 04

delivered in 3.2s

ConfirmReject

NEXT VISIT

They come back. You know first.

Confirmed incidents become evidenced ban-list entries. Next time they walk in, the door camera recognises them before they reach aisle one.

BAN LIST · HIGH ST STORE

Subject 0492

EVIDENCE · INC-2214 ATTACHED

EXPIRES · 12 MONTHS

ADDED TO WATCHLIST
Matched at entranceTUE 09:14
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from gesture to a staff phone buzzing. The alert is decided in your store, so it works even when the internet is down.
32
cameras watched simultaneously by a single box. Larger sites get certified bigger hardware.
0
frames of footage uploaded to the cloud. Video is recorded and analysed on the box in your store, nowhere else.
24/7
coverage. After closing, the same cameras become an intrusion alarm: any person detected triggers a top-severity alert.

Built for the shops that get hit hardest

Convenience & off-licence

SHRINKAGE

Small-format stores take the hardest theft losses in UK retail. Concealment alerts while the person is still in the aisle turn walk-outs into put-backs.

Supermarkets

COVERAGE

One box watches every aisle at once, at a fraction of a guard's wage. Alerts route to whoever is closest, with instant rewind on the wall.

Fashion & retail chains

ORGANISED CRIME

Gangs work store to store. A shared ban list across your branches means banned in one, flagged in all, with the incident history attached.

Forecourts

STAFF SAFETY

Late hours, lone workers, drive-offs. Aggression detection and the staff panic button raise every device in the building at once.

One system, four places it shows up

The box does the thinking. The wall, the portal and the phone in your staff's pocket are how you feel it.

THE WALL

Every camera, one glance

A purpose-built video wall for the back office: click to focus, alarm pane, instant rewind, multi-camera synchronised scrubbing. Alerts jump straight to the right tile.

THE PORTAL

Run the store from anywhere

Live view in the browser, incident files with hashed evidence, ban-list management with appeals and audit trail, camera health, weekly loss reports. On your phone from the sofa, or your installer's desk.

app.retailtheft.co.uk

THE STAFF APP

The alert, as your staff see it

Snapshot, camera, what was seen. One tap to confirm or reject, and that tap retrains the models on your store's real footage. A panic button raises every device in the building.

THE BOX

Deliberately boring hardware

A small, quiet unit by your NVR, sized for 8 to 32 cameras and certified per store size. It updates itself, reports its own health, and never sends your footage anywhere.

The Retail Theft box: a small black unit with a glowing status LED, on a shelf in a store back office

FITS ON A SHELF · HANDLES 32 CAMERAS

23:47 · STORE ARMED · SENTINEL MODE

The store sleeps. The cameras don't.

Are you a CCTV installer?

Add AI theft detection to your offering: white-label under your own brand, manage every client site from one dashboard, and buy at wholesale.

See the installer programme

Your footage never leaves the building

Cloud CCTV means your customers' faces on someone else's servers. We built it the other way round: all video is analysed and stored on the box inside your store, and the cloud coordinates with metadata only. Better privacy, a simpler ICO conversation, and no upload bandwidth bills.

One flat price per store. Every feature included.

Sized by camera count, not by feature list. No per-seat charges, no per-alert charges, no surprise tiers.

Small

Up to 8 cameras

Convenience stores, off-licences, pharmacies

Flat monthly price per store

Contact for pricing

Medium

MOST COMMON

Up to 16 cameras

Larger convenience, small supermarkets

Flat monthly price per store

Contact for pricing

Large

Up to 32 cameras

Supermarkets and multi-floor stores

Flat monthly price per store

Contact for pricing

CCTV installers buy at wholesale and set their own retail pricing. See the installer programme.

Built to survive scrutiny

Face recognition in retail is only worth having if it stands up: to the ICO, to a court, to an appeal.

  • UK data residency

    Footage stays in your store; platform data lives in London data centres. Nothing crosses borders.

  • Evidence chain of custody

    Exported clips are hashed and watermarked, so what you hand to police is provably what the camera saw.

  • Governed ban lists

    Every entry needs evidence, expires after 12 months, and can be appealed. Every face-data access is audit-logged.

  • ICO-registered operation

    Developed inside a registered, actively engaged UK retail security operation, not adapted from abroad.

Questions shopkeepers actually ask

Almost certainly not. We connect to Hikvision, Dahua and UniFi Protect natively, and to anything that speaks ONVIF/RTSP, which covers the overwhelming majority of installed retail CCTV. Your NVR keeps recording exactly as it does today.

Nowhere. Video is decoded, analysed and recorded on the box inside your store. The cloud receives only metadata: alert records, camera health, ban-list entries. When you view footage remotely, it streams from your box on demand; nothing is stored in the cloud.

It is lawful when operated with the right basis, signage, retention limits and appeals process. The system was built inside an ICO-registered retail security operation and ships with the compliance machinery built in: evidence attached to every ban-list entry, 12-month automatic expiry, an appeals workflow, and a full audit log of every face-data access.

Detection, recording and staff alerts all run locally on the box, so the protection loop keeps working. The box re-syncs alert history and ban-list updates when the connection returns.

Every alert gets a one-tap confirm or reject from your staff, and those judgements retrain the models on real footage from real stores. The system you buy gets measurably better month on month, and it is tuned per store, not one-size-fits-all.

Yes: installers resell the platform white-label under their own brand, on their own domain, at their own pricing. If you already have a CCTV maintainer, point them at our installer programme.

See it running on your own cameras

Book a demo and we'll walk a live store, trigger real alerts, and size the right box for your camera count.