BAKERIES
Every tray leaves. Not every tray gets punched.
A bakery sells hundreds of low-value items a day across a counter that is almost never empty. That volume is exactly what hides shrinkage — nobody notices one pack of pandesal, and nobody can review eight hours of counter footage to find it.
RISK PROFILE
Where a bakery actually loses money
⊘ HIGH-VOLUME, LOW-VALUE
Individual losses are too small to investigate and too frequent to ignore. It only shows up in the monthly variance.
⊘ WASTAGE AS COVER
Day-old and reject stock is a legitimate write-off — and the easiest line to inflate.
⊘ CASH AT THE COUNTER
Most bakery transactions are cash. A sale that is never rung up leaves no trace in the POS at all.
⊘ PRODUCTION VS SALES GAP
Trays baked rarely reconcile to items sold, and the gap is usually blamed on wastage by default.
WHAT ARGUS FLAGS HERE
The events worth reviewing
Argus timestamp-matches each of these to its exact frames of footage, so a shift becomes a handful of clips instead of eight hours of scrubbing.
- →no-receipt sales at the counter
- →drawer opened with no sale
- →voids after the customer has left
- →stock pulled from display outside a transaction
- →wastage declarations with no matching disposal on camera
RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT
CLASSIC fits most bakeries
CLASSIC
₱4,000/mo
1 camera / branch.
List price. Partner and annual-prepay discounts apply.
One till camera spliced against POS covers the counter, which is where bakery shrinkage happens. Pro is worth it once you are auditing production areas as well.
FAQ
Bakery questions
Can Argus tell me if wastage is real?
It can show you the footage attached to every wastage declaration. If stock was written off as day-old, you see what actually happened to it — disposed, taken home, or sold off-book.
We sell items worth ₱15. Is it worth tracking?
Individually, no. In aggregate it is usually the largest single leak in a bakery. Argus reports the pattern — how often, which shift, which employee — not the individual ₱15.
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Find out what your bakery is losing.
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