FRESH FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Spoilage is real. It is also the easiest thing to claim.
Fresh produce is the only retail category where a large, unpredictable write-off is completely normal. That makes it the category where shrinkage is hardest to distinguish from ordinary business — unless you can see what happened to the stock.
RISK PROFILE
Where a fresh produce retailer actually loses money
⊘ WASTAGE AS COVER
Legitimate spoilage runs high enough that inflated declarations do not look anomalous.
⊘ WEIGHT MANIPULATION
Under-weighing for a friend or over-weighing a markdown leaves a normal-looking transaction.
⊘ MARKDOWN ABUSE
Stock marked down near closing and then bought by staff at the reduced price.
⊘ NO FIXED UNIT PRICE
Variable pricing by weight and grade removes the fixed reference an audit would normally use.
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.
- →wastage declarations with no matching disposal
- →weighing events that do not match the item presented
- →markdowns applied with no customer at the counter
- →staff purchases at markdown prices
- →stock removed from display outside a transaction
RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT
PRO fits most fresh fruits & vegetables
PRO
₱8,000/mo
Up to 4 cameras / branch.
List price. Partner and annual-prepay discounts apply.
Produce needs eyes on both the scale and the disposal area, which means more than one camera per branch.
FAQ
Fresh produce retailer questions
Can Argus read the scale?
It reads the POS transaction, which carries the weight and price. The footage shows what was actually on the scale at that timestamp. The comparison is what surfaces the problem.
Our spoilage is genuinely high. Will this just confirm that?
Possibly — and that is a useful answer. A month of evidence that your wastage is real is worth having before you spend on fixing a problem you do not have.
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