For Keesha Goode, $34.97 in missing merchandise was enough to destroy her future in retailing.
The databases, which have tens of thousands of subscribers and are used by major retailers like Target, CVS and Family Dollar, are aimed at combating employee theft, which accounts for a large swath of missing merchandise.
The latest figures available, from 2011, put the loss at about 44 percent of missing merchandise, valued at about $15 billion, according to a trade group, the National Retail Federation.
So the RFID can be used to identify the missing merchandise and prosecution of the shoplifters (Rekik et al. 2008; Jaselskis et al. 1995).
Millions of dollars of property had been destroyed, and businesses said that at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise were missing.
At the band's show on Tuesday night at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, several of the releases were available at the merchandise table, but missing was a huge mirror you could take home with them to gaze into while singing along, heartbroken: a marketing opportunity missed.
Smith extends a tone of bemused skepticism to all parties, yet reserves a measure of sympathy for the book's central figure, the improbably named Hank Molt, an obsessive, hapless smuggler, whose baroque schemes take him from the wilds of Papua New Guinea to seedy exposition halls in central Florida, and end with "friends turned adversaries, missing funds, dead snakes, undelivered merchandise".
In that time, she has rarely missed a day, showing up Mondays through Saturdays from 9 30 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. to help customers, run the cash register, sort through and display merchandise, and even sew on missing buttons.
The Leafs themselves are missing out on millions in ticket sales, merchandise, beer/food sales, etc.
At least $2 million worth of merchandise has been recovered, but more is missing, Detective Goodkin said.
There were no such masks for sale at the merchandise tables — a missed opportunity — though women's panties were available with "Obsesión" across the rear, the title of one of Aventura's hits and a neat distillation of the fervor it inspires.
