Visit SAI Group’s booth at NRF 2025 to discover how we help prevent shoplifting

NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show Europe promises to redefine the future of retail, bringing together the brightest minds and cutting-edge innovations from across the continent and beyond. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Paris from September 16 to 18, 2025, this landmark event will feature visionaries, leaders, and technology trailblazers who deliberate on what’s next for the retail industry.

The Shoplifting Crisis: Why Retailers Need Smarter Solutions

Shoplifting is no longer a minor nuisance—it’s a growing crisis that’s eating into retail profits across Europe and worldwide. Beyond lost products, retailers are grappling with shaken customer trust, falling staff morale, and shrinking margins.
Self-checkout (SCO), once hailed as the future of faster, more convenient shopping, has become one of the biggest vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, traditional defenses—security guards and CCTV—are struggling to keep pace with increasingly organized offenders.

The answer? Smarter, AI-driven protection. Visual AI (computer vision) empowers retailers to detect theft in real time, close security gaps, and stay ahead of the threat.

Introducing visual AI: The future of retail security

Computer vision, a subset of artificial intelligence, empowers machines to “see” and interpret visual data from the world around them. In retail, this translates into intelligent systems that can analyze real-time video feeds from in-store cameras and identify suspicious activities as they unfold enabling rapid, precise intervention or corrective action.

SAI Group’s visual AI platform is built for the modern retail environment—scalable, robust, and easy to integrate across chains of any size. Here are some ways in which our visual AI is changing the game for retail security:

• Instant detection of aisle theft: Instantly detects when customers conceal items in their clothing or bags.
• Seamless Self-Checkout (SCO) integration: Is compatible with a range of self-checkout systems for straightforward multi-vendor integration.
• Subtle but powerful: Delivers real-time prompts to the SCO monitor, enabling customers to correct errors on their own, without the involvement of the store staff.
• Instant non-payment detection: Instantly identifies when customers avoid payments at the SCO.
• Empowered store staff: Keeps the store staff informed by sending notifications on the store’s hand-held terminals.
• Violence detection: Utilizes AI to detect incidents of violence within the store and sends alerts directly to the security operations centre so that resources can be mobilized appropriately.
• Legally admissible evidence: Automatically extracts and stores the video footage of incidents detected, thus enabling the store staff to report theft more easily and efficiently.

Meet Us at NRF 2025: Where to find our team

Interested to see our solution in action? Head over to our stand at NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show Europe to connect with our experts and explore how our computer vision platform can transform the security of your retail chain.

You can find us at Booth 6 F 194, located in the main exhibition hall of Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. Our team will be on hand throughout the event to answer your questions, discuss your unique challenges, and walk you through how leading retail chains are already benefiting from our technology.

We look forward to welcoming you, sharing insights, and demonstrating how our solution is setting the standard for retail security in 2025—and beyond.

See you in Paris!

About SAI

As a leader in computer vision technology, SAI Group delivers cutting-edge, multi-modal AI solutions into retail environments. Using a unique platform approach, its technology uses existing camera systems to target losses, increase store safety, and underpin operational efficiencies.

All solutions are built from the ground up to ensure the highest levels of security and data protection, respecting the privacy expectations of the public and operating to stringent ethical standards while delivering substantial value to our clients. Globally, SAI monitors millions of transactions per day, protecting the revenues from tens of millions of product sales and hundreds of millions of customer interactions. Its models also accurately identify anti-social behaviour, aggression and violence, helping to de-escalate situations with real-time interfaces to security officers and operations centres.