ASP/Hosted Loss Prevention Solutions Now Offered Through Trax Retail Solutions and StoreNext Partnership; 10 Companies Deploy Smart Data Mining and Analytics to Reduce Shrink.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Trax(R) Retail Solutions (Trax), the market leader in loss prevention, store operations control and profit optimization solutions for the retail industry, announced that they have signed 10 new customers to their ASP/Hosted Loss Prevention and Store Operations Control solutions via the StoreNext Connected Services(TM) portfolio.

New customers launching ShrinkTrax(R) ASP include:

--Buy for Less: Oklahoma City 

--Capri IGA: Greenville, Ill.

--El Tapatio Market: Los Angeles 

--Harmons: West Valley City, Utah 

--Norkus Foodtown: Pt. Pleasant Beach, N.J.

--Northgate Markets: Anaheim, Calif.

--PAQ: Stockton, Calif.

--Pro & Sons: Ontario, Calif.

--Reasors: Tahlequah, Okla.

--Times Supermarket: Honolulu

According to Ron Southard, EVP of Trax Retail Solutions, "This partnership now offers retailers of all sizes a breakthrough in advanced data mining and intelligence-based cashier exception reporting via a Web-based, ASP model whereby the retailer eliminates all of the integration and hardware costs."

Trax and StoreNext expect that this all-new Connected ShrinkTrax(R) will continue to become the grocery industry's fastest and most complete ASP-based loss prevention solution to prevent cashier theft and errors.

"The solution affords retailers a feature-rich set of tools including the industry's only plain-English cashier narrative reports, specialized weekly reports for shrink identification, productivity management and customer service analysis, coupon redemption and refund analysis, and detailed automatic analysis and targeting of over 40 POS transaction categories, all in an extremely cost-effective model," added Southard.

The enterprise solution includes multistore enterprise-level reporting and an advanced data mining tool called DM2. DM2 applies expert data analytics and more than 1,600 "expert rules" to automatically pinpoint otherwise undetectable losses and sales data abnormalities.

"The Connected ShrinkTrax application represents a major step forward for independent grocers and small/medium-sized chains who want advanced loss prevention tools at a fraction of the cost," said Jon Bolen, CIO at Trax.

ShrinkTrax is known throughout the industry as a proven, proactive, and guaranteed method to prevent store loss and improve bottom line profit by automatically tracking suspect cashier patterns and trends, and training managers in specific techniques to improve cashier performance and cut losses associated with dishonesty, fraud, errors and inefficiency.

About Trax Retail Solutions

Trax is the market leader in loss prevention, store operations control and profit optimization solutions for the retail industry, and lists the following companies among its clients: Albertsons, Winn-Dixie, Ahold, Osco Drug, SUPERVALU, Harris Teeter, CUB Foods, Farm Fresh Markets, Wesco, and dozens of other food, drug, convenience and retail companies. The company's flagship ShrinkTrax Suite of loss prevention and store operations control solutions has helped more than 22,000 retailers worldwide improve profits by empowering store managers with education and training, world-class technology and industry best practices.