Small, valuable, and easy to lose.
Beauty and fragrance pack high value into small units that move fast and walk easily. Clarity gives you item-level counting frequent enough to see a problem in the week it happens rather than at the next stocktake.
One or two stores, thirty days, no hardware or software cost.
High value in a small package, moving quickly.
Every characteristic of the category makes the stock record harder to keep. Small units, high value, heavy promotion, and a tester population that is not sellable stock.
Testers and sellables
The tester on the counter and the boxed unit behind it are different inventory. Counted together, both numbers are wrong.
Shrink concentration
Small high-value items concentrate loss. Infrequent counting means the loss is discovered long after it can be acted on.
Promotional churn
Gift sets, bundles, and limited runs arrive and leave faster than a quarterly count cycle can follow.
Planogram compliance
A counter or gondola that has drifted from plan sells less, and nobody notices until the sell-through report arrives.
Count often enough for it to mean something.
In a category this fast, a count that happens twice a year is a historical document. Counting weekly turns the same data into something a store manager can act on.
The same platform, a different problem.
Item-level accuracy is the constant. What differs is where the stock hides and which number decides the sale.
Pick your busiest counter.
Thirty days of weekly counting in one or two stores will tell you more about your real shrink profile than a year of quarterly stocktakes.