In 2019, the number of employee theft cases increased by an average of 560 apprehensions per retailer surveyed (up from 323 last year).1 According to NRF, retail shrink totaled $61.7 billion in 2019 amid rising employee theft and shoplifting/ORC. Many types of employee fraud are invisible to traditional accounting methods. They can, however, be identified by analyzing deviations from key performance indicators and statistical norms. With the average dollar loss of employee theft averaging 4.2 times greater than shoplifting, retailers need an exception-based reporting tool to quickly identify suspicious trends, transactions, and other data anomalies.