Registers, stock room, entrances and the back door.
Retail loss is rarely a masked stranger. It is a disputed refund, a slip and fall claim, a delivery that supposedly never arrived, or an employee issue nobody wants to have a conversation about without evidence.
That means the footage has to be good enough to be believed — at the register, in harsh window backlight, and at the back door after closing.
Shops have the worst lighting in the business: bright windows against dim interiors. These hold detail at both ends of that range instead of blowing out one or the other.
It separates people and vehicles from leaves, headlights and rain. You get alerts worth reading, and searching a week of footage takes minutes rather than an evening.
Being able to say something before a situation develops resolves most of them. Loitering, a propped fire door, someone in the stock room — one sentence usually ends it.
A single-unit retail space, restaurant, salon or small office — roughly up to 4,000 sq ft with one or two entrances.
A weekend, or we do it
Six runs in a commercial space usually means a drop ceiling, which is easier than a house. If you are in our area, this is the size where most people have us do it.