$2,400 back in the first month.
A single fuel and convenience store in Mabank, Texas: its own cameras, its own register, no new hardware. These are the numbers the store reported after the first full month.
- Store
- Fuel and convenience, single location
- Location
- Mabank, Texas
- Measured over
- First month on Argus
- Hardware added
- None
Stock and cash that used to turn up missing at the next count with no explanation, caught while it could still be recovered.
Loss that used to disappear into the count stopped disappearing, and the margin moved 2.4 percentage points with it.
Finding out what happened used to mean scrubbing recorder footage by hand. Every alert now arrives with its own clip already attached.
What was happening before
The store had cameras and it had a register, and neither one knew about the other. Loss showed up the way it shows up in most convenience stores: as a number at the next count, with no night attached to it, no aisle, and no way to tell a theft from a mis-scan from a delivery that arrived two cases light.
Checking any of it meant sitting down with the recorder. That is the twelve hours a month: not running the store, but scrubbing footage after the fact trying to explain a loss that was already weeks old and already unrecoverable.
What changed
Argus was pointed at the cameras and the register the store already had. No new hardware went on the wall, the register was not replaced, and the cashiers kept ringing up the way they always had.
From that point each loss arrived as an alert with its own clip, the item and the dollar value attached. The manager stopped going to the recorder to answer questions, because the answer was already in the alert. That is what turns twelve hours a month into forty-five minutes: the review did not get faster, it stopped being a search.
The $2,400 is the part that used to be invisible. It is not a projection or a yearly estimate: it is what the store got back in the first full month, from events that would previously have been absorbed into the count and written off as loss.
What this number is not
This is one store, over one month. It is not an average across customers, because Argus is not yet in enough stores to publish an honest average, and a made-up one is worth less than nothing. Your store has different cameras, different traffic and a different problem, and the only way to find out what Argus reads in it is to run it in your store.
That is why the demo also checks your cameras and your register, instead of stopping at this page.