Dispensary Employee Theft: Where It Hides and How to Stop It
A practical look at where internal theft occurs, the warning signs operators often miss, and how dispensaries can better identify and investigate suspicious activity with AI Vision Intelligence.
What you'll learn
- Understand where employee theft commonly hides within dispensary transactions, inventory, and cash-handling processes.
- Identify warning signs that may indicate discount abuse, refund manipulation, or other internal loss.
- Learn how to connect suspicious activity with operational data and existing video evidence.
- Evaluate practical ways to strengthen investigations, accountability, and loss-prevention procedures across multiple locations.
About this webinar
Employee theft in cannabis retail is not always obvious. Internal loss can show up through discount misuse, suspicious refunds, inventory discrepancies, cash handling issues, and other small irregularities that may be difficult to identify across busy dispensary operations.
This session will examine where those losses commonly occur, which transaction and behavior patterns may warrant a closer look, and how operators can use existing operational data and compliance video to investigate suspicious activity more effectively. It will also explore how the addition of AI Vision Intelligence on top of your existing video security infrastructure is changing the way teams review incidents, connect information, and identify patterns across multiple locations.
The goal is to give dispensary operators a clearer understanding of where internal theft can hide, what warning signs may indicate a problem, and how stronger investigative processes can improve accountability, reduce preventable loss, and protect margins without disrupting day-to-day operations.
Who should attend
This webinar is intended for cannabis retail professionals responsible for store operations, security, loss prevention, compliance, and profitability, including dispensary owners, operations directors, general managers, security leaders, loss prevention managers, and regional or multi-location operators.
Meet your hosts
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Cal McDonald leads Solink’s Regulated Industries team, working with cannabis operators across more than 1,500 dispensary and retail locations. His experience gives him a broad view of how loss occurs in regulated retail, from point-of-sale diversion and internal theft to inventory discrepancies and after-hours security issues.
He works closely with operators using video, POS data, and security systems to identify suspicious activity, investigate incidents more efficiently, and strengthen loss-prevention practices across single and multi-location businesses.
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Munir is an experienced cannabis technology and security specialist who has worked with operators across North America to design, implement, and manage technology systems for hundreds of cannabis facilities.
His background also includes hands-on retail management experience, giving him a practical understanding of the operational challenges dispensary teams face every day. That perspective helps him connect security and technology decisions to real-world issues such as employee accountability, loss prevention, workflow, and day-to-day store operations.
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Presented by: Solink
About Solink
Solink’s AI Vision Intelligence platform helps businesses connect security video with operational data, including POS, inventory, access control, and other systems. Used across tens of thousands of locations worldwide, Solink supports retailers and other multi-location operators with security, loss prevention, compliance, and operational visibility while working with much of the technology they already have in place.
Presented by Solink in partnership with mg Magazine.
