Another article is about one of the biggest grocery retail chains in Italy "Iper, La grande i" and its efforts to combat shrink while retaining a pleasant customer shopping experience by deploying a comprehensive shrink management solution from Checkpoint Systems in many of its 26 hypermarket locations throughout Italy. Self-service checkouts, which are extremely protected, have recently been installed in these supermarkets as well. The company also is preparing for a future move into source tagging in order to ensure that products are „shelf ready" from a loss prevention standpoint once they arrive at the receiving dock at each store. These efforts are actually paying off - Italian retailers, in general, experience somewhat lower shrink rates than do retailers in other countries.