System and method for managing a fitting room

A method, comprising:

• acquiring member identification information for uniquely identifying a customer who enters a fitting area and a customer who exits the fitting area, respectively;
• acquiring at least one piece of commodity identification information at time of entering retained by each wireless tag attached to at least one commodity carried into the fitting area by the customer and at least one piece of commodity information at time of exiting retained by each wireless tag attached to at least one commodity carried out of the fitting area by the customer;
• collecting and storing, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer enters the fitting area in association commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of entering, and collecting and storing, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer exits the fitting area in association with commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of exiting;
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• comparing, when the customer exits the fitting area, the commodity information at the time of exiting with the commodity information at the time of latest entering, and performing notification when there is a difference between the time of exiting and the time of entering.

A theft deterrent system, comprising:

• a first reading component configured to read member identification information for uniquely identifying a customer who enters a fitting area and a customer who exits the fitting area, respectively;
• a second reading component configured to read at least one piece of commodity identification information at time of entering retained by each wireless tag attached to at least one commodity carried into the fitting area by the customer and at least one piece of commodity information at time of exiting retained by each wireless tag attached to at least one commodity carried out of the fitting area by the customer;
• a collection and storage component configured to collect and store, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer enters the fitting area in association with commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of entering, and collect and store, together with date-and-time information, membership information indicated by the member identification information when the customer exits the fitting area in association with commodity information indicated by the commodity identification information at the time of exiting;
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• a controller configured to compare, when the customer exits the fitting area, the commodity information at the time of exiting with the commodity information at the time of latest entering, and perform notification when there is a difference between the time of exiting and the time of entering.