Mannequins keeping an eye on shoppers

Store mannequins are meant to catch your eye. Soon you may catch theirs.

The latest tool in fighting retail thieves and tracking shopping habits is seeing-eye mannequins.

Fashion brands are deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores. Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers.