By Loss Prevention Media Staff
According to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2016 Organized Retail Crime Survey, all responding retailers said that they believe their companies to have been the victim of organized retail crime (ORC) activity within the past year. Eighty-three percent of those respondents believe that ORC activity has increased in the past Read More
By Eduardo Coccaro, Elizabeth Jones, and Xiaoqi Liu
Deep inside the data warehouses of companies across the world, there are billions of dollars trapped in the subtle variations between the binary 0s and 1s that make up fraud and loss prevention data.
For Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) asset protection conference in 2014, JCPenney approached the University of Texas Read More
More than ever, it seems that those in loss prevention are being faced with a plethora of new loss prevention technology solutions. In fact, at a recent loss prevention conference organized by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), over 37 different technologies were being promoted, including global positioning systems (GPS), Read More
By The Loss Prevention Foundation
The Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) and Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Retail Asset Protection Conference successfully partnered to raise money for the Loss Prevention Benevolent Fund. This year’s event held, in New Orleans, LA, raised $4,900, surpassing the initial goal of $4,000, making this the most successful campaign yet in Read More
By Loss Prevention Media Contributor
In a ceremony at the Retail Asset Protection Conference in New Orleans on April 11, the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) honored Digital Safety USA as first place winner of the 2017 (R)Tech Asset Protection: Innovation Awards. The Awards showcase emerging, game-changing technologies that mitigate total retail loss, as defined Read More
This week, the LP Magazine team is at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, LA, for the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Retail Asset Protection Conference 2017. RILA welcomed the asset protection community to the Big Easy on Sunday evening with a reception, where many of the industry’s leaders gathered Read More
By Loss Prevention Media Contributor
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced eight finalists for the 2017 (R)Tech Asset Protection Innovation Awards. The Awards serve as a showcase for emerging, game-changing technologies that mitigate total retail loss, as defined in a groundbreaking research report published by RILA last year.
RILA received applications across AP business functions, Read More
Welcome to the second of three installments covering the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine. I hope you enjoyed the first part in our September–October issue. We will now look at trends and changes in the industry through the eyes of the magazine beginning in 2007 up through 2011. Read More
By Ben Grisz, Alexandria Nguyen, Molly Wolfe, and Michael Zhang
In the 2015 US Retail Fraud Survey, retailers across the country identified analytics and monitoring as the number one area of need. With the average US retailer experiencing shrinkage at a level comprising 1.3 percent of total sales (resulting in an annual $60 billion loss industry-wide), it’s no wonder that Read More
This past week LP Magazine celebrated its 15th year anniversary during the magazine’s annual board meeting, which was held this year in Sanibel Island, Florida. While the time seems to have gone by in a blink of an eye since the magazine was first announced at the NRF Conference in Read More
