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Adrian Beck

Emeritus Professor Adrian Beck spent his academic career in the criminology department at the University of Leicester in the UK, where he primarily focused on research on retail crime and shrinkage issues. He currently serves as an academic advisor and researcher for organizations like the ECR Community's Shrinkage and On-shelf Availability Group. Beck is a frequent speaker at loss prevention conferences worldwide and a contributor to LP Magazine's US and Europe publications. Beck can be reached at bna (at) le.ac.uk.

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Loss Prevention

Making the Most of Loss Prevention Resources

Particular places, products, processes, and increasingly, certain retail innovations are much more vulnerable to loss than others.

Retail Inventory Shrinkage

The 60-Second Guide to Total Retail Loss

There is no agreed-upon definition of what constitutes "shrinkage." Most estimates are based only upon measures of merchandise losses where the cause is unknown. The total retail loss concept offers a new definition of loss.

Retail Inventory Shrinkage

Losses and Costs Associated with UK Grocery Store Magazines and Newspapers

We are all familiar with use of the word “shrinkage” to describe the losses experienced by retailers, although it is impossible to find any...

Magazine Features

RFID and Retailing

Since the term radio frequency identification (RFID) came into common usage within the retail environment, around the end of the 1990s, it has in...

Technology

Retail Anti-Theft Devices Should Amplify Risk

A 2016 report from the ECR Community’s Shrinkage and On-shelf Availability Group titled Amplifying Risk in Retail Stores offers a comprehensive review of the...

Retail Inventory Shrinkage

9 Necessary Practices for Successful Shrinkage Control

In the generally unyielding area of retail loss prevention, few US corporations have been highly successful in staunching the pervasive problem of inventory shrinkage—the...

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Retail Inventory Shrinkage

Improving Retail Employee Engagement Can Help Manage Loss

For the majority of retailers, loss is an inevitable part of doing business. What form this loss takes and, critically, how much it costs...

Organized Retail Crime (ORC)

Breaking the Retail Shrinkage Life Cycle

For those of who have been in the loss prevention business for a number of years, you are surely familiar with the retail shrinkage...

Magazine Features

Beyond Shrinkage: Introducing Total Retail Loss

A major new report published by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) puts forward a dramatically different way of thinking about the problem of...

Retail Inventory Shrinkage

Redefining Inventory Shrinkage—Four New Buckets of Loss

What does inventory shrinkage mean to you? For most companies, the answer to this question would be obvious: a significant problem, and usually something that...

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