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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amplifying Risk in Retail Stores
A new report from the ECR Community’s Shrinkage and On-shelf Availability Group titled Amplifying Risk in Retail Stores offers a comprehensive review of the...
Benchmarking Your Performance on Shrinkage
The session took place on the second day of the conference and used an established technology that enabled individual delegates to “answer” questions in real time put...
