Kelsey Seidler
Retail Disruption: Impact on Asset Protection
Hundreds of retailers joined an interactive webinar that includes real-time polling questions on relatable topics. Retail Disruption: Impact on Asset Protection illuminates shared insights...
What Does a Loss Prevention Associate Do?
Contemporary loss prevention professionals still maintain responsibility for retail security. But they also must handle employee theft issues, data protection, safety and risk management, inventory audits, legal compliance, and matters related to organized retail crime and fraud.
371 Fallen Law Enforcement Officers to be Honored During 31st Annual Candlelight Vigil on...
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has recently released the roll call of names of 371 US law enforcement officers who have died...
Shedding Light on Retail Theft Statistics
The NRSS indicates that shoplifting accounted for 35.7 percent of the reported shrink in 2017, which is down from 39.3 percent in 2016.
Retail’s Big Self-Checkout Problems — and How to Solve Them
The ECR Community Shrinkage and On-shelf Availability Group recently conducted a two-year study on identifying self-checkout problems and their associated risks to the bottom line.
How Does Memory Work? 3 Stages of Memory Development in Witnesses
How much stock can we put into the information recounted by a witness? Are they remembering everything that they observed? How does memory work, anyway?
More Fragmented Transportation Networks May Mean Less Secure Cargo
Theft isn't the only source of loss in the supply chain, and the e-commerce environment's increasingly splintered transportation network is causing issues with more far-reaching consequences than revenue loss.
Maurizio Scrofani Changed His Mind about Wall Street
In a recent interview, Scrofani divulges how, as an economics and finance major in college, he had plans to work on Wall Street. But his interest in finance gradually grew into a fascination with the world of loss prevention — and an eventual career shift.
What Happens If You Get Caught Shoplifting? Well, It Varies.
Examples of the ways in which retailers today respond to criminal behavior are found throughout a feature article by Walter E. Palmer, CFI, CFE, and Jacque Brittain, LPC, who produced the piece for the January-February 2019 issue of LP Magazine.
Confronting a Shoplifter: Do You Know When to Let It Go?
Choosing to show restraint, to allow a shoplifter walk away, and to accept the outcome of loss is a tough decision for an LP professional to make—especially when you're faced with insults, threats, or simply frustration at the perceived injustice.