Editor's Letter

Stefanie Hoover shares how life is an adventure and inevitably, you'll run into adversity. But it's how you deal with adversity that matters.

Here, LPM's Editor-in-Chief Stefanie Hoover talks about change, and the importance of flexibility.

Higher rates of incarceration do not immediately lead to reductions in crime. Any policy change takes time to impact society, especially one as complicated as crime. In this Editor Letter, Stefanie Hoover explains her issue with over-generalizations.

What’s new? You, me, our jobs, our worlds—most everything. We’re all changing in a million different ways every single second of every day.

As 2022 closes, so too does my full-time role in the magazine. The new year will begin a new chapter in my personal and professional life.

This second special edition of Loss Prevention Magazine is focused on a topic that we believe is critical to the success of loss prevention and asset protection teams.

Nobody has a definitive estimate of the dollar impact of ORC, but retailers will tell you that it has a major impact not only on their fiscal bottom line but also on the safety of store associates and consumers.

Like retail, the publishing industry has had our own challenges to meet the changing reading habits of our subscribers, which is way we have “reimagined” the magazine.

There is a lot of great information in this print edition. Here is a short preview of what to look for in these pages now on the LPM website.

The retail industry has been changing rapidly over the past several years, and the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the retail evolution.