Retail Inventory Shrinkage

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...

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

Over the course of four months, students in the UT MSBA program worked closely with asset protection professionals at 7-Eleven to fully understand the organization’s business model and develop hypotheses about how analytics might be used to identify fraudulent activity.

Retail shrinkage stems from a handful of causes that are rarely unique to a single retailer. Theft, whether internal or external, and operational error...

How to Calculate Shrinkage in Retail Understanding how to calculate shrinkage in retail is a fundamental but critical concept within the loss prevention profession as...

Integrating an effective loss prevention program can yield dramatic improvements when it comes to mitigating inventory shrinkage. But aligning an LP department appropriately within...

In the 2015 US Retail Fraud Survey, retailers across the country identified analytics and monitoring as the number one area of need. With the...

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

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

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...