Magazine Features

In a world where we have too much on our individual plates, there has never been a more critical time for collaboration, diplomacy, and international co-operation.

Retailers have always been intimately connected to the communities they serve. From the days of the general store with the potbelly stove where pioneers gathered to discuss the weather and harvests, retail has been the center of most communities.

Lisa LaBruno is the senior executive vice president for retail operations at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA).

Rui Rodrigues, executive advisor of loss prevention and risk management for the Retail Council of Canada (RCC), explains how they leverage collaboration between retailers, police, and the crown.

Even if the amount of work travel eventually reverts to where it was before COVID, much around it won’t. Labor markets have changed and so have global risks and employee attitudes.

As loss prevention professionals, you should be part of the environmental store design process. But first, you need to become better versed in interior space design theories and research.

The retail community has largely accepted that diversity and inclusion matters—diverse teams benefit the business. Read our survey findings.

In the last ten years, the pace of adoption of self-checkout and pay technologies has quickened considerably, especially in the grocery sector.

Dr. Read Hayes provides multiple deterrence strategies and developments to potentially decrease retail robberies.

The asset protection team at Home Depot has been dealing with a whole slate of evolving challenges in recent years. Here, AP leadership details their process.