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Proactive Integrity Coaching uses the ACT psychological framework to help frontline employees develop ethical behavior, emotional resilience, and integrity through values-driven, mindful coaching rather than traditional compliance training.

Keith King, a veteran in retail product protection, shares his personal and professional commitment to supporting brick-and-mortar stores, emphasizing their vital role in community resilience, economic impact, and immediate customer satisfaction compared to online-only retailers.

Cargo theft remains a severe and evolving threat across Latin America, particularly in Mexico and Brazil, with increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics prompting businesses to adopt advanced security technologies and best practices to protect their supply chains.

Jacque Brittain, LPC, emphasizes that storytelling is a vital leadership skill—crucial for communication, influence, and credibility—urging loss prevention professionals to master this art to strengthen reports, inspire teams, and drive results.

Loss prevention professionals face unique mental health challenges due to high-stress, high-risk job environments, and accessible therapy options can help them build resilience and sustain long-term well-being.

Blain’s Farm & Fleet, led by Dan Boutelle, exemplifies community impact through decades of support for the American Heart Association—raising over $6.8 million, hosting annual charity events, and implementing lifesaving AED programs that have already saved eight lives in their stores.

Strategic cargo theft is a growing, global threat exploiting supply chain vulnerabilities, demanding stronger collaboration and updated protections.

The adaptive, predictive, and networked behavior of dragonflies offers a striking parallel to how organized retail crime groups assess risk, communicate, and evolve—especially through tools like social media—to exploit weaknesses in retail systems.

In an increasingly unpredictable world, businesses must adopt a dynamic and regularly updated resilience strategy—guided by tools like the PESTEL framework—to proactively manage evolving threats across political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal dimensions.

Despite official crime stats suggesting retail theft is down, new research shows it's actually rising—underreporting, shifting policies, and strained police resources are masking the true scale of the problem and fueling a misleading public narrative.