Retail Crime

The ORCAs in Action initiative, a coalition of the nation’s organized retail crime associations, held the latest in a series of virtual conferences on January 31 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and is now available on demand.

Kris Vece has almost twenty years of experience in the security industry and joined Protos in 2015.

Developments in video analytics, which can be used to automatically identify predetermined events and generate an alert, have resurrected interest in using video to address shop theft.

US President Joe Biden has signed the 2023 omnibus spending package, which includes the INFORM Consumers Act that retail organizations have been advocating for.

One great way to reflect on the events of the past year is to look back at the six magazine issues LPM put out in 2022—four quarterly publications, and two special editions exploring organized retail crime and innovation.

Another year has come and gone, making this an excellent time to reflect on all that happened in 2022.

A Home Depot employee has died weeks after confronting a callous thief at a Home Depot in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

The INFORM Consumers Act is included within the 2023 omnibus appropriations bill that will be voted on in the Senate and House in the next several days.

The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) have announced a new investment in their partnership to combat organized retail crime.

Consumers are expected to return more than $816 billion worth of retail merchandise purchased in 2022, according to a report released today by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Appriss Retail.