Retail Crime

The Michaels Companies, Inc. is the largest arts and crafts specialty retailer in North America (based on store count), providing materials, project ideas and education for creative activities. Established in 1962, the company now operates more than 1,200 stores in 49 states and Canada.

Victim busts ID theft ring

Retail returns near $369B

Employee wears clothes out

Cashier steals CC numbers

Holiday Task Force

Shoplifting duo busted

Appriss Retail recently released an analysis of the cost and ramifications of US consumer merchandise returns on retailers, jobs, and state economies. The “2018...

A significant portion of organizations are overlooking the most effective anti-fraud measures, according to ACFE data. For example, proactive data monitoring and analysis is an anti-fraud control measure at just 37 percent of victim organizations.

CC fraud ring busted

Employee gets jail time

China gets cashier-less

Employee scan scam

Employee theft case; $7K

ORC Holiday Task Force

In 2018, readers were most interested in posts about organized retail crime associations, offender perspectives on self-checkout theft, and the latest research on loss prevention analytics applications.

Gun-toting 13-year-old

Shoplifter steals cop car

Pooey Puitton vs Louis Vuitton

Multi-state fraud scheme

Alert employee foils fraud ring

Retail sales of K-9s cats banned

Loss prevention has taken on perhaps the greatest scrutiny it has ever experienced because of the jump in identity theft and transactional fraud that has businesses under attack on virtually every revenue-generating front.

While there are famous cases of psychopathic individuals committing crimes, the majority of criminals have a conscience that’s functioning just fine. Without deploying careful defense mechanisms, the cognitive dissonance caused by their guilt would eat them alive