Retail Crime

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

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

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.

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Visual information is no longer the only — and perhaps not even the primary — component of a video surveillance system. Images are still valuable, but it is the data inherent within them that provides for new applications and value. A camera is now a computer with a lens. Video once provided LP with extra eyes. Now it also offers brains.

Since the earliest days of organized retail, there has been a recognition of the unique exposure that retailers have to crime and loss. We...