Retail Crime

Employees should be taught the signs of customer who uses a stolen credit card. Credit card fraud detection signs may include the red flags listed in this post.

At a time when store margins are under intense competitive pressure, retail shrink can make or break a retailer's bottom line. But retail shrink numbers are vulnerable to blind spots and imprecise metrics.

Any mishandling or theft of found property while under LP’s control is sure to give the department a black eye and reflect poorly on those in charge. What does it take to avoid that embarrassment?

Fighting digital commerce fraud is an unrelenting challenge for all merchants that do business online. To put it bluntly, it's revenue protection.

For this benchmarking survey, the authors looked at how some of the biggest retailers in the US are experiencing shoplifting, violence associated with these incidents, and the shoplifting policies and procedures put in place to manage these issues.

Writing a loss prevention manual — or rehabilitating a long-forgotten one — is no easy task. But trying to operate without one can also be pretty complicated.

Theft; Officer-involved shooting

Cop helps catch 4 states thieves

Scamming the scammer

Four women arrested

Shoplifter pulls knife

Eliminating bias in facial rec

Various factors, including tight budgets, increases in serious crime, and shrinking availability of patrols have affected police procedures and shoplifting penalties.

Fleeing shoplifter dies in crash

Fraudster gets 32 months

Restaurant employee jailed

ID theft: ICE attorney gets 4 years

Exactis' data leak beats Equifax's

Massive ORC theft

Okay, it's not just complicated; it's complex. At least that's the opinion expressed by some tweeters recently. The "Twitterland" consensus seemed to suggest controlling...