Retail Security

As retailers expand into customer experience retailing, loss prevention and risk management professionals are facing new challenges. Children’s play areas, curb-side pickup, and special in-store events each have unique security issues. Are you prepared?

At a keynote presentation at NRF Protect last month, a panel of industry leaders was shown data that 65 percent of retailers provide active shooter training and was asked—why aren’t we at 100 percent? Check out the 12 core elements that should be in any training program, plus questions you should ask to assess training providers.

More than 120 golfers and volunteers from across the lLP community assembled in California to share fun and raise money to support the industry at the second annual Swing for Certification golf tournament.

Post orders that have not been reviewed recently probably don’t align with priorities or reflect the actual job duties that staff perform. Read what experts recommend.

Theft, fraud, and losses from other retail “shrink” totaled $50.6 billion in 2018, up from $46.8 billion the year before.

Well-known loss prevention executive, Walter Palmer, has been named Executive Vice President of leading crime risk forecasting technology provider CAP Index.

In case you're thinking that video is a nice-to-have capability, but one that most c-store owners simply don't have time to tackle, keep reading.

While the new “anti-establishment” world is rejecting globalization, will retail CCTV technology integration provide the panacea to retail risks?

The number of security guards directly hired by retailers is expected to decline by 2.8 percent between 2014 and 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ occupational outlook.

Overseas travel, particularly business travel, can be seen as glamorous by the uninitiated. In reality, it can be fraught with risk. For those climbing Mount Everest, risk is part of the experience, but for the average business traveler, danger should not be part of the trip.