LP Solutions

Rhett Asher is the executive vice president and director of retail solutions for Fortalice Solutions. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in...

To retail customers on couches—if they were to give it a second thought—virtual shopping might seem magical. With a few mouse clicks or screen touches, they can conjure up just about anything to appear on their doorstep.

Most facilities have addressed access control and the securing of main doors, but those should be measures of last resort. There are steps you can take to mitigate the threat before it arrives at your front door.

There is a lot of talk in retail about the store of the future—when it will be here, what it will look like, and how it might influence customer interactions in ways both recognizable and not. Post sponsored by Axis Communications.

As retail undergoes broad transformation, it's not surprising that loss prevention is embroiled in a sea change of its own. With essential shrink challenges as dynamic as ever, LP executives also face new sets of problems, old problems getting worse, as well as fresh opportunities to provide value to retail organizations.

""One of the goals is to get people with competing interests together and ask them: 'What would be palatable to you?' 'What are the things you need?'"

Asset protection practitioners need to accept and respond to the sea change taking place in the retail industry to avoid being engulfed by it, suggest AP leaders. Warning signs abound.

Retailers are losing their traditional allies in the fight against shoplifting. Once part of a multi-prong crime control effort—which included courts, communities, and law enforcement—retailers are increasingly fighting the battle on their own.

Policies and operations may be the foundation of a loss prevention strategy, but it takes significant cultural change, input from all levels of employees,...