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Sofias Rosende’s promotion at ALTO recognizes her exceptional leadership and contributions over 11 years, including launching US operations and advancing loss prevention efforts nationwide. Read more here!

Dive into real-world scenarios involving strategic thefts, fictitious pickups, and the tactics of rapidly emerging transnational criminal organizations.

ALTO’s Rhett Asher and ThinkLP’s Tony Sheppard discuss how their partnership gets better data from retailers and helps them react quickly to increase store safety.

This new strategic collaboration will bring together two of the industry’s most recognizable leaders in customer engagement and shrink management.

Clear policies and training in retail security matter. In this article by Joe Blaettler, read how a store’s failure to properly train employees in loss prevention led to an $8 million verdict after a plaintiff was injured during an attempted shoplifter detainment.

On December 18, Officer Sara Howell—disregarding significant risk to her own safety—reached into the back seat and dragged the trapped victim out of the vehicle just as it became fully engulfed in flames.

A successful retail safety program reaches well beyond compliance with governmental regulations and mandated procedures.

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While contributors to shrink are multi-fold, one strategy that retailers have leveraged to successfully combat shrink losses is scan-based trading (SBT).

Data released by the US Census Bureau shows that core retail sales during the 2024 holiday season grew an unexpectedly high 4% over 2023 to a record $994.1 billion, coming in ahead of the National Retail Federation’s forecast.