Security Theater: Feeling Safe at the Airport Does Not Make You Safe
Feeling safe and secure is a sentiment we all desire to obtain. We often reflect on investing in security systems and software for our...
LPM “Magpie” Awards: Applauding Excellence, January–February 2019
The LPM "Magpie" Awards offer a means to celebrate industry accomplishments on an ongoing basis, recognizing the loss prevention professionals, teams, solution providers, law...
Opportunity Makes the Crime
"Location, location, location" has been used at least since the 1920s to make the key point about property-value differences. The same goes for sales...
Meet the Director of Operations for the LP Foundation
Mat Schriner joined the Loss Prevention Foundation nine months ago as director of operations. Initially pursuing a law enforcement career, he quickly identified a...
The End-to-End Logistics Provider
If you're like me, you've probably placed an order online in the last ninety days. Like most online experiences, it was likely seamless. You...
Evaluating Memory: I Remember It This Way, Part Two
Witnessing an event is an extremely complex process beginning with the acquisition of the observation, followed by the retention or storage phase, and finally...
Why Supply Chain?
Since the magazine began publishing in 2001, we have included occasional articles on supply chain topics such as cargo theft and distribution center loss...
Bumps in the Road
Evidenced by the most recent statistics, progress has been made against cargo thieves in the US. The value of stolen cargo is down. The...
The Evolution of LP to Supply Chain Omni-channel Experts
EDITOR'S NOTE: Maurizio P. Scrofani, CCSP, LPC, is a well-known supply chain asset protection professional with over twenty-five years of experience in retail and...
The Big Picture: Retail Video Today and What’s Coming Tomorrow
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.