LPM “Magpie” Awards: Applauding Excellence, May-June 2018
The LPM "Magpie" Awards offer a means to celebrate industry accomplishments on an ongoing basis, recognizing the loss prevention professionals, teams, solution providers, law...
Security at the Source
Manufacturer involvement in designing product protection is decades old, noted University of Florida research scientist Read Hayes, PhD, CPP. He remembers Walt Disney's Buena...
We Gave Up Privacy for Convenience Years Ago
The only surprising thing about Facebook's recent privacy fiasco is that anyone was actually surprised. Those of us who use social media and other...
Retail Crime in Los Angeles
"Crime is up." "How should I protect my employees and customers from increasing violence?" "More and more shoplifting incidents escalate into physical assaults."
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Active Deterrence: A New Tool for Product Protection (Indyme Solutions)
Nearly 23 percent of surveyed retailers report overall inventory shrink increasing to 2 percent or more of sales, while 65 percent of retailers expect...
RFID White Paper (Nedap)
Today's shoppers expect the entire shopping experience to be fun. They want to be inspired, find what they want and the size they need,...
Monitors or Locked Displays?
It's complicated. We don't want to overplay our hand here, but the role and responsibility of today's asset protection professionals is increasingly complex, and...
People On the Move: May–June 2018
Kenny Douglas, Jeannie Tatis, and Henry Johnson, CFI, LPC are now regional LP managers at Amazon.
Kelly Sanders is now a regional LP manager at...
The Underdog
Many years ago I wrote an article titled "The Underdog Wins Again." In a nutshell it was a column about how some are not...
ALPHA—First and Foremost (Checkpoint)
Pioneers at Checkpoint Systems' brand of ALPHA® High-Theft Solutions take tremendous pride in their long history of "firsts." Our patent list has grown from...