The Walgreens Loss Prevention Strategy Challenges Legacy Thinking
Tim Belka is the senior director of global security at Walgreens. Belka began his career as a US deputy marshal before joining the Central...
EyeOnLP: Innovision 2017 Recap
Leading by example, Innovision 2017, an event designed to promote and inspire innovation and new ideas, was in itself a new idea with a very different approach to the typical conference format.
Getting the Dosage Right to Stop the Pain
We have new CCTV cameras, but now what? This is the type of question we often hear. For example, do we primarily want the...
Modern Data Analytics
Retailers who have made the jump to modern data analytics solutions know that the retail industry has moved past being overwhelmed by too much...
Attention LP Pros: LPC Scholarship Opportunity
This January, The Zellman Group entered into its twentieth year of business. To celebrate this accomplishment, the organization wanted to give back to the...
3 Ways to Maintain the Value of Your Video Investments
Video surveillance is often at the heart of loss prevention strategies designed to address causes of shrinkage. Whether a retailer is taking aim at shoplifting, employee theft, returns fraud, tag switching, or sweethearting, a video solution can usually help.
Perspectives from Practitioners
We try to always write the articles in this magazine from the perspective of the loss prevention practitioner. Apart from the columns written by...
Is It Worth the Risk?
Approximately 29 percent of DNA exonerations across the United States since 1989 involved false confessions to the crime. The actual rate of false confessions...
Building an Unbreakable LP–IT Bond
Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like...
The Year Ahead in LP
These are clearly turbulent times in retail. How people shop is changing—and with it the strategies employed to attract and retain customers. Store technology...