Inventory Optimization Topping Retailers’ Wish List for this Season
Tyco Retail Solutions recently partnered with EKN Research to look at how retailers are managing the challenges of omni-channel retail and meeting the needs...
Predictive Data Analytics
In the 2015 US Retail Fraud Survey, retailers across the country identified analytics and monitoring as the number one area of need. With the...
Going Beyond the Gut: Fact-Based Research
Imagine starting your day off receiving budget approval for new loss prevention equipment to protect your high-shrink departments in ten different stores. You are...
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention, Part 2
Welcome to the second of three installments covering the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine. I hope you enjoyed the first part in...
Holiday Crooks Are Here; Get Ready Inside and Out
You’ve readied your technical systems, stocked up security supplies, gone over loss prevention protocols with staff, and tried to hire only honest seasonal workers. Now, it’s time for shoppers—and criminals—to start filling your stores.
Breaking the Retail Shrinkage Life Cycle
For those of who have been in the loss prevention business for a number of years, you are surely familiar with the retail shrinkage...
Adding Depth to Your Retail Knowledge
Tracy Fleming, LPC, is the asset protection strategy manager for Walmart based in Bentonville, Arkansas. Fleming started with Walmart in 1993, worked in operations...
Building an LP Department Focused on People
EDITORS NOTE: David Shugan, CFI, is the senior director of loss prevention for Carters based in Atlanta. Prior to taking over the leadership role...
Scott Sanford named Director of Loss Prevention for Dollar Express
Scott Sanford has been named Director of Loss Prevention for Dollar Express. Scott was formerly the Director of Investigations and Training for Barnes &...
Supply Chain’s New BFF–The Omni-Channel Experience
With the growing significance of digital advertising and the advent of viewer customization and data mining, marketing to the same person in multiple touch...