Take Some Notes
We all have jotted down some notes regarding a conversation—something we wanted to remember or just a simple to-do list. Most of us have...
Analytics
Without consciously realizing it, and certainly without having made a conscious decision to pursue it, we as a society find ourselves living in a...
Outplaced: Committing Loss Prevention Suicide?
This year I will turn sixty-six years old and intend to retire after over thirty-six years in academia, including thirty-three years at the University...
EMV: Not the End of Fraud, But a Helpful Tool
Fraud and cyber security have never been more on the forefront of asset protection professionals' list of things that keep them up at night...
Changing Roles and Challenges in Loss Prevention
Interviewee Bios
Stacie Bearden
Director of Asset Protection, Field
The Home Depot
Bearden is responsible for the field organization's theft and fraud including Home Depot's organized retail crime...
Grasping the Future and Today: A Balancing Act
Every day, when the alarm goes off in the morning, all of us in the retail industry have a similar challenge awaiting us. Whether...
Taking Retail Loss Prevention Strategies to a Whole New Industry
Chris McDonald is the senior vice president of loss prevention for Compass Group North America. He came to Compass Group in April 2012 after...
FMI 2016 Asset Protection Conference Off to a Great Start in Tucson
As the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) 2016 Asset Protection Conference got under way in Tucson on Tuesday, Scott Ziter, chairman for the FMI Asset...
Spring Trends and Rapid Change in the Retail Industry
The holiday season is over and the weather is starting to warm up. Retailers are replenishing their stores with fresh spring merchandise. Zacks Equity...
How a Public-Private Partnership Can Change Community Policing
How can the quality of the law enforcement services provided not be impacted during these hard economic times? For the Albuquerque (NM) Police Department,...