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The LP Magazine Founders’ Awards honor industry leaders like Joe Laufenberg of Festival Foods, whose authentic, people-focused leadership and commitment to empowering others exemplifies the positive impact loss prevention professionals can have on both business and lives.

Strategic cargo theft is a growing, global threat exploiting supply chain vulnerabilities, demanding stronger collaboration and updated protections.

In an increasingly unpredictable world, businesses must adopt a dynamic and regularly updated resilience strategy—guided by tools like the PESTEL framework—to proactively manage evolving threats across political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal dimensions.

Verkada is transforming retail safety and operations with AI-powered visual intelligence and integrated emergency response tools—enabling retailers to detect threats in real time, respond instantly, and gain valuable insights that drive both security and efficiency.

Gatekeeper Systems’ Purchek® and FaceFirst technologies transform retail theft prevention from reactive deterrence to proactive, intelligence-driven protection—stopping theft at the door while arming retailers with real-time insights to safeguard profits, people, and operations.

The adaptive, predictive, and networked behavior of dragonflies offers a striking parallel to how organized retail crime groups assess risk, communicate, and evolve—especially through tools like social media—to exploit weaknesses in retail systems.

Celebrating its 25th year, the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) continues its mission to advance evidence-based retail crime prevention through collaboration, innovation, and rigorous research—growing from a bold idea in 2000 into a global leader in loss prevention strategy.

Phantom inventory—stock that shows as available but isn’t—costs retailers millions by hiding theft and errors, but Zebra’s Workcloud Actionable Intelligence uses AI to detect, alert, and resolve these issues in real time, boosting inventory accuracy and profits.

RFID technology is transforming retail supply chains by enhancing inventory visibility, improving shipment accuracy, reducing shrinkage, and streamlining operations across distribution and store networks.

ThinkLP’s AI-powered crime linking platform helps retailers connect and analyze dispersed theft incidents to uncover and disrupt sophisticated organized retail crime networks through collaborative, data-driven investigations.