Profit Protection—A U.K. Spin on Loss Prevention
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ian Carter is head of profit protection for B&Q plc, the number-one home improvement and garden center retailer in Europe and the third largest in the...
Six Steps to a Successful Loss Prevention Program, Part 4
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of articles discussing a strategic approach to formulating a targeted loss prevention program. The first part appeared...
Better Security. Better Safety. Papa Johns.
EDITORS NOTE: David Rydeen iscurrently the national director ofsafety and security for Papa JohnsInternational. Over the past twelveyears, he has held several positionsin the...
Is Your Corporate Culture Creating Dishonest Employees?
Does the exhilaration of catching employees who steal from your company still give you that butterfly feeling in your stomach? Is it because you just got rid...
Benchmarking Your Performance on Shrinkage
The session took place on the second day of the conference and used an established technology that enabled individual delegates to “answer” questions in real time put...
12 Months Into Becoming World Class
Many loss prevention professionals begin their career in established departments where they are lured to the structured succession planning, continuing programs, and enduring policies. However,...
Finding the Rotten Straw in the Field of Haystacks
What are the benefits of data mining? Imagine your company as a field full of haystacks, with each haystack representing a store. The pieces of straw...
Remodeling Loss Prevention at The Home Depot
EDITORS NOTE: Tom Fricke (pictured to theleft) joined The Home Depot in November, 2005, asvice president of asset protection with responsibilityfor loss prevention, safety,...
Get in the Habit of Managing Every Day
You are working on a big project for your boss. You have been barricaded in your office for days trying to finish it. But that’s nothing...
Challenging Assumptions—Putting LP under the Microscope
Doctors do it, so do engineers, and police officers...even farmers. More and more professions are using rigorous data to create, refine, and measure what they do....