Tag: asset protection
9 Emerging Retail Technology Trends You Need to Know
Loss prevention practitioners have a long track record of investing in a wide range of technologies to help control the various losses retailers experience....
Stories from the Storms
Kroger Store 950 sits slightly raised in small-town Texas “thirty miles northeast of Beaumont as the crow flies,” according to Eric Bumbaugh, Houston division...
Collecting Shrinkage Goals and Sport Memorabilia
EDITORS NOTE: Scott Myers is vice president of asset protection for Hibbett Sports. For much of his 22 years with the company, he held...
Certification Benefits All AP Leaders
Chris Scheutzow, LPC, is the area assets protection leader for Big Lots. He oversees daily asset protection functions for thirty-eight stores in Tennessee, Kentucky,...
Wrestling with Total Loss
In 2017, Adrian Beck, professor in the criminology department at the University of Leicester, published a piece in Security Journal outlining a new conceptual...
Brendan Fitzgerald Promoted to Vice President of Asset Protection at BJ’s Wholesale Club
Brendan Fitzgerald was recently promoted to vice president of asset protection at BJ’s Wholesale Club. Fitzgerald was formerly the director of asset protection operations...
5 Recent Cases of Retail Robbery and Theft—And the Safe Technology to Thwart Them
At any given time, even the most casual Google search for “retail robberies” will return pages and pages of recent news items—some recounting thieves’ success; others, their failure.
David McGowan of Tiffany and Co. to Be Recognized with SIA Insightful Practitioner Award
The Security Industry Association (SIA) recently announced David McGowan, Tiffany & Co.'s vice president of global protection services, as the 2017 recipient of its...
People on the Move: October 2017
Professional advancement and building a successful loss prevention career can mean many things to many different people. For some individuals, it may mean reaching...
LPRC Hosts 350 LP Executives to Explore Evidence-Based Retail Strategies
Under the theme “Precision LP,” the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) IMPACT conference concluded Wednesday after three days of presentations ranging from research results...