Tag: cargo theft
A New LP Challenge
Every retail loss prevention professional is familiar with the traditional avenues through which loss occurs. Shoplifting, both amateur and professional, employee theft, and refunding schemes are...
What Will It Take to Secure Our Global Supply Chain?
Trust is a word not often associated with the concept of homeland security. It’s commonly used, however, in describing the partnership between our industry...
LP Hotlines Are Heating Up
Sarbanes-Oxley has turned the attention of top management to a loss prevention standard, the anonymous hotline.
Twenty years ago, the concept of providing an anonymous,...
Civil Recovery in the Sunshine State
Many people are familiar with civil recovery demands in Florida for $200 and use that amount as requested statutory damages for any civil shoplift...
Internet Fraud—How the Web Is Changing LP
The bust ended on a familiar enough note. At a dusty border crossing in San Ysidro, California, a young woman was recently arrested by U.S. postal...
Monitoring and Securing Cargo with Electronic Padlocks
Many of us in the loss prevention world can attribute our roots to the fundamental, foundational role of store detective. As a detective, the...
Stopping Theft with the Click of a Mouse
Detecting internal theft at JCPenney has leap-frogged into the 21st century. Just five years ago, attempting to identify possible fraudulent refunds meant that every...
A Primer on LP in DCs
The control of losses in a distribution center is not that much different than in a store. The sources of loss are essentially the...
Identity Theft – A Growing Epidemic of Fraud
The fastest growing financial crimes in America today are check fraud and identity theft. The Nilson Report estimates check fraud losses to be about...
Emerging Trends in Loss Prevention
A Short History of Loss Prevention
In the sixties, retailers called the departments that were engaged to impact loss security. Many of the practitioners in...