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From Supermarket Store Detective to Director
EDITORS NOTE: Scott Ziter is director of asset protection for Price Chopper Supermarkets based in Schenectady, New York. He began his career as a...
Botched Crisis Management at Wells Fargo?
Recently, the news seems to be reporting one crisis after another. The effectiveness of a company’s, individual’s or government’s crisis management plan and execution...
Retailers with a Crisis Management Plan Can Effectively Manage Disruption
The political candidates currently vying for the US Presidency seem to disagree about the level of crime in the nation. Regardless of the actual...
Crisis Management: What Walgreens, 7-Eleven, and Other Crisis-Prepared Retailers Have in Common
Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland painted a grim picture of the nation’s safety. The candidate recited a laundry...
Every Crisis Management Plan Needs to Address Workplace Violence
As mentioned in a recent article (“Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and Insurance Implications”), the latest research suggests that 95 percent of employers are either completely...
Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and Insurance Implications
Several recent manmade disasters, including the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, and the Brussels airport terrorist bombing, highlight the vulnerability of the...
It Can’t Happen Here…Can It? Developing a Crisis Management Plan, Part 1
Most loss prevention professionals are relative experts in the kinds of routine risks we face daily in the form of internal theft, external theft,...
Crisis Management and the Wendy’s 99 Cents Chili Incident
In March 2005 police were called to a California restaurant to investigate a woman’s allegation that she had found a partial human finger in a bowl of chili. Over the next days and weeks, a hoax perpetrated against Wendy’s became national news, coffee-break conversation, and fodder for late-night comedians. The learnings from this event are still relevant today.
Driving Third-Party Logistics Solutions
While often viewed as simply a project-specific and labor-intensive undertaking, the actual mission of the supply-chain network is vitally strategic and tactically calculated—coordinating the...