Tag: dr. richard hollinger
From Store Detective To Research Scientist with the Loss Prevention Research Council
Read Hayes, Ph.D., CPP, is the director of the Loss Prevention Research Council(LPRC) and coordinator of the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University...
The Top Challenges Retailers Face
Today’s retailers must cope with a broader range of threats than ever before, and these challenges go well beyond preventing loss and increasing sales....
Retail Loss Prevention: How Much Do You Really Know?
The most recent National Retail Security Survey (NRSS), led by Dr. Richard Hollinger of the University of Florida, uses empirical retail loss prevention data...
Retailers Estimate Shoplifting, Incidents of Fraud Cost $44 Billion in 2014 According to National...
NRF/University of Florida Survey Finds Shrinkage Totaled 1.38% of Sales Last Year
Long Beach, California, June 24, 2015 – A new study being released from NRF...
The 2015 National Retail Security Survey Has Begun
It wasn’t that long ago that there was no consistent or reliable means to gather and interpret industry-wide information on retail shrinkage. Not only...
Planning, Implementing, and Justifying an Employment Screening Process
Many experts agree that “past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.” For this reason if for no other, companies should be keenly...
LP Transformation at Limited Brands
LP Magazine recently had the opportunity to talk with three senior leaders of Limited Brands, one of the nations most prominent retailers with 3,800...
Selling Your Proposal to Senior Executives
“In God we trust. All others bring data.”
In the September/October issue of LossPrevention, we focused on mapping out the process by which we sell a...
Solving Multiple-Suspect Thefts
Early in my career, I investigated many multiple-suspect thefts with a less than satisfactory case resolution. Not being able to identify the primary culprit...
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...