Tag: EAS
Holiday Season Presents Retail Shrink Challenges (Checkpoint Systems)
According to the recently published 2016 Retail Holiday Season Global Forecast, retailers will experience both the heaviest sales volumes and the weakest performances (specific...
Going Beyond the Gut: Fact-Based Research
Imagine starting your day off receiving budget approval for new loss prevention equipment to protect your high-shrink departments in ten different stores. You are...
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention, Part 2
Welcome to the second of three installments covering the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine. I hope you enjoyed the first part in...
Breaking the Retail Shrinkage Life Cycle
For those of who have been in the loss prevention business for a number of years, you are surely familiar with the retail shrinkage...
Has the Time Arrived—Finally—for RFID?
After years of false starts and a measure of false promises, retailers are finally starting to realize the potential of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Building an LP Department Focused on People
EDITORS NOTE: David Shugan, CFI, is the senior director of loss prevention for Carters based in Atlanta. Prior to taking over the leadership role...
Making the Most of Loss Prevention Technology, Part 4
Technologies do not manage themselves; they need to be managed with equal passion and energy at all the key stages of their life cycles,...
Build a More Effective Program with Your Electronic Article Surveillance System
Experienced, organized, and professional shop thieves have long ago identified how to defeat what they view as rather predictable electronic article surveillance system technologies. Their...
New EAS tag wins national award. Top retailers acknowledge importance of new Concept Tag
Agon Systems’ clothing tag, named the Concept Tag, won the “Best Newcomer Award” this year at the annual Fraud Awards; the “Oscars” for the...
The Organized Theft “Sales Cycle”
Forty years ago, organized theft (now called organized retail crime, or ORC) plagued the East Coast. Gangs of professional thieves from various countries in...