Tag: electronic article surveillance
The U.S. Navy Exchange—Loss Prevention with a Family Touch, Global Reach
Here is a quick quiz—Name a multi-billion-dollar global retailer that is consistently profitable, has had only one owner in 200 years, offers attractive wages and benefits (medical/dental/life...
EAS Merchandise Protection Strategy
In recent years, Gap Inc. has implemented a number of electronic article surveillance (EAS) solutions, including in-store applied hard and alarming tags, factory-applied source/soft...
Targeting Return and Other Retail Fraud
Since opening its first store in 1962, Target has set itself apart from other discount retailers by differentiating itself as a design leader with fresh and...
Considerations for Evaluating EAS Source-Tagging Programs
While electronic article surveillance (EAS) has become pervasive in the US retail market, there are still a large number of retailers that have yet...
Self-Checkout Reaches Critical Mass
David R. Humble got the idea as he stood in a long grocery checkout line in south Florida in 1984. The customer in front of...
The Human Factor
In a merger completed just over a year ago joining two of the largest office supply product companies, Boise Office Solutions and OfficeMax, a lot of...
Made from Scratch
In the summer of 1969, Dan Evins came up with his old country store idea while driving his family down to the Atlanta (Georgia) Zoo. The...
2005 Technology Preview
EDITOR’S NOTE: As loss prevention departments plan for 2005, many of you may wonder what new technologies or products will be available in the...
Product Protection—Beyond EAS
What we are attempting to do is add to the tools and practices that will not only move CVS/pharmacy, but the entire retail loss prevention industry forward in...
The Economics of EAS
Specialty apparel and department store retailers are having difficulty expanding  electronic article surveillance (EAS) programs to take advantage of source tagging. Only a few...