Tag: electronic surveillance systems
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...
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...
AAFES Loss Prevention–A Mission with a Challenge
We have the responsibility to be there for our troops—whenever and wherever they go—to ensure they are provided with the goods and services they...
Thinking Outside the Small Box
Brad Seehoffer, district loss prevention manager for thirty-eight Big Lots stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania, remembers the good old days of loss...
RFID: The Future of Supply-Chain Management
Imagine a microchip the size of a grain of salt attached to every single manufactured product in the supply chain. Every can of soda,...
How EAS Source Tagging Rewrote Shrinkage History in the Music and Video Sector
History repeats itself until history is rewritten. For decades, prerecorded music and video products have been prone to high shrinkage. Whether it was the...
A Tale of Two Companies: A Roadmap for Merging LP Departments
LensCrafters is the largest chain of optical superstores with more than 860 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Sunglass Hut International is recognized as...