Tag: employee theft
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...
Head, Heart, and Hands: Best Buy’s Approach to Distribution Center Loss Prevention
Best Buy’s executive management realized some years ago that the challenges and approaches to loss prevention at our fast-growing chain of retail stores—there are...
Hot Products—Protecting Our Best Stuff
Think about it, much of our merchandise is occasionally purchased or lost. But some items just seem to fly out of the store.
Recent research in the United...
A New LP Challenge
Every retail loss prevention professional is familiar with the traditional avenues through which loss occurs. Shoplifting, both amateur and professional, employee theft, and refunding schemes are...
Weathering the Perfect Storm
Despite consolidation and narrowing margins, retailing is healthier now than it has been in many years. It is also true that retailers are doing more...
An Academic Approach to LP
EDITOR’S NOTE: Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is...
Managing LP by Managing Data
Movie Gallery is the second largest and fastest growing video rental retailer in the world. Starting with one store in Dothan, Alabama, in 1985, the...
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...
How GUESS? Turned LP into a Mission-Critical Business Operation
Shoplifters’ Destination of Choice
From Aruba to Venezuela, the GUESS?™ brand is ubiquitous. Known globally for its innovative, highly visual design sense...and for launching the careers...
LP and HRManaging Two Seemingly Divergent Functions
EDITORS NOTE: Dan Doyle is vice president of loss prevention and human resource administration for Bealls Inc. of Bradenton, Florida. He is not only...