Tag: loss prevention managers
Expanding LP at Sterling Jewelers in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era
There’s something about starting a twelve-hour workday with an early morning teleconference with your company’s London-based risk committee. For Kevin Valentine, those trans-Atlantic meetings...
Writing a Prescription for Controlling Shrink
EDITORS NOTE: Ernie Deyle is the vice president of lossprevention at CVS/pharmacy. Since joining CVS in 2002, thecompany has undergone dynamic changes in the...
Developing a Strategy for Professional Development and Shrinkage Reduction
EDITORS NOTE: William M. BillTitus is vice president of lossprevention, environmental health,and safety for Sears, Roebuckand Co. He is responsible for overseeing over 2,400full-line...
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...
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...
LP Professionals Embrace Crisis Leadership
The first bullet fired in the deadly Washington, D.C. sniper spree of 2002Â shattered the front window of a Michaels store in Aspen Hill, Maryland....
Loss Prevention Takes Flight in Airport Shops Nationwide
The recent success in loss prevention at The Paradies Shops began in 1998 when Darian Griffin joined the company as a loss prevention manager....
Retooling the LP Strategy at Home Depot
If you're looking for the perfect LP strategy that will resolve accounting errors, stanch losses to internal theft, and scare away thieves, you can stop searching. It doesn't exist.
Gems of Leadership for Loss Prevention
EDITORS NOTE: Richard Mellor is divisional vice president of loss prevention at Helzberg Diamonds based in Kansas City, Missouri. He assumed this position in...
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...