Tag: loss prevention policy and procedures
Why Sharing Threat Details Needs to Be Part of Your Cyber Attack Response Plan
Sometimes you have to think and act like a criminal to disrupt and defeat the activities of the real bad guys. Conversely, it is...
E-commerce Credit Card Fraud: The Growing Challenge
Just as the word "e-commerce" has come to refer to a menagerie of different specialized markets, so e-commerce credit card fraud comes in many...
Studies on Lying and Cultural Differences
Since 1980, the percentage of people in the United States who primarily speak a language other than English has grown by 158 percent while...
Analyzing Employee Theft Statistics from a Specialty Retailer
When I was a doctoral graduate student at the University of Minnesota during the late 1970s, I began conducting research on employee theft. At...
Fraud Detection Techniques Using Big Data
Deep inside the data warehouses of companies across the world, billions of dollars are trapped in the subtle variations between the binary 0s and...
Shopping Mall Security and LP
Shopping mall security is not a replacement for retail loss prevention programs. Mall security and LP have supporting missions, but they’re different missions.
A diagram...
Closing a Retail Store: Loss Prevention’s Role
In recent years, senior loss prevention executives throughout retail have had to come to grips with a different type of promotional sale events—the all-too-frequent store-closing sale.
It...
Grocery E-commerce: Are We Ready?
Omni-channel retailing is growing and evolving in every aspect of retail as consumers continue to look for fast, efficient, and convenient ways to buy...
How to Keep Data Secure from Insider Threats
Just as online marketplaces made shoplifting worse by providing thieves with an easy avenue to sell their stolen goods, the dark web is raising...
Counterfeit Goods and Trademark Enforcement
According to statistics from the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC), the total value of intellectual property (IP) rights-related seizures was about $1.22 billion in 2014....