Tag: loss prevention professional
What Is a Loss Prevention Manager?
To the average consumer, a loss prevention manager might once have been perceived as a “security guard”: a reactionary presence in a retail establishment whose primary responsibility is to apprehend shoplifters.
Stepping Up Your Game as an LP Professional
Lucas Moeller has over fifteen years of loss prevention, safety, and operations support experience with Best Buy and his current employer, Lowe's. During his...
LPM “Magpie” Awards: Applauding Excellence, July–August 2018
The LPM "Magpie" Awards offer a means to celebrate industry accomplishments on an ongoing basis, recognizing the loss prevention professionals, teams, solution providers, law...
The Worldwide Impact of Shrink
In the United States and around the globe, shrink continues to be a challenge for retailers, especially as competition grows, profit margins constrict, and...
Blending Lock Manufacturers to Optimize Savings on Lock Changes (InstaKey)
Sometimes the best solutions are unconventional. To InstaKey® Security Systems, unconventional solutions can be a result of working with clients to develop a means...
The ABCs of Investigating Theft in the Workplace
Few core competencies are as important to senior loss prevention executives as a proficiency in theft investigations. Whether it is knowing when to initiate an investigation, how...
This Is the Difference between Leading and Managing
A critical component of personal development is understanding the difference between being a manager and being a leader. In the business world, the term...
Experimental Design and Loss Prevention Programs
“Why do the iPads in the display area of the store continue to get stolen?” LP pros can conduct experiments to find out.
Are We the Liars? The Employee Theft Investigation and Getting an Admission at Any...
How do LP practitioners deal with the pressures of conducting internal theft interrogations in a forthright and honest way?What are the boundaries when it comes to obtaining an admission?
How to Analyze Retail Shortage Control Measures in the Supply Chain
The bedrock upon which healthy retailers are built is the supply chain that provides the goods to be sold. A retailer’s competitiveness, then, or...