Tag: loss prevention technology
The Busiest Shopping Days Are Here: Top Tips to Prevent Holiday Shoplifting
According to ShopperTrak's historical data, 45 percent of all holiday shopper traffic falls during the top ten busiest days, beginning on Black Friday and dispersed throughout the end of the year. The top ten busiest shopping days for 2018, as predicted by ShopperTrak, are listed here.
Holiday Loss Prevention Tips: Make Sure You’re Ready for the Rush
During this critical time of year, every possible step that we can take to ensure a successful season must be planned and prepared, including our loss prevention plan.
What is Sensor Fusion—and How Should Retail Use It?
“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” We’ve all heard some form of the “Duck Test” before. We use the folksy expression when we want to get to the heart of the matter and clearly describe something for what it is.
How Store Environments Affect Shoplifting Crime
Here’s how one shoplifter assesses risk. “First things first—you want to know if they got what you want. The second factor is the risk involvement. The risk involvement will be security times cameras times employees times space times [other] customers."
What’s Driving the Latest Retail Shrinkage Rates in the United States and Beyond?
How can US retail shrinkage rates be so high, when the United States ranks in the top five countries in terms of investment in loss prevention technology?
Deterring Determined Offenders
Okay, it's not just complicated; it's complex. At least that's the opinion expressed by some tweeters recently. The "Twitterland" consensus seemed to suggest controlling...
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...
Execs Reveal Their Top Retail Security Solutions and Strategies
Sometimes, new retail security solutions or strategies cut costs far beyond what LP was thinking would happen. In other cases, cost savings disappoint. A national study by SDR/LPM looked at this expectation gap.
Why It’s Critical to Use Retail Traffic Counters
Traffic and conversion analytics focus on what happens before the transaction is recorded in your POS or CRM system...if one is ever recorded at all. That's what makes traffic and conversion data especially useful. Together, they tell us about the sale we almost had.
Impressed by an LP Solution? Product Capability is Just the First Consideration
It's conference season—the time of year when loss prevention executives get to touch and admire the latest advances in new loss prevention technology.