Tag: loss prevention
The European Road Map—Managing Stock Loss in the Retail Sector
If shrinkage management could be viewed as a journey, then recent European experience would be one not only lacking a final destination, but one plagued by...
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...
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...
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...
Pitfalls of Business Travel
These and many other expressions are used in the circles in which we travel, whether it is retail or not, whether we are young or...
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...
From Retail Sales to LP Management
EDITORS NOTE: Frank Johns is vicepresident of loss prevention for OfficeDepot, a $13 billion office supplyretailer with more than 950 stores, 22 delivery centers,...
Looking into Your Own
Remember the last time you sat and listened to a member of management who was upset and embarrassed that one of their employees had stolen...
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...