Tag: loss prevention

Employee embezzles $25K

Mom steals daughter's identity

Operation Santa Patrol

Bomb threat

Mom attacks with kid

Santa's supply chain

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This week’s International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tips from the archive, provided by Wicklander-Zulawski, feature Wayne Hoover, CFI, looking at the soft accusation assumptive question during an interview.

A review of one recent mass shooting incident suggested some valuable questions that a retailer can ask to identify potential flaws in its procedures for handling potentially dangerous store associates.

Employee theft case $200K

Retailers partner with PD for blitz

'Grandparent scam' thwarted

K9 helps with arrest

ORC ring busted

Shoppers punked by shoe store

"Perfect your interpersonal communication skills, distinguish yourself, and keep learning and growing daily. Raise your hand for those tough tasks and assignments. Remember, wherever you go, whatever you do, distinguish yourself. Be so good they can't ignore you!"

ORC trio arrested

Suspect bites

Avoiding retail 'tricks'

Employee admits to $57K

Dèjà Vu Shopliftings

Who called the cops?

Last week's LPM Insider survey asked whether respondents thought they were earning a fair wage for the work they do. One reader commented, "Companies that are too tight with their money lose loyalty, and then their best people. Then they wonder why. The door swings both ways."

Leveraging the Loss Prevention Research Council's (LPRC's) five zones of influence framework, many retailers implement solutions at each layer of the zones to reduce opportunities or incentives for violence.

I agonized over it, but finally I realized that if these things are bothering me, maybe someone out there will get something out of these thoughts, even if it's only one person. Never one to do things halfway, here it goes—a purge, so to speak.