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LPM “Magpie” Awards: Applauding Excellence, July–August 2017
The LPM “Magpie” Awards offer a means to celebrate industry accomplishments on an ongoing basis, recognizing the loss prevention professionals, teams, solution providers, law...
Ramifications of Retail’s Upheaval
Since last June’s National Retail Federation (NRF) loss prevention conference, there have been a lot of changes—and not all of them have been good. Attendees to this year’s NRF PROTECT conference, June 27 - 28 in Washington DC, will be learning how to navigate in retail and loss prevention environments that are more complicated, dangerous, and mission critical than at any time in recent years.
Facial Recognition Security Cameras: A Game-Changing Technology
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is based on the experiences of a well-known retailer that implemented a facial-recognition security camera system. Because of the potential value...
Stop Theft by Shoplifting: Two Ways to Influence Potential Offenders
The following describes a cornerstone theory of judgment and decision making that has tremendously important implications in loss prevention. The elaboration likelihood model (ELM)...
Mike Lamb, LPC, Named Vice President of Asset Protection for Kroger
Mike Lamb, LPC has been named vice president of asset protection for Kroger. A seasoned industry leader, Lamb has served with some of the...
Calculating the ROI of Loss Prevention Solutions
Over the past 25 years, return on investment, profit center, cost center, and value-added have become significant buzzwords in the loss prevention industry. While not...
USS Executive Team Adds Proven Industry Leader
USS recently announced the addition of a long-standing, well-known industry leader to their executive team with the onboarding of new Vice President of Operations...
Building an Unbreakable LP–IT Bond
Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like...
Setting the Research Agenda
In the last edition of LP Magazine, we presented the findings from our first benchmark study, which focused on comparing practices and policies on...
Certification Has Tremendous Benefits for Law Enforcement
Mitzi Perry, LPQ, has been an investigator at the St. Petersburg (Florida) Police Department since 1999. In 2001, she was assigned to the auto...