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In an exclusive interview with LP Magazine, DTT's Chief Executive Officer Mike Coffey explained how today's announcement of their acquisition of EZUniverse® expands the company's intelligent video-based surveillance and loss prevention services to further improve retail operations.

If you're a young person in this business and think you have to work seven days a week—or even six—you are sadly mistaken. Don't confuse work effort with work results.

There are obvious ways to reduce the cost of security audits—piggybacking on other store audits, for example. But how else might retailers receive better value from store security reviews?

As a follow-up to the survey results article, the July-August 2018 issue of LP Magazine features a reaction-and-response piece that canvasses loss prevention leadership to hear their thoughts on what the survey had to say.

What follows is a top-level list of some key steps every organization should have already taken to protect against data breach liability.

There may be no better symbol of the nation’s modern, high-tech military as its fleet of predator drones. So it surely caused a few red faces at the Pentagon when it was discovered that insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq had used $26 software to intercept live video feeds from the unmanned planes.

Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like eavesdropping on marriage counseling.

Two US retail chains participated in an extensive study of how to select individuals most likely to "win" as in-store loss prevention specialists (store detectives or “SDs”). Following are some of the highlights of this study.

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?

The more retail e-newsletters and alerts you receive, the worse you may feel with the constant drumbeat of store closings, retailers filing bankruptcy, and elimination of jobs in our sector. Is this reality, or is it Chicken Little syndrome?