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40 Years of Retail Loss Prevention Research
Richard “Dick” Hollinger, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville who studies employee dishonesty and has overseen the National Retail...
People First, Mission Always: Macy’s Supply Chain Asset Protection in Action
LPM had the honor to be invited once again to the annual supply chain asset protection conference for Macy’s Logistics and Operations (MLO). This...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the Retail Environment
Radio frequency identification (RFID) was reportedly developed in the 1940s as an espionage tool in WWII. It has since been used to track everything...
Life as a Health and Safety Officer at A.S. Watson: Where Managing Risk is...
Health and safety are three words that have both positive and negative connotations. The tabloid press loves to feed the notion of uber-regulation and...
Faking It: Turning Our Loss Prevention Focus to Counterfeit Merchandise
Any international retailer working in luxury brands today will tell you that the genteel days when imitation was seen as the sincerest form of...
Tragic Consequences Can Result When Shoplifting Escalates
Shoplifting and related retail crimes are often perceived by the general public as a minor nuisance rather than a multi-billion dollar problem. But as...
Alternatives for Preventing Retail Theft
Sponsored Editorial
Lucia Summers, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. Her specialist research areas include the...
Growing the Magazine Staff
Like most start-ups, when we launched the magazine fifteen years ago, we operated on a shoestring. With just two or three on the payroll,...
Data Breaches: A Look Back, a Glimpse Forward
There are many different kinds of stories that dot the digital landscape, many highlighting the scope and reach of loss prevention in the new...
Retail Theft and the Science of Stealing
When thinking of retail theft, many envision teenagers shoplifting candy bars. Obviously, it’s much more than that. More than $44 billion in merchandise goes...