Tag: national retail federation
Juvenile Shoplifting Consequences: According to the Research
While society often imagines the shoplifter as someone stealing food or toiletries out of necessity to survive, often this is not the case. In...
From LP to Internal Audit to Enterprise Risk Management
EDITORS NOTE: Kevin Valentine, CFI, LPC, retired at the end of 2017 as senior vice president of internal audit, loss prevention, and enterprise risk...
ORC Is Worrisome, Worsening…And at Risk of Becoming Ignored?
Organized retail crime (ORC) is a significant source of loss for US retailers. Exactly how significant is notoriously difficult to tease out, but new...
Don’t Miss the Current Online Magazine Focused on ORC
The latest edition of LPM Online is focused on organized retail crime (ORC). Here’s a look at the excellent articles in this issue. Please...
Return Fraud’s Impact on Retail Sales and E-commerce Returns Highlighted in Report from Appriss...
Appriss Retail recently released its 2017 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry report, which analyzes results from the National Retail Federation’s 2017 Organized Retail...
Toy Scammers, Counterfeiters, and Other Grinches Are Out to Steal Christmas
Last year, the hot toy was Hatchimals, an interactive fuzzy bird doll that hatches from a large egg. Parents were not able to find...
California Campaign Seeks to Fix Prop 47 by Making Serial Theft a Felony
Suggestive of their ability to fight back against a wave of shoplifting decriminalization efforts, the broader retail and loss prevention communities will likely be...
The History of Interrogation According to Wicklander-Zulawski
BACKGROUND: Several years ago, the team at Wicklander-Zulawski was asked to discuss the history of interrogation at a conference along with its present situation...