Tag: national retail security survey

There have always been arguments for and against each type of security staffing strategy, explains Breck Ellison [shown], COO of Gallaher and Associates , a Tennessee security and safety company.

Joy riding minors

FB post gets a confession

80% of the problem is here

Uber driver helps deputies

Undercover cops nab boosters

Store owners partner with PD

During this critical time of year, every possible step that we can take to ensure a successful season must be planned and prepared, including our loss prevention plan.

Research in the loss prevention industry is alive and well on both sides of the Atlantic. Several organizations are growing our body of knowledge...

Who shoplifts? There is no typical profile of a shoplifter. Based on our experience of interviewing offenders, shoplifters can be male or female, of any race, as young as five or well into their seventies.

Not every solution needs to feed into the crime prevention arms race. An important foundation, say researchers and industry experts, is for retailers to assess whether their basic control policies and procedures might be inadvertently contributing to employee dishonesty.

While it would be impossible to give an exact formula for success in every company and project, it is reasonable to explore a framework that can be used to increase our chance at getting our proposal approved and implemented.

Loses 'shrink' in 2017

CC fraud scheme over 15 states

Stolen checks, cash drawers

Baseball gloves caught

New data breach law in CO

Booze theft: 3rd time/3 months

Thefts, fraud and losses from other retail “shrink” decreased to $46.8 billion in 2017 from $48.9 billion the year before as shoplifting and organized retail crime continued to be the leading causes.

Nearly 23 percent of surveyed retailers report overall inventory shrink increasing to 2 percent or more of sales, while 65 percent of retailers expect...