Tag: organized retail crime

As retail undergoes broad transformation, it's not surprising that loss prevention is embroiled in a sea change of its own. With essential shrink challenges as dynamic as ever, LP executives also face new sets of problems, old problems getting worse, as well as fresh opportunities to provide value to retail organizations.

The Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) has recently announced an organized retail crime (ORC) certificate course preview webinar sponsored by Tyco Retail Solutions. Webinar participants will receive a discount code for the actual course.

Police kill shoplift suspect

Company president apologizes

Most likely to be stolen

Shoplift leads to meth lab

Equifax confirms stolen info

Theft of designer merchandise

Reward offered for info

Employee ORC theft

LPA assaulted

ORC ring bust: 1 arrested

Cashier swipes $17K in 3 days

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

Loss prevention has evolved significantly over the past several decades. Today's loss prevention professionals are expected to be multidimensional, open minded, global thinking, enterprising,...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Dan Faketty is vice president of asset protection for Southeastern Grocers based in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to moving into a leadership role...

Manufacturer involvement in designing product protection is decades old, noted University of Florida research scientist Read Hayes, PhD, CPP. He remembers Walt Disney's Buena...

"Crime is up." "How should I protect my employees and customers from increasing violence?" "More and more shoplifting incidents escalate into physical assaults." Comments or...

Organized retail crime and the dramatic growth of ORC incidents have drawn significant attention both within the loss prevention industry and throughout the retail...