Tag: point of sale
4 Ways You Can Transform Retail Loss Prevention Training
Prior to 2012, Bloomingdale’s was doing what most retail organizations do when it comes to retail loss prevention training and safety education—relying on a...
Loss Prevention in Retail: How Do You Create Your Vision?
I remember walking into the office for the first time. A new company, a new position, a new city. The size of the building...
Access Control Technology to the Rescue: A True Story
The Case of the CFO’s Family Photo
I was recruited to a startup thirty-store retailer to launch their first loss prevention program. My supervisor, the...
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...
The Year Ahead in LP
This is truly a transformative time in retail. With mounting expectations on product availability and escalating demands on service and convenience, the way people...
Research Findings from Employee Theft Articles
For more than 30 years, I have been researching employee theft, occupational crime, employee dishonesty, and workplace deviance. I peruse scholarly journals and academic...
Closing a Retail Store: Loss Prevention’s Role
In recent years, senior loss prevention executives throughout retail have had to come to grips with a different type of promotional sale events—the all-too-frequent store-closing sale.
It...
New Ways to Analyze SRAs Today Instead of Suffering Disappointing Shrink Figures Tomorrow
The retail industry is on the cusp of a transformation in its use of data to protect profits and to identify and overcome sales barriers. We’ve been here before.
Physical Security IS Data Security
According to the online technology dictionary Techopedia.com, “data security” is defined as the “protective digital privacy measures that are applied to prevent unauthorized access...