Tag: pos systems
Taking Retail Loss Prevention Strategies to a Whole New Industry
Chris McDonald is the senior vice president of loss prevention for Compass Group North America. He came to Compass Group in April 2012 after...
The Mobile Point of Sale Marches on in Retail
In 2013, nearly 66 percent of US smartphone owners used their devices to help them shop, and 80 percent of smartphone owners said they...
Changing Behavior—Moving Exception Reporting Beyond Loss Prevention
Many retailers today are exploring different ways of maximizing the use of loss prevention technology such as exception reporting by exploring other opportunities to...
Mobile Payments: The New Retail Revolution
There has been much written over the past several years about the new connected consumer. Pressure on retailers may never be greater to deliver...
Using Loss Prevention Technology to Support Traffic Counting and Conversion
Building effective retail partnerships requires that loss prevention professionals become more involved in the business of retail. Retail analytics can provide critical information and...
LP 101: Data Protection and Privacy
Building a successful career in loss prevention has always been predicated on the commitment to professional growth and development. Working in a business as...
Retail Security: Walgreens’ Story Offers Many Lessons
The intriguing story of how Walgreens and its retail security team started preparing for trouble they anticipated in Ferguson, MO – a full six...
Cyber Threat Predictions for 2015
2014 was undoubtedly the year of the data breach in retail. As an encore to the massive Target customer credit and debit card hack...
Why Bitcoin May Be the Solution to POS Data Hacks
The idea that an Internet currency could solve the hacking epidemic we’ve witnessed over the past few months may seem counterintuitive. After all, hacking...
Analyze, Alert, Act – Chico’s Technology-Based Approach to Attacking Shrink
After over thirty-five years in specialty retail loss prevention, there is not a lot that surprises Leo Doran. The two long-running “themes” of his professional life have...