Tag: retail industry
GIS Opens 2017 Retail Industry Background Screening Benchmarking Survey
GIS is inviting retailers large and small to participate in their fifth annual Retail Industry Background Screening Benchmarking Survey. The survey is designed to...
Retail Asset Protection Conference 2017 General Sessions Sneak Peek
The Retail Asset Protection Conference 2017, put forth by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), will again offer a strong roster of featured speakers...
The Evolution of the Retail Loss Prevention Professional
What is the role of retail loss prevention? What may seem to be a simple question has grown increasingly more complicated as various functions,...
Biometrics: One Type of Employee Theft Insurance?
For retailers around the globe, one of the greatest sources of loss comes from the inside. The problems of employee dishonesty and payroll fraud are...
Retail Industry Leaders Association and Accenture Launch Innovation Center
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) and Accenture, have announced the launch of RILA’s (R)Tech Center for Innovation. The new initiative will explore the...
Modern Data Analytics
Retailers who have made the jump to modern data analytics solutions know that the retail industry has moved past being overwhelmed by too much...
Perspectives from Practitioners
We try to always write the articles in this magazine from the perspective of the loss prevention practitioner. Apart from the columns written by...
The Year Ahead in LP
These are clearly turbulent times in retail. How people shop is changing—and with it the strategies employed to attract and retain customers. Store technology...
Building an Organization around Data and Technology
EDITORS NOTE: Scott Glenn, JD, LPC, is the chief security officer for Sears Holdings where he is responsible for asset and profit protection, safety...
Setting the Research Agenda
In the last edition of LP Magazine, we presented the findings from our first benchmark study, which focused on comparing practices and policies on...