Tag: retail industry
2017 Retail Trends: Are We Really Witnessing the Death of Department Stores?
Since the dawn of the digital age, economists, industry experts, ongoing retail trends, and consumer behaviors have all pointed to the changing portrait of...
New Year, New Editorial
The New Year is often bittersweet. On one hand, I look back at 2016 with a bit of nostalgia given it was the magazine’s...
From Supermarket Store Detective to Director
EDITORS NOTE: Scott Ziter is director of asset protection for Price Chopper Supermarkets based in Schenectady, New York. He began his career as a...
See You in Court
Sure, the headline is meant to grab your attention. But what is more likely is that as a loss prevention leader, your litigation team...
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention, Part 3
Here we are at the third and final installment of the first fifteen years of Loss Prevention magazine. I had indicated in the first...
People On the Move: January-February 2017
Steven L. Jacson II, Ted Johnson, and Phillip Rice are now Regional AP Managers, and Mario Perez is now DC/Supply Chain AP Manager at...
Happy New Year
This column is about things I may have said before in January, favorite things I heard said in 2016, and some issues for 2017.
Things...
LP Insider’s Top Five Shoplifting and ORC Articles of 2016
Does Concealment = Shoplifting?
In most states, intent is the driving factor in determining whether to charge a shoplifter.
It is a common misbelief among shoplifters...
LP Insider’s Top Five Retail Industry Articles of 2016
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Future of Retail Will Include Circuit City
E-commerce may be retail’s future, but brick and mortar is far...