Tag: retail security
Loss Prevention, Stress, and Building a Resilient LP Workforce
In loss prevention’s desire to improve solutions and enhance performance, it can be easy to forget about the dangers personnel face, especially those non-acute risks that can cause problems over time, such as harm to health and well-being from stress.
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...
9 Emerging Retail Technology Trends You Need to Know
Loss prevention practitioners have a long track record of investing in a wide range of technologies to help control the various losses retailers experience....
How to Protect Retail Inventory This Holiday Season (Checkpoint)
This year’s holiday shopping season is expected to be strong, according to data released by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Retail sales during November...
Australian Retailers Are Working Together to Defeat Shrink
Australia is famously referred to in a Men at Work song as the “land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” which according...
How to Win with Your Loss Prevention Strategies
Regardless of what your company sells, where you sell it, or your total store count, you as a loss prevention or asset protection professional...
Crime Deterrence Enhancements Should Take Priority over Tech Improvements
This may sound controversial, but it’s been my observation that over the years that loss prevention professionals are behavioral experts first and technicians second....
Why the Global Retail Sector Must Have a True Risk Resilience Strategy
Global risks, both man-made and natural, are an inevitable companion of and byproduct to today's constant global change. The retail environment is far from...
Risk Management and Loss Prevention: Partners for Profits
When comparing the risk management and loss prevention disciplines, it is important to recognize that the two functions share many common missions. They both manage...
Making the Most of Loss Prevention Technology
More than ever, it seems that those in loss prevention are being faced with a plethora of new loss prevention technology solutions. In fact,...