Tag: retail security
Solutions Snapshot: Stanley Security
Solution providers offer a wide spectrum of mission-critical products and services designed to help meet the rising demands of the asset protection function and...
Shoplifting Methods and Designing Out Crime
Shoplifting is often viewed by professionals and amateur thieves as a low-risk versus high-reward business. As experts have documented, many shops and stores do not do enough to dissuade the rational criminal, who scans every environment for an opportunity.
Safeguard Marketing and Other Unorthodox Shoplifting Prevention Techniques
Marketing and loss prevention have always been intertwined, but the effort to forge a closer bond with shoppers could further enmesh the two functions.
The Remote Interview: When Do You Need the Human Touch?
Conducting suspect interviews remotely is an attractive cost-sensitive solution that has become increasingly commonplace, according to a trainer who has taught thousands of retail security personnel on interview and interrogation techniques.
Retailers Warned to Plan for Panic
In November 2017, on Black Friday on Britain's busiest street, the "sound of gunfire and explosions" created a panic among Christmas shoppers convinced the city was under a terror attack. Dozens of people were hurt in the ensuing stampede.
How Do You Calculate ROI in Retail?
At some point in your retail loss prevention career, if you haven’t done so already, you will be called upon to help make procurement decisions on new technology, such as electronic article surveillance (EAS) or video surveillance.
LPM Insider’s Top 5 Shoplifting and Organized Retail Crime Articles of 2018
In 2018, readers were most interested in posts about organized retail crime associations, offender perspectives on self-checkout theft, and the latest research on loss prevention analytics applications.
LPM Insider’s Top 5 Retail Security Articles of 2018
LP success stories, the world of loss prevention according to Paul Jones, and undercover vs. visible LP — these are the topics that drew the attention of retail security readers in 2018.
The Big Picture: Retail Video Today and What’s Coming Tomorrow
Visual information is no longer the only — and perhaps not even the primary — component of a video surveillance system. Images are still valuable, but it is the data inherent within them that provides for new applications and value. A camera is now a computer with a lens. Video once provided LP with extra eyes. Now it also offers brains.