Tag: retail security

Bob MacLea, one of the retail industry's longest-tenured and most-respected loss prevention executives, lost his battle with cancer last Thursday, March 1. Beginning his...

Perhaps because I am of a certain age, I must confess that the passing of contemporaries has a profound impact on me. Over the...

Whoa, what's that?! No way. That's a reaction we want from would-be offenders when thinking about initiating a crime attempt on our property. We're often...

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...

Loss prevention and retail executives’ careers are dramatically altered when workplace violence impacts their business. The loss of human life, coupled with the loss...

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.

EDITORS NOTE: Kevin Valentine, CFI, LPC, retired at the end of 2017 as senior vice president of internal audit, loss prevention, and enterprise risk...

Loss prevention practitioners have a long track record of investing in a wide range of technologies to help control the various losses retailers experience....

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...

Australia is famously referred to in a Men at Work song as the “land down under, where women glow and men plunder,” which according...