Tag: retail shrink
RILA’s Asset Protection Leaders Council, Part II
Approximately fifty asset protection pyramid heads participated in last fall’s APLC meeting in Nashville. During the meetings, eight different retailers hosted store visits, providing insight into their top asset protection challenges.
Target Store Loss Prevention Programs
Target store loss prevention programs come in a variety of names, shapes, sizes, and formats.
Checkpoint Systems and IMCo Sign Reseller Agreement
Checkpoint Systems and IMCo, a Germany-based global leader in smart shelf technology offering loss prevention solutions to help retailers combat organized retail crime, recently...
How to Analyze Retail Shortage Control Measures in the Supply Chain
The bedrock upon which healthy retailers are built is the supply chain that provides the goods to be sold. A retailer’s competitiveness, then, or...
Bad Packaging Design Can Lead to Shrink
Few things are as frustrating for a loss prevention leader than discovering a bad packaging design they know will promote retail shrink— a feature which...
RILA’s Asset Protection Leaders Council
In an industry as dynamic as retail, asset protection leaders have long been faced with the daunting task of keeping pace with the changing...
Loss Prevention in Retail: How Do You Create Your Vision?
I remember walking into the office for the first time. A new company, a new position, a new city. The size of the building...
Boosting vs. Fencing Goods: Which Is the Direct Link to Shrink?
What is the issue facing retailers regarding boosters and fences? There seems to be confusion over whether boosting or fencing goods is the primary...
How Much of Retail Shrink is Lost to “Paper Shrink”?
Each year, loss prevention directors are evaluated based at least in part on retail shrink results. At a minimum, poor retail shrink numbers negatively...
Controlling Retail Shrinkage in the Specialty Environment
Retail shrinkage stems from a handful of causes that are rarely unique to a single retailer. Theft, whether internal or external, and operational error...