Tag: shoplifter
Collaboration and Effective Loss Prevention Management
With limited resources necessitating efficiency and cost effectiveness, but standards still requiring responsiveness to customer needs, managers are asking questions about the best ways...
Cyber Crime’s ORC Connection
Retailers struggle with cyber crime and organized retail crime (ORC) on a regular basis. But how do these illegal behaviors relate to one another....
When Tragedy Strikes the Loss Prevention Community
On the evening of April 10, 2016, a shoplifting suspect was attempting to steal three flatscreen televisions from a metro Atlanta Walmart when he...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up – August 2016
Shoplifter Runs over Employee with Electric Scooter
Watching somebody roll through Walmart on an electric scooter looking for bargains on oversized containers of cheese balls...
The Debate Over Restorative Justice Programs
A recent article by the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal posed the question, “Are private education programs for shoplifters a second chance or extortion?”
The...
Retail Theft Statistics: Staying Focused on What’s Really Most Important
There are many different ways that retail theft statistics can be applied in order to show how the many different ways that shoplifting, employee...
Juvenile Shoplifting Rings Use Social Media to Discuss Retail Theft
In April 2014, a Tumblr user published a list of Tumblr accounts operated by what she called "Tumblr's Bling Ring." The juvenile shoplifting rings were...
What a Shoplifter Is Really Thinking
Have you ever wondered what a shoplifter is truly thinking?
According to the latest retail theft statistics, the 2015 National Retail Security Survey reported shoplifting...