Tag: shoplifters

Over a three-day period between September 16 and September 18, 2022, Prince George BC’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police Downtown Safety Unit partnered once again with loss prevention officers at a mall to target prolific shoplifters.

"We proved-out that the technology works phenomenally well. The technology is great." This effusive praise by an LP executive who oversaw a several-store test...

The crime of shoplifting is as old as shopping itself. The first documented cases of shoplifting took place in 16th-century London and involved groups of men called “lifters” (early organized retail crime?).

While the new “anti-establishment” world is rejecting globalization, will retail CCTV technology integration provide the panacea to retail risks?

Almost 100 flea markets were randomly selected from a guide of 1,000 locations and visited by our teams to assess the availability, pricing, and condition of a high-loss men’s shaving product as example of flea markets and stolen products activity.

Contemporary loss prevention professionals still maintain responsibility for retail security. But they also must handle employee theft issues, data protection, safety and risk management, inventory audits, legal compliance, and matters related to organized retail crime and fraud.

Strong customer service is one of our most effective tools and most proactive means to control theft and other losses on the retail selling floor.

The NRSS indicates that shoplifting accounted for 35.7 percent of the reported shrink in 2017, which is down from 39.3 percent in 2016.

The APLC provides a platform for industry leaders to come together to address challenges and issues in asset protection.

A uniformed security officer and a shoplifter both continue to recover after a violent confrontation outside a Tennessee  Walgreens Thursday morning. According to Metro...