Tag: shoplifting law
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention
Based on another project, I have spent two months combing over every issue of Loss Prevention magazine. Being a reader from the very beginning...
A Formula for Fighting Organized Retail Theft
What started out as a small meeting in Houston to discuss the problem of infant formula theft led to arguably one of the most...
eBay’s GAP Team and Multi-Agency Takedown of Fencing Operation: 5 Arrested
A New Haven, CT, grand jury returned an indictment charging George J. Connelly Jr., 45, of New Haven; Paul William Muzyka, 46, of North...
How to Succeed with Loss Prevention Analytics
Loss prevention and asset protection practitioners know that their roles have shifted completely since the old days of catching shoplifters. These days, LP responsibilities...
Changing Roles and Challenges Inside Home Depot Loss Prevention
Stacie Bearden is the director of asset protection, field for The Home Depot. In this role, she is responsible for the theft and fraud...
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...
8 Tips to Protect Profits during the Back-to-School Rush
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When asked which shopping season brings the highest amount of theft, most retailers identify the time around the winter holidays—no surprise there....
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...
Advanced Crisis Response Training is Required to Handle Protests
In the past, retailers considered public demonstrations to be a police matter and relinquished the development of response plans to the local level. Retailers...
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...