Tag: store inventory
Biometrics: One Type of Employee Theft Insurance?
For retailers around the globe, one of the greatest sources of loss comes from the inside. The problems of employee dishonesty and payroll fraud are...
Predictive Data Analytics
In the 2015 US Retail Fraud Survey, retailers across the country identified analytics and monitoring as the number one area of need. With the...
Redefining Inventory Shrinkage—Four New Buckets of Loss
What does inventory shrinkage mean to you?
For most companies, the answer to this question would be obvious: a significant problem, and usually something that...
How Smart Loss Prevention Is Fueling Better Customer Experiences (Tyco Integrated Security)
While maintaining store safety and reducing shrink will always be the core focus of retail security solutions and loss prevention teams, these solutions have...
What Is Big Data?
Big data is a very large amount of complex data that can be structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. This can be a collection of traditional...
Checkpoint Systems Announces Roll Out with Japan’s Major Chain AEON RETAIL and Introduction of...
Checkpoint Systems, Inc., a leading global supplier of merchandise availability solutions for the retail industry, today announced that AEON Retail, a major Japanese retailer,...
Writing a Prescription for Controlling Shrink
EDITORS NOTE: Ernie Deyle is the vice president of lossprevention at CVS/pharmacy. Since joining CVS in 2002, thecompany has undergone dynamic changes in the...
From the Super Bowl to the Supermarket
EDITORS NOTE: Jeff Richardson recently retired as vice president of loss prevention and security for Pathmark Stores, Inc. after thirty-two years. He began his...
The Economics of EAS
Specialty apparel and department store retailers are having difficulty expanding  electronic article surveillance (EAS) programs to take advantage of source tagging. Only a few...
Leveraging People, Technology, and Relationships
The core of this article focuses on the impact of cutting-edge technology and technical analysts working in Hollywood Entertainment’s loss prevention department. However, these...