Tag: surveillance system
Combating Retail Shrink with AI: Two Case Studies
Whether you are an AI skeptic or an enthusiast, these real-life scenarios illustrate the impact of AI and IoT and demonstrate ways for the retail industry to reimagine their loss prevention strategies with advanced technologies.
CASE STUDY: Taking Convenience Stores to the Next Level with IP Network Surveillance Systems
One benefit of implementing the new surveillance system was how it eliminated “blind spots” within stores, such as inside a walk-in beer cooler, which made it easy to prevent theft and catch thieves, according to Harrison.
LPM Insider’s Top 5 Retail Security Articles of 2018
LP success stories, the world of loss prevention according to Paul Jones, and undercover vs. visible LP — these are the topics that drew the attention of retail security readers in 2018.
The Big Picture: Retail Video Today and What’s Coming Tomorrow
Visual information is no longer the only — and perhaps not even the primary — component of a video surveillance system. Images are still valuable, but it is the data inherent within them that provides for new applications and value. A camera is now a computer with a lens. Video once provided LP with extra eyes. Now it also offers brains.
Business Travel Safety Tips and Hotel Recommendations
Long before a retailer opens shop in a far-flung destination, key personnel will need to make repeated travel to those locations. Keeping them safe during those excursions is a legitimate concern. This post offers some business travel safety tips for retail ops and LP pros on the go.
Criminological Theory and Loss Prevention
This post is designed to provide a theoretical context for understanding the psychological and social forces that drive people to become criminals, how criminogenic opportunities can be reduced, as well as where analytics fits into loss prevention.
How to Get More Money for Loss Prevention Equipment Acquisitions
What if other people in your organization could help you buy the loss prevention system that you are having a hard time getting approved by your C-level stakeholders?
The Rite Aid Asset Protection Team Reveals Details about Its Valuable Investigation Tool
One day in October of 2017, a man of medium build entered a Rite Aid in one of the nation’s largest cities, approached the register, and demanded cash. As the drawer was being opened, the subject flung himself over the counter, grabbing whatever cash he could.