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Fundamental Loss Prevention Skills for Establishing a Professional Brand
In the 1970s and 1980s, service in local, state, and federal law enforcement was the required foundational experience for most loss prevention leaders. Today,...
13 Vital Requirements for an Effective Loss Prevention Department
Implementing an effective loss prevention department can be a challenging undertaking in today’s retail environment. With the multitude of different business priorities, increased workloads, budget...
Exactly What Is a Shoplifter and How Much Do You Know?
When asked “What is a shoplifter?”, most readers of the LPM Insider probably have a pretty good idea of how to respond. I do...
Why Sharing Threat Details Needs to Be Part of Your Cyber Attack Response Plan
Sometimes you have to think and act like a criminal to disrupt and defeat the activities of the real bad guys. Conversely, it is...
Online Sellers’ Red Flags Can Point to Fencing Crime
Perhaps the most widely known criminal on our radar is the fence. A fence is an individual who knowingly buys stolen property for later...
Effective, Evidence-Based Retail Crime Prevention
Regardless of the protective progress retailers and solutions providers are making, thieves are still carrying off billions of dollars' worth of goods annually. While...
Losses and Costs Associated with UK Grocery Store Magazines and Newspapers
We are all familiar with use of the word “shrinkage” to describe the losses experienced by retailers, although it is impossible to find any...
E-commerce Credit Card Fraud: The Growing Challenge
Just as the word "e-commerce" has come to refer to a menagerie of different specialized markets, so e-commerce credit card fraud comes in many...
The ROI for RFID Technology in Retail
Over recent years, we've witnessed a resurgence of interest and substantial growth in the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in retail—a veritable...
Flash Mob Robbery and the Retail Threat
What started out a few years ago as a phenomenon that used social networking sites to gather a group of people in a public...