How NOT to Investigate Organized Retail Crime
This post's findings are the result of more than thirty retail and law enforcement interviews expressly asking for opinions and thoughts on investigating ORC. It's from the archives, but its advice is...
View ArticleIs Workplace Abuse by Customers on the Rise?
Faced with rising rudeness, the mission to protect personnel assets from violence seems increasingly complicated. So what can retailers do about it?
View ArticleLA City Attorney and LAPD Partner with ALTO US to Battle the Growing Problem...
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and ALTO US have recently announced they are teaming up to implement a retail risk management solution to battle ORC.
View ArticleRetailers Increasingly Worried about ORC Statistics
Despite retailers reporting worrisome and worsening ORC statistics, resources to fight it may be on the verge of stagnating. Only 40 percent said their companies are allocating more resources to fight...
View ArticleRESEARCH: Retail Theft and Loss Prevention Analytics
Who shoplifts? There is no typical profile of a shoplifter. Based on our experience of interviewing offenders, shoplifters can be male or female, of any race, as young as five or well into their...
View ArticleUS Retail Industry, Jobs, and State Economies Impacted by Nearly $369 Billion...
Appriss Retail recently released an analysis of the cost and ramifications of US consumer merchandise returns on retailers, jobs, and state economies. The “2018 Consumer Returns in the Retail Industry”...
View ArticleBreaking News in the Industry: January 8, 2019
Victim busts ID theft ring Retail returns near $369B Employee wears clothes out Cashier steals CC numbers Holiday Task Force Shoplifting duo busted
View ArticleA Retailer’s Guide to Dealing with Antisocial Behavior
Common flashpoints for retail conflict and violence include confronting suspected thieves, refusing sales, and dealing with antisocial behavior. Nothing new here, but the prevalence of each appears to...
View ArticleShoplifting Methods and Designing Out Crime
Shoplifting is often viewed by professionals and amateur thieves as a low-risk versus high-reward business. As experts have documented, many shops and stores do not do enough to dissuade the rational...
View ArticleShedding Light on Retail Theft Statistics
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.
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