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Smash-and-Grab Is Only One Part of a Retailer’s Loss Prevention Story

Retail TouchPoints

Yet despite the growing frequency of ORC, retailers would be remiss to focus their loss prevention efforts solely on these brazen, smash-and-grab scenarios. In fact, according to the 2023 National Retail Security Survey conducted by NRF, Appriss Retail and the Loss Prevention Research Council, 68.8% Similarly, 57.8%

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Sensormatic Solutions and MTI Add New Loss Prevention Tools for High-Value Devices

Retail TouchPoints

Sensormatic Solutions has extended its partnership with MTI to offer additional loss prevention and liability offerings for high-value electronics, including smartphones, tablets and cameras. The solutions are designed to safeguard these devices while still letting customers interact freely with them.

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Exclusive: How Daniel’s Jewelers is Using Vision AI to Better Serve its Customers

Retail TouchPoints

One prime example: the retailer’s partnership with RetailNext to use in-store traffic analytics for shaping everything from staffing strategies to improving store performance and even loss prevention. I learned to collect accounts from this grumpy old dude, who is now the grumpy old dude running our collections.

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How Amazon’s Anti-Counterfeit Unit Keeps Fake Products off its Site

Retail TouchPoints

The Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU), established in June 2020 , stopped more than 700,000 attempts by bad actors to create fake selling accounts in 2023. That’s down from 6 million would-be fake account attempts that were thwarted in 2020, the year that the CCU launched — an 88% decrease in less than four years.

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

One of our global accounts can complete an entire store stocktake across 4000+ stores globally within 48 hours and it integrates some auditing and checking functionalities as well to validate the data to ensure accuracy of the count.” “This is particularly helpful for someone bringing a new product to market, where there is no sales history.”

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Mall of America Adds Body-Worn Cameras to its Security ‘Layers’

Retail TouchPoints

Body cams help us hold both the public and our officers accountable,” Bernhjelm added. This includes monitoring the internet and social media, liaising with local law enforcement and working with individual retailers’ loss prevention officers. Mall of America also works with intelligence analysts to proactively look for threats.

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Different Things to Consider Outsourcing in Your Retail Business (and Why)

Retail Focus

Accounting and Bookkeeping Maintaining accurate financial records is crucial for the long-term success of any retail business. Outsourcing accounting and bookkeeping tasks to professionals can help you keep track of expenses, revenues, and taxes efficiently.