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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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Federal Policies, AI and Supporting Law Enforcement: Retailers Fight Back Against ORC

Retail TouchPoints

In 2022, shrink caused retailers $112.1 billion in losses, up from $93.9 billion in 2021, according to a retail security report from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC). Retailers and their loss prevention teams can’t tackle the problem alone.

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Organized Retail Crime is on the Rise, but AI Can Stop This Troublesome Trend

Retail TouchPoints

Typically, ORC is reliant on a single entity, like an address, credit card or store account that connects a complex crime ring across retail stores. But without the data to link the individuals involved in the ORC ring, retailers may continue to suffer tremendous loss and shrink every year. Is Organized Retail Crime Getting Worse?

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How Retailers can Combat the Rising Threat of Theft

Retail TouchPoints

That’s why it’s important to understand the most common forms of theft and the measures you can take to prevent loss without deterring valued customers. External Theft According to the NRF, shoplifting and other forms of external theft, including burglary, accounted for 37% of reported shrink in 2022.

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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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Retail crime: Why foiling shoplifters takes a team effort

Inside Retail

Recently, the Profit Protection Future Forum released the findings of its comprehensive The 2022 Australia and New Zealand Retail Crime Study, a rigorously conducted body of research that captured the trends and patterns of the retail crime landscape from some of ANZ’s largest retailers.

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Count on Webex for your Data Locality and Sovereignty Needs

Cisco Retail

We recently added a new data center in Singapore and I’m excited to share that our new India data center will go live by early Fall 2022. Additionally, EU customers who had set up their accounts in the US prior to data residency availability have an option to migrate their organization’s data and user content to the EU. Data Residency.