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

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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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Investing in Security: How Physical Barriers Protect your Bottom Line

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billion to theft, with organized retail crime (ORC) accounting for 37% of these losses. They enhance loss prevention. For businesses managing substantial inventory, gates and grilles play a crucial role in loss prevention. The stakes for facility security have never been higher. In 2023, U.S.

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Turn Your Store Associates into Superheroes with These Four POS Capabilities

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Prepping click-and-collect orders, picking and packing ship-from-store orders, managing store-to-store transfers, etc. — Follow evolving protocols as they relate to loss prevention. Your POS system needs to account for that. the fulfillment scenarios really are endless. And don’t forget that they need to sell stuff!

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

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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). Notably, theft (both internal and external) accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total shrink found in the report.

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The Role of Communication in Streamlining Retail Security Operations

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Importance of Effective Communication in Retail Security With the increased prevalence of retail crime, the ability to communicate in tandem among security personnel, management and law enforcement is essential. It can help security teams prevent theft, protect your employees and respond right away in case of an incident.

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Retail Risk is Serious Business – and it’s Time we Acted Like it

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Retailers invest heavily in loss prevention personnel, surveillance devices, electronic sensors and other security measures designed to make stealing as difficult as possible and they mostly succeed. Unfortunately, poor risk management practices can be just as damaging as ORC, fraud rings or food safety violations if not more so.

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

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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.