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Planning to Prevent Workplace Violence in Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Despite these statistics, many retailers still don’t have functional workplace violence plans. If they do have a plan, it’s likely that it hasn’t been recently updated, and many employees may not know it exists. My 35-plus years of experience in retail, most of that time being in loss prevention, has taught me a lot.

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Lost Goods or Lost Sales? How Connected Systems can Help Solve Retail’s Most Persistent Dilemma

Retail TouchPoints

As such, there are many factors to consider when implementing new loss prevention tactics. At the top of that list is the effect locks and cases can have on well-intentioned shoppers when not deployed as part of a holistic, data-led loss prevention strategy.

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JD Sports Powers Digital Transformation to Spur Growth in Canada

Retail TouchPoints

and Livestock banners, and plans to open as many as 80 additional stores in the country over the next five years. includes cloud technology solutions with rich mobile functionality for omnichannel, POS, merchandising, ERP, warehouse management, analytics and loss prevention. The Retail Management Suite from Jesta I.S.

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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. When David Sherwood joined the family business in 2001, the plan was to sell.

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

Inside Retail

Salespeople on the shop floor can use these devices to seek a colleague’s assistance in locating a certain size or style of a product instead of leaving the customer alone while the salesperson finds it. The software uses AI to help a retailer plan the introduction of new stock into a store and manage the pricing levels across its shelf life.

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During the Holidays, Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Feel the Impact of Retail Crime

Retail TouchPoints

If big box stores with significant resources at their disposal are struggling to implement effective security measures, how can local retailers hope to keep their locations safe? He brings more than 30 years working with the retail industry and specializes in loss prevention, safety, ecommerce fraud and supply chain security.

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More than plexiglass: Experts weigh in on rising retail crime rate in US

Inside Retail

Ladd noted that Whole Foods Market, CVS Pharmacy, Aldi US and Save A Lot have also closed stores in Chicago and other locations because of continued losses and rising crime. Shoplifting has been costing it millions of dollars in lost sales, and this year, it will close 20 stores in 11 states.

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