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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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Planning to Prevent Workplace Violence in Retail

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

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JD Sports Powers Digital Transformation to Spur Growth in Canada

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The company currently operates 23 stores in Canada under the JD , size? and Livestock banners, and plans to open as many as 80 additional stores in the country over the next five years. The Retail Management Suite from Jesta I.S.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Unfortunately, while larger stores often have security measures like loss prevention personnel, anti-theft sensors and other helpful solutions, those measures usually aren’t financially feasible for small and mid-sized businesses. James Stark is the Segment Development Manager for Retail at Axis Communications.

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How Edge Computing Enables the Retail Store of the Future

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Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. Those same cameras and sensors also are at the heart of the grab-and-go checkout system featured in Amazon Go stores.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

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Adopting BOPIS can be challenging so we’ll explain how you can successfully merge your online and physical store operations. BOPIS, meaning Buy Online, Pickup In-Store, is an order fulfillment option that helps retailers connect their e-commerce channels with their brick-and-mortar storefronts. What is BOPIS?