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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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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. There’s also the matter of securing the computer hardware that runs the store operations.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

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Retailers have gotten better about thinking about simple things like power accessibility or creating WiFi shadows around fixtures and things like that, but there are still far too many unintended consequences that come out of store design because they did not think through tech requirements up front.

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JD Sports Powers Digital Transformation to Spur Growth in Canada

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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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How to Design Your Retail Space With Security in Mind

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When designing your retail space, where and how you use security cameras is key to loss prevention. Strategically place your cameras: Having eyes across the entire store is essential, but it’s especially critical to have clear visibility of what’s going on at the most important spots of the retail property.

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Facilities Management CEO: ‘Cleanliness Will Be Looked At In An Entirely Different Lens’

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Almond: We started to see board-up requests during the later part of the Memorial Day weekend, as well as calls for security guards, clean-ups, and in some cases store closings for the safety of the employees. Some stores were literally in flames, and there were loss prevention issues at others.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

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That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras? How can we better integrate the latest anti-theft technologies and loss-prevention research into our store designs from the outset?