Artificial intelligence has taken physical security from the reactive to the proactive era, especially in video surveillance and analytics.

Fighting organized retail crime (ORC) requires a holistic and fully resourced enterprise security program.

Secured entry solutions have long been established as proven tools in the fight against shrinkage, theft and unauthorized entry into protected areas.

In times of crisis, risk becomes more difficult to measure and predict. Security leaders must look to threats of the future to best ensure their organizations are resilient to any potential risks.

The organized retail crime initiative helps to solve retail theft cases and more effectively target the upstream criminal enterprises fueling them.

The Illinois attorney general has formed a task force comprised of national, state, and local law enforcement as well as large retailers to assess and eliminate organized retail crime in the state.

A group of fraudsters targeted two retail outlets in British Columbia, with one fraudster posing as the stores' regional manager.

Implementing a number of technologies within the retail setting can help organizations improve the customer experience, but more importantly, reduce shrink, mitigate fraud and improve security.

The Restaurant Loss Prevention & Security Association (RLPSA) is converting its annual in-person conference to a “To Go” (virtual) format March 2 – 4, 2021. The “To Go” format will provide the foodservice community a virtual way to obtain relevant loss prevention, safety and risk content. 

The 16th annual (Organized Retail Crime) ORC study released by the National Retail Federation found 75% of loss prevention executives at a cross-section of large and mid-sized retail companies said ORC activity had increased in the past year, up from 68% last year.