Loss Prevention White Papers
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Fighting Retail Return Fraud
8/20/2013
It’s after Christmas and consumers are lined up at stores to return merchandise – the scratchy sweater from Aunt Helen, the toaster oven that doesn’t fit on the counter. But not all returns are legitimate and return fraud costs Retailers billions of dollars every year- $8.9 billion dollars according to the 2012 Return Fraud survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF).
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Is Ronnie Working In Your Company?
8/15/2013
Your institution houses private information for your clients, but what would happen if that information fell into the wrong hands? An information breach not only affects the clients whose information is leaked, but diminishes the integrity of your institution. What should you do to minimize or even prevent the probability that a breach will occur at your business?
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IP Video — Defining Total Cost Of Coverage
8/12/2013
IP Video is taking the retail world by storm, replacing older analog systems at an increasing rate. A lot of this has to do with reduced costs and improved ROI from coverage, resolution, and analytics. Here, I sit down with Mark Collett, GM of Sony Electronics’ Security Systems Division and Sanford Green, Director, USA Sales & Operations, VSA Division, ImmerVision to discuss the total cost of coverage for IP video.
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IP Video — Fisheye Vs. Panamorph
8/12/2013
IP Video is taking the retail world by storm, replacing older analog systems at an increasing rate. A lot of this has to do with reduced costs and improved ROI from coverage, resolution, and analytics. Here, I sit down with Mark Collett, GM of Sony Electronics’ Security Systems Division and Sanford Green, Director, USA Sales & Operations, VSA Division, ImmerVision to discuss the total cost of coverage for IP video.
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IP Video — Today And Beyond
8/12/2013
IP Video is taking the retail world by storm, replacing older analog systems at an increasing rate. A lot of this has to do with reduced costs and improved ROI from coverage, resolution, and analytics. Here, I sit down with Mark Collett, GM of Sony Electronics’ Security Systems Division and Sanford Green, Director, USA Sales & Operations, VSA Division, ImmerVision to discuss the total cost of coverage for IP video.
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The Mobility Makeover: How IP Video Can Help LP Set The Trend For Success
8/12/2013
Retail gets a makeover roughly every 15 years, and mobility is the industry’s latest transformation. With the steady – sometimes overflowing – stream of new technologies, it’s more important than ever for retailers to carefully consider which technologies they adopt and to what scale. While each new technology has its advantages, the question should be: does it help solve a problem or create one?
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LP Professionals — The Next Step
8/5/2013
Everything we do as retail loss prevention and security professionals is focused on reducing loss and increasing profits. So when we have the opportunity to speak with our C-level folks in the organization about our proposed projects and expenditures, we need to talk in the language of business, not security, and demonstrate how our initiative will increase sales and reduce labor, create synergies and efficiencies, improve the customer experience, raise associate morale, and create a sustainable contribution to the bottom line.
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Retailers Take A New Approach To Addressing Out-of-Stocks - Part 3
7/18/2013
Innovative retailers are using RFID technology as a common fabric across many of its merchandise- centric applications to gain real-time insight into merchandise status and to take necessary steps to anticipate and reduce out-of-stocks. In this final series installment, we’ll take a look at how Checkpoint Systems has developed an innovative and efficient approach to this problem.
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Keeping A Handle On Your Cash Handling
7/17/2013
There are many factors that are going to determine if you are going to be successful. Loss prevention is a key area and working closely with your Loss Prevention team is critical. When you consider the average retail business can lose as much a 2% of sales to shrink, LP is something you need to be on top of. Solid cash handling procedures can be a big help.
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Top Trends Drive Value Of IP Video Beyond LP
7/15/2013
For decades, video surveillance systems have primarily been a loss prevention tool. LP personnel review video after an incident, hoping the grainy image from the analog camera is enough to ID the person(s) within the investigation. With continued advancement of IP-based video systems, retailers have realized that multi-purposed video delivers benefits beyond traditional security.