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Leveraging Retail Incident Reporting to Combat Workplace Violence
Retail incident reporting is the foundation for providing a safe, predictable, and profitable...
2024 Retail Loss Prevention Technology Trends, Insights, and What’s Coming in 2025
As we step into 2025, it’s clear that retailers are coming off a year filled with evolving...
Getting to the Bottom of Cash Register Discrepancies
Cash register discrepancies/cash drawer over or short cause financial damage to retailers. Identify cash overages and shortages with data-driven insights.
Organized Retail Crime 101: A Retailer’s Guide to Shrink Prevention
Organized retail crime (ORC) preys on retailers of all sizes. From retailers with thousands of...
Strategies for Effective Retail Loss Prevention Training
Understanding the importance of retail loss prevention training Retail losses, whether through...
How Can Retailers Cut Back on Gift Card Fraud?
Gift card fraud is so ubiquitous today that Maryland recently passed sweeping legislation to help...
Top Strategies to Prevent Holiday Return Policy Abuse
The holiday season brings a surge in sales and excitement for retailers, but it also presents...
Returns and Customer Loyalty: How Much Do They Matter?
The current state of retail returns If consumer returns were depicted as an emoji, they’d be a...
7 Tips for Holiday Returns and Protecting Profits
While the holiday season delivers a bounty of revenue and customer joy to retailers, it also...
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How to Prevent and Identify Inventory Shrinkage in Retail
Businesses diligently stock shelves, meticulously manage inventory, and ensure products are...
7 Loss Prevention Tips For An Effective Shrink Action Plan
Inventory shrink costs retailers millions of dollars annually – in 2023 alone, shrink accounted...
4 Ways to Improve Retail Cashier Training with Data-Driven Insights
Retail employee attrition is nothing new to the industry. Regrettably, in recent years, a...
Cutting Self-Checkout Shrink with Advanced Technology
Self-checkout may seem like the latest and greatest technology to hit retail floors in the 21st...
Transforming Returns into Opportunities: 5 Steps to Implementing a Dynamic Retail Incentive Program
If you still consider returns simply a cost of doing business, it's time to rethink your...
Navigating ‘Good’ vs. ‘Bad’ Customers for Returns Fraud Prevention in Retail
Understand nuanced consumer behavior to prevent fraud and protect profits. Learn how AI can help retailers differentiate between good and bad returns.
Supercharging Organized Retail Crime Cases for Stronger Law Enforcement Collaboration
Combat the billion-dollar problem of Organized Retail Crime by supercharging your case preparation and collaboration with law enforcement agencies.
Whose Responsibility Is It To Control Shrink in Retail?
Discover whose responsibility it is to control retail shrink and explore how innovative technology can mitigate losses and safeguard profits.
3 Things to Know About Combatting Claims and Appeasements Fraud
Explore effective strategies utilizing AI and analytics to combat customer appeasements, claims, and appeasements fraud, including addressing order adjustments and tackling INR fraud.
How Today’s Organized Retail Crime Groups Evade Yesterday’s Technology
Learn about the growing challenge of ORC, organized retail crime methods, and how fraudsters exploit traditional security strategies to commit retail fraud.