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Exposing Common Examples of Holiday Gift Card Fraud
Protect your retail business from common gift card scams during the holidays, including gift card fraud. Learn common examples of holiday gift card fraud.
2024’s Top Retail Trends and Innovative Technologies
Uncover anticipated retail trends (retail trends 2024) including challenges like omnichannel shopping and retail crime. Learn how retailers stay ahead in retail in the new year.
2023 Retail Recap: The Year’s Biggest Stories in Retail Loss Prevention
Retail recap: Retail crime (including ORC), the economy, and artificial intelligence (AI) all weighed heavily on retail and loss prevention in 2023.
Is Visual AI the Holy Grail of Loss Prevention?
Discover the power of visual AI and data-driven analytics in combating rising retail theft and fraud and helping retailers protect their profits.
Navigating Challenges to Achieve a Successful AI-Driven Retail Experience
Embark on an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven retail journey to elevate customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.
How AI-Driven Return Authorization Impacts Loyalty with Ecommerce Returns
Reduce the cost of retail returns and improve customer loyalty with AI-driven return authorization systems for ecommerce returns / reducing returns.
Handle Post-Holiday Returns with Care: Top Strategies to Limit Losses
Top ways to handle post-holiday retail returns to limit losses. Learn how to streamline holiday returns, extend deadlines, and implement clear policies.
The Nice List: 5 Ways To Boost Holiday Profits and Prevent Losses
Don’t let fraudulent returns hurt your retail holiday season. Learn 5 AI-powered strategies to boost retail holiday sales while preventing retail loss.
On Santa’s Naughty List: 6 Common Forms of Fraudulent Holiday Returns
Learn how to prevent fraudulent returns this holiday season (like keep it return fraud) & protect your retail business from cross-retailer return scams.
More from the Blog
The True Power of Retail Return Rates
By adopting a customer-centric returns approach, leveraging technology, and building trust, retailers can unlock the true potential of retail return rates and retail return rate.
The Future of Retail: Unlocking Success with Artificial Intelligence
AI in the retail industry is presenting exciting opportunities for retailers willing to embrace its potential. Learn about AI in the retail industry.
How AI-Driven Authorizations Reduce Losses and Boost Profitability
AI-driven authorizations can help reduce losses by analyzing data, detecting fraud, and giving personalized incentives to customer/retail claims and appeasements.
Reduce the Environmental Impact of Retail Returns
Retailers can help reduce the environmental impact on retail returns. Online returns have a big impact on the planet; develop a returns strategy.
Omnichannel Returns Index Can Help You Improve Your Returns Management
Ecommerce and omnichannel retailers should study retail returns strategy against industry benchmarks to determine areas in need of improvement.
Mastering Retail Omnichannel Returns: Insights from Leading Experts
Discover the 2023 Omnichannel Returns Index and how retailers are excelling in managing multichannel returns with advanced digital capabilities.
What’s Your Purchase-After-Return Metric?
Purchase-after-return can drive retail growth and increase retail margins. Retailers can create personalized incentive programs using advanced analytics.
Emily the Criminal May Be Fiction, But the Prevalence of ORC Isn’t
Retailers are using AI to fight back against organized retail crime (ORC). Learn the future of fraud detection and the tools available to help retailers.
Building a Recognition Engine to Keep Top Talent
Celebrating current success and providing training for forward-looking skills helps associates feel supported and valued, encouraging them to stay with the company longer.
Claims and Appeasements Abuse/Fraud: Bigger than Chargebacks?
Claims have always been regarded as a cost of doing business for retailers, but our research estimates that 10 percent of claims are fraudulent.