Loss Prevention White Papers

1. Retailers Take A New Approach To Addressing Out-of-Stocks
   5/16/2013

   Retailing has always been a tough business, marked by demanding consumers, tight profit margins and intense competition. Retailers – even the most successful ones – also have had to confront and overcome various operational challenges such as managing inventories, controlling shrink, representing their brands in an innovative and attractive manner and maximizing every square foot of selling space, while improving shoppers’ experience.

2. Infographic: How Is Interval Reinforcement Transforming Corporate Learning?
   4/29/2013

   This infographic talks about Interval Reinforcement - a concept that is playing a key role in the way organizations transform their learning strategies.

3. How Will LP Leaders Drive Sharper Visibility In Retail?
   3/18/2013

   This infographic looks at the key sources of inventory shrinkage affecting retailers the most, the biggest contributors to shrinkage, how retailers can use integrated solutions to improve shrinkage numbers, and which visibility solutions are gaining retailer adoption.

4. Attracting Shoppers, Not Thieves: Imaginarium Launches Retail Anti-Theft Program
   2/25/2013

   Imaginarium, a leading retailer of products and merchandise for early childhood education and children’s toys, likes to bill itself as having “the prettiest toy shops in the world.” But Imaginarium is savvy enough to recognize that aesthetically pleasing store environments do more than attract shoppers and their children: they also can attract potential thieves.

5. Consum’s Facelift Includes Upgraded Loss-Prevention Techniques
   2/11/2013

   In this case study from Checkpoint Systems, a leading Spanish supermarket network adds antennas and high-theft solutions as part of its store refurbishment program.

6. Yves Rocher Makes It Count
   2/11/2013

   In this case study, beauty care chain Yves Rocher deploys people-counter solution to improve efficiency in its Italian stores.

7. Helping Retail Loss Prevention Navigate Change
   10/15/2012

   In the early 1980s, a growing U.S. retailer needed a handful of aesthetically pleasing protective casings for store security cameras, so they approached Clifford “Tippy” Wren. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Wren used his experience in the plastics manufacturing industry and launched his own company, focused on camera housings and components designed specifically for video surveillance equipment. By Amelia Fusaro, president and chief operating officer, Wren Solutions

8. Rise Of Next-Gen Internet Security For The Merchant
   10/15/2012

   If your merchant bank revealed to you that its recommended stateful firewall could only prevent 31% of malicious network attacks made against your retail stores, would you feel your stores were protected?

9. How To Leverage Surveillance To Improve The Bottom Line
   10/10/2012

   Amid the excitement and insanity surrounding the holiday shopping season, retailers need to keep a sharp lookout for in-store behavior that can undermine success. Opportunistic shoplifters, sloppy cashiering, poor customer service and inconsistent restocking will cause otherwise booming sales to hit a roadblock. Continuous store oversight is more critical than at any other time of the year. Successful retail is in the details. By Jackie Andersen, North American retail business development manager, Axis Communications

10. Prolexic Mitigates DDoS Denial Of Service Attacks Against Auction Site
    10/3/2012

    BidCactus.com is a popular online site where savvy bidders can walk away with brand new merchandise such as electronics, fashions, gift cards, and more for up to 90 percent off retail price. Unfortunately, the site became a target for DDoS denial of service attackers. Earlier this year, a denial of service DDoS attack overwhelmed the sites firewall capabilities and requests were no longer being delivered to the load balancer.