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NEWS
Lights, Camera Action
The recession has resulted in spending on physical security including guarding taking a pounding on the High Street. Read More
Swine Flu – not to be sneezed at
Many loss prevention departments include the broad agenda of risk in their remits and the threat of swine flu has meant that high level strategies to deal with a potential outbreak have had to be developed and ratified in recent weeks. Read More
It will all come out in the wash
What have laundry, outsourcing of retail call centres and plea bargaining for shoplifters all got in common? Answer: an angry American fresh off the red-eye from New York. Read More
Loss Prevention at your convenience
Larger retailers all have loss prevention departments, small armies of ‘shrink-finder generals’ who root out external and internal fraud. Read More
PUTTING THE BOOT IN - August 18th 2009
With car boot sales and markets being the single biggest source of fake goods in the UK, council leaders and chief executives have called on the Government to tackle this damaging, and growing, problem.
Over 130 delegates, including 23 council leaders and 12 council chief executives signed an open letter to the Government, at the recent Local Government Association Conference in Harrogate, calling on Ministers to fulfil their undertaking to consult on measures to tighten the regulation of occasional sales and markets - originally promised by the end of 2007. Read more
Action on Age verification online - July 31st 2009
IMRG, the membership community for the e-retail industry that helps to maximise the commercial potential of online shopping has launched a long overdue action plan on age verification for internet transactions.
Traditional means of age verification do not work online because the internet is changing the way that consumers shop and retailers trade, says IMRG.
This change is bringing new structural requirements, and one of these is the need for a mechanism that will enable retailers to verify the age-associated eligibility of online customers to buy certain products, in order to protect both minors and themselves. Read more
Thank Crunchie it was Fraud Day - July 21st 2009
Thousands of Crunchie Bars proved a sweet success as part of the Retail Fraud Awareness Day on June 30.
The chocolate was used as promotion to highlight the fact that UK retailers are losing around £4 billion* in shrinkage - loss caused by theft, fraud, waste or process failure - every year.
Under the headline: Thank Crunchie it's Fraud Day, this staggering, yet conservative figure became the catalyst for the Retail Fraud Awareness Day™ with hundreds of store staff taking part in awareness briefings on the day itself, and others allotting other days to fit in with training initiatives. Read more
Half of UK shoppers look for 'Internet Shopping is Safe'(ISIS) logo when purchasing online
- July 13th 2009
More than half of online shoppers look for the logo of Internet Shopping is Safe, according to new research.
According to the Kelkoo report 50% of customers shopping online look for the ISIS logo on accreditated retailers' sites.
Internet Shopping Is Safe (ISIS) is a merchant accreditation program run by the industry body for Internet Retailing, IMRG. Backed by SecureTrading and many larger retail brands, ISIS offers customers the confidence to shop online, knowing that bearers of the logo have signed up to a well respected accreditation program which includes best practice, a site audit and legal obligations at its core. Read more
Foiled - June 25th 2009
Police have praised the collaborative approach of the Retail Loss Prevention Fashion Forum after an intense information sharing operation resulted in a sting operation and conviction of the ringleader of a national criminal gang that has preyed on stores across the UK.
Michael Andrew Patrick Duffy was sentenced to 18-months in prison with six months to run consecutively after pleading guilty to theft of thousands of pounds worth of merchandise from fashion stores across the UK as part of the so-called 'Argos Bag' Gang, named because their modus operandi involved a foil-lined Argos shopping bag to interfere with sophisticated EAS systems.
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The loss world - Fri, 12/12/2008 - 5:14pm
The
UK is the crime capital
of Europe as retail
theft soars to £4.1
billion, according
to the Global Retail
Theft Barometer Read more
LossManager helps Jaeger to boost profits - Mon, 01/12/2008 - 10:57am
A data-mining tool from IDM Software claims to have helped premium British fashion retailer Jaeger identify significant profit potential in just three-months. Read more
John Lewis fits new stores with digital CCTV - Fri, 17/10/2008 - 1:40pm
John Lewis Department Stores, have invested in IndigoVision's complete end-to-end IP Video technology for its CCTV surveillance. Read more
Caught
in
the
act:
A
guide
to
checking
your
staff -
Fri,
03/10/2008
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12:25pm
The
introduction
of
the
Immigrations
Asylum
and
Nationality
Act
2006
means
that
company
directors
can
now
face
fines
of
up
to £10,000 Read more
All
in
a
day's
work -
Fri,
01/10/2008
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3:24pm
Every day will literally be a school day as River Island's former senior profit protection manager Jo Day joins the ORIS Group consulting team Read more
Great
Britain's
'Fraudscape' -
Fri,
01/10/2008
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3:22pm
From
"Oris
to
Boris"
-
Croydon
is
named
capital
for
"off-the-peg"
fashion
fraud
as
survey
findings
are
sent
to
Mayor
of
London Read
more
Out
for
the
Count -
Fri,
01/10/2008
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3:18pm
TAKING stock of stock taking has become a critical tool in fighting shrink Read
more
Green
is
the
New
Black -
Fri,
01/10/2008
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3:11pm
From High couture to High street, 'green'
is
next
season's
must
have
colour
as
fashion
retailers
respond
to
environmental
concerns Read
more
Fraudprevention experts
join
forces
to
beat
card
fraud -
Fri,
01/10/2008
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3:37pm
Two
leading
providers
of
customer
ID
check
solutions
and
transactional
fraud
profiling
data
are
to
combine
and
share
their
anti-fraud
technologies.Read
more
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