Loss Prevention Magazine Podcast

LAAORCA, the Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crime Association, is still active and growing as a law enforcement-retail loss prevention partnership in the Los Angeles market. As similar organizations are established across the country, LAAORCA provides a model of success that others should consider in the ongoing fight against organized retail crime.

Some things go great together. In this episode, Rhett Asher and Tony Sheppard discuss the partnership between ALTO and ThinkLP. We hear how getting better data from retailers helps ALTO react quickly and gets cases through the "red zone" and into the "end zone." How will this new integration increase store safety? Learn more here!

In this episode of LPM's Inside Scoop Podcast, Stefanie Hoover chats with Jamie Kress from Sensormatic about their recent meeting at Auburn University. In the third year of this event, retailers gathered to learn more about RFID, Smart Exits, pilots, rollouts, how to sell the program internally, partnering with and educating law enforcement on RFID, and many other topics. They went hands-on in the RFID lab at Auburn as well! Check out this podcast to learn what you missed at this event.

As the retail world learns to adjust to the new normal amid the Covid-19 crisis, this podcast takes a look at three perspectives on what steps and ideas can be used for loss prevention and asset protection leadership to be successful. Listen to the discussion with Jason Jackson from Bass Pro Group, Keith Aubele of Nav1gate Group, and Grant Cowan with Salient Systems.

As retailers prepare stores for renewed foot traffic in the return to business on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to consider that an increase in organized retail crime activity may result in an epidemic of retail crime as well. According to National Association for Shoplifting Prevention data, there was a significant increase in theft and ORC activity in the aftermath of September 11th and the economic crash of 2008. With much of the product pipeline cut off to many ORC operators these last weeks and months and with the increased desperation of the massive state of unemployment, all signs point to a significant surge in retail theft and ORC activity.
The panel of industry experts on this podcast share best practices, lessons learned, and planning recommendations that will benefit every retailer, adding to your loss prevention strategy as you position your stores and associates for this possible new wave of criminal activity.