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Although retailers say they’re looking to cut down on costly merchandise loss and keep stores safe, outfitting workers with body cameras may do little to stop shoplifting, some criminologists say.
Many retailers and industry lobbying groups say shoplifting is at crisis-level proportions and even forcing some stores to close. ... While more staff in stores won’t stop shoplifting entirely ...
A loss prevention agent is monitoring cameras for potential shoplifters from their workstation. A uniformed retail loss prevention employee for Target. Known as a Target Security Specialist . Retail loss prevention (also known as retail asset protection) is a set of practices employed by retail companies to preserve profit. [1]
Shoplifting usually involves concealing items on the person or an accomplice, and leaving the store without paying. However, shoplifting can also include price switching (swapping the price labels of different goods), refund fraud, and "grazing" (eating or sampling a store's goods while in the store). Price switching is now an almost extinct ...
Shoplifting is as old as shopping itself. And retailers have long played a game of cat and mouse with thieves, searching for ways to thwart them while still giving paying customers easy access to ...
A store detective (also known as Asset Protection Investigator, undercover shopper, Loss Prevention Detective, and Asset Protection Specialist) is a member of loss prevention whose main role is to prevent and detect theft (commonly known as shoplifting) and reduce shrink in retail outlets. [1]
Dec. 9—Security guards are often seen standing at store entrances and patrolling establishments' property, especially more during the holidays when store thefts tend to increase. But in ...
Electronic article surveillance antennas at an H&M store in Torp shopping mall, Sweden. Electronic article surveillance (EAS) is a type of system used to prevent shoplifting [1] from retail stores, pilferage of books from libraries, or unwanted removal of properties from office buildings.