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Better Watch Out
Holiday shopping heats up but so does shoplifting. Find out how much retailers lose, who shoplifts and how technology can help prevent loss.

Business Continuity
A well designed and executed business continuity plan could make the difference between success and failure if a crisis were to strike your company. Here are Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management Planning resources you can use in your business.

Employee Theft: The Profit Killer
John Case, president of a security management consulting firm, and the author of Employee Theft: The Profit Killer discusses the signs of theft, why employees steal, common misconceptions and how to prevent loss in your company.

Five Tips for Reducing Retail Theft
Reducing internal theft is a major part of increasing profits and reducing costs. Here are five tips for shrinking the shrinkers in your stores, from guest author Marlene Albert.

Five Tools You Can Use to Prevent Fraud
Learn how to prevent online fraud with real-time credit card authorization, address verification systems, card verification codes, rule-based detection, and predictive statistical model software. Guest author, Julie Fergerson, Chairman of the Worldwide E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Network explains.

How to Beat Shoplifting
Here are a few battle-tested and inexpensive things you can do to minimize shoplifting in your store, from guest author and loss prevention professional Mike Delaney.

Retail Theft and Inventory Shrinkage
Retail theft, including losses from employee theft and shoplifting are on the rise again according to the 2002 National Retail Security Survey.

Retail Theft Report
The 2001 National Retail Security Survey reports that losses from employee theft have reached record levels and that total inventory shrinkage cost the nation's retailers billions last year.

Shoplifters vs. Retailers
Shoplifters vs. Retailers, The Rights of Both is a great book on loss prevention and consumer rights. Filled with real-world examples, the book identifies problems and provides practical solutions to a variety of potentially sticky situations.

Supermarket Shrink Report
The National Supermarket Research Group's 2003 / 2004 Shrink Survey investigates the overall level shrink and causes for retail inventory loss in grocery stores.

Tackling Check Fraud
Estimated annual losses from check fraud and counterfeiting exceed $10 billion and increases every year. Here are some precautions retailers can take to combat check fraud.

Take the Paper Out of Taking Checks
Guest author, Les Stuckey, provides insight into Electronic Check Conversion and why it is a safe, quick cost effective payment option for retailers, with all the conveniences of a check for their customers.

Theft: Retail's Real Grinch
The holiday shopping season is here and with it comes the height of retailers' concerns over shoplifting and employee theft. Here are the latest loss prevention statistics for the retail industry and suggestions for preventing inventory shrink.


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