Loss Prevention Magazine Podcast

The Georgia Retailers Loss Prevention Council (GRLPC) is a powerful group of loss prevention corporate and field leaders and law enforcement partners that have helped shape state legislation, cultivated strong partnerships with Georgia’s law enforcement community, and donated their time, efforts, and event proceeds back to the communities most impacted by organized retail crime. Here, enjoy a conv...

In this episode of LPM’s “And This Is Why…” podcast series, Kevin McMenimen interviews Brian Wedoff, the senior director of loss prevention operations for Ulta Beauty.  They discuss how NGS helped them through the challenges of the past few years, and keeping the safety of guests and staff as the number one priority. 

In this episode of LPM’s What’s Cooking podcast series, Kevin McMenimen talks with SmartSense President Guy Yehiav. When he joined SmartSense, Yehiav saw that they were well known for IoT, but not so much for loss prevention, where his background is. However, Smart Sense’s technologies can make a world of difference for loss prevention teams. Here, he discusses food safety, loss prevention, and to...

NGS is more than a glass contractor—they’re the biggest installer of window films and graphics in America. They consider themselves more of a solution provider, and have grown with a number of acquisitions in recent years. Retail is the first market segment they really focused on when the company started in 2009, but much has changed since then. Here, NGS CEO James Beale describes the evolution of...

Sensormatic Solutions has gone through many changes over the years. Notably, as the company migrated from EAS to digital video, it realized it wasn’t an EAS company—it is a loss prevention company that needed to do many different things.  Here, Sensormatic Sales Director Randy Dunn explains where Sensormatic started, how it has evolved, and what’s in store for the future. 

In this podcast, LPM Editor-in-Chief Jack Trlica speaks with Rui Rodrigues, executive advisor on loss prevention and risk management for the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) based in Toronto. Rodrigues, a veteran retail loss prevention executive, is now a consultant working with the RCC where he is the liaison between the association and their retail members. He explains how the RCC leverages collab...

Similar to any business operation, organized retail crime (ORC) networks operate to make money. A key difference however is that they must innovate to move and hide that money as much as possible. What was once considered a “street crime” operating solely with cash on the street, ORC has evolved to the world of e-commerce and cryptocurrency. Finding and following the trails of money as it flows th...

In this extra special episode of LPM’s 2 Cents on 2 Things podcast, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Terry Sullivan, president of the Loss Prevention Foundation, which recently acquired Loss Prevention Magazine. They discuss why it made so much sense to bring these two companies together, the importance of ensuring the personal safety of employees and customers in retail and beyond, and the value of a...

Similar to any business operation, organized retail crime (ORC) networks operate to make money. A key difference however is that they must innovate to move and hide that money as much as possible. What was once considered a “street crime” operating solely with cash on the street, ORC has evolved to the world of e-commerce and cryptocurrency. Finding and following the trails of money as it flows th...

As Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) helps to lead the fight against ORC, retailers are partnering with HSI and a network of government agencies supporting ORC investigators and driving investigations that also look at the ancillary opportunities for criminal charges, which will help in crippling and dismantling these criminal networks. In this podcast, HSI Financial and Fraud Division Deputy...

With retailers being assaulted by ORC gangs who smash-and-grab their way through the store, what are retailers doing to collaborate and help support safety in stores and across store teams?  In this podcast, Walgreens AP Solutions Lead Director of Major Crimes Steve Walker, Nordstrom Vice President of Asset Protection Steve Fahey, and Nordstrom Asset Protection Senior Manager of Investigations Jef...

In this episode of LPM’s Take 10 Podcast, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Senior Director of Anti-Money Laundering Lauren Kohr and Project Coordinator and Researcher Tiffany Polyak with the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). They talk about the work that ACAMS does through webinars, training content, thought leadership, public-private partnerships, and more. Specifical...

In this podcast, the executive team at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)—Senior EVP Public Affairs Michael Hanson, Senior EVP Retail Operations Lisa LaBruno, and Senior EVP Communications and Marketing Jason Brewer—discuss the latest on retail’s push for the federal INFORM Act and the concerted efforts across the industry in the fight against ORC, and the drive for stronger and more s...

In the second part of LPM’s podcast with FMI Vice President of Industry Relations Doug Baker, LPM’s Kevin McMenimen and Courtney Wolfe speak with him about FMI’s upcoming conference—the first since January 2020! Baker talks about new features of the conference, including roundtable discussions after educational sessions so participants can dive even deeper into the issues they are facing. Also, so...

In this episode of LPM’s Take 10 limited series podcast, Kevin McMenimen and Courtney Wolfe speak with the Food Industry Association’s (FMI) Vice President of Industry Relations Doug Baker. Baker discusses the work that FMI has done to keep the food industry afloat throughout the challenges of the pandemic, including developing educational guides on topics such as de-escalation. He also provides a...

In this episode of LPM’s Take 10 limited series podcast, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Deputy Assistant Director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Raul Aguilar for the second time—10 minutes just wasn’t enough! Aguilar discusses public-private partnerships and how they help in HSI’s efforts; how online marketplaces enable sellers of stolen goods; and the way in which HSI prosecutes these cri...

In this episode of LPM’s 2Cents on 2Things podcast, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Jennifer Schaefer, Field Asset Protection Manager at T-Mobile. Schaefer talks about T-Mobile’s international ambassador program and the importance of branding, and how a search for mindfulness led to the creation of her small business.  For the charity portion of the podcast, Schaefer talks about the ways in which she...

In this episode of LPM’s And This Is Why podcast, Kevin McMenimen and Jacque Brittain speak with Mike Lamb, who has managed loss prevention for a variety of large retailers such as Home Depot, Walmart, and Kroger. They discuss the National Association of Shoplifting Prevention’s (NASP) Better Choices Program, where both Lamb and McMenimen sit on the advisory board. They go into detail about NASP’s...

Welcome to the first edition of the LPM Take 10 limited series podcast, where we spend 10 minutes learning about a new product or initiative in the loss prevention space. This week, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Homeland Security Investigations Deputy Assistant Director for the Financial and Fraud Division of Transactional Organized Retail Crime Raul Aguilar about his team’s responsibility in solvin...

In this episode of LPM’s 2Cents on 2Things podcast, Kevin McMenimen speaks with Rob Holm, the director of global security at McDonald’s. Holm talks about the dangers of defunding the police, and the consequences slashed budgets can bring. He also discusses what faith and family—his number one priorities—mean to him.  For the charity portion of the podcast, Holm suggests the Ronald McDonald House,...

Retailers are regularly exposed to a multitude of crisis situations, both internal and external, that can have a significant and lasting impact on the image and the assets of the business. Crisis tabletop exercises are designed to test the capabilities and readiness of an organization in the event of a crisis, helping to improve strategies, planning, and decision making during these difficult and...

In this episode of LPM’s 2Cents on 2Things podcast series, Kevin McMenimen sits down with Rob LaCommare, vice president of asset protection and safety at Big Lots. LaCommare discusses Big Lots’ culture of putting family first, and how the company also prioritizes its employees’ personal needs, both in and out of the workplace. He also emphasizes the importance of continuing education, as well as a...

In this episode of LPM’s What’s Cooking podcast series, LPM’s Kevin McMenimen and Jacque Brittain discuss organized retail crime (ORC) with Ben Dugan, president of the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (CLEAR). Dugan talks about how ORC has risen to the number one priority for most retailers, generating a national conversation between retail, law enforcement, and state and federal legislatur...

In another episode of our 2Cents on 2Things series, Kevin McMenimen sits down with Rhett Asher, vice president of strategy for ThinkLP and president of the International Supply Chain Protection Organization (ISCPO). Asher discusses how he was able to remain constantly involved with his children and family despite his professional career and how that translated into mentoring those who work around...

In this first edition of LPM's What's Cooking podcast series, we hear from Nathan Smith, senior vice president of product strategy for Appriss Retail, about how they are using data mining and artificial intelligence to help retailers cope with the significant increase in omni-channel business due to the pandemic to minimize the increasing costs of online fulfillment as well as fraud, whi...