Loss Prevention Magazine Podcast

In the video management software world, companies face problems like tech debt and staying up to date with the latest technology for their systems. Tech debt reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing a limited solution now instead of using an approach that may provide a better runway for growth and adoption. Concurrently, many retailers live in a world where they continuall...

In this podcast, a panel of loss prevention professionals share the importance of understanding each other’s business, sharing problems, and providing solutions. The loss prevention industry is built on trust and integrity, which is why it’s so important everyone collaborates in the game to win. Here are some of the topics discussed: What’s the difference between a vendor and a solution provider?...

Contending with an increase in rioting, smash-and-grab theft, and natural disasters, retailers have been forced to employ a strategy of board up, pull down, repeat. And the catastrophic costs from damages and downtime are detrimental. It’s time to break the costly cycle. One solution is to never board up again with cutting-edge solutions that harden your glass doors and windows without changing th...

Countless loss prevention teams are feeling the pinch of “do more with less” initiatives from corporate. The one-two punch of increasing expectations despite budget cuts presents a monumental challenge. Worse, report-based analytics solutions, while billed as improving productivity, only tie up precious resources as investigators sift through page after page of raw data, trying to find new cases....

“So What Do You Do?” is a special series from LPM Podcasts that is essentially like a virtual version of the conversation one would have at a trade show when they walk up to a new vendor and ask them to explain what they do. In this first edition, join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen and special co-host Rhett Asher, president of the International Supply Chain Protection Organization (ISCPO), as they learn a...

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on our personal and work lives over the past year. Now that there are vaccines available, there are many questions and concerns that we are all faced with. In this presentation from the LPM Spring Fling virtual event in March, 2021, experts with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) provided the most current vaccine information availabl...

Kevin Metcalf, founder of the National Child Protection Task Force, discusses the relationship between human trafficking, child exploitation, and organized retail crime at the LPM Spring Fling virtual event on March 23, 2021. The task force was founded to provide detectives, analysts, and officers access to investigative expertise and resources that are unavailable or under-funded in most law enfo...

In this episode of And This Is Why podcast series, Senior Manager of Loss Prevention Jackie Cato with Cracker Barrel explains why she decided to enroll in North Michigan University's (NMU) online loss prevention management degree program. Dan Freeborn, assistant director for marketing and enrollment with NMU, joins the conversation to describe the program and provide information for intereste...

A former Staff Operations Officer at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and a Special Agent at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations, Tracy Walder’s story is both fascinating and eye-opening. In this podcast, she will share details of her experience from the attacks of September 11th working in the CIA Vault through the invasion of Iraq, while als...

In the LPM podcast, Maurizio Scrofani, director of global supply chain asset protection safety for The Home Depot,  discusses how his company adapted new ways to receive and process freight while keeping everyone safe in this new Covid-19 environment. Supply chain expert Chuck Forsaith describes changes transportation companies have made to ensure timely movement of goods from ports to DCs to stor...

Traditional approaches to managing retail loss have largely focused upon dealing with the issue of shrinkage, a periodic measure dating back over 140 years, that typically captures the difference between expected and actual stock values. Shrinkage calculations offer little, if any, insights into the root causes of loss. As the complexity of retailing continues to accelerate, the capacity to assimi...

Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen as he chats with Tom Arigi, director of asset protection for Kroger. In this episode, Arigi gives his 2Cents on 2Things starting with what are some of the characteristics of a true vendor partner and how strong listening skills and trust are at the center of great retailer-vendor relations. For his second topic, Arigi gets personal as he shares his favorite hobby and som...

In this episode of And This Is Why podcast series, Lead ORC Manager Alaina Kring with Ulta Beauty explains why they chose Detective Analytics' deep-learning loss prevention platform to use as a tool across their enterprise to support their investigations and training in the fight against organized retail crime in their stores.

In this episode of And This Is Why podcast series, Bill Inzeo, the senior director of strategic analytics systems and support for Walgreens, explains why Walgreens partnered with ALTO Alliance to implement a comprehensive solution that helped the company address shoplifting and organized retail crime in their stores. Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen and Inzeo as they go through the process of identifyin...

Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen as we get David Lund’s 2Cents on 2Things. We all tend to work crazy schedules and now more than ever, it is important to make sure you make the time for balance in your life. Work to live, don’t live to work. Hear how Lund promotes this balance and how his company DICK’S Sporting Goods supports this effort to help promote a positive working environment and impact positiv...

Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen as we get Lisa LaBruno’s 2 Cents on 2 Things. Hear about her journey to find forgiveness for someone who brought years of pain to her and her family, leaving not only emotional but physical scars. She has found forgiveness not only her greatest accomplishment, but the best gift ever for her family.  For her second topic, LaBruno takes on remote working. Once the exceptio...

Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen as we get Paul Jaeckle’s 2 Cents on 2 Things starting with a discussion on the controversial issue of mask wearing in retail. He shares some of the challenges that his team have faced at Meijer encouraging and enforcing retail’s new normal. Jaeckle then weighs in on the topic of Riot versus Rebellion, discussing the importance of how the language we use internally as wel...

As Organized Retail Crime Associations (ORCAs) continue to grow across the country, communication between retailers and law enforcement continues to improve. But, are retail teams fully leveraging these regional resources to their full potential to fight crime and anti-social behavior? Are these ORCAs enough to bridge the gap? This podcast will discuss effective strategies for enhancing partnershi...

This podcast reviews several high-profile lawsuits that illustrate the various liability risks and lawsuits that can arise from different types of violence in the workplace–from active shooter to parking lot crime to shoplifting apprehensions and beyond. These cases will also educate listeners on the legal elements necessary to prove liability such as “duty,” “foreseeable,” and “breach.” Walter Pa...

Retail losses due to external theft continue to rise, and a major reason is that those people involved in retail crime can continue with little fear of significant punishment. If the crimes they are committing are not listed in the “violent offense” category, few will ever see the inside of a prison due to prison overcrowding. The end result is retail loss prevention organizations continue to deal...

Theft prevention can take many forms. Putting high-value products behind locked cabinets. Attaching sophisticated alarms. Moving merchandise behind the checkout. In recent years, the Loss Prevention Research Council at the University of Florida have been looking at benefit denial techniques that prevents a product, for example a laptop or smartphone, from working if it is stolen. In this podcast,...

The Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) at the University of Florida plays an important role in the retail loss prevention industry, providing evidence-based research that is used by retail executives to help them choose technology and strategies to reduce loss and increase retail sales. Listeners will learn how the LPRC came into being and how it has evolved over the past two decades. 

Defining the financial impact of organized retail crime on the retail industry has always been difficult, if not impossible. Figures in the billions have been thrown around for the past two decades. Regardless of the dollars, no one argues that ORC is not a major concern to retailers. The podcast looks at the question of what role, if any, do retailers play in creating demand for stolen products a...

Interviewing revolves around the concepts of power and control. All the parties involved in the interview have some degree of power and control, which they may use at their discretion during the encounter. In this podcast, Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates executive David Zulawski discusses how to balance the power and control aspects of an interview in order to get the necessary results needed...

Across most professions, such as legal, technology, and finance, one can expect to find certain commonalities among practitioners. The same is true for security professionals. In this podcast, Kathleen Kotwica, PhD with the Security Executive Council shares the research conducted with corporate security executives that found the nine best practices that successful security leaders exhibit.