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TalkLPnews Podcast Host Amber Bradley chats with Chad McManus, Chair of the Georgia Retailers Organized Crime Alliance (GROC), about how fast GROC has grown up over the years!  More importantly, what lessons it has learned as an organization after 16 years of connecting retailers and law enforcement. They get into intel sharing, courtroom prep, booster blitzes and why these partnerships matter way...

Mitchell Jacobs has worked cargo theft at Walmart, security at Halliburton and United Airlines, and now runs safety and security for Lennox. He sat down with TalkLPnews Editor-in-Chief, Amber Bradley, to talk about the thing that actually keeps him up at night: a whole trailer can vanish off your dock and you won't know for hours. His fix starts with something most leaders skip, which is standing...

While American retailers are still asking "who's actually implementing AI....that works," Andy Edwards at Iceland Foods, a UK retailer with a thousand stores, is already using it -- successfully. And guess what? He has use cases galore. He sits down with Editor-in-Chief of TalkLPnews, Amber Bradley, to share some of the most valuable including aisle theft alerts that hit a colleague's device in re...

Tim Bartlett, Dollar General's VP of Asset Protection, said that out loud, on the record, and meant it on the TalkLPnews Podcast with host Amber Bradley. Six roles. Three promotions. And he'd make the same calls again. Tim Bartlett spent 22 years moving sideways as much as up, through store ops, HR, and eventually LP, and has some strong opinions about why chasing the next title is the wrong obses...

TalkLP Host Amber Bradley chats with two industry veterans with 30+ years each in retail loss prevention and luxury asset protection: Tony Caccioppoli and Angel Gutierrez from Secur-It. These guys have seen it all and they know exactly what retailers need and what they DON’T need! In this episode, Tony and Angel explain why luxury retail security is about so much more than just having someone stan...

TalkLPnews Host Amber Bradley is back with Pat O'Leary, Head of Sales of North America at SAI Group, for the next round of their AI rapid-fire chat. Spoiler alert: AI is no longer a buzzword, it's a must have. The question isn't if anymore, it's how without drowning in hardware costs and getting stuck in a pilot that goes nowhere. Pat breaks down why two-thirds of retailers can't get past the pilo...

TalkLP podcast host Amber Bradley welcomes the newest APEX Executive Council member into the HOT seat: Javier Leal, Vice President of Asset Protection and Security for Vallarta Supermarkets. Javier’s career is uniquely unconventional spending more than 28 years at Vallarta but it wasn’t always a straight path to the VP seat. Javier has worked his way up from unboxing product to VP running his own...

TalkLP Podcast Host Amber Bradley sits down with Rhett Asher, SVP of Partnership Development at ALTO, to talk about how some retailers are trying to arrest their way to a safer store and why that’s not the best strategy.  Of course, investigate the crime, create the case for law enforcement partners….but that’s not where the process of success ends. Detection tools are great, but if less than 5% o...

TalkLPNews Host Amber Bradley sits down with Stephanie Meurer, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at NAVCO, and this convo is one for our broad thinkers out there re: enterprise risk. After co-facilitating the hospitality track at APEX, Stephanie is bringing that same energy to the podcast to walk us through Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM), and no, that's not the same thing...

TalkLP Podcast Host Amber Bradley sits down with Greg Murphy, VP of Risk Management at United Pacific, and honestly… is there anything this guy can't do? How did Greg started out chasing shoplifters on the floor in the 80s and work his way up to running LP, HR, audit, safety, workers' comp AND risk management for one of the largest convenience store/QSR chains in the West?  Listen today to underst...