As retailers work through the back-to-school season and into the holidays, organized retail crime remains a high priority for most loss prevention teams. Significant and noteworthy investigations continue to mount across the retail horizon, and our organized retail crime associations remain an important piece of the ongoing response—and a valuable part of the solution.
The diversity of visitors that enter retail stores and the different ways these crimes are committed requires that teams remain flexible and open-minded to all the different possibilities to help keep stores safe, protected, and productive. And while there are always new and different approaches to organized retail crime, we must also keep our eyes open to the potential for traditional theft problems and long-standing methods of criminal conduct that have evolved over time but can still deeply impact the retail enterprise.
