Shrink — comprised of shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors — cost the retail industry more than $112 billion globally last year, according to the 2012-2013 Global Retail Theft Barometer. Shrink represented 1.4 percent of retail sales, on average.
Yesterday’s tragic Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C., in which a gunman killed at least 12 people, will serve to keep active-shooter drills at the forefront of first responder agencies for months to come.
ESA of Florida, an official chartered chapter for the Electronic Security Association (ESA), announced it will host a legislative dinner featuring guest speaker Sen. Anitere Flores.
To better help schools, integrators and security consultants keep schoolchildren and K-12 staff safe, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Carmel, Ind., announced an autumn line-up of support, including a special security seminar, several webinars and aid in locating funding.
ASIS International and the Institute of Finance and Management (IOFM) jointly released an extensive benchmark study of the private security industry’s expansion over the past decade and its projected future growth.
The $1.8 billion global door phone market is transitioning from audio to video technology, with video set to grow and account for 50 percent of unit shipments in 2017, think the authors of a new report entitled “The World Market for Audio and Video Door Phones,” published by IMS Research, now part of IHS.
According to 25th Annual Retail Theft Survey by Jack L. Hayes International Wesley International, a loss prevention and inventory shrinkage control consulting firm, just 23 major retailers apprehended more than 1.1 million shoplifters and dishonest employees in 2012. From these apprehensions, retailers recovered more than $189 million.
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