✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist

Loss prevention is a very real challenge for retailers. Shrinkage is a problem that costs retailers billions of dollars every year due to external theft, internal theft, and administrative errors. Regularly using a Loss Prevention Checklist across your locations ensures compliance with policy, reinforces training, and demonstrates loss prevention is a priority for your business.    … Continue reading ✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist

How to Use Site Inspections to Reduce Commercial Insurance Premiums

A site inspection keeps your business, employees and customers safe by identifying potential hazards and risks. Here are some tips on using site inspections to reduce commercial insurance premiums. While an insurance company will often send an inspector to survey the site when you insure a new property and business, taking a preemptive approach can … Continue reading How to Use Site Inspections to Reduce Commercial Insurance Premiums

✔️ Temporary Store Closing Checklist

COVID-19 is causing many retail stores to temporarily close their doors to the public. With the situation changing so quickly, it can be easy to overlook important details while you rush to respond. To help you make the closing process safe and orderly, here is a sample Temporary Store Closing Checklist to go through the … Continue reading ✔️ Temporary Store Closing Checklist

5 Tips to Reduce Shrink in Retail

Shrink is a real threat to retail success. Every year, businesses across the globe lose around $100 billion to shrink, and the average shrink rate of 1.6% in the U.S. costs American retailers $48.8 billion annually. That’s a lot of money to leave on the table! This means implementing methods to reduce shrink in retail … Continue reading 5 Tips to Reduce Shrink in Retail

How to Establish Security Measures for Retail Stores

In retail, even the slightest lapse in safety and security can spell disaster. Theft, fraud, and data breaches can put a sizeable dent on your bottom line… and reputation. This is why it is important to establish store security measures across your locations. Industry data shows that security issues in retail aren’t slowing down. The … Continue reading How to Establish Security Measures for Retail Stores

Security Tips for Retailers

Just because one retailer may be smaller than another, that does not mean they have any less responsibility regarding their security. Whether it be from a break-in or a cyber-attack, most retailers will experience some form of a security breach. This is why we have put together these security tips for retailers. Regardless of the … Continue reading Security Tips for Retailers

Loss Prevention: A Comprehensive Guide for Retailers

This Loss Prevention: A Comprehensive Guide for Retailers recognizes that loss prevention is a very real challenge for retailers. Shrinkage is a problem that costs retailers billions of dollars every year. Yet businesses are using tools and technologies to prevent shrink less and less. The loss associated with shrink is two-fold: You lose the capital … Continue reading Loss Prevention: A Comprehensive Guide for Retailers

7 Easy Steps to Help Identify Fraud in a REIT’s Parking Operations

Mid-sized to large Real Estate Investment Trusts are more vulnerable to fraud in their parking operations than smaller property firms and the effects can be more devastating to the bottom line. The types of fraud that property owners and managers need to be aware of generally fall into four categories: cash theft, validation theft (discount … Continue reading 7 Easy Steps to Help Identify Fraud in a REIT’s Parking Operations

✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist for Parking Operators

Loss prevention is a set of policies and procedures designed to minimize theft, fraud, vandalism and waste. Use this sample Loss Prevention Checklist for Parking Operators to create or update your loss prevention program across your parking lots and sites. General Record date of the last LP Audit Location has a key control log for … Continue reading ✔️ Loss Prevention Checklist for Parking Operators

Loss Prevention Challenges in Retail

In retail today, every dollar counts, and loss prevention challenges are very real. Shrink has a significant effect on a retailer’s bottom line. In fact, a recent study by the National Retail Federation (NRF) found an average shrink rate of 1.44%. This costs "the overall U.S. retail economy $48.9 billion.” This is why we put … Continue reading Loss Prevention Challenges in Retail

3 Types of Audits Parking Lot Operators Should Conduct

Focusing on operational standards, safety, and customer experience isn't just for retailers. Too often parking operators neglect reviewing standards and best practices until there is a problem (e.g. broken gate, slip and fall, theft). Regular parking lot inspections/audits help you be proactive (not reactive) and solve problems before they are liabilities. Revenues from parking management … Continue reading 3 Types of Audits Parking Lot Operators Should Conduct

4 Loss Prevention Tips to Help You Keep All Your Holiday Profits

The holidays are just a few short weeks away and we know that you and your staff are working hard on sales, promotions, and other seasonal programs. Before rolling out your initiatives, ask yourself: are you working just as hard to minimize loss in your business? While the holidays bring in more customers and sales, … Continue reading 4 Loss Prevention Tips to Help You Keep All Your Holiday Profits

3 Types of Store Audits Every Retailer Should Conduct

Conducting store audits should be on the to-do list of every retailer, and for good reason — retail audits help you uphold company standards, improve operations, and promote a safe in-store experience. But what exactly are the types of store audits you should conduct and how often should you do them? More importantly, how can … Continue reading 3 Types of Store Audits Every Retailer Should Conduct