Active Shooter Incidents, Part II: Planned Responses to Targeted Violence Across Industries and Worksites

As active shooter threats continue to rise, this legal analysis outlines how companies can implement strategic, industry-specific response plans to protect employees and customers. It emphasizes the importance of pre-incident planning, cross-functional training, and a collaborative relationship with law enforcement. With liability and safety on the line, preparedness is no longer optional—it’s essential for survival and legal protection.

Ogletree Deakins

Evaluating Emerging Solutions in the Fight Against ORC

Retailers are turning to a new generation of tech tools and strategic partnerships to counter the growing threat of organized retail crime. From data-sharing platforms and real-time theft detection to public-private task forces, the focus is shifting from reactive loss prevention to proactive disruption. But success hinges on execution—technology is only as powerful as the people and processes behind it.

TotalRetail

Future of AI in retail: Aligning progress with public perception

AI has the potential to revolutionize retail, from personalized marketing to theft detection—but public trust is lagging behind the innovation. This article explores how retailers must balance automation with transparency, especially as ethical concerns around data usage and surveillance grow. The takeaway: for AI to gain full traction in retail, brands must align tech advancement with human empathy and responsible storytelling.

Retail Customer Experience

NiCE Actimize 2025 Fraud Insights Report Shows Scams Still the Method of Choice in Attempted Fraud Transactions

NICE Actimize’s latest report reveals emerging fraud trends for 2025, spotlighting how generative AI is enabling more sophisticated scams across financial and retail sectors. Synthetic identities, social engineering, and real-time manipulation are making fraud harder to detect with traditional tools. The report urges companies to adopt intelligent, adaptive solutions that evolve just as fast as the threats do.

Yahoo! Finance

South Los Angeles businesses vandalized, looted after street takeover

A chaotic street takeover in South Los Angeles escalated into widespread looting, with multiple businesses ransacked in the early morning hours. Video footage shows crowds of people breaking into storefronts and stealing merchandise while law enforcement struggled to regain control. The incident underscores growing tensions between flash-mob-style disruptions and public safety in urban retail districts.

CBS News

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The retail inventory method vs. cost accounting in the tariff era

To determine the value of ending inventory and, ultimately, margins, many retailers have stuck with an accounting practice known as the retail inventory method — in some cases for more than 100 years — despite a slew of downsides.

Now there’s another reason to switch from RIM to a cost-based accounting method: see-sawing tariffs under current U.S. trade policy.

 Retail Dive

Anti-theft measures at CVS are 'worse for business than organized shoplifting,' columnist argues

Washington Post contributing columnist Matt Bai argued Monday that the drugstore chain’s efforts to prevent rising theft may be killing profits more than theft itself.

"As you might have read, CVS and other pharmacies have been struggling to contain a rise in thefts by gangs of fast-moving thieves. Unfortunately for CVS, the solution might be worse for business than the organized shoplifting," he wrote.

FOX Business

Robbers tied up Zillah grocery store employees before theft, police say

Apple Valley News

Loss Prevention Strategies for Retailers – 3 Best Ways to Positively Impact Your Bottom Line

Implementing the right loss prevention strategy for retail business is as crucial now as it was ever before.

 
For many retailers, both large and small, inventory shrinkage continues to affect the bottom line more and more significantly, which unfortunately has led to some businesses having to close their doors.

Ultimately, the answer to this problem lies in proper loss prevention strategies, but the ambiguity of finding the right one has led many retailers down a rabbit hole of asset protection solutions that simply don’t deliver.

In this article, OpenEye will cover why inventory shrinkage is such a problem for retailers everywhere, as well as some of the best ways to identify the right strategies for business.

Why food supply chain traceability is a hot topic

Nearly 1,400 people fell ill in the U.S. in 2024 from food that was later recalled; an astonishing 98% of those cases traced to just 13 outbreaks. 

Nineteen people died, double that of 2023. These stark figures from the US PIRG Education Fund highlight the serious consequences of contaminated food entering the market, with all but one of the outbreaks linked to Listeria, Salmonella, or E. coli.

CSA

June Job Decline, Salary Gain Show Businesses Proceeding with Caution

The June ADP National Employment Report indicated a 4.4% year-over-year annual pay gain despite private-sector employment shedding 33,000 jobs after observers expected modest gains.

“Though layoffs continue to be rare, a hesitancy to hire and a reluctance to replace departing workers led to job losses last month,” said Dr. Nela Richardson, ADP chief economist. “Still, the slowdown in hiring has yet to disrupt pay growth.”

Homepage News

Video Surveillance Market Poised for Growth After 2024 Dip

The global video surveillance market is poised for a return to growth following a slight contraction in 2024, according to new research released by Novaira Insights.

They estimate the global video surveillance equipment market was valued at $25 billion in 2024. In their latest report, co-authored by analysts Josh Woodhouse and Jon Cropley, the firm notes that the overall market for video surveillance hardware and software declined by .3% last year, falling short of earlier growth projections.

SIW

Director of National Operations - Metro One LPSG

As the Director of National Operations – Strategy & Innovation, you will oversee a large-scale portfolio of multi-site security operations, driving consistency, efficiency, and high performance across the region. This critical role shapes how we deliver services at scale, combining operational leadership with technology, data analytics, and process improvement to elevate our performance standards.

How Kroger, Albertsons Are Moving Forward Following Failed Merger

Progressive Grocer

How Smart Physical Security Measures Can Respect First Amendment Auditors

A First Amendment auditor is a person who seeks to test whether their Constitutional rights will be wrongfully infringed.

A trend by these self-appointed auditors is to record videos in public and semipublic places. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to record public activities in public spaces with certain limitations.

One such limitation is if the action is prohibiting legitimate business activity.

Security Magazine