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Edward Turner, CFI, LPQ promoted to Manager of Fraud, Workplace Violence &
Physical Security for Staples Stores
Edward has been with Staples since 2005, starting with the company as
Loss Prevention Operational Auditor, a position he held for six years.
Before his promotion to Manager of Fraud, Workplace Violence & Physical
Security, he spent nearly 10 years as Field Loss Prevention Manager for
the company. Earlier in his career, he held loss prevention roles with
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Retail Industry
Staying Strong Through the Pandemic
Building on 2020's strong retail results,
NRF projects 6.5% to 8.2% sales increase in 2021
NRF Forecasts Retail Sales to Exceed $4.33T in 2021 as Vaccine Rollout Expands
 WASHINGTON
- The National Retail Federation has issued its annual
forecast, anticipating that retail sales will grow between 6.5 percent and
8.2 percent to more than $4.33 trillion in 2021 as more individuals get
vaccinated and the economy reopens.
"Despite the continuing health and economic challenges COVID-19 presents, we are
very optimistic that healthy consumer fundamentals, pent-up demand and
widespread distribution of the vaccine will generate increased economic growth,
retail sales and consumer spending," NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay
said. "From the outset of the pandemic, retailers have gone above and beyond
even the most conservative safety guidelines to protect and serve their
associates and consumers alike. Retailers are increasingly engaged in working
with federal, state and local health officials to distribute and administer the
vaccine. This partnership has been key to our economic health throughout the
pandemic and will continue this year."
Early results show that retail sales in 2020 grew 6.7 percent over 2019 to
$4.06 trillion, nearly doubling NRF's forecast of at least 3.5 percent growth,
which did not account for the impact of a global pandemic. This figure compares
with 3.9 percent growth in 2019. Online and other non-store sales, which are
included in the total figure, skyrocketed to 21.9 percent at $969.4 billion
as consumers shifted to ecommerce. The numbers exclude automobile dealers,
gasoline stations and restaurants.
The 2020 November-December holiday season accounted for nearly one-fifth (19.4
percent) of overall annual retail sales. Retail sales during this period grew an
unexpectedly high 8 percent to $787.1 billion. Non-store and other online sales
represented $206.9 billion of total holiday sales, up 22.6 percent over the year
before.
nrf.com
Protests & Violence
NYC: Several arrested during Daniel Prude protest in Brooklyn
 Several people were arrested Wednesday night during a protest in Brooklyn in the
wake of the decision to
not charge upstate New York cops in the death of Daniel Prude, according to
police and witnesses.
Dozens of protesters marched through McCarren Park in Williamsburg around 7
p.m., prompting a large police response with about 300 cops. Witnesses
told The Post at least nine people were arrested. Police confirmed some
arrests were made.
Several protesters began attacking pedestrians and spray-painting a cab
near the Williamsburg Bridge, the witnesses recalled. Videos on Citizen App
shows large crowds at the scene, and a police chopper can be heard hovering over
the area.
nypost.com
George Floyd: Adding third-degree murder to Derek Chauvin case
improves prosecution's odds, attorneys say
Prosecutors trying Derek Chauvin on charges of second-degree murder and
manslaughter will argue before the Court of Appeals next Monday, outlining why
they should be allowed to reinstate a count of third-degree murder against
Chauvin based on a ruling the court issued earlier this month.
The late development, said some local attorneys, is a strategic move to give
jurors more opportunities to convict Chauvin against the historic backdrop
of public deference toward officers' legal right to use deadly force on the job,
and the rarity of prosecutions against officers who kill civilians.
startribune.com
Rochester, NY protest held for 2nd night over Daniel Prude grand jury findings
In Tennessee, GOP senators seek to ban protests during anthem, raising legal
concerns
St. Louis Park, MN: As cities ban residential protests, Minneapolis suburb
considers a different approach
How Are Activists Managing Dissension Within the
'Defund the Police' Movement?
 In June 2020, the Minneapolis city council announced plans to disband its police
department following the killing of George Floyd. The council's decision came
after days of protesting and unrest in the city-and across the country-related
to Floyd's death and calls for larger-scale accountability from law enforcement.
Central in many of these calls-for-action was a phrase soon to go global:
"defund the police."
Eight months later, however, and the Minneapolis' police department has not
been dissolved, though a lot has happened in the interim; the city's
struggle to implement meaningful reforms serves as a microcosm of how the
"defund the police" movement has impacted the country. Council members who
initially supported the idea have walked back their positions. In August the
city charter
delayed the council's proposal to disband the police pending
further review, only to
reject the proposal entirely in November. (Instead,
there have been some
rollbacks within the department as a result of cuts to
its budget.)
There are now varying (and even contradictory) takes on what the term "defund"
actually means - and in what ways it should be used to foster change. Some
activists use it to describe their goal of wholly disbanding police forces,
others take its definition to mean the reallocation, to varying extents, of a
police department's budget. Others still believe the term can be used to
describe both goals, or use it simply as a broader call for accountability.
This dissent is now apparent across the country, particularly in communities
where issues of over-policing, gun violence, and systemic racism are most
prevalent. Activists worry it could hamstring large-scale action to reform
policing.
time.com
The Most Ambitious Effort Yet to Reform Policing May Be Happening In Ithaca, NY
The mayor's new proposal would replace the city's existing police department
with a "Department of Community Solutions and Public Safety" intended to reduce
the involvement of armed officers in disputes.
Update On A Movement: How 'Defunding Police' Is Playing Out In Austin, Texas
Iowa Legislature advances penalties for 'defunding' police, holds off on racial
profiling ban, increasing penalties for assault
COVID Update
US: Over 28.9M Cases - 518K Dead - 19.3M Recovered
Worldwide:
Over 113M Cases - 2.5M Dead - 89M Recovered
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Private Industry Security Guard Deaths:
279
Law Enforcement Officer Deaths:
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*Red indicates change in total
deaths
Why have some states fared better than others with vaccine distribution?
The vaccination gap
among states has narrowed, but key differences still illustrate why some have
done better than others.
 The picture nationwide showed a yawning gap in mid-January between some states
that were doing well with vaccine distribution and others that were lagging far
behind. But in the weeks since, that gap has significantly narrowed. While a few
states are outliers on either end, the vast majority of states are now at
roughly the same level, according to an NBC News analysis of state vaccination
data. Of the 50 states, 44 have administered 70 percent to 90 percent of the
doses that have been distributed to them.
In other words, a smaller proportion of doses are going unused on freezer
shelves, and states are clustering around a national average of having used 79
percent of doses given to them.
In the states that have outperformed the average, state authorities have often
taken a strong hand in organizing local efforts, moved quickly to get the public
signed up to participate and leaned on nearby federal institutions for help.
The Best & Worst States
There are different ways to measure how a state's vaccination effort is doing.
One is to look at the proportion of the state's population that's been
vaccinated, or the number of vaccines administered per 100,000 people. By that
measure, a few states including Alaska, New Mexico and West Virginia have
consistently been among the best in per-capita vaccinations in recent weeks.
As of Thursday, Alaska had administered nearly 18,000 initial doses per 100,000
people.
A handful of other states have often traded places near the other end of the
scale, and they include Alabama, Kansas, Missouri and others. Experts
in those states said they believed a variety of factors were holding them back,
such as a potentially higher degree of hesitancy about the Covid-19 vaccines and
the decisions that state and local officials have made about both who gets
prioritized and which providers are administering the shots.
nbcnews.com
New California Variant More Contagious, Two Studies Confirm
A variant first discovered in California in December is more contagious than
earlier forms of the coronavirus, two new studies have shown, fueling concerns
that emerging mutants like this one could hamper the sharp decline in cases over
all in the state and perhaps elsewhere.
In one of the new studies, researchers found that the variant has spread rapidly
in a San Francisco neighborhood in the past couple of months. The other report
confirmed that the variant has surged across the state, and revealed that it
produces twice as many viral particles inside a person's body as other variants
do. That study also hinted that the variant may be better than others at
evading the immune system - and vaccines.
nytimes.com
"Covid zero" isn't going to happen - but normal life still can
Ten years ago, a deadly infectious disease killed more than 36,000 Americans.
The next year, it killed 12,000 more. And over each of the following eight
years, the same disease caused between 22,000 and 62,000 deaths. That disease is
influenza - also known as the flu - and it ranks among the 15 leading causes of
death in the United States.
Talking about the effects of a typical flu is somewhat fraught these days. We
are living through the worst pandemic in a century, one that is of a different
order of magnitude from influenza. In the early months of Covid-19, some people
who were trying to deny its severity, claimed that it was barely worse than the
flu. That's false:
Soon, however, the flu will become
a meaningful point of comparison. In the coming months, Covid will probably
recede, as a result of vaccinations and growing natural immunity. But it will
not disappear. "Some people have gotten this idea that we're going to get to
'Covid zero,'" Dr. Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins University said. "That's
not realistic. It's a fantasy."
nytimes.com
UK COVID Lockdowns A Lot Tougher Than
U.S.
UK Retail Sales Dived 45% in the year ending February, according to CBI
Retailers also predicted a sharper decline
for March, at 62%, the worst projection since records began in 1983
CBI survey's index of internet retail sales hit a record high.
The Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) latest retail survey revealed a
decline in both sales volumes and orders over the past year.
It said that grocers were the only retailers to see any growth in sales volumes
in the 12-month period amid Covid-19 restrictions.
The news comes after the Prime Minister laid out his road map out of current
coronavirus restrictions, with non-essential retailers due to reopen from
April 12 at the earliest.
"They will be looking to the government to extend support in parallel with
wider restrictions when the Chancellor unveils his budget next week."
retailgazette.co.uk
Wage Growth in U.S. Will Be Historically Low
Next Two Years
Pay Freezes Were Common in 2020; Employers Stay Cautious with 2021 Budgets
Only 64 percent of U.S. organizations gave
base pay increases in 2020, down from 82 percent that raised salaries in 2019,
new research shows.
The results were reported in February by compensation data and software firm
PayScale in its 2021
Compensation Best Practices Report, and are based on more than 5,000
responses from compensation managers at U.S. and Canadian companies surveyed
from November 2020 to January 2021.
For organizations still giving base pay raises, the average percentage increase
in salary budgets has not changed much, with a majority of employers citing
increases of 3 percent or less for 2021, although pay raises will be greater at
top-performing organizations-those that exceeded revenue goals.
Bonuses were less common, as well. Organizations that offer performance-based
variable pay dropped from 73 percent to just under 70 percent between 2019 and
2020, PayScale found.
Pay equity. In 2021, 46 percent organizations are pledging to conduct
a pay-equity analysis to ensure employees are paid fairly regardless of race
and gender, compared to 38 percent last year. In addition, 80 percent of
employers said paying employees fairly is important to foster engagement and
retention.
shrm.org
L.A. approves 'hero pay' for drugstore and grocery workers
Los Angeles became the latest municipality Wednesday to support so-called hero
pay for grocery store workers. The L.A. City Council voted 14 to 1 to require
larger grocery stores and drugstores to boost the pay of their workers by $5 an
hour for the next 120 days.
Similar mandates have passed in Seattle, Oakland, San Jose and Long Beach and
for unincorporated Los Angeles County, with legislators saying that grocery
store workers are risking their health to stock the shelves during the pandemic
and deserve compensation.
latimes.com
Target moves it's 8,500 corp. employees return to HQ from June to Fall
California has passed the 50,000-death mark, the most of any state
After months of despair, vaccines have dramatically reduced nursing home deaths
Moderna announces new version of vaccine to combat troublesome variants
Pfizer testing booster shot, developing adapted vaccine to address variant
concerns
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Will Amazon Open 3,000 Go Stores?
Amazon Go draws high interest from U.S. shoppers
Piplsay poll finds 59% see Go cashierless
stores as threat to Walmart, Kroger
 Nearly
60% of more than 30,000 U.S. adults polled online this past weekend by
Piplsay would like to have an Amazon Go in their area and see the concept as
a threat to big food retailers such as Walmart and Kroger. Less than a third of
respondents have visited an Amazon Go location, but over half think the
checkout-free format will be successful.
Amazon currently has 26 of the compact Amazon Go convenience stores powered
by Amazon's "Just Walk Out" technology.
Industry observers have said Amazon Go could become a major business for Amazon
as it expands its physical retail footprint.
Amazon, though, continues to see inconsistent sales growth for its physical
stores. For the
fiscal 2020 fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, Amazon's physical store sales
declined 8% year over year to $4.02 billion. Full-year 2020 physical store sales
fell 5.6% to $16.22 billion.
Amazon Physical Stores: Besides the 26 Amazon Go locations, Amazon's U.S.
physical stores include 502 Whole Foods Markets, eight Amazon Fresh grocery
stores, two Amazon Go Grocery stores (which use Just Walk Out cashierless
technology), 24 Amazon Books stores, 29 Amazon 4-Star outlets and seven
Presented by Amazon pop-up locations.
supermarketnews.com
Two Retailers Raise
Minimum Wage
Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour for its U.S. store workers
Costco is raising its hourly minimum wage to $16, putting its starting wage
above many of its rivals such as Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy. "Two years ago,
we moved our starting hourly wage to $15 everywhere in the U.S. Effective next
week, the starting wage will go to $16," said Costco CEO Craig Jelinek during a
Senate budget committee hearing on Thursday.
cnbc.com
Signet Jewelers raising minimum wage to $15 an hour
Signet Jewelers is raising its U.S. minimum wage to $15 an hour for all
full-time and part-time employees by the spring of 2022, the Akron, Ohio company
announced Thursday.
beaconjournal.com
Bigger Picture: These moves come
as Congress debates the $15 an hour federal minimum wage increase as part of
President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill.
Target and Amazon both pay hourly workers a minimum of $15 an hour. Walmart's
minimum wage starts at $11 an hour, but it recently announced raises for 425,000
employees that will boost the retailer's average pay to above $15 an hour.
Others have raised their minimum wage even higher, namely Hobby Lobby, which
pays employees $17 an hour.
McKinsey Scandal Claims Firm's Leader
McKinsey Partners Vote Out Leader in Wake of Opioid Settlement, Other Crises
McKinsey & Co.'s partners voted to replace Kevin Sneader as the elite consulting
firm's leader, after internal dissatisfaction over steps he took following a
series of crises for the firm, people familiar with the matter said.
The decision - the result of a staggered voting process that McKinsey's
approximately 650 senior partners undertake every three years to choose
or reconfirm the firm's global managing partner - marks the first time in
decades that a McKinsey leader hasn't won a second term. Mr. Sneader, who was
voted global managing partner three years ago, failed to make it past the first
round of voting, in part because partners chafed at changes aimed at keeping
McKinsey free of scandal, but limited partners' autonomy, the people said.
Mr. Sneader, a 54-year-old Scot and McKinsey veteran of more than three decades,
has spent much of his tenure trying to move the firm past controversies around
McKinsey's previous work with clients, including this month's $573 million
settlement with states over its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP
and other drug manufacturers to
aggressively market opioid painkillers.
The firm has also drawn scrutiny over its work with e-cigarette maker Juul,
as well as some autocratic foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia. In
December, it came to a settlement with Justice Department watchdogs over how the
firm discloses potential conflicts of interest. In both the opioid and
disclosure settlements, McKinsey admitted no wrongdoing.
wsj.com
The Home Depot Foundation Commits up to $500,000
in Response to Recent Winter Storms
In response to the recent winter storms devastating the nation, The Home Depot
Foundation announced today that it is committing up to $500,000 to aid with
immediate relief efforts and short- and long-term recovery for communities
impacted by historic winter storms, Uri and Viola. This incremental commitment
is in addition to the Foundation's annual grants of $3.6 million to disaster
relief national nonprofit partners, bringing the current total commitment for
2021 to $4.1 million.
prnewswire.com
Best Buy Steps Up Digital Overhaul as Slowdown Looms
Electronics retailer warns pandemic-fueled gains
will end and tries to speed its digital transformation. That means new roles,
fewer hours for some workers.
Victoria's Secret to close as many as 50 more stores this year
Target to roll out dedicated Apple shops inside 17 locations
Belk exits bankruptcy a day after filing for Chapter 11
DHL opens first drive-up retail store in the US
Signet Jewelers To Raise Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour For All U.S Employees
More Grocery Store Robots Coming Selling Checkout Items
Quarterly Results
Wayfair Q4 sales up 45%, FY 2020 sales up 55%
Best Buy Q4 comp's up 12.6%, revenue up 11.2%; full-year comp's up 9.7%, revenue
up 8.3%
L Brands Q4 comp's up 10%, net sales up 2.4%; full-year comp's up 21%, net sales
down 8.3%
SpartanNash Q4 Retail comp's up 8.7%, FY 2020 Retail comp's up 13.1%, net sales
up 12.5%, FY 2020 net sales up 9.5%
Canada's Loblaw Q4 food retail comp's up 8.6%, Shoppers Drug Mart comp's up 3.7%
Rent-A-Center Q4 consolidated revenue up 7.3%
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siffron and MTI Partner to Accelerate the Retail Industry's
Digital Transformation to Smart Retail
Twinsburg, Ohio and Hillsboro, Ore - Last month,
siffron® and
MTI (Mobile Tech, Inc.)
announced they are leveraging their combined 100 years of retail industry
experience and product portfolios to bring retail innovation and intelligent
solutions to their customers. This partnership will enhance each brand's
business with integrated products and a full suite of solutions to improve the
customer experience.
 The
siffron and MTI partnership combine intelligent security hardware with
cloud-based software to create realtime visibility into merchandised product
performance. These solutions empower employees to service customers while
reducing product shrinkage.
"siffron is laser-focused on innovation and providing total retail solutions,"
states Brent Ewing, siffron VP of Product Development and Strategic
Partnerships. "This partnership with MTI will provide retailers with smart
solutions that provide the insights and tools they need to grow their
businesses."
"MTI's partnership with siffron creates a richer experience for retailers and
their customers by drawing upon our collective deep retail expertise and
complementary products and services," said Mary Jesse, Chief Executive Officer,
MTI. "Our teams are completely aligned and enthusiastic about the opportunities
we have to delight our customers together."
Retailers are rapidly evolving their business models as the industry adapts to
new norms. Digital transformation is needed to create a Smart Retail ecosystem
that drives growth and delivers an integrated, omnichannel customer experience.
The siffron and MTI partnership's innovation will provide an unmatched resource
for retailers to achieve these goals.
About siffron
For over 60 years, siffron
has been a leader in the retail display and loss prevention industry, providing
solutions designed to increase sales, improve category management, limit shrink
and reduce labor at the point of sale. These products include custom product
displays; merchandising and loss prevention systems; label, sign and literature
holders; product merchandisers and display components; as well as fresh area
merchandising products, supplies and backroom organization solutions. siffron
offers start-to-finish solution delivery, including consultation, design,
prototyping, production, fulfillment and purchase consolidation.
About MTI
MTI is a global solutions
innovator in retail security and smart retail, serving the largest and most
highly regarded global brands. Our smart IoT platform drives superior
operational efficiency, employee satisfaction and customer experiences. MTI's
innovative design and production capabilities, along with our unmatched field
technical services, ensure success for our customers in retail, healthcare, and
hospitality. Our global services organization offers 24/7/365 field support in
over 90 countries, and resolves 98% of problems on the first visit.
Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon with offices in Hong Kong, Ireland, and
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Push for Federal Data Breach Disclosure Rules
Congress looks towards new data breach laws as scope
of Russian SolarWinds hack remains unknown
Companies responding to a massive Russian hack urged Congress to update laws
dictating how the private sector shares information about cybersecurity breaches
with the government.
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is time not only to talk about, but to find a way to take action, to impose in
an appropriate manner some kind of notification obligation on entities in the
private sector," Microsoft president Brad Smith told members of the Senate
Intelligence Committee. "I think it's the only way we're going to protect the
country and I think it's the only way we're going to protect the world."
We are just finding out more government and private sector victims who were
compromised as part of the months-long SolarWinds hacking campaign discovered in
December. The full scope of the victims of the Russian hack is still unknown
since private companies have no legal obligation to come forward with the
information.
As the White House readies
sanctions against Russia for the attack and other malign cyberactivity,
committee members from both parties expressed interest in boosting reporting
requirements, which have failed in the past due to aggressive industry
lobbying and Republican wariness over regulation.
Report: Facebook scam hits Market Basket customers
Fraudsters are reportedly trying to obtain personal information from Market
Basket shoppers via fake Facebook messages.
According to Boston.com, the New England grocery chain is warning
customers about a phony Facebook account using its name which is sending
friend requests and asking for people to submit personal information in order to
participate in a promotional contest. Market Basket's real Facebook page never
sends friend requests and never asks for any payment-related information.
chainstoreage.com
Automated Bots Attacks Accelerating
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report Finds Young Adults & Adults Over 75
Most Vulnerable to Fraud Attacks
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions released its biannual Cybercrime Report covering July
2020 through December 2020, which details how the evolving threat landscape
created new opportunities for cybercriminals around the world, particularly as
they targeted new online users.
Analysis shows that the under 25 age group is most vulnerable to fraud attacks
while the oldest age group is second most vulnerable and loses the most money.
The stark risk at both ends of the age spectrum emphasizes the importance for
companies to protect both new-to-digital and vulnerable customers when
transacting online in 2021.
The report also provides a full year review which highlights how 2020 saw an
overall decline in human-initiated attacks, while bot attacks accelerated.
Malicious attack vectors persist despite reduced attack rates recorded across
businesses as automated bot attacks offer fraudsters a cheap, quick and
effective method of initial attack. The study analyzed 24.6 billion transactions
July through December 2020 and found that mass automated bots used to test
identity credentials remain widespread.
Likewise, new account creations continue to see high attack rates,
representing a key point of entry for fraudsters looking to monetize
credentials harvested from data breaches.
yahoo.com
CISA releases joint cybersecurity advisory on exploitation
of Accellion file transfer appliance
 The cybersecurity authorities of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United
Kingdom, and the United States have released
Joint
Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-055A: Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer
Appliance.
Cyber actors worldwide have exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer Appliance to attack multiple federal, and state, local,
tribal, and territorial government organizations as well as private industry
organizations in the medical, legal, telecommunications, finance, and energy
fields. In some instances, the attacker extorted money from victim organizations
to prevent public release of information exfiltrated from a compromised
Accellion appliance.
securitymagazine.com
PCI Security Standards Council Publishes Version 1.1 of Secure Software
Lifecycle (SLC) Standard and Program
 The
PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published version 1.1 of the PCI
Secure Software Lifecycle (SLC) Standard and its supporting program
documentation. The PCI Secure SLC Standard is one of two standards that are part
of the PCI Software Security Framework (SSF). It provides security requirements
and assessment procedures for software vendors to integrate into their software
development lifecycles and to validate that secure lifecycle management
practices are in place.
The version 1.1 update to the PCI Secure SLC Program Guide expands program
eligibility beyond payment software vendors. The revised eligibility includes
software vendors who develop software products for the payment card industry.
This expansion of the program enables more vendors to leverage Secure SLC
qualification and facilitates broader vendor adoption and participation in the
Secure SLC Program.
pcisecuritystandards.org
Global Cybersecurity Market Forecast to Be Worth $403B by 2027
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Security Measures Key to Opening Cannabis
Dispensaries
Charleston dispensary visible symbol of state's recreational cannabis law
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said Mayor Brandon Combs talked with him before the council's vote, with Reed
providing assurance that he didn't think security would be an issue with the
dispensary. Police also toured the Zen Leaf store to review its security
before it opened, Reed said.
He said they were assured by procedures that include a security guard on site
and staff's seeing customers' identification and taking their photos before they
can enter the store. The store's products are secured away from the sales
area and there are security measures for the store's parking lot as
well, Reed noted.
The store's had both recreational and medical
cannabis users as customers and many say they're grateful to have a safe,
convenient source and are willing to pay taxes on the products to get them,
he also said.jg-tc.com
Retail Cannabis Sales Still Months Away in NJ
Marijuana Is Legal in New Jersey, but Sales Are Months Away
Legislation signed on Monday decriminalizes the use or possession of up to
six ounces of cannabis, ending an era of disproportionate arrests in communities
of color.
 New
Jersey is now one of 14 states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis
for adults 21 and older, while also easing several penalties for underage
possession and allowing for the creation of a regulated market that could
provide a welcomed boost to the state's economy as it recovers from the
pandemic.
Legal sales likely remain months away at the earliest, as the state takes
on its next task of creating a heavily regulated industry large enough to
support public demand, with licenses still to be doled out to dispensaries.
But after years of failed legislative efforts to approve the use of recreational
marijuana, Monday's move came as a long-awaited win for supporters, including
Mr. Murphy, who had long pushed for the inclusion of measures to address the
disproportionate number of marijuana arrests in communities of color.
nytimes.com
'Pot for Shots'
Michigan Dispensary Gives People Free Cannabis for Getting COVID-19 Vaccine
A marijuana store in Oakland County is extending its "Pot for Shots" program
through March 31, giving a free pre-roll to people who can provide proof of
having a COVID-19 vaccination.
Greenhouse of Walled Lake has joined with Ubaked Cannabis Company of Burton for
the promotion, which started Jan. 22 and had been scheduled to end at the end of
February.
Miller said the promotion is a way to reach out to existing and new customers to
"raise awareness of the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccination."
theoaklandpress.com
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The Story of the Counterfeit Misfit
How Fraudsters Used Bots to Scrape and Deplete Inventory
A high-end luxury brand was continually targeted by various fraudster groups for
several years since their e-commerce website launched. They experienced
persistent bot issues: 1) fraudsters from China were scraping their website
to sell knock-offs of their product, and 2) bots were depleting inventory
for this companies' most in-demand special edition merchandise during their
busiest season.
These web scraping fraudsters secured multiple website domain names that were
similar to the real domain (e.g. domain.outlet.com) and presented the same exact
merchandise as the real site. They were also running paid ads to the counterfeit
websites so they appeared legitimate and ranked high on search engines.
To entice shoppers to swiftly purchase this fake merch, they significantly
reduced the prices as part of a 'big sale.' Unsuspecting buyers purchased
rip-offs from the fraudulent website and received counterfeit products.
Counterfeit goods hurt legitimate retailers on multiple fronts. First, retailers
miss out on revenue from the initial purchase. Secondly, the reputation of their
brand is negatively impacted and can lead to buyers not coming back or becoming
fearful of making future purchases. In some cases, the legitimate retailer is
forced to compensate the purchaser to maintain their business and make the
situation 'right.'
Below is a simplified workflow of how this process works from start to finish.
The tools needed to leverage malicious automation to scrape a legitimate website
require very little time and not much skill. While selling the fake
merchandise as original is illegal, web scraping is still technically legal.
securityboulevard.com
Top E-Commerce Sites
Amazon, Rakuten, eBay Top List of Most Visited Ecommerce Sites
Amazon and Japan's Rakuten were the #1 and #2 most visited retail websites
in the world last year, with Amazon domains taking three of the top 10 spots
(.com at #1, .de at #3 and .co.uk at #6).
Amazon.com received a staggering 2.6 billion monthly visits on average in
2020, with the ecommerce marketplace clocking more visits every hour than
half the population of London. Amazon.com also ranks as the 12th-most-visited
site globally across all sectors, beaten only by porn sites, social media sites
and Google.
Fellow marketplaces eBay (both .com at #4 and .co.uk at #10), AliExpress
(#5), Taobao (#8) and Craigslist (#9) also ranked, with Walmart standing
alone as the only retailer with a brick-and-mortar presence to make the top 10.
retailtouchpoints.com
Foolproof tips for avoiding counterfeit masks online
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Davie, FL: Detectives search for burglar who stole 157 birds valued at
more than $75,000
 Detectives
are searching for a burglar who recently cut a hole in the roof of the Birdhouse
pet store in Davie and entered through the drop ceiling to steal 157 birds
valued at $75,500. The burglar left some of the birds flying free and exited
through the back door sometime between 6 p.m. on Monday and 9 a.m. on Tuesday,
according to the Davie Police Department's report. "My heart got ripped out ...
they take everything away from me, last 15 years I put my work," said Charlie
Hong, the business owner. "This is my hobby as I started it. I made a business
supporting my family. Whoever is out there took my dream away." Jeanette
Chicoine is a Birdhouse customer. She said she was outraged when she learned
about the burglary. She had been boarding her cockatiel named "Doeboy" at the
store. He lost some feathers after fighting off the burglar.
local10.com
New York, NY: Burglar steals the entire $300K inventory from Taste Wine Co. in
Manhattan's East Village
 A
Manhattan wine business was left high and dry after someone removed the store's
entire inventory - 2,000 bottles valued at about $300,000, a law enforcement
source told The Post. The owner told police Tuesday night that when he was last
at the Taste Wine Co. at 50 Third Ave. in the East Village on Jan. 8 all of the
inventory was in place. Prior to that date, the business had been closed for
several months, he told authorities. Stolen were 1,000 bottles of wine, 1,000
bottles of liquor and 125 wine dispensers, machines designed to serve and
preserve wines at the right temperatures, the source said. The owner placed the
value of the bottles at $150,000 and said each dispenser is worth $1,200,
according to the source.
nypost.com
Brooklyn, NY: Target shoplifter sprays irritant at officer, flees with detergent
 A
man stealing laundry detergent from a Brooklyn Target sprayed a police officer
and a security guard with an irritant as they tried to apprehend him, police
said. Store security spotted the shoplifter making off with the detergent at the
Gateway Center Target in East New York on Sunday evening and alerted an on-duty
police officer, according to the NYPD. The officer and a security guard tried to
apprehend him, and a struggle ensued around 7:15 p.m., police said. The
shoplifter pulled out an unknown substance and sprayed it at the officer and
guard before fleeing with the detergent, according to police. The officer
suffered irritation and redness to the eyes and was treated by EMS at the scene,
police said. It's unclear if the guard was hit by the substance.
radio.com
Lompoc, CA: Man arrested after Surf Connection break-in, theft of $1,200 worth
of jeans
A Lompoc man was arrested on suspicion of burglary after multiple pairs of jeans
were stolen from Surf Connection, which he accessed by smashing out the front
door's glass, according to police. Officers were dispatched to the 1300 North H
Street, where an alarm was sounding at Surf Connection store after the door was
shattered shortly before 2 a.m., according to Sgt. Scott Morgan. Officers noted
that a stack of jeans had been stolen. Lompoc Police detectives reviewed
surveillance camera footage and identified the suspect as 35-year-old Michael
Limon after they spotted him running from the business to a nearby hotel.
lompocrecord.com
Enfield, CT: Police seek 3 suspects following AT&T store robbery
Two employees and a customer were in the store at the time. The suspects took an
undetermined amount of merchandise and fled before officers arrived.
wfsb.com
Manchester, NJ: Police seeking 2 copper wire thieves hitting Lowes
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Shootings & Deaths
 DeKalb
County, GA: Man gunned down in parking lot of Family Dollar store
Police are investigating a deadly shooting in the parking lot of a DeKalb County
Family Dollar store on Wednesday evening. It happened at the store located along
Stone Mountain Lithonia Road near Rockbridge Road. DeKalb County police said
officers arrived to find the body of a man in the parking lot. Investigators are
calling it a homicide, but have not released details. It was not immediately
clear if police were searching for a suspect.
fox5atlanta.com
Little Rock, AR: Body found outside Walmart store
Little Rock Police are investigating after a body was found in a parked car at
the Walmart on South Shackleford Road Tuesday afternoon. A police spokesman said
officers responded to the store around 4 p.m., where a body was found in an
parked car on the east side of the store property. The death is being treated
as a homicide, and police say the person was not killed at the store. The
victim was identified as 20-year-old Khyree Allison of Little Rock. Allison's
body has been sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy. Investigators
are reaching out to the public for any information leading to a suspect.
kark.com
Update: Sacramento, CA: 3 Arrested For Suspected Robbery, Shooting That
Left 7-Eleven Clerk Dead
Detectives have arrested the three suspects wanted for the robbery and shooting
that left a Sacramento convenience store clerk dead. The shooting happened early
Monday morning at the 7-Eleven convenience store along the 1100 block of 43rd
Avenue. Sacramento police say a customer had walked into the store and found the
clerk had been shot. Medics soon rushed the clerk to the hospital, but he was
later pronounced dead. Investigators found that the clerk had been shot after an
apparent robbery.
sacramento.cbslocal.com
Antioch, CA: One person shot as CVS Armed Robbers hit inside Target
 The
latest was reported about 2 p.m. Shoppers were shocked by gunfire as armed
robbers hit a CVS Pharmacy inside a Target store on Lone Tree Way. One customer
was wounded but will recover, and two teenage suspects are in custody. "Chaos
erupted, people going every which way, screaming," described a customer. The two
suspects are identified as Ramon Meza-Morales and Raul Garcia, both 18 and from
Antioch. They were arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and assault with a
deadly weapon.
The pair left with an undisclosed amount of narcotics, most likely opioid
medication. On their way out, somehow a shopper was shot in the leg. "We
don't know if there was a struggle at the door, if he just got in their way, or
tried to intervene, we're still trying to piece that part of it altogether,"
said Lt. Joe Donleavy of the Antioch Police. The robbers made it to their car,
but drove into the path of an arriving police vehicle.
ktvu.com
Columbus, OH: Man critically wounded in shooting at East Side convenience store
An early morning shooting Wednesday wounded two Southeast Side men, one of them
in life-threatening condition. Columbus police said the shooting was reported
around 3:25 a.m. Wednesday at the Eagle Fuels Market, on Livingston Ave., on the
city's East Side. When officers arrived, they found 20-year-old Marsean Kato
with multiple gunshot wounds. Kato was taken to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center
in life-threatening condition. Police determined that 19-year-old Davon Johnson,
who walked into a local hospital with a gunshot wound, was shot during the same
incident that resulted in Kato's injuries. Johnson remains hospitalized in
stable but critical condition.
dispatch.com
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Morris County Pharmacy Employee Charged with $1.9 Million
Kickback & Bribery Scheme
 A
pharmacy employee was charged for conspiring to offer and pay bribes and
kickbacks in exchange for having prescriptions steered to the Morris County, New
Jersey, pharmacy where he worked, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig
announced yesterday 2/24/21.
Srinivasa Raju, 49, of Haskell, New Jersey, was arrested today and charged by
complaint with conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Magdalena
Jimenez, 56, of Newark, New Jersey, was previously charged with a parallel
bribery and kickback scheme involving the same pharmacy. Those charges remain
pending.
Raju had various responsibilities at the Morris County pharmacy, including
coordinating prescription deliveries and soliciting business. From at least
January 2019, Raju worked with other pharmacy personnel to pay kickbacks and
bribes to a doctor's employee in exchange for receiving numerous prescriptions
from that doctor's Jersey City office.
Raju first paid the kickbacks and bribes using gift cards, but soon switched to
cash and checks. He typically handed the kickbacks and bribes to coworkers
inside the pharmacy and directed them to deliver the payments to the doctor's
employee. To conceal the true nature of some of the illicit payments, Raju had
approximately $8,000 worth of checks made out to the employee's relative,
under the guise of paying for IT services. In truth, Raju never met or
communicated with the relative, and no actual services were performed.
The conspiracy charge is punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and
a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss derived from the
offense, whichever is greater.
justice.gov
Houston, TX: Police looking for robbery suspect that held employees at knife
point
The HPD Robbery Division and Crime Stoppers of Houston is looking for a robbery
suspect that could be responsible for a series of aggravated robberies.
Investigators say the suspect is responsible for stealing merchandise at several
West Houston stores and then pulling a knife on employees in the process.
cw39.com
Philadelphia, PA: Man will be charged with raping a woman in the Center City
Macy's bathroom
Puyallup, WA: Shoplifting Suspect Pepper Sprays Walmart Loss Prevention
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AT&T - Enfield, CT -
Armed Robbery
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Boost Mobile -
Roxborough, PA - Robbery (2nd in a week)
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C-Store - Essex
County, MA - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Chicago, IL
- Burglary
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C-Store - Chicago, IL
- Burglary
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Clothing - Lompoc, CA
- Burglary
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Dollar General -
Grafton, OH - Armed Robbery
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Jewelry - Duluth, MN - Robbery
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Jewelry - Concord, NC - Robbery
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Jewelry - Kansas City, KS - Robbery
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Jewelry - Chattanooga, TN - Robbery
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Liquor - New York, NY
- Burglary
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Pet - Davie, FL -
Burglary
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Target - Brooklyn, NY
- Robbery
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Grant Danby promoted to Regional Loss Prevention Manager
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Baltimore, MD
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The Senior Manager, Retail Asset Protection is responsible for implementing
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sales reps to expand our national retail and governmental vertical markets. Top
pay, benefits and signing bonus available. Please apply to
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Vice President, Loss Prevention
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The Vice President of
Loss Prevention reports to the Company's General Counsel and is
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Rosemead, CA
The Executive
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loss. This position serves as the subject matter expert on a broad range
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The Senior Director of Loss Prevention is responsible for setting and
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Responsible for developing and implementing department strategies and
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The Sr Manager Asset Protection is responsible for ensuring that Asset
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Individual growth is an overly used phrase for something that is extremely
difficult to truly accomplish. Corporate America tends to force it faster than
many can absorb. Out of necessity or by design it requires a mental investment
and a conscious effort on the part of the executive to truly grow beyond their
current capabilities. Consequently, growth is oftentimes as a result of direct
force or life-changing events. But it is a necessity if one expects to advance
and stay current with the industry. Technology represents the Loss Prevention
industry's biggest opportunity for growth and if one expects to be a leader
tomorrow it would be wise to grow your technology education.
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