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Chris Ota named Vice President of Loss Prevention
for Pacific Sunwear
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John Hawthorne promoted to Director Loss Prevention & Safety for Publix Super
Markets, Inc.
John was previously the Senior Loss Prevention Manger - Dist for
Publix, and has been with Publix Supermarkets since 1984. He earned his
Bachelors Degree in Organizational Business Management from Warner
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Christopher Broadhead named Director, Business Process Optimization for Sears
Christopher was previously the Sr. Consultant, LP Tech and Systems
for Office Depot before taking this new role. Prior he was the Senior Manager of
Field Investigations for Sears Holdings Corporation and an LP Investigator for
TJ Maxx. Congratulations Christopher! |
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Jose Montenegro
named Corporate Asset Protection Manager for DFASS Group
Jose was the District Director of Asset Protection prior to taking this new
role. He started in loss prevention with Sports Authority as a Loss Prevention
Safety Manager, and held various positions afterwards including LP Manager and
District AP Operations Manager for The Home Depot, and AP Manager and District
Manager of Investigations for Macy's. Congratulations Jose! |
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Michael Monaghan named Corporate Loss Prevention Manager for Steve Madden
Previously Michael was a Regional Asset Protection Manager for Toys R
Us for two years before taking this new role. During his over seventeen years in
the retail industry, Michael's held different positions including District AP
Manager for Sports Authority, Assistant Store Manager for Walmart and Flow Team
Leader for Target. He earned his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Organizational
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Andrea Rubalcaba promoted to Senior LP & Safety Manager for Bed Bath & Beyond
Andrea was previously the LP Supervisor Ecommerce for Bed Bath &
Beyond before earning this promotion. She's held other positions in asset
protection including Zone AP Manager, AP Area Manager and AP Manager for Sears
Holdings Corporation. Congratulations Andrea! |
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Nicole Schmitt promoted to Senior Manager Asset Protection for Wireless Vision
Nicole was the National Loss Prevention Manager for Wireless Vision
for over two years before this promotion. Prior to working for Wireless Vision,
Nicole worked in various loss prevention positions for Nordstrom including Area
LP Manager, LP Manager, Rack Store LP Manager in Training, Full-Line Store LP
Manager in Training and LP Agent. She was also an LP Officer for Kmart in 2006.
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California Property Crime Surge Is Unintended
Consequence of Proposition 47
Voter-Approved Initiative Wins Dishonor of California Golden Fleece®
Award
 California
voters had high hopes for Proposition 47, a ballot initiative that passed in
November 2014 to lower criminal penalties for various property and drug
offenses and thereby ease the state's prison overcrowding problem. Although
the initiative succeeded in meeting some objectives, it also triggered major
unintended consequences that have harmed tens of thousands of law-abiding
property owners, and it continues to inflict economic and psychological
damage.
For these reasons, Prop 47, officially titled the "Reduced Penalties for
Some Crimes Initiative," has won the Independent Institute's fifth
California Golden Fleece Award, disapproving recognition given to a
California state or local agency or government initiative that swindles
taxpayers or breaks the public trust.
Shopliftings Spike after Prop 47
Because Prop 47 increased the threshold for felony sentencing and decreased
the penalties associated with petty theft, retail shoplifting has also seen
a marked increase. As with vehicle break-ins, the increase in retail
shoplifting reflects an increase in the expected net benefit to the
criminal. The data reveal that criminals responded predictably to the
changing incentives.
Shoplifting data from the past decade show that the rate of reported thefts
during the five years preceding passage of Prop 47 was lower than the rate
immediately after passage (see figure 2). From 2009 to 2014, California
businesses reported an average rate of about 248 shopliftings per 100,000
residents, or about 98,000 shopliftings a year, given the state's current
population.
In 2015, the first year of Prop 47's relaxed rules, the rate of shopliftings
spiked by nearly 11 percent over the previous five-year average. That year,
about 279 shopliftings were reported per 100,000 residents, roughly 11,000
additional shopliftings throughout the state in the year immediately
following the initiative's enactment. These figures are consistent with FBI
crime data, which showed a 12 percent jump in larceny theft.
Shoplifting data for 2016 more closely resemble previous years' averages,
but this similarity likely reflects a decline in reporting behavior rather
than decreases in shoplifting incidents.
According to Michael Rushford, president of the
Criminal Justice Legal
Foundation: "More, not fewer, of these crimes are being committed, but
people aren't reporting them. ... They don't believe anything will happen,
so [they] don't see the point. And they're right." Business personnel have
responded to shoplifting incidents by underreporting because they have
concluded that investigations are a low priority for law enforcement. Some
businesses have taken matters into their own hands by increasing
private-security measures. independent.org
IBM is hoping to eliminate bias from facial
recognition systems
The company plans to release over a million facial images that anyone can
use as a data set to help train their AI facial recognition system. The
data set of over a million images will be highly diverse with different skin
colors and tones. It's also over five times larger than the current
largest public data set available, which contains 200,000 images. The
company is also releasing an additional data set of 36,000 facial images
equally distributed across all ethnicities, ages, and genders. As IBM notes
in a blog post:
AI holds significant power to improve the way we live and work, but only if
AI systems are developed and trained responsibly, and produce outcomes we
trust. Making sure that the system is trained on balanced data, and rid of
biases is critical to achieving such trust.
fastcompany.com
Washington Post: A plan to keep drug users from shooting up in public restrooms
- and why it may be a bad idea
Isolated, easily accessible and free from surveillance cameras and security
guards, public restrooms have long been a place for illicit activities. And with
a relentless opioid epidemic ravaging the nation, they have become a laboratory
of sorts for drug users searching for a private space to get high.
It presents a problem for business owners concerned not only about the safety of
their customers but also of their employees - the ones cleaning up blood
splatter, picking up used needles or calling 911 when a user has overdosed in
the washroom. It has forced retailers to search for solutions such as placing
cameras outside the facilities, securing the doors with lock pads or removing
drop ceilings, where users often hide drug paraphernalia.
Some U.S. retailers have even tried installing blue lights in restrooms. The
logic: The light makes it harder for drug users to see their veins.
However,
a 2013 study on the subject showed that current and former drug users said
that not only would the lights fail to stop them but also would create
additional issues. Most of the 18 people interviewed said they had tried to
inject drugs in blue-lit bathrooms, and half of them said they would try it
again "and risk the consequences, which include vein damage and infections,"
lead author Alexis Crabtree said in an email. Crabtree noted some users said
they might search for another spot "but they'd often be ending up in worse
places, including public spaces."
In fact, Dan Bigg, director of the harm-reduction organization Chicago Recovery
Alliance, said that removing adequate lighting only serves to make for
messier injections. He said the solution would be good lighting,
outward-swinging stall doors (so people can reach those who have overdosed) and
places to dispose hazardous waste.
But security consultants say that most business owners don't want to
encourage illicit drug use on their properties - they want to deter it. And
that, they say, puts businesses in a difficult position, trying to strike a
balance between making restrooms available and inviting for their customers
without opening them up to people who might make them unclean or unsafe for
others.
Blue lights in public restrooms, according to the consultants, is just one tool
that businesses are beginning to try as a security measure in the United States,
and "the jury's still out" on whether it will be successful.
Jon D. Groussman, president of
CAP Index Inc., a
security consulting firm based in Exton, Pa., said that "in certain markets
where you know you're having a problem, it's worth trying." But he added
that closely monitoring public restrooms and sending employees to check on them
periodically is typically "the best deterrent."
washingonpost.com
Google Reins In Workplace Debate
Google is trying to quell the debates roiling its workforce by setting new
internal rules designed to limit offensive language and personal attacks
against fellow employees.
 In
a set of guidelines sent to employees, Google said it would discipline
anyone who discriminates against or attacks colleagues or engages in
discussions that are "disruptive to a productive work environment,"
according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The rules aim to curb so-called trolling-in which people are deliberately
provocative or offensive online in order to elicit strong reactions-as well as
"blanket statements about groups or categories of people."
For Google, which has long prized its culture of open debate, the rules
present fresh challenges about how to police employee speech while
continuing to encourage free expression and unconventional thinking.
wsj.com
7-Eleven Skirts Longtime Franchisee's
Contract Suit, For Now
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday partly tossed a breach of contract
suit brought by a 7-Eleven franchisee of 44 years who claims the convenience
store chain wants to reap new franchise fees by pressuring him to cede his
business to competitors.
U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter granted franchise owner Azmi Takiedine
leave to amend his complaint alleging breach of contract - in part by the
convenience store chain purportedly forcing him to buy products and services
from more expensive vendors - but threw out his constructive termination
claim because that claim requires actual termination and Takiedine has not
in fact closed his stores.
law360.com
The store is moving closer and closer to
technology.
You can't be effective on the business side if you don't understand
technology
Retailers need to become digital businesses. Sometimes that statement gets
interpreted to mean "Oh, you mean we have to become like Amazon". No, not
true. But you can't be a successful retailer today of any size without
technology, and the knowledge of how technology works and can potentially be
used to enable the business can no longer live exclusively within the IT
department of the retailer. Business users need to understand not just how
what they have works, but how technology works in general. That can be a let
down for someone who wanted to get into retail in order to buy beautiful
things or just help customers, but that's where we're at as an industry.
forbes.com
Tesco Go: UK supermarket chain trying out Amazon-style checkout-free shopping,
despite 'security implications'
Tesco has said it is testing a way of paying for your shopping in-store without
going through a checkout, using a smartphone app to scan items and pay online.
The app is being tested in a Tesco Express near its headquarters in Welwyn
Garden City, which is also one of the retail chain's cashless stores.
"Using your mobile device you select some products, put them into your basket on
your device and then just walk out of the store," Steven Blair, Tesco's
convenience transformation director announced to press yesterday.
Amazon began trials for a similar scheme in a purpose-built store in Seattle
earlier this year. Known as Amazon Go, the Seattle store uses cameras and
sensors to track customer activity, and check what they take off shelves and put
back. Customers are then billed via their Amazon account once they leave the
store.
Tesco's chief executive Dave Lewis told Reuters that although the Welwyn trial
had scalable potential, security implications had to be considered as there
was a danger of increased product theft.
"If the margin in the business is 2 or 3 per cent, you don't have to lose much
to make it unprofitable," he said.
cityam.com
America's severe trucker shortage could
undermine the prosperous economy
As the nation faces a historically low level of unemployment, trucking
companies are doing what economists have said firms need to do to attract
and retain workers: They're hiking pay significantly, offering bonuses and
even recruiting people they previously wouldn't have considered.
But it's not working. The industry reports a growing labor shortage -
63,000 open positions this year, a number expected to more than double in
coming years - that could have wide-ranging impacts on the U.S. economy.
On a recent call with investors, a Walmart executive called rising
transportation costs the company's primary "head wind."
Technology leaders such as Elon Musk hold out driverless trucks as a
solution, but industry insiders say that is many years away. For now the
industry simply can't find a way to move goods as fast and cheaply as they
have in the past. This logjam will be especially perilous, economists say,
if competition for truckers pushes up prices so quickly that the country
faces uncontrolled inflation, which can easily lead to a recession.
washingtonpost.com
Making Digital Moves - Kroger's All In
Kroger establishing digital headquarters
The supermarket giant announced that it has established a separate
headquarters for its digital team in downtown Cincinnati. It will house
approximately 600 Kroger digital associates at first. The retailer said it
expects to grow its digital team to more than 1,000 over the next three
years.
Kroger
recently announced an exclusive partnership with British online grocer
market Ocado and acquired online meal-kit company Home Chef, with both moves
intended to evolve and grow its digital business. Last week, the chain
reported its first quarter digital sales grew by 66%.
chainstoreage.com
Kroger and Nuro Partner to Pilot Autonomous
Delivery
Poll Shows Americans Fear Natural Disasters
More than Terrorism, Global Pandemic or Cyber-Attack Combined
For the third year in a row the potential of a natural disaster, such as a
hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire, is the type of threat that causes
most concern among Americans.
Individual's concern about natural disasters (33 percent) continues to
exceed worry about terrorist attacks (15 percent), cyber-attacks (eight
percent), environmental disasters (five percent), or disease outbreaks (13
percent).
"These findings underscore the need to prioritize individual and community
preparedness across the country in the face of threats from natural
disasters, including the current hurricane season. Because we know that it's
not if, but when, a disaster will strike."
securitymagazine.com
Harrisburg, PA: Gov. Tom Wolf signs Bills
giving some Non-Violent Offenders a 'Clean Slate' in life
The law automatically will seal misdemeanor, non-violent criminal records
after 10 years if there is no other criminal arrest within that time.
Arrests without convictions will be immediately sealed if there is no
ongoing prosecution. Under prior law, a person may ask the court for that
seal. That will end.
The legislation gives the judicial system 18 months to build the program to
automatically seal records of an eligible individual. Until then, people
must still petition the court. The law does not, however, apply to
individuals charged with violent, firearms or sexual offenses or cruelty to
animals and corruption of minors.
mcall.com
These Are the 13 Things People Steal From
Grocery Stores All the Time
The average shoplifter makes off with more than $798 worth of merchandise,
according to the National Retail Federation. Supermarkets lose 1.35% of
inventory to theft. Grocery stores have razor-thin margins, so losing 1.35%
of inventory to shoplifting affects the bottom line, but four types of other
retailers have it worse:
Pharmacies and drugstores: 2.25%, Specialty apparel: 1.98%,
Electronics/appliances: 1.90%, and Department stores: 1.80%.
The list begins:
10. Spices
9. Cosmetics
8. Seafood
7. Razor blades
6. Cheese
5. Fully-cooked meat
4. Alcohol
3. Baby formula
2. Fresh meat (TIE)
1. Candy (TIE)
Cigarettes, Energy Drinks and Over the Counter Medicine also make the list.
cheatsheet.com
Sephora Reposts VP, Internal Controls
Position Based in San Francisco
Being a brand new global position for them with responsibilities for Loss
Prevention based in San Francisco, arguably the most expensive city on the
mainland U.S., right next to if not exceeding New York City's cost of
living, makes this a tough job to fill and explains the time it's taking to
fill it.
This a premier retailer and there aren't many last frontiers out there,
where you can reinvent and build a new LP program.
Now certainly they have a great team already in place which makes it even
more difficult, quite frankly, to find that one leader who can come in and
really add value and help the team develop and add even more value to the
enterprise.
Here's the job description: The Vice President, Internal Control will lead
Sephora's cross-channel strategies to protect the company assets and
business from all external and internal sources of losses. This role
requires business, financial and leadership acumen. As the head of Loss
Prevention and Fraud management, this leader will drive fights against theft
and fraud in-store and on-line. As the head of internal control, this person
will manage procedures and policies and champion their enforcement. Finally,
this leader will manage the Crisis Management Plans to restore operations in
case of an incident or disaster.
sephora.com
Quarterly Results
Nike Q4 revenue up 13%, Nike Brand up 9%, Converse down 14%, no retail
numbers reported
Nike Full yr. revenue up 6%, Nike Brand up 5%, NIKE Direct revenue up 12%,
digital up 25%, Nike stores comp's up 4%, Converse down 11%
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The Nation's Most Stringent Privacy Act
Retailers say customer service will suffer under 'deeply flawed' California
privacy law
"This law is objectionable on many levels," NRF Senior Vice President for
Government Relations David French said. "This is a deeply flawed measure aimed
more at lining the pockets of attorneys than protecting consumers. It will
expose businesses to unwarranted lawsuits while potentially taking away many of
the innovations and special services consumers have come to expect."
NRF was among 29 state and national business groups that sent a
letter to members of the California Assembly and Senate yesterday calling
the legislation "a serious threat to the California economy."
"The business community has been and remains interested in and dedicated to
crafting reasonable privacy legislation," the letter said. "We strongly urge the
legislature to consider the numerous problems presented by this bill and to fix
them as we move forward."
The
California Consumer Privacy Act was passed as an alternative to a ballot
initiative that had been certified for November's elections. The ballot
initiative would have become law immediately after Election Day, but the
legislation does not take effect until January 1, 2020, giving opponents time to
seek changes in the legislature.
The legislation places sweeping restrictions on how retailers and other
businesses can collect and use information about their customers. Among other
provisions, it would allow private citizens to sue retailers in addition to
allowing enforcement by state authorities, a move the letter called a "giveaway
to trial lawyers" that "exposes California businesses to massive additional
liability without providing any corresponding benefit to consumers."
The law prohibits retailers from treating customers who opt out of data sharing
any differently from those who do not, a provision that could put an end to
retail loyalty programs that offer discounts to members. Consumers could
also demand that their information be erased, and retailers are concerned by
other provisions involving data breach requirements, definitions of personal
information, transparency and consumer access to data. nrf.com
Breached Database Had Every U.S. Citizen in it
Newly Revealed Exactis Data Leak Bigger Than Equifax's
Exactis is a marketing data company that provides companies with the sort of
information needed to target ads to people browsing the Web.
 Troia
told Wired,
"It seems like this is a database with pretty much every US citizen in it,"
adding, "I don't know where the data is coming from, but it's one of the most
comprehensive collections I've ever seen."
While the data did not include credit card or social security numbers, it did
include everything from political preferences to browsing and purchase data for
a wide variety of items. Taken together, the pieces of information would allow
an advertiser or database user to form a very detailed picture of the targeted
individual.
In terms of size, the Exactis leak dwarfs the Equifax breach, which exposed
nearly 146 million records. Exactis has now taken the database off the public
Internet, but has made no public statement on the affair. At the time of this
article's publication, the company's website was down, with a request returning
a 508 error.
darkreading.com
Redefining Security with Blockchain
Blockchain offers a proactive approach to secure a new generation of digital
platforms and services for both enterprises and individuals.
As the computing environment becomes more open and diverse, and as threats
become more sophisticated, enterprises need a way to validate identities and
transactions without having to resort to cumbersome, obstructive blacklists. IT
validation and regulatory compliance pose similar challenges. Complex,
resource-intensive governance mechanisms burden IT, slow business innovation,
and divert attention from the company's core mission. How can we simplify
validation in every step in the execution of a transaction, process, or
contract? How can we make it impossible to steal or compromise an identity,
whether of a user or a "thing"? How can we put users - not companies - in
control of their own identities?
Blockchain offers an exciting new way forward. It is a ledger architecture that
can protect identities, data, and transactions against compromise by recording
across links in a highly distributed digital ledger. If any link in the chain is
altered, added, or removed, the entire chain is suspect.
darkreading.com
Cybercrime study: Growing economic ecosystem
spells trouble
Organized cybercriminals are gaining momentum and profiting from an economic
ecosystem of systematic activities and hyper-connected infrastructure. A
cybercrime study released in April describes this economy as platform
criminality, a term coined by author Michael McGuire, a senior lecturer at
University of Surrey, a public research university located in Guildford, U.K. It
is similar to platform capitalism, the business model used by companies
such Facebook, Google and Amazon to connect individuals with data and tools that
benefit them. Crimeware as a service is an example of platform criminality,
according to the cybercrime report "Into the Web of Profit," sponsored by
Bromium.
Walmart CISO Jerry Geisler said this emerging
threat landscape and the frequency and sophistication of attacks is a key
challenge for modern CISOs.
"If you go back to when you first started seeing cybersecurity issues in the
1980s, the attacks were not consumerized," he said. "They required someone with
a fairly high degree of knowledge to execute the attack, and the attack may not
have been that sophisticated."
According to McGuire, data is what fuels this "web of profit," and valued
information has expanded beyond personally identifiable information on credit
and debit cards to include login information for banks and other accounts,
schemes involving travel loyalty points, and government hacking tools. The
revenues from cybercrime -- which include illicit and illegal markets (50%),
trade secrets and IP theft (35%), stolen data trading (11%), crimeware as a
service (less than 1%) and ransomware (less than 1%) -- have already reached
an estimated $1.5 trillion annually, according to the cybercrime study.
The shift toward organized cybercrime started years ago with high-profile
attacks documented in the 2013 to 2014 time period. As the problem gets worse,
information sharing among companies remains limited. Collaboration among law
enforcement and companies worldwide could help. New technologies that
recognize the increased value of data -- as currency -- may also be needed to
weaken the forces driving the cybercrime economy. techtarget.com
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Developing
Technology's Impact on Emergency Preparedness
Tony
Caccioppoli, VP Corp AP, HBC
Pat McEvoy, Sr Dir of AP Admin, HBC
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With more violent incidents, civil protests, robberies, and disruptive weather
than ever before, emergency preparedness has never been more critical for
retailers. Tony Caccioppoli, Vice President, Corporate Asset Protection,
and Pat McEvoy, Sr. Director of Asset Protection Administration, for
Hudson's Bay Company, discuss how technology is playing a vital role in helping
retailers with crisis management programs, driving more proactive and real-time
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Quick Take #13
During his first trip to the U.S., Robin van Stenis, Global Marketing
Manager for
Nedap Retail, based in the Netherlands, shares his first impressions of the
country with LPNN's international ambassador Amber Bradley. Learn about
Nedap's global footprint and the "future-proofing" solutions they're bringing to
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Will Walmart, Amazon Buy Up Small E-Tailers?
Attorney Unpacks Long-Term Impact Of Tax Decision
It Won't Matter Much To The Biggest Online Retailers, From Amazon To
Walmart
"From a compliance and collection standpoint, many of the largest online
[retailers] will experience little to no additional compliance burden, nor
price effect as a result of the new decision. Amazon already collects sales
taxes on sales from its own inventory, and many of the other top contenders,
such as Walmart, have been collecting sales taxes because they had a
physical presence in most states," Mittelstadt said.
Third-Party Sellers On Amazon, Walmart, Will Take A Hit
"However, some large retailers also give the ability to other [retailers] to use
their online and distribution platforms to effect sales. The biggest example is
Amazon Marketplace, and another example would be Walmart.com, where other
vendors' sales tax collection is regarded as the individual vendor's
responsibility. The change in the law as a result of the decision will affect
many of those vendors, and may make the platform companies more likely to ensure
compliance, for example, by putting platform-based solutions in place. This may
increase consumer costs and reduce sales."
Small E-Commerce Sites Vulnerable To Acquisition By The Big Guys
As the minimum sales threshold for small e-commerce players likely lowers
over time, might large e-tailers such as Walmart gobble up the smaller
ones? (We've seen that already with Walmart's acquisition binge of e-tailers
like Modcloth and Bonobos.)
"Essentially yes, that is a risk," said Mittelstadt. "While this is
just an experience-based guess, I believe it is likely that many states, in
setting existing minimum thresholds, were influenced by the pre-Wayfair law
and were trying to come up with sales thresholds that would allow them to
say, 'Look, this out-of-state retailer's sales in our state are large enough
that surely, the amount of marketing and soliciting and selling in the state
is enough to be the equivalent of physical presence in the state,'" he said.
Read more:
forbes.com
3 things your marketing department can teach your
CNP fraud prevention team
You may be surprised to learn that your marketing department can teach your
fraud prevention team a lot about card not present fraud. Not only are the two
departments working in tandem to reach the same goals, but the marketing
department has a lot of innovative qualities that a fraud management team would
be smart to follow. Here are ways they can closely support one another for
mutual success.
1. Marketers put the customer first
2. Marketers are experienced analytics innovators
3. Marketers are laser-focused on ROI
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csoonline.com
Amazon shakes up industry with deal to acquire
online pharmacy PillPack
"In our view, this is only the first play in what will be an increasingly
aggressive strategy by Amazon to develop a much more significant presence in the
pharmacy market," said Saunders. "This is incredibly bad news for traditional
players, like Walgreens and CVS, who stand to lose the most from Amazon's
determination to grow its share.
chainstoreage.com
Kroger counters Amazon with self-driving grocery
delivery vehicles
Walmart rolls out 3D virtual online shopping |
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Fencing Operation: Houston Pawn shop manager
accused of helping sell stolen Home Depot merchandise
Jose Hernandez is charged with organized crime and is accused of
facilitating the pawn and sale of stolen items, according to the Harris
County Precinct 1 Constable's Office.
 Juan
Carlos Lopez, 32, was arrested last week on suspicion of third-degree felony
theft, accused of stealing $30,000 worth of merchandise. Some of the stolen
items were found at Cash America Pawn Shop near the intersection of Jensen Drive
and Tidwell Road, investigators said. Lopez confessed to the thefts, and
investigators said they have video evidence, authorities said.
"We have another individual that we are focusing on right now a person of
interest and it may lead to other people so we don't know how big the criminal
activity is or how far it stretched or how many people are involved," he said.
Home Depot reached out to authorities when they noticed the numbers
weren't adding up, investigators said. Some stolen items range price from $400
to more than $1,000, according to investigators.
click2houston.com
Clovis, CA: $100,000 cache of stolen Fireworks found
inside a home
Officers say two truckloads worth of safe and sane fireworks were stolen from a
distribution warehouse in Fresno earlier this week. The trucks were later
recovered, but the $100,000 worth fireworks inside were missing. On Wednesday,
officers recovered 80% of the stolen fireworks, all from one home. All those
fireworks under one roof made the house, more like a powderkeg. Officers had to
use a police dog to help bring the suspect, Michael Hendricks, into custody.
abc30.com
Phoenix, AZ: Arrest made after 12 pallets of
Amazon packages are stolen, valued at over $40,000
Phoenix police report that on June 19, they arrested 37-year-old Christopher
Smith for theft of hundreds of Amazon packages from their sorting center. Police
say over an 18-day period in May, an accomplice of Smith would steal pallets of
Amazon packages from other driver's trucks and load them onto his truck, then
transport them to a storage unit, that was controlled by Smith. A witness
reportedly told police of a large quantity of Amazon packages being stored at
the unit and provided police with photos of a pallet jack and a shipping label.
Police say the pallet jack had markings on it showing it belonged to Amazon.
Amazon investigators confirmed from the shipping label that not only was the
package stolen but the entire pallet of packages. Police raided the storage
locker and reportedly found nearly 500 packages on 12 pallets, worth about
$42,000. Investigators say about 100 packages were ripped open and the products
were missing.
abc15.com
Troy, MI: Sak's Fifth Avenue Shoplifting/ Robbery
leads to drug bust; over $1,500 of merchandise recovered
 Troy
Police say a man and woman entered the store and attempted to steal $690 worth
of items before being stopped by Loss Prevention. While Stacy Lattimore complied
with Loss Prevention, Gerald Grooms did not and walked away. Grooms was later
apprehended by responding officers. Police found a set of cars keys on the
suspect that belonged to a tan 2008 Buick in the parking lot. Officers searched
the vehicle and found a plastic bag in the center console with 17 smaller bags
containing what was believed to be heroin. Police also found $880 worth of
stolen merchandise from the store Lattimore tried to hide. Lattimore also had
wire cutters used to remove anti-theft sensors from merchandise.
wxyz.com
Spokane, WA: $10,000 of merchandise stolen from Northwest
Outdoors; electronics, bikes, climbing gear
North Myrtle Beach, SC: Man walked out with $500 worth of
crab legs, but he was caught on camera
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Shootings, Threats & Deaths
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Land, TX: Man caught on video threatening Home Depot employee with gun
Authorities are asking for your help in finding a man who pointed a gun at an
employee during a theft at the Home Depot in Sugar Land. Police were called to
the store on June 25 around 11:45 a.m. Employees told police that a man had left
the store with power tools and pointed a gun at the cashier. While pointing the
gun at the cashier, the suspect told her to remain quiet, investigators said.
Police believe the suspect is also responsible for a similar crime at another
Home Depot in Houston hours earlier.
abc13.com
Madison, WI: Jefferson County Deputy shoots,
injures driver of vehicle that then hits officer in I-94 high-speed chase
According to the Sheriff's Office, the pursuit of the suspect in a retail theft
in Delafield began shortly after 2 p.m on Interstate 94, with the suspect's
vehicle exceeding speeds of 100 mph. The pursuit continued onto Highway 26,
where an officer was intentionally struck by the fleeing vehicle, which became
disabled after leaving the highway. The driver, a 46-year-old man, and a
40-year-old male passenger were arrested on felony warrants. The driver of the
vehicle was being treated at a hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot
wound.
madison.com
Austin, TX: Man killed in shooting at NW Austin gas station identified;
suspect still at large
A 18-year-old man was found dead with gunshot wounds after a shooting at
a gas station in Northwest Austin on Wednesday, police said. One man
said he thought fireworks were going off and a woman who works nearby
told KVUE she counted ten gun shots.
kvue.com
Robberies & Thefts
Wichita Falls, TX: 12-Year-Old Boy Arrested After
Robbing 7-Eleven at Gunpoint
A 12-year-old Wichita Falls boy was taken into custody Wednesday morning after
police say he robbed a 7-Eleven at gunpoint. Police were called to a report of
shots fired in a park around 6:30 a.m., about four hours after the robbery. The
boy was booked into a juvenile detention center and then taken to the North
Texas State Hospital for a mental evaluation. He faces charges of unlawful
carrying and discharging a firearm in certain municipalities, with other charges
pending, police said.
dallasnews.com
Manteca, CA: Elderly Jewelry Store Owner Arming Herself
After Robbery Attempt
An 84 year old Jewelry Store owner is taking extreme measures to protect her
store and says police haven't done enough. The owner is now training for her
Concealed Carry permit.
cbslocal.com
Cary, NC: Server accused of taking $10,000 in tips at
restaurant
Erika Dento, 26 year old bartender is behind bars after police said she stole
$10,000 in tips at a Cary restaurant. Police said between January 1 and the
beginning of June, Denton altered several food receipts at Tasu Asian Bistro.
She changed the food amount with the tip amount, resulting in a bigger tip she
could pocket. However, the total bill would stay the same, so the money was not
coming out of the pockets of the customers.
abc30.com
Augusta, ME: Maine State Police Crime Lab solves Bank and
Pharmacy Robberies this week with DNA
Augusta, ME: Kohl's shoplifting convict signed summons in
teen sister's name; was on probation for drug possession
Broken Arrow, OK: Police report a 53% increase in
Shoplifting
Thief steals multiple cars during test drives, leaves them
at other dealerships
Daniels Jewelers in the South Bay Pavilion, Carson, CA
reported a Robbery/ Assault on 6/24, items valued at over $150,000
Counterfeit
Markham, ON, Canada: Thousands of counterfeit items seized
after raid at Pacific Mall; 7 stores raided by York Regional Police
York Regional Police executed search warrants at seven retail businesses within
the massive Chinese mall seizing everything from clothing and handbags to
cellphone accessories.
globalnews.ca
Portal, ND: Coolers With Stereos Bound For Minneapolis
Seized At Border
The 887 coolers which featured built-in stereo systems were counterfeit,
according to federal authorities.
patch.com
Sentencings, Charges &
Arrests
Mount Clemens, MI: Lakeside Mall shooting threat suspect
gets one year in jail, two years probation
Tyler Tindell, 20, who threatened a Mass Shooting at Lakeside mall was sentenced
to one year in jail and given youth status that will allow his conviction to be
erased from the public record. Tyler Tindell apologized Thursday before he was
ordered to serve two years probation, with the first year in the county jail.
macombdaily.com
Fishers, IN: Update: Indiana man charged after his Gun is
Fired by 6 Year Old Boy inside IKEA store; charged with one count of Criminal
Recklessness with a Deadly Weapon
San Leandro, CA: The suspect in a Liquor Store shooting
charged with Premeditated Attempted Murder; re-entered the store a 2nd time and
fired 1 shot missing the clerk
Hammond, IN: Chicago man charged with stealing $600K in
Brink's truck heist from Chase Bank
Columbia County, WI: Man gets 4 years for a BP Station
Armed Robbery with a Knife; Attorneys agree on degree of threat against the
employee
Rantoul, IL: Man gets 5 years for stealing Cognac from
Liquor store; on Probation and Parole
Tampa, FL: Serial Armed Robber And Accomplice Plead Guilty; Four fast
food restaurants and a c-store targeted
Portland, ME: Florida Man Sentenced to 32 Months for Credit Card Fraud &
Aggravated ID Theft
St. Louis, MO: Man Taken to the Cleaners in Connection with an Armed
Robbery
St. Louis, MO: Convicted Felon Charged in Connection with Two Armed
Robberies
Hammond, IL: Former Brinks Driver Charged in 4-28-18
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C-Store - Springdale, SC - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Converse, TX - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - San Bruno, CA - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Sullivan County, TN - Burglary
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Cashland - Sidney, OH - Burglary
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Circle K - Redlands, CA - Armed Robbery
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Consignment Shop - Spokane, WA - Burglary
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Dollar General - Tulsa, OK - Robbery
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Family Dollar - Indianapolis, IN - Robbery
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Family Dollar - Tulsa, OK - Robbery
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Hardware Store - Pueblo, CO - Burglary
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Jewelry store - Natchez, MS - Burglary
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Jewelry Store - West Milford, NJ - Burglary
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Jewelry Store - Carson, CA - Robbery/ Assault
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KFC - Columbus, OH - Burglary
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Lotaburger - Albuquerque, NM - Armed Robbery
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McDonald's - Oklahoma City, OK - Robbery
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Pet Store - Glendale, AZ - Robbery
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Restaurant - Grosse Pointe Park, MI - Burglary
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Safeway (pharmacy) - Colorado Spring, CO - Robbery
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Tobacco Shop - Sulphur Springs, TX - Burglary
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Tobacco Shop - Mount Vernon, TX - Burglary
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Verizon - Kennewick, WA - Burglary
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Walgreens - Middletown, OH - Robbery
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7-Eleven - Hammond, IN - Robbery/ Assault
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14 robberies
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11 burglaries
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0 killings
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63 robberies
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45 burglaries
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3 shootings
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0 killings
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Christopher Bellamy named District Loss Prevention Manager for
Ollie's Bargain Outlet |
Michaela Irvine named Asset Protection District Manager for Rite Aid |
Michael Herren promoted to
Loss Prevention Systems & Technology Manager for Office Depot
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Edmundo Velazquez, CFI named
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