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 Lee
Bland
was recently promoted to Vice President of Loss Prevention,
Customer Service & Inventory Control for Stage Stores.
Starting with Stage Stores in 1997 Lee has had a great
career there and now leads the efforts. She leads a team of
two Divisional Loss Prevention Managers, 5 Regional LP
Managers and 25 District LPM's covering over 800 stores in
40 states. Reporting to the CFO she also manages the entire
customer service operations for the company which allows her
to manage the returns channel of the business. Four years
ago Stage Stores rolled out their ORC team of 3 executives
that has been extremely successful for them and has exceeded
expectations. Lee is a member of the Board of Directors for
the Loss Prevention Foundation and is LP Certified. She's
also the Chairperson of the Loss Prevention Committee for
the Texas Retailers Association. Congratulations Lee!
Stage Stores, Inc. brings moderately priced, nationally
recognized brand name and private label apparel,
accessories, cosmetics and footwear for the entire family to
small and mid-size towns and communities across 40 states.
With over 800 stores operating under the "Bealls",
"Goody’s", "Palais Royal", "Peebles", and "Stage" trade
names, the Company believes that it has developed a unique
retailing concept and niche in these markets by offering a
broad range of nationally recognized brand name merchandise
with a high level of customer service in convenient
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Update: Tropical Storm Isaac & the
Impact on Retailers
Home Depot plays an important role in both
preparation and recovery with hurricanes
Home Depot learned it needed a robust hurricane plan
after Hurricane Andrew struck Florida 20 years ago,
spokesman Stephen Holmes said. "We realized what an
important role we play in both the preparation and
the recovery," he said. Home Depot expects most of
its 25 stores along the Gulf Coast to open Thursday
morning, stocked with the generators, water, wet
vacs and cleaning supplies that will be in fierce
demand, Holmes said. One store in the hard-hit
Plaquemines Parish may be unable to open. Before
hurricane season, Home Depot's operational team made
arrangements with officials in Mississippi and
Louisiana so their trucks and employees can enter
storm-struck cities even if local governments
institute curfews and close roads, he said. The
chain maintains a distribution center dedicated to
hurricane supplies in Lakeland, Fla., with preloaded
shipping containers that can be dispatched
immediately. "Our goal is to be the last to close
before a storm and the first to open after it, in a
way that is safe for our associates and our
customers," Holmes said. Two years ago at the NRF LP
Show, Marvin Ellison, Home Depot's EVP, mentioned
that Hurricane Katrina was a defining moment for
their Assets Protection department and that they led
the organization in the recovery process and did a
fantastic job. (Source
usatoday.com)
Southern stores cope with Isaac's impact along the
Gulf Coast. While retailers are
declining to estimate sales lost during Isaac,
Wal-Mart closed 62 stores, Macy's closed it's five
stores, Target closed 11 stores, and Sears Holdings
closed 10 Sears and 10 Kmart stores. Instead of
focusing on their lost sales, box retailers and
department stores are highlighting their community
involvement in the aftermath of the storm. (Source
wwd.com)
Louisiana auto shops cash in on Isaac.
With cars and trucks moored on roadsides, buried
under water, many local auto repair shops are seeing
a slight peek in customers as they start receiving
phone calls. Customers have been warned to not try
and start submerged car engines themselves, instead
being told to call and have them towed. (Source
palmbeachpost.com)
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September is the busiest month of
the year for LP events in North America with 8 scheduled to
take place as everyone gears up for the upcoming holiday
shopping season - and then the real work begins.
With 4 ORC events and 4 trade association events. The ORC
events include - Virginia - New England - Chicago - and
CLEAR's conference. The four trade association events with
ASIS's annual conference, RILA's AP Leaders Council emerging
mobile POS research project, the NRF's LP Executive Summit,
and the Retail Council of Canada's annual LP conference.
It's going to be a busy month.
Study questions "Cybercrime" estimates and takes to task the
two leading security vendors providing the numbers - at a
time when legislation is just around the corner which could
affect us all! McAfee has
estimated the annual cost of cybercrime worldwide at $1
trillion; Symantec has estimated the annual cost of
intellectual property theft in the U.S. at $250 billion. The
newly released report by ProPublica says they are
exaggerations -- perhaps vast -- noting that the $1 trillion
figure was not even in the actual McAfee report, but in the
press releases about it. "The Symantec estimate was indeed
mentioned in a Symantec report, but it is not a Symantec
number and its source remains a mystery," the report said.
There is general agreement that the worldwide cost of
cybercrime is in the hundreds of billions. But just how many
hundreds of billions is a matter of debate. But basing
decisions in Congress on exaggerations is never a wise path
and always leads to over regulation. (Source
csoonline.com)
GMTA and CargoNet Form Alliance to Combat Rising Cargo Theft
Problem CargoNetR , a leading
source of information about supply chain risk, announced
today a strategic alliance with the Georgia Motor Trucking
Association (GMTA) to assist GMTA members in mitigating
cargo theft risk in Georgia. CargoNet is a division of the
Verisk Crime Analytics unit at Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK).
(Source
reuters.com)
New Wawa c-stores in Florida get hit with "cloned" credit
card thieves. Although they
have just opened, thieves have already targeted Wawa Inc.
locations in the Orlando, Fla., that were not requiring
customers to enter zip codes after swiping. No customer data
was obtained. A Wawa corporate representative said the
c-store chain now requires ZIP codes to be entered at all of
its new Florida stores following the fraud. (Source
csnews.com)
Second hacker of the LulzSec hacktivist group arrested in
connection with last year's Sony Pictures Entertainment
breach Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of
Tempe, Ariz., surrendered to the FBI on Aug. 28th after
causing $600,000 in damages in last year's hack of Sony. He
faces 15 years in prison. (Source
govinfosecurity.com)
Gas Prices Spike as Hurricane Isaac Hits Land
Storm-related issues are not restricted to the Gulf region.
Gas prices rose by nearly 5 cents a gallon nationwide
Wednesday -- with one-day hikes of as much as 14 cents in
some states -- after Isaac cut output from refineries along
the Gulf Coast. (Source
csnews.com)
Shoplifting crackdown sees 70 people arrested in South
Yorkshire, UK, after seeing a 17% spike in shoplifting in 4
months Officers took to the
streets during a day of action targeting retail crime,
patrolling shopping centers, searching homes and detaining
suspected shoplifters. Police teams were also out on the
roads, focusing on vehicles known to be linked to retail
crime, while sessions were held for shopkeepers to help them
ward off thieves. Chief Inspector Thomas said 29 people
recognized suspects from a 'rogues gallery' of 40 CCTV
pictures released by police last week and printed on the
front page of The Star. (Source
thestar.co.uk)
Five more arrested for shoot out in Wal-Mart parking lot
The dispute happened after a man choked a woman at a party
and a group of people agreed to fight at the parking lot at
the Cedar Park, Wal-Mart in Austin, Texas on the early
morning of August 19th. (Source
statesman.com)
Apple, Express, and Bloomingdales stores in Willowbrook Mall
in New Jersey get hit with fake $100's and two brothers are
busted Two brothers were have
been arrested for allegedly trying to buy hundreds of
dollars in goods at stores in the Willowbrook Mall with
counterfeit $100 bills, authorities said. An Apple Store
employee noticed that the $700 in $100 bills that Patrick
Nicolas allegedly used appeared to be counterfeit, police
said. Patrick Nicholas bolted when he was confronted, and
the store employee notified officers at the mall’s police
substation. (Source
northjersey.com)
Harris Teeter customer dies in nasty spill down escalator
An elderly woman was killed after she took a nasty spill
down an escalator at a local grocery store in Nashville,
Tenn. (Source
newschannel5.com)
Chipotle in New York and New Jersey does away with the
pennies. In an effort to
streamline delays at the register, Chipotle has simply
rounded off the customers total to the nearest nickel. Some
believe it was a move to make more money, but Chipotle says
it has not increased company profits. (Source
examiner.com)
Kmart jewelry thief gets 8 years for stealing $25,000 in
gold and hitting a police cruiser.
A Lancaster, Ohio man was sentenced to eight years for the
theft of $25,000 in gold from a Kmart store. Employees at
the store reported that a man cut a wire holding a display
case full of jewelry ran from the store and jumped into a
waiting vehicle. Leaving a farm the suspects ran into a
police cruiser, running both vehicles off the road, the
suspects were then apprehended. (Source
lancastereaglegazette.com)
 Three
men rob Birmingham, MI jewelry store, focused on Rolex
watches. Birmingham, Michigan
police are seeking three young men who used a metal mallet
and pepper spray to rob Greenstone’s Jewelry, around 12:40
p.m. yesterday. The men entered the business and immediately
used the mallet to break a glass display case. One suspect
used pepper spray to distract two employees. It appears as
though the suspects were only able to take two Rolex watches
before running from the store as security personnel
attempted to stop them. (Source
clickondetroit.com)
Violent robbery of a Columbia, SC clothing store - manager
is pistol whipped. The
Richland County Sheriff’s Department is requesting the
community’s assistance in locating a suspect wanted for two
counts of kidnapping, three counts of armed robbery and one
count of assault & battery 1st degree. Police are looking
for 28-year-old Willie Harden Gray Jr. Gray and the other
suspect stole money from the register and clothes from the
store. They also took the owner and clerks’ wallets, cell
phones, and cash then fled the business. Sheriff Lott says
Gray and the three unknown suspects stole a white gold chain
with "In the Hood Fashions" emblem on it valued at $12,000;
Nike Diamond Turf shoes $100, white, green and orange in
color, and a Samsung Galaxy S2 cell phone, $250 white in
color. (Source
thestate.com)
Cincinnati, OH man charged with robbing same store twice.
A man is accused of holding up the same convenience store
and gas station twice over the past week. Devin E. Shannon,
42, is held without bond at the Hamilton County jail on two
counts of aggravated robbery. He allegedly held up Peach
Grove Market Place, at gunpoint on Saturday and again
Wednesday morning. No one was hurt in either offense. (Source
local12.com)
Police nab three following mall jewelry heist in Iowa.
Three people are in custody
following two jewelry store burglaries early Tuesday in
Westland Mall, two men and a woman are being held at the Des
Moines County jail awaiting the filing of felony charges.
Police said the trio is suspected of breaking into Riddles
Jewelry and Kay Jewelry stores at about 3:50 am.
Investigators from several jurisdictions also are trying to
determine if the break-in is tied to other recent jewelry
store break-ins in several adjacent states, including one at
a Riddles store in Jamestown, N.D., and another at a Grand
Island, Neb., jewelry store. Police say the same method was
used in the other burglaries, mall windows were smashed to
gain access, and then broke out the glass to enter the
jewelry store inside the mall. (Source
wqad.com)
12 senior Loss Prevention roles open in the
U.S. market - one of which had just been filled this past
March
Quarterly Same Store Sales Results
Pier 1 Imports Q2 up 6.7% with total sales up
8.3% - of special note is that the three year cumulative
comp. store sales increase is 28.7%
Reitman's Q2 down 1.7% with sales down 2.3%
Monthly Same Store Sales Results
TJX up 8%
Ross Stores up 8%
Target up 4.2%
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