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Raley's Asset Protection Team Updates
 Matt
Hilbrink named Sr. Director of Enterprise Risk Management & Asset Protection for
Raley's Family of Fine Stores
In this role, Matt will
oversee Employee Health and Safety, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
(Retail/Manufacturing), Risk Management, Business Continuity, as well as
continue to lead the Asset Protection functions at Raley's. Matt joined Raley's
in 2016 with a previous career background spanning Retail Pharmacy Operations,
Asset Protection, and Financial Services. Prior to Raley's, Matt held positions
within CVS Health, Longs Drug Stores, and E*TRADE Financial. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis and Master of
Science from Sacramento State University.
 Ajla
Gabela promoted to Manager of Asset Protection for Raley's Family of Fine Stores
In her new role, Ajla will lead the District Asset Protection Field Teams in
addition to the POS Fraud Investigation and Pharmacy Diversion Analytics group.
Ajla immigrated to the United States with her family from Croatia in the 1990's
and began working for Raley's in 2009. She quickly progressed through various
operations management positions within Stores. In addition to working full time,
she completed her Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from California State
University Sacramento, and joined the Asset Protection Department in 2018.
Congratulations, Ajla!
3xLOGIC Announces Multiple Key Senior Appointments to Support
Continued
Strong Growth and Market Expansion
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Inc., a leading provider of integrated, intelligent security solutions,
today announced new staff appointments as the company continues to expand
despite a year filled with many challenges. These staff appointments are in
North America, but growth continues apace in all markets with the company
recently announcing the launch of the VIGIL video line of solutions throughout
EMEA.
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Target AP Practices Go Viral in TikTok Video about Felony
Thresholds
Target employees claim the chain will wait to arrest shoplifters
until thieves steal enough to get felony charges.
Experts say it's part of a larger trend to mitigate theft across retail.
 A
Las Vegas Target's approach to shoplifting has caused one former employee to
speak out. Isaiah Arellano, a former Target employee who worked at a
North Dakota store in 2016 and transferred to a Las Vegas location in 2018,
recently received attention on TikTok for his widely shared
video on how he says Target addresses its shoplifters.
"They will continue letting you steal; all the while they're documenting the
value amount of every single item that you are stealing," Arellano says in the
video. "They will wait until it reaches or exceeds the amount that makes it
grand theft larceny, which is an actual felony."
The parameters that classify the degree of a theft charge vary across
states. For example, in Nevada the stolen property must
exceed $1,200 in value for the charge to go from a misdemeanor to a felony.
In general, to be charged with grand theft or larceny, a person must be
suspected of stealing more than what would constitute a charge of petty theft, a
more minor theft charge with less-serious repercussions.
 Arellano's
video was a response to another TikTok video from the influencer Dessy Joseph.
In her video, Joseph said Target had a policy of monitoring repeat
shoplifters and waiting for them to accumulate a higher value of stolen
merchandise before taking action against them. In Arellano's video, he said,
"She is 100% telling the truth." His TikTok video has racked up more than 8
million views since it was posted on November 27. Arellano has over 28,000
followers.
In a statement to Business Insider, a Target spokesperson said the company did
not "bundle" charges until they reached a felony-level and would not provide
details about the company's procedures for handling theft.
But six other former and current Target employees Business Insider spoke with
from across Minnesota, Michigan, Virginia, New York, and California, said the
claims in the video were based on store policies.
Target headquarters monitors
crime | Maintaining a relationship with police | Tracking employees | 'Let them
build their own case up' |
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Shoplifting Spikes In U.S. Amid Increasing Desperation As Pandemic Drags On
With sustained unemployment and food scarcity reaching historically high
levels in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the
country, a growing number of increasingly desperate Americans have resorted to
shoplifting to make ends meet.
Key Facts:
● Roughly
1 in 8 American adults (more than 25 million) reported they sometimes or
often didn't have enough food to eat in the past week, according to a U.S.
Census Bureau survey in late October and early November.
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The Washington Post
reports that shoplifting is significantly elevated in areas with high
joblessness.
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"There is a well-known historical correlation between unemployment and theft,"
said Fabien Tiburce, chief executive of Compliant IA, which provides loss
prevention software to retailers.
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In Philadelphia, retail theft reports increased by approximately 60% in
March and remained at inflated levels through at least July, according to
police data.
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A new
study by Business.org shows that 40% of small-business owners say
shoplifting has increased since the beginning of the pandemic.
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During the first eight months of the pandemic, there was a 222% spike in
burglaries and a 10% rise in robberies inside New York City's bodegas and
corner stores, according to police department data obtained by the
New York Times.
Tangent: Last week, Officer Nicholas King of
the Auburn Police Department in Washington State was dispatched to a local
Walmart for a shoplifting call. Upon arrival, he was informed that a mother was
being held in the store's security office for stealing
warm clothes and food for her five children. King, a military veteran,
decided to pay for the items instead of writing the mom a ticket, saying he
believed the situation required "compassion, not enforcement."
forbes.com
Washington Post's Big Idea PODCAST:
Two women explain why they turned to shoplifting amid the pandemic
Detex Corporation Helps Provide Food Security During The Pandemic
 New
Braunfels, Texas - Many families across America are struggling to cope with
the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this critical time,
Detex Corporation has been
supported by distributors across the U.S. and Canada who continue to stock and
supply products for our customers. To show our appreciation, Detex Corporation
has decided to make donations to support food banks located in the communities
where the distributors are located.
As businesses have closed and jobs have been lost during the pandemic, a
critical need for food and services has arisen across the country. These
donations are intended to help community food banks remain open and able to feed
seniors, children, families and the homeless population.
For more than a century, Detex has earned the trust of architects and owners who
rely on Detex products for the safety and security of people and property. A USA
company, Detex designs, manufactures, markets and ships products around the
world from New Braunfels, Texas. Detex is known internationally for life safety
and security door hardware, loss prevention and architectural hardware,
integrated door security systems and guard tour verification.
detex.com
COVID Update
US: Over 16M Cases - 300K Dead - 9.3M Recovered
Worldwide:
Over 71M Cases - 1.5M Dead - 49.3M Recovered
Private Industry Security Guard Deaths:
225
Law Enforcement Officer Deaths:
163
*Red indicates change in total
deaths
CDC director: US daily COVID-19 deaths likely to exceed 9/11 toll for 60 days
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield issued
a stark warning about the worsening death toll from the coronavirus on Thursday,
saying that in a coming brutal stretch of time the country is likely to see more
deaths from the virus each day than from the Sept. 11 attacks or Pearl Harbor.
"We are in the timeframe now that probably for the next 60 to 90 days we're
going to have more deaths per day than we had at 9/11 or we had at Pearl
Harbor," Redfield said during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign
Relations.
While there is hope down the line from a coming vaccine, the first of which,
from Pfizer, is likely to be authorized within days, vaccines will not be
widely available for months, likely sometime in the spring. That means there
is still a brutal stretch ahead.
thehill.com
First U.S. Vaccinations Could Begin Next Week
F.D.A. Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine
Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone on Thursday when a panel
of experts formally recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authorize
the vaccine. The agency is likely to do so within days, giving health care
workers and nursing home residents first priority to begin receiving the
first shots early next week.
The initial shipment of 6.4 million doses will
leave warehouses within 24 hours of being cleared by the F.D.A., according to
federal officials. About half of those doses will be sent across the country,
and the other half will be reserved for the initial recipients to receive their
second dose about three weeks later.
The arrival of the first vaccines is the beginning of a complex, monthslong
distribution plan coordinated by federal and local health authorities, as well
as large hospitals and pharmacy chains, that if successful, will help return a
grieving and economically depressed country back to some semblance of normal,
maybe by summer.
nytimes.com
How far are you from where a Covid vaccine is expected to be administered?
As many as 4 out of 5 Americans live within
5 miles of a pharmacy that the federal government has named part of the federal
vaccine allocation.
As plans are made for inoculating the country against Covid-19, a central
question to the endeavor is where will a person go to get vaccinated? The
Department of Health and Human Services gave a preliminary answer to that
question, publishing a
list of pharmacies and pharmacy chains that are expected to administer the
vaccine. While local jurisdictions may make their own plans, this list
represents 40,000 pharmacy locations, more than half the number of pharmacies in
the country, according to an NBC News analysis of pharmacy data..
This analysis compared pharmacy locations for the places on the federal list to
the population of the country. From that, the analysis provided an estimate of
how close Americans live to the nearest pharmacy. According to the analysis, 99
percent live within 50 miles, 98 percent within 25 miles, 80 percent within 5
miles and 34 percent live within a mile of the nearest pharmacy.
See a map of how many people live within 5 miles of the nearest pharmacy
below.
nbcnews.com
Retail Will Play Major Role in Vaccine
Distribution
Pharmacies Add Freezers, Train Staff to Handle Covid-19 Vaccination Drive
Neighborhood grocery stores are aiming to become major providers of Covid-19
vaccinations. Supermarkets are rushing to secure freezers, thermometers and
other medical gear for administering shots. They are also training staff and
establishing online services for scheduling appointments. With a vaccine
approval nearing, it isn't yet known how federal and state authorities will
distribute shots to the public, and grocers say they are unsure how many
customers will seek immunization when it becomes available.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed on dozens of
grocery and pharmacy chains to provide Covid-19 vaccines once the
inoculations are approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Among the
retailers are Kroger Co. , Albertsons Cos. and CVS Health Corp. These businesses
are part of "Operation Warp Speed," which also includes drugmakers, medical
distributors and federal agencies.
Grocers have emerged as providers of Covid-19 testing for employees and
consumers during the pandemic. Many supermarkets have offered customers flu
shots for years, but vaccine distribution will require more coordination with
state and federal agencies.
wsj.com
Walmart looks to play role in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Walmart is prepping its 5,000-plus pharmacies to receive doses of the COVID-19
vaccine once it is released in the U.S, according to a company post from the
retailer's chief medical officer, Tom Van Gilder. The company is currently
making agreements with states to "be able to support vaccinations where needed,"
Gilder said. Walmart is working to make sure its pharmacies are fully stocked
with freezers and dry ice, which are needed to store the vaccine. The retailer
is also implementing processes to inform customers when to come in for their
first and second doses.
retaildive.com
Vaccine Will Get Shipping Priority Over E-Commerce
Santa takes a back seat to COVID vaccine, UPS, FedEx officials say
United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp plan to deliver millions of doses of
COVID-19 vaccines before holiday gifts - giving them VIP handling that includes
GPS tracking, special labels and first-loaded status on planes and trucks.
Vaccine distribution could start just as the U.S. holiday shipping peak hits
record-pandemic fueled e-commerce volumes. Some experts are already warning that
the number of packages tendered for delivery could be 5% greater than the
capacity carriers have to handle them - resulting is as
many as 700 million gifts not arriving on time. UPS and FedEx
executives said they are giving vaccines top priority and have reserved capacity
for them.
reuters.com
Yes, your boss can fire you if you refuse to get a Covid vaccine
 As difficult as the research, development and distribution stages have been,
some experts argue the hardest part of fighting the virus is actually what comes
next: convincing the U.S. population to take the vaccine.
Roughly four in ten Americans say they would "definitely" or "probably" not get
a vaccine, according to a recent survey by the
Pew Research Center. While this is higher than it was two months ago, to
achieve herd immunity, experts say that about 70% of the population needs to be
vaccinated or have natural antibodies. Employers, however, may not be taking
"no" for an answer.
"A couple of my corporate clients are leaning toward making the Covid vaccine
mandatory," said Rogge Dunn, a Dallas labor and employment attorney.
Mandating the vaccine in the workplace
One of Dunn's clients in the restaurant sector thinks a compulsory inoculation
requirement could be a game changer for business. "They think it gives them a
competitive advantage," explained Dunn. "They could say to their
customers, 'Hey, our restaurant is safe. All of our employees have been
vaccinated.'"
It may be, in part, a PR tactic, but Dunn said it is totally within an
employer's rights to implement this kind of requirement. "Under the law, an
employer can force an employee to get vaccinated, and if they don't take it,
fire them," said Dunn.
Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of
Law, said that private businesses have pretty extensive rights. "Requiring a
vaccine is a health and safety work rule, and employers can do that," said
Reiss.
There are, however, a few notable exceptions to this kind of blanket
requirement - including if a work force is unionized and requires collective
bargaining, or if workers don't want to be vaccinated for eligible medical
reasons or "sincerely held" religious beliefs.
cnbc.com
Vaccine Carrots or Sticks?
U.S. businesses grapple with getting employees inoculated
U.S. workers could soon face choices such as free COVID-19 shots and a cash
bonus if all get immunized, or those unwilling to be vaccinated get reassigned
or even lose their jobs.
Those options are being studied by businesses hoping to bring at-home employees
back without triggering a backlash or violating federal and state employment
law. Companies are consulting with lawyers, health care experts and polling
their workers to gauge when to offer carrots and when to use a stick.
reuters.com
Supermarket pharmacists among priority COVID-19 vaccine recipients
Industries vie to get put on COVID-19 vaccine priority list
Global supply chain tested as COVID-19 vaccines roll out
Cyber Attackers Threaten COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Chain
Allergy warning for Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine after UK health workers with allergy
history suffer reaction
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States Announce New COVID-19 Restrictions:
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Pennsylvania halts indoor dining, closes gyms and restricts retail to 50%
capacity
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Virginia to institute nightly curfew, new gathering limits, mask rules
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Massachusetts Issues New Business and Gathering Restrictions Effective December
13; Capacity limited to 40%
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Delaware: Bar curfew, retail restrictions in latest emergency order; Most retail
stores and restaurants limited to 30% capacity
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North Dakota extends mask mandate, business restrictions
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Oklahoma Gov. announces new limit on public gatherings
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Washington state's COVID-19 restrictions on indoor dining & gyms extended to
Jan. 4
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Announces October & November LPC and LPQ Professionals
The Loss Prevention Foundation would like to recognize and congratulate the
following individuals who successfully completed all of the requirements set
forth by the board of directors to be LPQualified (LPQ) and/or LPCertified (LPC).
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317 Unlicensed Security Guards Arrested So Far This Year
Businesses using persons as unlicensed and untrained security guards has always
been a problem nationwide but in recent years, that trend has continued to rise
with no end in sight.
On Sunday night, the sheriff's department in New York City arrested three more
persons employed as security guards and charged them for not complying with
state requirements for licensure. This brings the total number of people
arrested for working in the security field without a license to 317 this year.
Private Officer spoke with regulatory agencies in California, New York,
and Virginia and all agree that more needs to be done. Some say a lack of
personnel to conduct frequent inspections, budget cuts and a misunderstanding of
who needs to be licensed are part of the continued increase in violations.
Nightclubs, illegal gaming rooms, strip clubs and retail establishments are
often found to have unlicensed security personnel on duty.
privateofficer.com
Winning the Fight Against Counterfeiters in the COVID-19 Era
With stay-at-home restrictions easing across the country, what does the future
landscape of retail look like? What do consumers face when ordering products
online? We do know with the global pandemic that e-commerce has skyrocketed.
Unfortunately, with the shift to e-commerce, we've also seen massive amounts of
counterfeit products as well as products that were diverted being sold. This
activity not only diminishes profits in an already difficult retail environment,
but makes reinvesting in companies nearly impossible.
A study commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) Business
Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) and the International
Trademark Association estimates that the total global economic value of
counterfeiting and piracy could reach $2.3 trillion by 2022. More than 25
percent of consumers have unwillingly purchased counterfeit goods online.
Re-Establishing Trust With
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Record Closures & Bankruptcies
11,000 closed stores and 40 retailer bankruptcies in 2020
CoStar Group, one of the top collectors of retail real estate data, says that
the 40 major retailers that filed for Chapter 11 protection and the 11,157
stores that closed this year both set new annual records.
The 149 million sq. ft. of GLA represented by the closures falls just short of
the 155 million sq. ft. mark set in 2018 when scores of department stores
shuttered, but the year isn't over yet.
"E-commerce was already growing, but it grew so much faster during the pandemic
that stores were not so quick to adapt to the times. Retailers that hadn't
created omnichannel strategies are enduring significant pain," said CoStar
consultant Robin Trantham.
chainstoreage.com
Midtown NYC Is Reeling. Should Its Offices Become Apartments?
The pandemic is pummeling New York City's commercial real estate industry, one
of its main economic engines, threatening the future of the nation's largest
business districts as well as the city's finances. The damage caused by the
emptying of office towers and the permanent closure of many stores is far more
significant than many experts had predicted early in the crisis.
The powerful real estate industry is so concerned that the shifts in workplace
culture caused by the outbreak will become long-lasting that it is promoting a
striking proposal: to turn more than one million square feet of Manhattan office
space into housing.
nytimes.com
Nearly 40% of Americans plan to spend less this holiday season
Almost 40% of Americans plan to spend less on gifts this holiday season than
they did last year, the largest such percentage since 2013, according to
the CNBC All-America Economic Survey. Just 11% plan to spend more, as Americans
continue to cope with surging Covid-19 cases and widespread unemployment. Of the
800 Americans surveyed, 29% said they plan to spend less due to lost wages or
income, 19% cited the coronavirus and 17% cited the poor economy.
cnbc.com
Christmas Decorations Are in Short Supply
Retailers underestimated demand for lights,
ornaments, trees; Begging Target to sell the gnome on display
Airbnb holiday promotion allows New Yorkers to stay overnight at FAO Schwarz
Coalition of 37 CEOs says it will hire 1 million Black Americans over 10 years
Atlanta Police down 220 officers since start of year, 400 short of 'authorized
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National Secures JD Group (JD Sports)
NuTech
NaTional Met the SUPERSIZED Security Standards of Retail Giant JD Sports
 Maitland, FL - Publicly traded U.K.-based retailer JD Group
(JD Sports) acquired Finish Line in June 2018 for $558 million and is now
acquiring the Times Square location for its JD Flagship Store. This
purchase
will significantly enhance its presence and standing with brand partners and US
Consumers. JD reportedly secured the lease
on the 36,396-sq. ft. space for $7 million in 2019. The location opened on
October 9, 2020. The company's Global fleet includes 2,420 stores.
JD Sports required a higher level of security standards than most retailers and
met with NuTech National Security several times on site to go over security
schedules, device placement, and customer partitions to ensure the store was
overly secured. NuTech is currently monitoring all of their locations in
North America and is pleased to have met the supersized requirements of the
Retail Giant.
JD Sports
JD Sports is a British sports-fashion retail company based in Bury, Greater
Manchester, England with shops throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, US, Asia
and Australia. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of
the FTSE 100 Index. It is a subsidiary of the Pentland Group.
Supplying the latest branded street-style and sports fashion goods for over 30
years, with 1000s of exclusive products. The largest sportswear market
increasing JD Sports' importance to international brands, particularly Nike and
Adidas.
NASDAQ-listed Finish Line is one of the largest retailers of premium
multi-branded athletic footwear, apparel and accessories, trading 556 branded
retail stores across 44 states, Puerto Rico and online.
NuTech National
NuTech National is the most established and largest force dedicated to retail
loss prevention, working with the top Fortune 500 retail companies. NuTech
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many agencies and defense-related operations, including the largest defense
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NuTech National is constantly resetting the standard for retail by increasing
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Top Brands' Cyber Assets At Risk
83% of top 30 US retailers have online vulnerabilities, posing security
threats
Cyberpion released research today showing that most (83%) of the top U.S.
retailers have connections to a vulnerable third-party asset, and nearly half of
them (43%) have vulnerabilities that pose an immediate cybersecurity risk. In
addition, the company found that nearly one-third (30%) of these retailers have
an asset that either was, or is currently being abused, in an active hacking
campaign, and nearly a quarter (23%) have a compromised asset that is under the
control of hackers.
The findings were generated with Cyberpion, who performed a single-pass,
external scan of the online ecosystems of the
top 30 U.S. retailers based on 2020 sales according to the National Retail
Federation, including Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, and Costco. The scan exposed
thousands of total online connections (29,998), domains and sub-domains (2,054),
cloud instances - virtual server instances from cloud networks - (1,203), and
connected third party resources (1,131) within these retailers' online
ecosystems.
"This holiday season is a perfect storm for the retail industry given increased
e-commerce activity due to Covid-19, and the heavy reliance of retailers on
third party providers of tracking, behavior, analytics and advertising
services," said Cyberpion CRO Ran Nahmias. "These services often represent
thousands of points of vulnerability, greatly enlarging retailers' attack
surfaces for hackers to capitalize on. The problem is that retailers aren't
aware that some of the biggest threats to their customers and businesses exist
outside the traditional perimeter. Solutions like firewalls and antivirus
software don't detect these types of vulnerabilities."
securitymagazine.com
Researchers found 37,000 fake brand websites aiming to fool holiday shoppers
According to the
RiskIQ 2020 Black Friday E-commerce Blacklist Threat Report, cyber criminals
set up these
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poor security habits to fool shoppers looking for holiday shopping deals.
Registering domains that infringe on well-known brands is a common tactic in
phishing campaigns and has grown in popularity in recent years due to the
opening of thousands of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), the growth of
free and cheap domain registration services, and attack techniques, like domain
shadowing, according to the report.
In a query of 20 Fortune 100 companies' branded terms, RiskIQ's domain
infringement detection revealed 37,000 probable domain infringement instances
over two weeks. That's 1,850 incidents per brand.
itpro.co.uk
Mitigating fraud in the age of BOPIS: Where retailers can make a change
The world of retail has changed drastically over the past few months, and with
that how retailers worked to ensure their customers were protected when making
purchases online became an even higher priority.
Before the pandemic, buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS) became hugely popular
to consumers who didn't want to have to wait for items to be delivered, pay for
shipping or for those that wanted to avoid shopping in store altogether. And, as COVID took over the world, retailers shifted their focus to ensure BOPIS was
something they could capitalize on. In fact, data from Rakuten Intelligence
found that for grocery orders,
BOPIS saw an 82.8% growth surge.
However, as retailers adopted BOPIS, its rise flipped a switch and increased
opportunities for fraudsters, enabling them to use stolen credit card
information to make purchases online and then simply arrive at the store to pick
up the item.
So what can retailers do to ensure their customers are staying safe? Here are a
few things to consider:
● Retailers need to anticipate fraud schemes &
put in extra measures for proof of identification in-store
● Utilize
tokenization for online purchases so that fraudsters can't get ahold of credit
card numbers
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Ensure
that online payment solutions meet the highest security standards while
balancing customer experience
securitymagazine.com
Phishers bypass Microsoft 365 security controls by spoofing Microsoft.com
A domain spoofing email phishing campaign that very convincingly impersonates
Microsoft and successfully tricks legacy secure email gateways has recently been
spotted by Ironscales. It also led them to discover that Microsoft servers are
not currently enforcing the DMARC protocol. "This is especially perplexing when
considering Microsoft frequently ranks as a top 5 most spoofed brand year after
year," said Lomy Ovadia, the company's VP of research and development.
helpnetsecurity.com
With the spike in online shopping comes a spike in consumer data.
What are retailers doing with it?
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'Shipageddon':
Our Delivery System Is Breaking
Surge in Shopping During Holidays & Pandemic is Causing Chaos
Sapna spoke with me about this "shipageddon,"
and how the power of UPS and FedEx and our demand for free shipping are
contributing to the strain.
What did
you learn from speaking with stores and shipping companies about holiday online
orders?
 I
was struck by
retailers' panic and
frustration. One
clothing and apparel retailer said it felt squeezed on two sides. UPS is
charging an extra fee on its holiday deliveries - several dollars per package,
which is often significant on clothes or shoes. The retailer is even removing
some heavily discounted items from its website because with the shipping
surcharge it figured it would lose money if someone bought only that item.
And
UPS imposed a daily
limit on the number of holiday season orders
it will pick up. The
retailer is worried it won't be able to sell as much merchandise as people want
to buy.
Are higher delivery costs a burden only for retailers, or do they filter down
to higher prices for us?
Possibly both. This is happening because no matter what shipping costs, shoppers
don't expect to pay for it. That's the influence of Amazon. But those expenses
show up somewhere. It could mean
higher product prices
for you and me. It could mean
lower profits for stores.
Every
holiday season you see delivery trucks stuffed with packages. Is it really worse
this year?
Definitely. A holiday season shipping surge always taxes shipping companies, but
this year the surge started when the pandemic struck in March and hasn't
stopped, as one of our readers also pointed out. We as shoppers have seen the
stresses in the delivery chain more than before. That's a good thing.
Where are
the choke points in the system?
One of my takeaways from this reporting is how powerful
UPS and FedEx are, and
growing more so. Those companies - more than the Postal Service - are the
dominant delivery
partners for most chain retailers.
That makes it important to understand how they handle order demand, capacity,
their work forces and their relationships with customers.
nytimes.com
Package delay rate could be up to 2 times worse this holiday season: report
 According
to a new report
from LateShipment.com, average package delay rates during this year's
holiday season could range from 14% to 18%. That makes the package
delay rate between 1.5
to 2 times worse than any past holiday season.
Highly populated areas like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago could face delays
between 25% and 30%, the report estimates.
During the COVID-19 pandemic period between April 1 and Oct. 31, UPS experienced
the
most significant
package delays in New York (14.9%), Los Angeles (11.6%) and Chicago (7%).
In the same timeframe, FedEx experienced the most package delays in Chicago
(11.6%), New York (9.4%) and Houston (8.8%), according to the report.
Between April 1 and Oct. 31, UPS packages across the sports (12.3%), food
(11.9%) and electronics (11%) retail categories faced the greatest delays.
During the same period for FedEx, packages within the jewelry (14.4%), sports
(13%) and apparel (11.3%) retail categories faced the highest rates of delays,
the report said.
retaildive.com
JP Morgan targets digital currency, payments for e-commerce platforms
This Sleeping Giant of e-Commerce is the Next Amazon
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Mercer Island, WA: Armed Robber with a knife steal $23,500 of phone from Verizon
A suspect armed with a knife threatened an employee and robbed the Verizon
Wireless store on Mercer Island of approximately $23,500 worth of new cellular
devices on Dec. 9. The employee was not injured and called 911 after the suspect
fled. Mercer Island police officers were dispatched to the armed robbery at
approximately 7:30 p.m. . The suspect contacted the employee as he was exiting
the store after closing and made him go back inside and open the safe. After
grabbing the cellular devices, the suspect bolted from the scene.
mi-reporter.com
Pittsburgh, PA: Man accused of bilking Lowe's in $3,200 paint return scam
A 58-year-old Irwin man was arrested by State Police Thursday in connection with
a month-long paint return scheme that bilked an area hardware store out of more
than $3,200. Terry S. Good was charged by troopers with seven counts of
receiving stolen property and one count of theft by deception in connection with
the scam from October through November at the Lowe's Home Improvement store in
Hempfield Square Plaza.
Trooper Ryan Ilich alleges in court documents that Good would go to the store,
load numerous gallons of paint on a cart and wheel it to the customer service
desk. "Good would deceive the attendant by creating the impression that he had
already purchased the paint. He would then exchange the paint for Lowe's gift
cards that were loaded with funds from the returns," Ilich said in court
documents.
triblive.com
Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Police: 3 Arrested, Linked To 'Large Crime Operation'
 Three
people from Kent were arrested by Bellevue police this week, suspected in a
"large crime operation" that included identity theft, printing counterfeit cash,
car theft, burglary and stealing guns, officials said Thursday. In a news
release, the police department said a car prowl report filed online sparked the
investigation, eventually leading them to a Kent home full of stolen vehicles,
guns, cash and other merchandise. A search warrant at their home netted four
stolen vehicles, dozens of key fobs, printers used to make counterfeit money and
IDs and two stolen guns, along with personal information from 50 victims,
investigators said. The police department estimated detectives seized more than
60 bags of evidence from the Kent home.
patch.com
Update: Jacksonville, FL: 2 charged in Pawn Shop robbery took 40 guns, $100K in
cash and jewelry
Two men accused of holding up a Lakeshore pawn shop in November and stealing 40
guns and more than $100,000 in cash and jewelry are behind bars thanks to
CrimeStoppers tips, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams announced at a news
conference Thursday.
news4jax.com
Norwood, MA: Two men wanted for $1,300 Power Tool theft from The Home Depot |
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Shootings & Deaths
Maplewood, MO: Robber shot by Boost Mobile employee was wearing ankle bracelet
from previous holdup
 A
gunman who was shot by a clerk at a Maplewood cellphone store was wearing an
ankle bracelet when police found him bleeding on the floor of the store's break
room, officials said Thursday. Malik Dorsey survived the shooting and was in
surgery after being shot three times, Maplewood police Chief Steve Kruse said.
The robbery happened about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday at Boost Mobile, 7222 Manchester
Road. St. Louis County prosecutors charged Dorsey, 21, with robbery and armed
criminal action.
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York County, VA: 7-Eleven clerk shot, seriously injured in Armed Robbery
The 40-year-old victim, who lives in York County, was working at the
store on George Washington Memorial Highway when two suspects walked in.
One of the suspects was in possession of a handgun and demanded money
from a clerk, the release stated. The victim was taken to a hospital and
immediately taken into surgery. His condition remains unknown.
wavy.com |
New York Bodegas are hit by 60% rise in shootings and double the number of
burglaries during the first 8 months of the pandemic
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Williamston, NY: Family Dollar Manager made up Knifepoint Robbery to steal
$3,000
The manager of central New York Family Dollar store is in hot water after police
say she made up a strong-arm robbery story, claiming she was held-up at knife
point and robbed of $3,000 in the parking lot. However, police say when they
responded to the scene and did a subsequent check of the woman's vehicle, they
located the purportedly stolen money.. The store manager told police that while
she was getting into her vehicle, an unknown man appeared with a knife and
demanded cash. She said the man took the $3,000 in cash and ran off. But,
Troopers say they located the three-grand inside her vehicle.
wibx950.com
Bibb County, GA: Deputies investigate armed robbery of Dollar General, 3rd time
in 3 weeks
CVS Health Completes Rollout of Time Delay Safes in All of Its Oklahoma
Pharmacies
Counterfeit
$600K in Counterfeit Masks
El Paso, TX: ICE, CBP seize more than 100,000 counterfeit surgical masks
intended for hospital workers
 More
than 100,000
counterfeit
3M N95 surgical masks
destined to be used by hospital workers were seized Dec. 7 by U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
On Dec. 3, CBP officers at the Ysleta Cargo Facility initially intercepted the
shipment of
100,080 3M N95 surgical
masks with an MSRP of $600,480.
The masks were in-transit at an El Paso bonded warehouse destined to a hospital
on the East Coast. ICE HSI special agents determined the masks were counterfeit
after working with the
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
and 3M Company.
ice.gov
Arson/Fire
Minneapolis, MN: Three indicted on arson charges in fires at Target HQ during
riot over false rumor
 Three
people were indicted Thursday in connection with fires set inside Target's world
headquarters in downtown Minneapolis amid rioting over a false rumor that a
Black man had been killed by police. Indicted on Thursday in U.S. District Court
with conspiracy to commit arson are Shador T.C. Jackson, 24; Victor D. Edwards,
31, and Leroy L.P. Williams, 34.. According to the federal indictments and other
court documents: Arson and looting erupted on the evening of Aug. 26, when Eddie
Frank Sole Jr., 38, fatally shot himself on Nicollet Mall shortly after he was
suspected of shooting and killing another man. Sole's suicide sparked a false
rumor that police had killed him. Edwards, Jackson and Williams went to the
Target headquarters on Nicollet, where dozens of others had gathered and started
rioting. Jackson is accused of using a construction sign to break through a
glass door on the building. The three then joined others and went inside, where
Jackson intentionally set a fire on a counter in the mail-room and Edwards added
a liquid accelerant.
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Beauty - Mobile, AL -
Burglary (2nd time)
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Boost Mobile -
Maplewood, MO - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - San Antonio,
TX - Robbery
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C-Store - Wilmington,
NC - Armed Robbery
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Cash/Title - Macon, GA
- Armed Robbery
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Cellphone - Oklahoma
City, OK - Armed Robbery
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Dollar General -
Macon, GA - Armed Robbery
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Family Dollar -
Eastpointe, MI - Burglary
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Gaming - Charlotte, NC
- Armed Robbery
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Gas Station -
Linthicum Heights, MD - Armed Robbery
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Home Depot - Visalia,
CA - Robbery
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Jewelry - Boise, ID -
Burglary
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Jewelry - Portland, OR
- Robbery
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Jewelry - Lexington, KY
- Robbery
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Liquor - Chardon, NE -
Armed Robbery
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Pharmacy - Puyallup,
WA - Armed Robbery
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Restaurant -
Spartanburg County, SC -Armed Robbery (Waffle House)
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Restaurant - Akron, OH
- Armed Robbery (Subway)
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Restaurant - Auburn
Hills, MI - Burglary
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Restaurant- Seal Beach
CA - Burglary
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Rite Aid - Visalia, CA
- Robbery
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Sheetz - Akron, OH -
Armed Robbery
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Verizon - Mercer
Island, WA - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - Norfolk, VA
- Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - York
County, VA - Armed Robbery |
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• 20 robberies
• 5 burglaries
• 0 shootings
• 0 killed |
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• 79 robberies
• 29 burglaries
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District Asset Protection Manager
Seattle, WA
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As the District Asset Protection Manager you will lead administration of Asset
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The Regional Loss Prevention Manager is responsible for the control and
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San Francisco, CA
- posted Sept. 24
You should have strong analytical skills, be a quick
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Multiple Locations - posted Oct. 9
The
role of the Customer Success Specialist is to engage, empower, and excite our
community. As a Customer Success Specialist, your primary responsibility is to
ensure both retailers and law enforcement, who make up our community, have great
experiences and achieve real crime reduction outcomes from using our platform.
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NuTech National - posted Oct. 13
NuTech National, an
established and rapidly growing 40+ year electronic security company is
expanding our National Sales Team. Seeking motivated, driven and successful
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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