All Crime, fraud & security articles – Page 20
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3 days, 6 cutting-edge conferences
Retail Week Conferences and Retail Solutions have joined forces to present the retail industry with a unique platform providing extensive learning and networking opportunities.
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Welcome to Retail Solutions 2008
Retail Solutions allows retail technology professionals to meet and hear the UK’s leading retailers. The focus this year is on staying ahead with sustainable retailing
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Bags of confusion
A reduction in plastic bags is an environmental victory but, by encouraging shoppers to use their own carriers, retailers increase the risk of shoplifting. Charlotte Dennis-Jones reports
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Following financial services
Financial services firms have tended to be ahead of the curve when it comes to deploying new technology, because their businesses rely and benefit so much from it.
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NewsSomerfield tests mobile scanning
Somerfield is piloting a mobile scanning system from Datalogic Scanning with a view to rolling it out at its convenience-led stores.
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Staples picks PDAs for loss-prevention audits
Staples has rolled out an audit system on mobile phones to all of its loss-prevention officers.
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Less is more
Boots is on a mission to reduce shrinkage to new lows with integrated security systems. Head of loss prevention Robert Jennings talks Joanna Perry through the project
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A bitter victory against crime
There is no more emotive issue in the industry than crime against retailers and few things have caused more anger than the proposals in the summer of 2006 for the sanction of imprisonment to be taken away from shoplifters.
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Shoplifters face jail terms as Retail Week campaign pays off
Retailers breathed a sigh of relief this week as plans to abolish the penalty of imprisonment for persistent shoplifters were shelved.
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Asda opts for Cinario to run store security
Asda is using software from Cinario to integrate and manage all of its security systems running in a range of its stores.
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AnalysisDigital divide: is the IT department an unloved outpost of your organisation?
Is the IT department an unloved outpost of your organisation, or critical to its success? Joanna Perry explains one new measure that has been designed to help retailers find out
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NewsRetail Solutions relocates
This year’s Retail Solutions show is to relocate to ExCel in London from its former home at Birmingham’s NEC.
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Retailers under pressure to meet card security standard
Payment card schemes and acquiring banks are stepping up a gear in their demand that retailers become compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS).
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Jail terms
Retailers have been crying out for more help with tackling crime. Could retail jails be the answer, or do they pose as many problems as they solve? Liz Morrell assesses the Government’s plans
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Robertson takes top job at BRC
Former B&Q marketing director Stephen Robertson, most recently marketing director at Woolworths, has been named director-general of the British Retail Consortium.
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Violent increase
Shocking figures released by the BRC last month showed a steep increase in physical and verbal attacks on shop workers. Katie Kilgallen asks how retailers can tackle this worrying rise
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Jaeger cracks down on fraud with data-mining tool
Jaeger is implementing a data-mining system to target process inefficiencies and internal fraud.
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UK retail shrinkage is the worst in Europe
The total value lost by UK retailers through theft and internal error fell last year, but Britain still has the biggest retail shrinkage problem in Europe.