Tag: loss prevention

LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. – Dec. 6 marked the twelfth year that the OpenEye cloud managed video surveillance company held its holiday Bike Build event. OpenEye hosted more than 100 schoolchildren from the Central Valley School District, where it worked together with OpenEye staff members to build new bicycles at the company's Washington headquarters. The event also featured a presentation and hands-on labs where students could build a PC and use a surveillance camera to search for characters.  “The...

TRUSSVILLE, Ala.—For approximately 24 years, Randy Guarneri, CFE, CFI and Security Systems News“ 40 under 40” Class of 2019 winner has dedicated his professional security career to the loss prevention industry, serving in many roles including director, regional loss prevention manager, district asset protection manager, market investigator, district auditor and loss prevention manager for brands such as Winn-Dixie, Harris Teeter, Saks Fifth Avenue, Family Dollar and EZPawn.In March...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—It's difficult to raise risk awareness among employees when everyone thinks everything is going just fine. Achieving security autonomy across different types of businesses that fall under one banner with almost 30,000 employees is difficult, too.Those were just two of the challenges discussed by two of the “20 under 40” end user award winners at during the Next Gen Security Series at TechSec Solutions 2015, held here Feb. 3-4.“Challenge is changing people's...

WORCESTER, Mass.— Loss prevention specialists were encouraged to embrace new technology and to network and form partnerships with law enforcement at the eighth annual conference of the New England Organized Retail Crime Alliance, which convened here last month.“We've been preaching about the cost to retailers for years now. This conference shows how much we care about this issue. This is an important day to network,” the conference's master of ceremonies, Kevin M. Plante, said in...

LAS VEGAS—A Florida-based Edible Arrangements franchisee is the latest specialty retailer to move to DTT Surveillance, a manufacturer and integrator based here, for digital surveillance and managed loss prevention.Edible Arrangements franchisee Dennis A. Jolicoeur said DTT's solution for his five Tampa Bay-area outlets allows him to have a “better grasp” on his overall operation, from point-of-sale surveillance to his employees' customer service and more. Apparently, he's not alone...

LOS ANGELES—DTT Surveillance, which announced in July that it would open a new office in Las Vegas, hire 500 new employees and enter two new vertical markets, now has $60 million to expand on those plans.“It's fuel for the fire,” Sam Naficy, DTT president and CEO, told Security Systems News. “We've had strong growth in our core hospitality space and our two new vertical markets—specialty retail and the convenience store space, which we launched in July—have done...

In the spirit of the shopping season that is now upon us, I spoke today to Tyco Integrated Security's Lee Pernice about trends in retail security. What's TycoIS's approach to shrinking shrink? We talked about TycoIS's work on “shrink visibility.” TycoIS has been heavily involved with retail security for years, but it's promoting a combination of existing technologies [RFID, EAS, video surveillance and POS systems] as a way for retail LP/security professionals to be less reactionary. Inventory...

Vector Security says national accounts customers are “in play” due to acquisitions and corporate break-ups. And, Michael Grady, Vector Security's EVP told me, in an email interview that Vector is poised to expand its national account business for a number of reasons: Vector is still privately owned and it has money in the bank (something Vector president Pam Petrow talked to me about recently when Vector got a new $225m credit facility.)  Also in Vector's favor, he said, is its move,...