Apr 18 2024

How Today’s Organized Retail Crime Groups Evade Yesterday’s Technology

Organized retail crime (ORC) is often more sophisticated than it looks. Yes, there are smash-and-grab cases with crime groups brazenly breaking into stores to steal merchandise. But there are also other scenarios to combat, like: Ecommerce fraud and abuse —...

Mar 21 2024

How a Positive Customer Experience Leads to Loyal Shoppers

Jun 02 2023

How AI-Driven Authorizations Reduce Losses and Boost Profitability

Apr 23 2019

How Retailers Moved from Rules to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad category that includes several different types of analysis or methods of creating a system in which the program makes a decision based on the available information. Self-driving cars are a glamorous example of a system....

Mar 28 2019

What Is the Optimal Retail Return Rate?

Accepting retail returns began as a marketing technique. The objective, then and now, is to give the consumer the confidence to trade that hard-earned paycheck for something new. A trustworthy retailer, the reasoning goes, stands behind the quality of its....

Mar 15 2019

5 Ways a Return Authorization Solution with AI Can Improve the Return Experience

Consumers have more options than ever when it comes to making purchases. Their decisions are based on a combination of many things, including convenience, price, efficiency, as well as how they’re treated the moment they step into a store or start browsing....

Mar 01 2019

Why SaaS is the Answer for Omnichannel Returns

In the midst of major online retail competitors such as Amazon, brick-and-mortar stores are learning to stay competitive by offering buy-online-pickup-in-store, or BOPIS. Its popularity particularly skyrocketed around the 2018 holiday season, with a 47%....

Feb 25 2019

The Synergy of Shared Solutions: Incident Management Spreads Its Reach

When Loss Prevention/Asset Protection looks for a case management or incident management solution, it can multiply the benefits by including users beyond its own department. LP/AP does not work in isolation. It draws information from other departments, and it....

Jan 18 2019

What Kinds of Employee Fraud Does AI Catch?

Employee theft and fraud in the retail industry has been well-documented for decades. The most recent National Retail Security Survey (NRSS) from the National Retail Federation places the 2018 cost employee fraud at $1,203.16 on average with a median of $700.....

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