When it comes to the organized crime gangs that wreak havoc on retail stores, inventory and the bottom line, retailers are getting more aggressive in their efforts to fight the problem.
A consumer survey from First Insight says that more than 75 percent of respondents would not shop at a store that used facial recognition technology for marketing purposes.
A new study from NRF PROTECT finds that retailers lose billions of dollars to shoplifting, employee and vendor theft and administrative error – collectively known as inventory shrink.
Research from Pindrop Security has found a 30-percent rise in phone fraud attacks on enterprises and more than 86.2 million attacks per month on U.S. consumers.
More than 1.2 million shoplifters and dishonest employees were apprehended in 2014 by just 25 large retailers who recovered over $225 million from these thieves, according to the 27th Annual Retail Theft Survey conducted by Jack L. Hayes International.
According to a new report from Barclays, 47% of the world’s credit card fraud happens in the United States, even though Americans only account for 24% of the total credit card volume.