ALTO Blog

Retail theft often goes unreported. Without reporting retail crime, law enforcement can’t identify and arrest offenders, prosecutors can’t prosecute them, and nothing happens. This affects loss prevention and creates unsafe stores and communities.

Training your personnel to be proactive in preserving goods helps prevent theft. For many busy store managers, training personnel on inventory management procedures falls between the cracks.

ORC teams can only do so much without clear data and open communication. By training store leadership on the effects of incident reports on crime prevention, you can provide your ORC team the data they need to do their jobs effectively.

by Jimmie Hernandez, Senior Advisor at ALTO USA and Security and Law Enforcement Professional  I’ve written about the importance of forming collaborative relationships with law

by Stefanie Hoover, CFI  Over the past few years, public leaders, governmental officials, loss prevention experts, and law enforcement are increasingly forming collaborative partnerships to

by Stefanie Hoover In 2021, an illegal encampment of unhoused individuals in Oakland, California, created a strain on neighbors, retailers, law enforcement, and visitors to

Dealing with shoplifting, theft, and crime on top of daily priorities can be overwhelming in a busy retail store. Many retailers could use added resources

Retail stores are not independent of the communities that they exist in. They are part of an ecosystem with many factors that affect customers, employees, and sales. Loss prevention tries to stay up to date with what is happening in the store’s ecosystem by using the newest technology. But even this isn’t enough because we don’t know exactly what is happening out there. There is a disconnect between retail stores and their communities, we just can’t see it all.

The success of a prosecution is largely dependent on the details that are left in a police report. ALTO recommends documenting the following to increase your chances of success.

The abrupt arrival of Covid‑19 in the world has forced us to change many daily things, not only our way of living, exchanging with friends and family, and working, but also the manner in which daily operations are performed and supervised in almost all industries.