EDITOR’S LETTER
Perspectives from Practitioners W
e try to always write the articles in this magazine from the perspective of the loss prevention practitioner. Apart from the columns written by LP professionals, the four feature articles in this issue include quotes or references from twenty-three individuals. In the feature on LP and IT collaboration on page 15, there is input from practitioners working for Bloomingdale’s, Brinker, Delhaize America, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Sears Holdings, and Walmart. In Jim Lee’s interview with Scott Glenn, JD, LPC, of Sears Holdings on page 27, Glenn describes the responsibilities and accomplishments of his five direct reports who are contributing to the realignment of asset protection at the company. In the article on page 41 about the ongoing success of the Walmart asset protection organization at the world’s largest retailer, Mike Lamb, LPC, and three of his lieutenants discuss the evolution of loss prevention inside the company over the past several years. And in the feature article on data analytics on page 59, three LP executives from retailers At Home, Five Below, and Price Chopper describe how moving from Excel sheets to modern data analysis systems have helped their companies drive profits and reduce loss. We also have included the perspectives of chief executives from three LP solutions providers on page 24 who offer their viewpoints on the pressures, problems, and possibilities for success and failure in 2017.
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We appreciate all these professionals and those over the years who have given their time and insights to help inform and educate the industry. It’s remarkable that these individuals and their companies can put aside competition to help each other.
All this to say that both magazines contain content that is valuable to working practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic and across the globe. We invite you to subscribe free to both magazines via our digital channels. You can access the European content at LPportal.eu Bridging the Atlantic and the North American content at LossPreventionMedia.com. For those who Speaking of perspectives, for the prefer the printed editions, we are happy past three years LP Magazine Europe to mail the US magazine to Europe or the has been publishing articles about the European magazine to North America asset protection and profit enhancement for a small annual fee to cover the cost industry on the east side of the Atlantic Ocean. From my point of view after fifteen of shipping. For those companies that supply years of publishing the North American products and services globally, you have version of LP Magazine, I find it most two avenues for reaching your global interesting to read how the strategies and users and prospects by taking advantage tactics of retail LP professionals are at of our print and digital advertising times similar and other times different on platforms. We are happy to work with the two continents. It’s not surprising there are differences you to develop a customized program to meet your communications needs on both given the varying cultures, business sides of the Atlantic. climates, and customer expectations. It’s As the world shrinks, loss prevention also not surprising there are similarities and retail operations will become more given human nature that leads to theft and more similar, changing the wide and other human contributions to Atlantic Ocean to a metaphorical puddle. loss. And as our world shrinks with Today more than ever, we need to bridge global supply chains, international the communication gap between the retail operations, and e-commerce, the continents east-west and north-south similarities today certainly outnumber to share technologies, strategies, and the differences. Over the past three years, our US-based alternate perspectives to benefit the global print magazine has published several of the retail industry. articles that were written and published in Europe. And our digital channel features other articles published in Europe. Vice versa, the European magazine often publishes US-written articles to give their Jack Trlica Managing Editor readers the US perspective.
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