Research papers
Our research papers offer groundbreaking insights and actionable outcomes to help retailers and their partners better manage the many ways in which profits can be negatively impacted by all forms of retail loss. Produced by some of the leading academic experts in the field of retailing and loss prevention, they are all free to download.
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Improving Employee Engagement to Reduce Retail Loss
How improving engagement in just the bottom quartile of stores can reduce unknown loss (shrink) by 12.5%
Improving Employee Engagement to Reduce Retail Loss
Written by Adrian Beck
How improving engagement in just th...
Abstract This report explores the link between levels of employee engagement, measured across 18 factors, and four indicators of retail loss: shrinkage, waste...
Self Checkout
The Impact and Control of Losses at the Self Checkout
The Impact and Control of Losses at the Self Checkout
Written by Professor Adrian Beck
Executive Summary This study, published in 2011, aimed to contribute to the debate concerning the potential impact self-scan checkouts may have on retail shrink...
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Designing Packaging to Prevent Unknown Loss and Shrink
How packaging design can reduce unknown loss / shrink
Designing Packaging to Prevent Unknown Loss and Shrink
Written by Adrian Beck
How packaging design can reduce unk...
Abstract This report, which was published in 2010, provides guidance on how retailers and their suppliers can work together to identify and minimise the risk o...
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