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GLPS 'Where Are They Now?'
Series
Find Your Old Friend & Colleagues - Where Have They Gone?
Take a Look Down Memory Lane
1st Correct Answer Becomes Eligible to Win a Pizza Party!
Can you name these folks?
 
Team Pictures Submitted in
November & December 2015
Here's some hints:
Pic #21 (left):
Given where these folks work(ed), you think they'd have some chairs - or even a
couch - to sit on.
Pic #22 (right): Looks like this group left the horses and hay back at
the office when they stepped out to volunteer.
Rules:
1st person to name all team members in a picture gets entered into the drawing.
Once we reach 10 correct answers, we'll pick one winner for a GLPS team pizza
party with drinks - delivered to your door by Domino's. All parties must be for
retail LP or AP teams.
Submit your answers
here.
Visit Memory Lane - see previous pics
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Sensormatic Solutions launches new offerings in response to COVID-19 to help
retailers protect employees and customers
Real-Time Occupancy, thermal
imaging and physical barrier solutions help create a safer store environment now
and for retailers reopening in the future
 Johnson Controls today announced Sensormatic Solutions, its leading global retail solutions portfolio, expanded
its offerings to help retailers protect its employees, customers and assets in
brick-and-mortar store operations and warehouses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, these new offerings help retailers to adhere to recommended store
occupancy and social distancing guidelines during the current situation and in
preparation for the reopening and recovery period. Read
more in today's Vendor Spotlight below.
WEBINAR: Reopen Plans: Retail Trends Around the World
 Last
week, hundreds of retailers tuned in to ShopperTrak's webinar: "Reopen Plans:
Traffic Trends Around the World." With an overwhelming response from retailers
including shopping centers, resorts and casinos, ShopperTrak part of Sensormatic
Solutions, is hosting an encore webinar this week. Register today and learn more
about traffic trends in China, South Korea and US reopening, how to manage
occupancy and human mobility data in the 'new world.' May 14 @ 1pm EDT -
Register Here
The Challenging Post COVID-19 Economic & Retail 'New Normal'
 By Tony D'Onofrio, Global
Retail Influencer
This article summarizes the latest data from multiple leadership sources on the
near term economic and retail challenges from COVID-19. All the trends confirm a
post pandemic "New Normal".
What will be the 2020 GDP impact to key economies? Which consumer categories are
positive? Which continent will lead the recovery? How many USA stores have
reopened? Will it be a V, U, or L shaped retail recovery? How long will it take
for key USA retail sectors to recover? Is online retail permanently eating the
consumer world? Where do we go from here?
The Uneven USA Retail Recovery Journey
Weekly Neil Saunders from GlobalData.com has been sharing an insightful chart on
the status of USA retail operations.
As of May 6th, nearly 51% of USA stores are still closed. Note the negative
monthly forecasts, especially in April. The hardest negatively impacted sector
for 2020 is apparel with -25.5% growth. The only positive sector is Food and
Grocery, up 8.4%.
USA retail will have an uneven return to growth as demonstrated by this latest
forecast from the IHL Group.
Overall retail recovery to 2019 levels will not be reached until December 2022.
Food, drug, convenience and mass merchandisers will stay positive, but their
growth rates will substantially decline from the current spikes. Department
stores and specialty stores including apparel will not recover until 2023 at
best. Restaurants will recover in 2022.
Read More Here:
tonydonofrio.com
Employers Rush to Adopt Virus Screening. The Tools May Not Help Much.
Symptom-checking apps and
fever-screening cameras promise to keep sick workers at home and hinder the
virus. But experts warn they can be inaccurate and violate privacy.
Business leaders racing to deploy new employee health-tracking technologies in
an effort to reopen the economy and make it safer for tens of millions of
Americans to return to their jobs in factories, offices and stores. Some
employers are requiring workers to fill out virus-screening questionnaires
or asking them to try out social-distancing wristbands that vibrate if
they get too close to each other. Some even hope to soon issue digital
"immunity" badges to employees who have developed coronavirus antibodies,
marking them as safe to return to work.
 But
as intensified workplace surveillance becomes the new normal, it comes with a
hitch: The technology may not do much to keep people safer.
Public health experts and bioethicists said it was important for employers to
find ways to protect their workers during the pandemic. But they cautioned there
was little evidence to suggest that the new tools could accurately determine
employees' health status or contain virus outbreaks, even as they enabled
companies to amass private health details on their workers.
Over the past month, companies have started marketing a slew of
employee-tracking tools to combat the virus.
PwC, the financial services firm, has developed a
contact-tracing app to help employers "provide a lower-risk workplace for
employees." It will automatically log proximity between employees and can be
used to help identify people who may have been exposed to the virus at work.
Salesforce, the giant software company, is offering a new tool,
Work.com, to help employers "safely reopen." Among other things, it will
enable companies to create online employee health surveys and map the workplace
locations visited by employees with coronavirus infections.
Clear, a security company that uses biometric technology to verify
people's identities at airports and elsewhere, plans this week to start
marketing a health-screening service that can be used to vet and clear employees
to enter workplaces. The service will take employees' temperatures with a
thermal camera, as well as verify the results of their medical tests for the
virus, sharing the results with employers as color-coded scores like green or
red.
Yet many of the tools - including
certain infrared thermometers and antibody tests that would be needed for
employee "immunity" certificates -
can be wildly inaccurate. Public health experts said the tools could create
a false sense of security, leading workers to spread the virus inadvertently.
Fever-screening devices, for example, could miss many of the up to
one-quarter or more people infected with the virus who do not exhibit symptoms.
Or they could inadvertently expose employees who are running higher temperatures
because they are under stress or have other health conditions, issues the
workers may have preferred to keep private.
nytimes.com
Bed Bath & Beyond's digital pivot continues; most stores staying closed for now
The company, which expects the majority of stores across its banners to remain
closed until at least May 30, 2020, is expanding buy-online-pickup-in-store and
contactless curbside pickup services to at least 200 additional stores, for a
total of 750 stores, or approximately 50% of its store fleet across the U.S. and
Canada.
chainstoreage.com
Half of Simon's malls to reopen within a week
Simon Property Group on Monday said that 77 of its U.S. retail properties have
reopened with certain
protocols and limitations to protect customers and employees from the
coronavirus. Plans are to open half of the company's U.S. shopping centers
within the next week, CEO David Simon told analysts, according to a transcript
from Motley Fool.
retaildive.com
Simon faces some local pushback as it seeks to reopen malls
Under Armour CEO says some US stores that reopen could have to shut again
Genesco reopening Journeys, Johnston & Murphy stores
Inside Pilot's push to keep the trucking industry afloat during the COVID-19
outbreak
GNC says Ch. 11 is a possibility as pandemic hits sales and profits
Violence In Stores
Los Angeles, CA: Video shows 2 men allegedly assaulting Target security guard
over face mask rule
Monroeville, PA: Man charged after physical encounter at Giant Eagle over not
wearing mask
Leander, TX: Man Sought After Attack On HEB Cashier Over Meat Limits
ASIS International Shares Details Of The Ongoing Talks To Host Global Security
Exchange (GSX) 2020 Online Due To COVID-19
 As
the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the way of life of security
professionals and citizens around the globe, ASIS International is currently
tirelessly exploring options for Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2020,
scheduled to take place September 21-23 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
At this stage, the company is evaluating their means of safely accommodating
attendees at the Georgia World Congress Center in accordance with health and
safety recommendations, and their means of potentially moving the event, in part
or in full, to a virtual environment that offers the same high quality content,
instructors, and dynamic interaction that the visitors have come to expect from
the in-person GSX gatherings. It is the event organisers' plan to confirm
whether GSX 2020 will take place live on or before June 22.
securityinformed.com
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$310M Fraud @ China's Biggest Coffee Chain
Luckin Coffee fires CEO, COO after sales fraud investigation
 Luckin
Coffee said Tuesday that it fired its CEO and COO as part of an internal
investigation into sales fraud. Jenny Zhiya Qian, Luckin's former CEO,
and Jian Liu, its former COO, also resigned from the company's board. The
changes to the company's board and senior management went into effect on Monday.
On April 2, the Chinese coffee chain disclosed that an internal probe found that
Liu had fabricated 2019 sales by about 2.2 billion yuan ($310 million).
The coffee chain previously said net sales for the first nine months of 2019
were 2.9 billion yuan ($413 million). The company placed six other employees,
who were either involved in or had knowledge of the fraud, on suspension or
leave.
The 2½-year-old company has tried to build a customer base in China with smaller
locations formatted for convenience and offering steep discounts. In January,
the company said that it had more than 4,500 locations in China, several hundred
more than rival Starbucks. Starbucks has responded to the competitive threat by
opening cafes in China designed for quicker pick-up and delivery and less
seating.
cnbc.com
Survey: What Elements Add the Most Value to Security Leaders?
Top 3 Security Program
Desires: Validation,
Measurement, Communication
If you could choose three things that would enhance your security program, which
three would you choose? In a new poll, the
Security Executive Council (SEC) wanted to find out what elements would add
the most value to security leaders and their teams.
Participants in this poll could select up to three wishes. The ability to
validate the security program, the ability to effectively measure it,
and the opportunity to communicate the value of security are the top
three items on security leaders' wish lists.
See how the same question was answered 10 years ago:
securityexecutivecouncil.com
AI-powered background checks making errors with criminal record reporting
 Checkr
is one of many companies automating aspects of the hiring process and cutting
down on costs. Some of these companies are using artificial intelligence to
scan through resumes, analyze facial expressions during video job interviews,
compare criminal records, and even judge applicants' social media behavior.
And in a pandemic, where the companies still hiring are likely already seeing a
surge in applications and eager to find ways to streamline the recruiting
process, technology that makes hiring quicker and easier sounds appealing.
But experts have expressed skepticism about the role that AI can actually play
in hiring. The technology doesn't always work and can exacerbate bias and
privacy problems. Inevitably, it also raises bigger questions of how powerful AI
should become.
In recent years, Checkr has faced a slew of lawsuits for making mistakes that
have cost people much-desired opportunities to work, according to legal records.
One complaint from a man hoping to drive for Uber alleged that he was wrongly
linked to a murder conviction that actually belonged to someone with a similar
name. Another person hoping to work for the ride-share giant complained that he
was erroneously reported to have committed several misdemeanors - including the
possession of a controlled substance - crimes that belonged to another person
with the same name.
vox.com
The Body Shop embraces an 'open hiring' model
Imagine if retail workforce challenges could be solved in three simple
questions. The Body Shop is betting that it can be. The retailer will hire
based on the responses to three questions: Are applicants authorized to work in
the United States, can they stand for eight hours, and can they lift 50 pounds.
Three yeses, and a job awaits.
The Body Shop tested the program in its distribution center and found a
60 percent reduction in monthly turnover. It also was able to reduce the
number of temporary employees. More broadly, studies have shown that those given
a
second chance often are more productive and loyal than the average employee.
The Body Shop says its new hiring process will have additional benefits,
including savings in recruiting, interviews and background checks. It plans to
redirect those into programs that will help its employees succeed.
nrf.com
Justice Department Releases $61 Million in Awards to Support Efforts
to Combat Violent Crime in Seven U.S. Cities
 Today, the Justice Department announced that the Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Office of Justice Programs' Bureau of
Justice Assistance (BJA) have awarded more than $61 million in grant funding to
support the Attorney General's Operation Relentless Pursuit (ORP) initiative.
Launched on Dec. 18, 2019, ORP aims to intensify federal law enforcement
resources into seven American cities with violent crime levels several times the
national average - Albuquerque, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City,
Memphis, and Milwaukee.
"While violent crime is down across the country as a whole, some communities
remain caught in the grips of violent actors," said Attorney General William P.
Barr. "That's why I launched Operation Relentless Pursuit last December - an
initiative to combat violent crime in seven cities where it remains stubbornly
high. Today's grant awards are critical to our mission. We cannot succeed in
eradicating crime without resources - the most vital of which are the brave men
and women who serve and protect our communities each day. These funds will boost
the forces that need them most."
justice.gov
National Police Week Recognizes Those Killed in Line-of-Duty
 Across
the United States this week, cities plan to recognize members of law enforcement
in honor of National
Police Week.
In 1962, President Kennedy issued the first proclamation for Peace Officers
Memorial Day and National Police Week to remember and honor law enforcement
officers for their service and sacrifices. National Peace Officers Memorial Day,
which every year falls on May 15, specifically honors law enforcement officers
killed or disabled in the line of duty.
Based on data collected and analyzed by the FBI's Law Enforcement Officer Killed
and Assaulted Program, 89 law enforcement officers nationwide were killed in
line-of-duty incidents in 2019. This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has
underscored law enforcement officers' courage and unwavering devotion to the
communities they swore to serve.
foxbaltimore.com
Senior LP & AP Jobs
Market
Reposted on LinkedIn:
Director, Loss Prevention Stores
- Tractor Supply Co. - Brentwood, TN
 This
position is responsible for supervision of multiple regional loss prevention
managers throughout the country to include staffing, development, performance
oversight and budgeting for the assigned regions. This position will develop,
maintain and manage exception-based reporting review for the regional loss
prevention manager team and drive shrink reduction initiatives in all stores.
Evaluates accounting and operational processes and recommends programs to reduce
risk and losses. This position may also directly cover a set number of stores in
all aspects of loss prevention for a geographic area to reduce and control
shortage and other financial losses.
careers-tractorsupply.icims.com
linkedin.com
Senior LP Job Postings Removed from Website:
• Director,
Global Asset Protection - eBay - Draper, UT
• Investigations
Manager - Counterfeit Enforcement - Amazon - Arlington, VA
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Sensormatic Solutions launches new offerings in response to COVID-19 to help
retailers protect employees and customers
Real-Time Occupancy, thermal
imaging and physical barrier solutions help create a safer store environment now
and for retailers reopening in the future
 Johnson Controls today announced Sensormatic Solutions, its leading global retail solutions portfolio, expanded
its offerings to help retailers protect its employees, customers and assets in
brick-and-mortar store operations and warehouses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, these new offerings help retailers to adhere to recommended store
occupancy and social distancing guidelines during the current situation and in
preparation for the reopening and recovery period.
"As retailers face their new reality as a result of COVID-19, we [Sensormatic
Solutions] believe that the industry needs to begin to restore consumer
confidence, and that starts with helping to ensure the store is a safe
environment," said Bjoern Petersen, president, Sensormatic Solutions. "Never
before has there been a greater need for retailers to be equipped with the right
technology along with real-time insights to make business critical decisions."
Sensormatic Solutions meets urgent COVID-19 needs with the following solutions:
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Real-Time Occupancy and Social Distancing - The ShopperTrak
Real-Time
Occupancy solution assists retailers with understanding shopper density within a
store for compliance with social distancing guidelines or ordinances, and to
meet maximum limits. It helps optimize cleaning schedules for common facilities
or high-touch areas, such as self-checkouts, and provides prompt
up-to-the-minute understanding of staffing needs for efficient fulfillment of
buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS) or curbside pickup orders.
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Thermal Imaging to Screen for Elevated Body Temperature
- These solutions
quickly provide thermal and color images of individuals or crowds entering the
store. If the camera detects elevated temperatures above defined thresholds, a
notification will be sent to store or warehouse managers in order to help
maintain proper health and safety measures.
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Physical Barrier Partition and Containment
- Sensormatic Solutions provides
CoronaGuard partition and containment solutions in areas requiring
person-on-person interaction, such as point-of-sale, pharmacy counters and
customer service windows, in collaboration with
Polymershapes. The lightweight,
see-through, and impact-resistant acrylic sheets and ready-to-install "sneeze
guard" systems form a barrier to help protect retailers' most valuable assets:
employees and customers.
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Consumer Mobility Insights for Retail Recovery Planning
- Sensormatic
Solutions leverages consumer mobility data to help retailers plan their store
reopening and recovery strategies, in partnership with
Unacast and complementary
to ShopperTrak's in-store Market Intelligence traffic benchmarking. Unacast's
opt-in, location-based data provides insights to when and where retail will
recover by understanding consumer mobility patterns and people's comfort with
public spaces. As a value-add, a Social Distancing Scoreboard layers statistics
related to new reported cases with changes in mobility and non-essential store
visits, and provides daily community grades (A to F) to help retailers evaluate
reopening individual store locations across their enterprise.
For more information and the full portfolio of current Sensormatic Solutions
products and offerings in response to COVID-19, please visit
Sensormatic.com.
Additional solutions are expected to be launched in the coming weeks as well.
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COVID-19 pandemic accelerates transformation in enterprise security
Organizations must retool their policies and
invest in security programs
to acclimate to a post-COVID-19 business landscape.
Aside from essential workers, nearly everybody is working remotely during the
current public health crisis, posing unprecedented security and privacy
challenges. In a new
ISACA survey on
COVID-19 business impacts, 87 percent of respondents say the rapid
requirement to work from home increased the risk of data privacy and protection
issues. For organizations that already had a substantial percentage of
remote workers, the shift was not as jarring, but many companies are accustomed
to the majority of employees working in a traditional office setting. Abruptly,
they have had to acclimate not only to equipping employees to be productive
while working from home, but to provide guidance to help guard against an uptick
in phishing and denial of service attacks increasingly being perpetrated by
opportunistic cybercriminals.
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The pandemic also has placed increasing pressure on IT departments to
function in agile fashion.
As noted in Diginomica, "At times of crisis, the time horizon for action is
short. Nobody at the moment is thinking about multi-month IT projects, unless
it's how to put them on hold. Instead, IT leaders should be looking at
much shorter timelines, falling into two waves. The first priority is rapidly
redeploying resources for immediate needs, whether that means putting in tools
to support people working from home, accelerating information gathering and
analysis to get in front of stresses in the business, or switching to lower-cost
alternatives."
It's not only the immediate period, though, that ultimately will be reshaped by
COVID-19. In the early days of the pandemic, many understandably clung to the
notion that several of these major changes would be short-term inconveniences as
opposed to lasting overhauls to organizations' ways of conducting business. But
while the public health risks should continue to lessen with vigilance and with
time, the related shifts to business processes will extend well into the future.
csoonline.com
6 ways attackers are exploiting the COVID-19 crisis
While organizations can take plenty of steps to ensure employees are
well-equipped to work remotely in a secure manner, threat actors of all stripes
are already taking advantage of the COVID19/coronavirus situation. Never ones to
miss an opportunity, attackers are ramping up operations to spread malware via
Covid19-themed emails, apps, websites and social media.
Here's a breakdown of potential threat vectors and techniques threat actors are
using to attack organizations:
1. Phishing emails
2. Malicious apps
3. Bad domains
4. Insecure endpoints and end users
5. Vulnerabilities at vendors and third parties
6. Targeting healthcare organizations
csoonline.com
The Era of Weaponized Data Breaches
Global tensions are at an all-time high, with state-sponsored adversaries,
cybercriminals and hacktivists targeting each other using data packages traded
in underground communities, says a new study. According to
4iQ's
Identity Breach Report 2020, the number of new identity records and the
depth of personal information available in exfiltrated data are expanding,
creating a blueprint of our digital identities that threat actors can weaponize
and exposed identity information is now more intimate - fueling identity-based
attacks across the globe.
4iQ's latest report offers a unique perspective on how the underground Breach
Economy reflects the severity of targeted public/private sector cyber intrusions
and provides exclusive insight into what is reported (and not reported) in the
news headlines today.
4iQ continued to see the trend of cybercriminals rereleasing big combo
packages with aggregated credentials gathered from newer, large-scale breaches:
every time these big combo packages surface, billions of email addresses or
usernames associated with clear-text passwords recirculate in underground
communities, making the data increasingly accessible for malicious use, such as
account takeover, Business Email Compromise, and other identity-based attacks.
There was an increase in the percentage of breach packages containing
identity information beyond just credentials: 2019 saw a 10 percent increase
in emails and passwords contained in data breaches, and a 14 percent increase in
PII, compared to 2018. This is concerning since passwords can be easily changed
but many identity attributes are permanent or very difficult to change, says
4iQ.
securitymagazine.com
Zoom Settles with NY AG Over COVID-19-Related Privacy, Security Issues
6 Free Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Courses
How IoT changes your threat model: 4 key considerations
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Fake COVID-19 Credit Union Profiles
Scammers
are impersonating credit unions on Instagram. These bad actors are creating fake
profiles on Instagram that contain financial institutions' names, logos and
links to their websites along with mentions of COVID-19. They send direct
messages (DM) to followers to inform them that they have been selected for a
cash prize.
Source: Phish Labs team revealed to
Security Boulevard
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Organized Retail Crime - The Great Debate
John Matas,
Corporate Principal - Fraud & Profit Protection
Millie
Kresevich,
Director of
Asset Protection
Scott Sanford,
Director of Loss Prevention
Filmed in January 2016 at the Daily's 'Live in NYC at the NRF Big Show
2016' event
How big is the ORC problem and how
should it be defined? How accurate is the $30 billion estimate? What are the
implications of the NRSS' finding that external theft has surpassed internal
theft for the first time ever? And how are the current decriminalization trends
going to impact ORC long-term? Three senior LP/AP leaders --
John Matas, Millie Kresevich, and Scott Sanford
-- join us to tackle these complex questions.
Episode Sponsored By
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eBay Accused of Price Gouging COVID-19-Related Products
Online auction retail marketplace eBay has been accused of facilitating the sale
of excessively priced COVID-19 -related products in a class action complaint.
eBay allegedly violated California's Unfair Competition Law, California's
Consumer Legal Remedies Act, as well as and unjust enrichment.
Plaintiff Jeanette Mercado states that in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
"unscrupulous sellers opportunistically prey upon the public by gouging prices
of essential items," such as masks, disinfectants, and hand sanitizers"
to unconscionably profit off of vulnerable and fearful consumers during these
unprecedented times." Mercado stated that eBay's efforts to stop price gouging
on its platform have not been fruitful. "While eBay publicly states that it is
trying to stem the use of eBay's platform by sellers who have charged, and
continue to charge, gouging rates to consumers across the country, eBay's very
business model not only allows but encourages such price gouging to eBay's
financial benefit.
"[I}n addition to charging fees for initially listing items, eBay charges a 'final value fee' when items actually sell, which is calculated as a percentage
of the total amount of the sale. Thus the higher the sale price, the more
profit eBay stands to earn." Mercado noted that brick-and-mortar stores have
been experiecning scarcity for certain products, which has benefitted online
retailers during this pandemic.
In an effort to stop price gouging, eBay banned essential items by "blocking
new listings and removing existing ones." eBay also added a price-gouging
reporting tool. However, the plaintiff claims that this ban was
"insufficient and ineffective to halt the rampant price gouging that pervades
its platform." Mercado cited its business model as an incentive for eBay to
ignore the price gouging on its platform.
lawstreetmedia.com
How Amazon Could Boost Covid-19 Testing While Crushing E-Commerce Rivals
n announcing first-quarter earnings, Amazon.com (AMZN) said it expects to spend
$4 billion or more in the second quarter on expenses related to its response to
the Covid-19 pandemic. Among other things, the company is spending "hundreds
of millions to develop our own Covid-19 testing capabilities."
Amazon (ticker: AMZN) also said a team of scientists, programmers, procurement
specialists and software engineers have shifted from their normal jobs to "a
dedicated team working to build incremental testing capacity."
barrons.com
Apple launches online shopping hub during the COVID-19 pandemic
Amazon Who? Independent Booksellers Find New Allies
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D&D Daily Survey:
How will COVID-19 impact Loss Prevention & Organized Retail Crime at your stores
as the nation prepares to reopen?
 The
industry values your input! The D&D Daily wants to hear your thoughts
as retail prepares to reopen following
mass closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Given the past seven weeks, we've all had a chance to think about what is going
to happen as we reopen the doors, but are we prepared for the impact the
pandemic will have on Loss Prevention and Organized Retail Crime?
What does ORC look like in the coming months? How
are your stores preparing?
Click here
to share your thoughts!
Tracy, CA: Police search for suspects who stole $150K in jewelry from Costco
 Tracy
Police are looking for two suspects behind a smash-and-grab robbery at a Costco.
Last Thursday around 8:30 p.m., Tracy police say two suspects wearing face
coverings and sunglasses walked into the Costco on West Grant Line Road. One of
the suspects began smashing display cases with a sledgehammer and grabbing
jewelry while the other suspect parked a getaway vehicle outside the store,
according to police.
Police report employees tried to run at the suspect with the sledgehammer, who
fled the store and got into the tan, four-door sedan parked outside. As the two
suspects drove away, police say one pointed a handgun at a Costco employee.
Police say the suspects got away with an estimated $150,000 worth of jewelry.
fox40.com
Morresville, NC: 3 arrested for thefts at Lowe's stores spanning a 6-year period
 Three
people were arrested and charged after stealing from a Lowe's Home Improvement
store in Mooresville. An off-duty Iredell County deputy was at the store on
April 25 when he saw an employee attempting the stop a man who was pushing a
cart with electrical wire and other items into the parking lot. The employee
told the deputy that the man did not pay for the items, so the deputy intervened
and assisted in stopping the man. The stolen inventory was recovered without
incident and returned to the store. The off-duty deputy recorded information
from the man's vehicle before he fled the scene.
The Lowe's Loss Prevention and Regional Asset Protection Teams told the deputy
they were investigating numerous thefts involving the same suspect. The thief
was identified as Kody Ryan Wells. In addition, Ryan Wade Yoder, was identified
as an accomplice. Deputies opened up an investigation and found out that Wells
and Yoder had committed numerous larcenies from several Lowe's stores spanning a
six-year period. The vehicle, a black Ford Explorer, was used in the thefts
belonged to Jessica Nicole Hawkins.
A deputy attempted to make contact with Hawkins and Yoder at their home and
observed numerous items consistent with the reported stolen property from Lowes,
stored throughout their yard of the residence. Based on the investigation,
detectives received search warrants for homes in Mooresville. Officers
recovered more than $8,000 worth of stolen property that belonged to Lowe's Home
Improvement.
wbtv.com
Mercer County, KY: Man suspected of $20,000 theft from 7 area Lowe's stores
A Harrodsburg man is busted in a shoplifting ring that included more than
$20,000 in thefts from Lowe's stores throughout the region. Investigators
believe he had an elaborate operation selling the items online and using forged
vehicle registrations to help cover his tracks. According to the Mercer County
Sheriff's Department, T.W. Freeman was arrested Friday after a Mercer County
deputy, working with Lexington Police, spotted him in the Burgin community.
Deputy Sean Brown stopped Freeman's vehicle and arrested him on three
outstanding warrants.
Stolen items were found in the vehicle, according to Mercer County deputies.
He is suspected in thefts from seven Lowe's during the last three months,
authorities said. During a search Freeman's home, investigators say they
seized computer equipment they think Freeman used to sell the items online,
making false vehicle registration plates to conceal the identity of the vehicles
he was using, along with additional Lowe's property.
wtvq.com
Police nab NY trio they say stole $10,000 worth of liquor from Paramus Stew
Leonard's
For more than a week and a half, a trio of New York thieves returned to a Stew
Leonard's store and allegedly stole $10,000 worth of liquor before they were
caught, according to police. The Stew Leonard's store in Paramus experienced a
series of bold daytime thefts beginning on April 9 and continuing until 136
bottles of alcoholic merchandise had been pilfered from the store's liquor
department, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Working with store security,
Ehrenberg's investigators identified the getaway car, which they linked to
Richard Caldwell, 54, of Brooklyn, Yolanda Emery, 60, of Yonkers, and Tonya
Hanner, 53, of Mount Vernon, New York.
northjersey.com
Trussville, AL: Police arrest man for stuffing stroller box with over $2K worth
of stolen merchandise at Walmart
 Justin
Brian Wiggins, 34, is facing the charge after a loss prevention officer at the
store said Wiggins removed a stroller from a box, placed the stroller back on
the shelf and stuffed the box with assorted merchandise. According to a police
report, Wiggins tried to leave the store without paying. The loss prevention
officer at Walmart was able to stop Wiggins before he left, and police responded
to the scene. The items in the stroller box had a total value of $2,225.14.
trussvilletribune.com
Morris, IL: Man With 5 Prior Retail Theft Prison Terms Facing 4 new Felony theft
charges
Several felony charges have been filed against a Grundy County man. Carl LaFever,
46, of Minooka was recently charged with four counts of retail theft, all class
four felonies; retail theft, a class three felony and three counts of burglary,
all class two felonies. Court records show LaFever allegedly burglarized Menards
in Morris on December 30th and Wal-Mart in Morris on February 14th and March
5th. LaFever is also accused of stealing merchandise from a business in the
2,000 block of South Ridge Road in Minooka as well as from a gas station in
Morris on January 1st.
wcsjnews.com
The Villages, FL: Homeless man arrested after loading up backpack with nearly
$500 of merchandise at Wal-Mart
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Shootings & Deaths
Update: Family Dollar murder suspect waives extradition, will be brought to
Flint
 Larry
Teague was in a Texas courtroom Monday morning for an extradition hearing.
"While in the court hearing, he waived his extradition and agreed to return to
Michigan," said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. Teague was arrested in
Houston last Thursday, wanted in connection with the murder of 43-year-old
Calvin Munerlyn on May 1. Police say the security guard at the Family Dollar
store was shot after he told a relative of Teague's that she couldn't enter the
store without a protective mask, as required to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Leyton said he was pleased his office will not have to prepare for an
extradition hearing. "Even though they are jailed and incarcerated, they like to
get back to their home turf," Leyton said of why a murder suspect would decide
not to fight extradition. He said talks have started on how to bring Teague back
to Flint. Teague's step-son, Ramonyea Bishop and Bishop's sister and mother are
also charged in the case. The two people who police say helped Teague get to
Texas, also face criminal charges in Genesee County.
wave3.com
Las Cruces, NM: Police identify Landis Boot and Shoe Service owner
as victim in fatal shooting
The owner of a leather shop and a long-time resident of Las Cruces was shot and
killed at his business. Authorities identified Oscar Amezquita, 79, as the
victim in Saturday night's shooting. Shortly before 6:30 p.m., Las Cruces police
were dispatched to reports of a shooting at Landis Boot and Shoe Service.
Amezquita was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound.
lcsun-news.com
Hickory, NC: 2 shot to death at North Carolina convenience store
Two people were shot and killed as they sat inside a car at a convenience store,
police said Monday. The Hickory Police Department said in a news release that a
911 caller told dispatchers that a man with a handgun walked up to a car at the
convenience store late Sunday night and shot into the car. Police said the
suspect fled on foot. Investigators think the suspect knew his victims and
targeted them.
washingtontimes.com
Tulsa, OK: Arrest made in Gas Station Clerk's 2011 murder
Peggy Gaytan, 55, was working at the Shell gas station near 36th Street and
Harvard Avenue three days before Christmas when she was killed.
tulsaworld.com
Milwaukee, WI: Man charged in the shooting death of Cathy King outside Walgreens
According to a criminal complaint, King was being dropped off by her
daughter-in-law at Walgreens, where she was a pharmacy technician. Prior to King
exiting the car, the two had a brief conversation about King's ex-boyfriend,
whom the driver knew as "Bill." King and Jones were allegedly in an "on-again,
off-again relationship," according to another family member. When King started
to leave the vehicle, the driver noticed Jones standing behind a pillar and
attempted to let King know. After King was fully out of the car, Jones started
shooting her, according to the complaint.
fox6now.com
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Florida Keys, FL: Burger King manager stole $61,000 from the safe to pay for
car, rent and a new TV, police say
A Florida Keys man was jailed after police said he stole $61,500 from a
fast-food restaurant while working as the general manager. Patrick Lunique, 42,
was arrested on a felony charge of grand theft after police said he admitted to
stealing deposits from the safe at Burger King, between October 2019 and March
2020. Lunique said he made $46,000 a year and regularly asked for a raise, but
it wasn't enough to pay his bills. And it was easy to steal the cash, Lunique
explained to Monroe County Sheriff's deputies. It started one day when Lunique
said he found a cash deposit in the safe from months ago that never made it to
the bank. "He realized no one missed the money so he kept it," deputies wrote in
the report. No one in accounting seemed to notice the missing cash so he
continued to steal, he said.
flkeysnews.com
Melbourne, AU: Shocking twist in a $3.9million gold heist as employee who was
believed to be the victim is accused of being the mastermind behind the theft
Man believed to be victim of a gold heist robbery is alleged mastermind. A
37-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple offences on Tuesday.
Alleged armed hold-up unfolded at Melbourne Gold Company in the CBD. Karl
Kachami allegedly pointed pistol at workers head on morning of April 27. He
escaped with the entire contents of a safe, adding up to total of $4 million.
dailymail.co.uk
La Crosse, WI: Suspect Accused Of Stealing 170+ Firearms from Licensed Firearms
Dealer storage unit
Counterfeit
Chicago, IL: 35 Counterfeit Super Bowl Rings Seized at O'Hare Airport Mail
Facility; suggested retail price $350,000, according to the U.S. Customs and
Border Protection
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