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Brian Aquilina named
Sr. Director, Organizational Safety, Security and Investigations for Ross Stores
Brian was previously the Senior Director of Ross Investigative and Safety Center
for four months before taking this new role. He has been with the retailer since
2001 when he started as a District Loss Prevention Manager. He's worked his way
up the ladder to hold such leadership positions as LP Zone Manager, Senior Area
LP Manager, Senior Manager, Ross Investigative and Safety Center, and Director
of Ross Investigative and Safety Center. He was also a LP District Manager for
Sears Holdings Management Corporation from 2007 to 2008. Congratulations Brian!
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This is War - Make No
Mistake & Every Retail CEO is Fighting It
"Amazon & Whole Foods Starts
the Supermarket War"
Walmart, Target, Kroger &
Costco Stocks "Getting Killed" Friday After News
Grocery stores have spent the last several years fighting against online and
overseas entrants. But now, with its $13.4 billion purchase of
Whole Foods,
Amazon has effectively started a supermarket war.
Armed with giant warehouses, shopper data, the latest technology and nearly
endless funds - and now with Whole Foods' hundreds of physical stores (460+) -
Amazon is poised to reshape an $800 billion grocery market that is
already undergoing many changes.
And much of the battle is expected to take place online,
Amazon's home turf. "This shows that online is going to be very dominant in the
grocery business - and very quickly," said Errol Schweizer, a former Whole Foods
executive.
The grocery business is facing a slew of upstart companies
trying to figure out how to make a business of getting food on the kitchen
table. Instacart delivers food from grocery stores to doorsteps, while
FreshDirect delivers from its own warehouse. Blue Apron delivers boxes of food
packaged to make meals.
In addition, Lidl and Aldi, two European discount grocers, have
recently announced enormous expansions in the United States. Aldi plans to
invest $3.4 billion to grow from 1,600 stores to 2,500 stores by 2022, while
Lidl, which recently opened a handful of locations, plans to operate 100 by the
middle of next year.
They are taking on a handful of major companies that have dominated the grocery
market. Walmart supercenters, Kroger, Safeway and Publix accounted for about 36
percent of the market in 2013.
nytimes.com
cnbc.com
Editor's Note: The benefits for consumers is the price wars.
The benefit for the retail industry as a whole is that there hasn't been a true
Omni channel retail model for all of these CEO's to copy, as most have been
caught up in the speed to cut and close, and to react and create what new trend
the other guy is doing. From buy-online pick-up-in store (BOPIS) to free
delivery to same day delivery. The vast majority are trying to figure this new
world out as fast as they can, with a number of them having been replaced by
exec's coming out of the tech world, because retail boards want tech at the
core.
But now we have the leader of the pack, at least the online
pack, jumping in with both feet into the retail world and now he has to hope he
finds that same success in brick and mortar. Given his fearless drive,
creativity, massive team, tolerance for risk, disregard for profit, and
unlimited access to cash, he may end up creating the perfect omni store
right in front of everyone.
And then we have the model. Not that it'll create a level
playing field, but at least we may have the play book and then
the good old American entrepreneurial spirit will kick in.
Or should it be called sheer desperation and survival skills. One
Chairman told me they were one in the same.
Other than the constant news about shrinking retail America this is the
most exciting thing that's happened in retail in decades. It'll be
interesting to follow it. Just a thought
Amazon is reportedly planning to cut jobs at Whole Foods
Amazon is planning to cut jobs at Whole Foods when it takes over the company,
according to a Bloomberg report published Sunday that cited a source with
knowledge of the matter. The Seattle-headquartered e-commerce giant is
considering replacing Whole Foods cashiers with technology, according to the
report. The exact number of roles on the line is not specified, but it could run
into the thousands given that Whole Foods employs about 90,000 people, including
many on the shop floor.
businessinsider.com
The Omni Store Cometh & It
Can't Be Stopped
"Amazon train coming down the tracks"
"Amazon can be the one-stop shop for everything"
460 Whole Foods stores in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. could
be turned into distribution hubs - not just for delivering
groceries, but also as pickup centers for online orders.
Amazon already has grocery dry goods-delivery services in five markets they just
needed more distribution hubs and perishables to complete the grocery
offerings.
Amazon could try to cut operational costs at Whole Foods by using the
same types of robots that already move inventory around at its
e-commerce fulfillment centers.
They could also incorporate pieces of their cashierless c-store Amazon
Go which is no set to take off with them staffing a top real estate
executive. Just listed last week by the way.
Amazon could also get a better picture of customers by marrying data
from Amazon and Whole Foods' loyalty programs and get more people to
try grocery delivery.
On the flip side, Amazon could use Whole Foods stores as pickup
locations for deliveries.
That could help Amazon both cut shipping costs and draw more customers into
Whole Foods locations. The stores could also showcase gadgets such as Kindle
e-readers and Fire tablets. One day, these stores might even serve as
launch centers for Amazon's delivery drones.
abcnews.com
The Amazon-Walmart Showdown
That Explains the Modern Economy
With Amazon buying the high-end grocery chain Whole Foods, something retail
analysts have known for years is now apparent to everyone: The online
retailer is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant
seller of pretty much everything you buy.
"Employees inside winning companies enjoy rising incomes and interesting
cognitive challenges," the Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, one of the
co-authors of that paper, wrote recently
in Harvard Business Review. "Workers outside this charmed circle experience
something quite different."
And David Autor of M.I.T. and four colleagues found in
a recent paper
that the rise of these "superstar firms" - the big winners in the kind of
face-off that Walmart and Amazon are now engaged in - is a likely
explanation for the decrease in the share of the overall economic pie that is
going to workers.
How much of that is because of shifting technology - as opposed to changing
corporate behavior, or loose antitrust policy - is an open debate.
What isn't is this: The decision by Amazon and Walmart to compete for my grocery
business - as well as for space in my closet - is a tiny battle in a war
to dominate a changing global economy.
And for companies that can't compete on price and technology, it could
cost them the shirt off their backs.
nytimes.com
Failures Are "Like a Root
Canal With No Anesthesia" Says Jeff Bezos
Whole Foods Deal Shows Amazon's Prodigious
Tolerance for Risk
Unlike almost any other chief executive, Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has
built his company by embracing risk, ignoring obvious moves and
imagining what customers want next - even before they know it.
Key to that strategy is his approach to failure. While other
companies dread making colossal mistakes, Mr. Bezos seems just not to care.
Losing millions of dollars for some reason doesn't sting. Only success counts.
That breeds a fiercely experimental culture that is disrupting
entertainment, technology and, especially, retail.
"I've made billions of dollars of failures," Mr. Bezos said at
a 2014 conference, adding that it would be like "a root canal with no
anesthesia" if he listed them.
Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes
compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn't work."
"When you have such a long-term perspective that you think in decades
instead of quarters, it allows you to do things and
take risks that other companies believe would not be in their best
interests." nytimes.com
Facial Recognition Drives
Amazon Cashierless World
"Amazon's Move Signals End of Line for Many
Cashiers"
Imagine this scene from the future: You walk into a store and are greeted by
name, by a computer with facial recognition that directs you to the items you
need. You peruse a small area - no chance of getting lost or wasting time
searching for things - because the store stocks only sample items. You wave your
phone in front of anything you want to buy, then walk out. In the back, robots
retrieve your items from a warehouse and deliver them to your home via
driverless car or drone.
Amazon's $13.4 billion purchase of Whole Foods, announced Friday, could speed
that vision along. It's already trying with a store in Seattle, Amazon Go, that
has no salespeople or checkout lines. But it has become increasingly clear that
parts of every job will be automated - and that the service sector is
next.
Two-thirds of the time on tasks done by grocery store workers can be
automated, it said. Another report, by Forrester, estimated that a quarter of
the tasks salespeople do would be automated this year, and 58 percent by 2020.
nytimes.com
Facebook Using AI to Block
Terrorist, Adds 3,000 to Block Violent Videos
Facial Recognition - Machine Learning - Digital
Fingerprints Database
How Long - Before Store Safeness in Retail Takes
Priority?
The company announced that plus a number of other steps it says it's taking as
it faces growing pressure from government leaders to identify and prevent the
spread of content from terrorist groups on its massive social network.
Facebook officials said
in a blog post Thursday that the company uses AI to find and remove
"terrorist content" immediately, before users see it. This is a
departure from Facebook's earlier practice of relying on users to flag suspect
content for removal. In addition, it says that in rare cases when it
uncovers evidence of imminent harm, it promptly informs authorities.
Last month, they announced they'd add 3,000 to monitor huge volumes of
live video to filter violence.
Using image-matching (facial recognition) and machine learning
algorithms to look for language patterns to block pictures, video's, and
propaganda.
In December they partnered with Twitter, Microsoft and Google-owned YouTube to
create database of digital fingerprints of terrorist groups.
cbsnews.com
Editor's Note: Just imagine a national database of convicted ORC
suspects, convicted felony shoplifters, the ability to tie into the FBI facial
recognition database, the ability to block how-to videos on shoplifting, and to
block criminal flash mobs.
The tech industry has just made a huge pivot actually, the biggest in tech
history - and as the robbery rates, active shooters, and drug fueled ORC
incidents continue to escalate we may see this evolution if properly managed and
led - helping our world. Maybe we need to concentrate our efforts here as
opposed to a federal ORC law. If the industry comes together as a whole and gets
the CEO's support and backing it certainly would give us the tools. Just a
thought.
Preventing Domestic Violence
in the Workplace
Domestic violence has become an epidemic in our society which too often spills
into the workplace. Seventy-four percent of employee victims of domestic
violence have been harassed at work. In many cases the violent partner
may not know where his former partner may now live, but he knows where she
works. While it can be any gender mix, most of these situations involve male
against female threats and violence. And the perpetrator poses a threat not only
to his intended victim but to everyone else in the workplace.
Most fundamentally, the employer should foster a culture that is supportive,
respectful, non-judgmental and open. We will wish to set a tone of trust and
convince the threatened employee that she is not alone and it is not her fault.
Our initial response to her concerns may set the overall tone moving forward.
The situation should be managed with empathy, respect and preserving dignity.
It should be noted that the threatening person could be another employee or
contractor employee already within the workplace. I've often seen threats and
even violence arising from the "love triangle gone bad" among employees within
the workplace.
Planning Considerations may include:
• While the conventional lines of internal communications (i.e. first talk
to your supervisor/manager or Human Resources) should be encouraged and
reinforced.
• As part of the organization's overall workplace violence mitigation and
threat management process, there should be an interdisciplinary early
intervention team.
• The process should be formalized and well documented to also address
early identifying the person.
• Have organization-wide domestic violence policy and plan, which may be
part of the overall workplace violence policy and plan.
• Proactively commission an objective assessment of your domestic violence
response and prevention program, possibly as part of a broader review of your
workplace violence and/or security program.
• Meet with threatened employee to offer guidance and support such as
moving her desk/work location or parking spot.
• Consider appropriate physical and procedural security measures.
securitymagazine.com
Facial Recognition
Everywhere in the News Today
From in-store to purchase, to online to ID terrorist and violence, and to using
it on your next new iPhone for your own protection, facial recognition is
becoming a proactive security force. Never before have we seen it this prevalent
in the news in virtually every channel of life, and last week we didn't report
the home security features now available using it.
So the question of if the technology will ever gain industry wide acceptance
seems to be dissipating, especially with a few retailers now using it, as we
reported in
our recent webinar. Now the question appears to be how long will it take?
As the violent trends, robberies, and active shooters continues to increase the
time may be shorter and shorter as consumers become more familiar with it and
may even one day expect it as a security feature retailers provide to ensure
their safety. Just a thought
NJ ShopRite Cleared Of Negligence Over Worker's Photos
A New Jersey appellate court ruled Friday that a ShopRite store couldn't be held
responsible for a store employee convicted of taking photos of a 6-year-old
customer and pulling up her shirt, saying there was no evidence the store knew
of any prior similar behavior.
The child, under the pseudonym Judy Doe, and her mother hit a dead end in their
suit against ShopRite after the judge rejected arguments that the store knew of
employee J.B.'s practice of taking pictures of "young females" because he had
been warned about taking pictures of customers before.
"The evidence relied upon by plaintiff is probative of J.B.'s guilt of the
offense for which he was convicted," the Appellate Division panel ruled. "It
does not, however, offer any competent proof that ShopRite had knowledge of any
behavior by him prior to [the incident involving Judy Doe] that would have
rendered them reckless or negligent in keeping him employed as a member of their
night crew."
law360.com
Cleveland, OH: Employee
blames Family Dollar for injuries sustained during robbery
An employee is suing Family Dollar Stores, alleging liability and negligence led
to her being beaten by a masked assailant. Ashlee Anderson filed a complaint May
2 in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas against Family Dollar Stores of Ohio,
Inc., Mutual Properties Ltd., K & Z Mutual Realty, LLC, and John Does 1-10 and
John Does Entities 1-10, alleging they failed to protect their employees. The
defendant removed the case to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio on June 2. According to the complaint, on May 7, 2016, Anderson suffered
physical injuries to her head, neck and shoulders from being struck on the top
of the head with a gun by a masked assailant while working at the Family Dollar
in East Cleveland, Ohio, late at night. The suit says Anderson had complained to
store management about her fears or working by herself after dark. The plaintiff
alleges the defendants failed to provide adequate security in their store.
Anderson seeks trial by jury, compensatory damages of more than $25,000, all
legal fees, and all other relief the court deems just.
legalnewsline.com
$1.5M Embezzlement Drives Wichita's Largest Pawn
Broker - A-OK Bankrupt
Harris said an employee embezzled about $1.5 Million from the company,
ending in March, which turned a tight financial situation into a bankruptcy.
In the bankruptcy filing last week, A-OK said that the move comes a week after
Simmons Bank filed to foreclose on Harris and six of his businesses for not
repaying a $4 million loan. On Friday, Harris said the operation will remain
open and pawned items will remain available to be reclaimed. A-OK has
four locations, plus a corporate office.
salina.com
Wal-Mart in the Crosshairs
of Amazon's Takeover of Whole Foods
Is Dollar General Amazon's
Next Target?
N.C. Station Sees First
U.S. Fuel Dispenser EMV Chip Transaction
Ascena shifting 125 jobs to Columbus after closing Catherines HQ in Philadelphia
Teen apparel retailer Papaya Clothing files for bankruptcy
Last week's #1 article --
Retail bloodbath: Bankruptcy filings pile up
More than 300 retailers have filed for bankruptcy so far this year, according to
data from BankruptcyData.com. Most of those filings were for small companies --
the proverbial Mom & Pop store with a single location. But there are also plenty
of household names on the list.
Most of these stores are suffering from the same thing: A shift away from
traditional storefronts to online shopping. Not all of these chains will
eventually go out of business. Most of them fled for Chapter 11, which allows a
company to keep operating while it restructures its debt. But the sector is
already on course for a record number of store closings this year.
Here's a list of some of the more prominent retail bankruptcies to date.
cnn.com
WEBINAR: Criminal Minds - Inside Organized Retail Crime
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 @ 2 pm EDT
Organized Retail
Crime (ORC) is a multi-level criminal operation targeting retail stores and
warehouses. Many of the goods that retailers have on their shelves today are
being targeted as they can easily be resold on the black market.
This webinar is designed for businesses to gain insights on what you can do to
combat organized retail crime.
You'll learn: the business of ORC; criminal tactics from real-life stories;
and the importance of law enforcement and businesses becoming
allies.
Speakers
Include:
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eBay seller pleads guilty to selling
counterfeit NFL products
United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today
that Joshua D. Korb., age 38, of Greenville, pled guilty in federal court in
Greenville, to trafficking in counterfeit goods, a violation of Title 18,
United States Code, Section 2320. Senior United States District Judge Henry
M. Herlong, Jr., of Greenville, accepted the plea and will impose sentence
after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the
U.S. Probation Office.
Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing established that Korb ran
an online EBay store called Steel-Town Memorabilia. The investigation was
initiated from a request by the National Football League (NFL) because of
numerous complaints received by EBay and PayPal that Korb sold counterfeit
NFL merchandise and sports memorabilia.Read more
here.
For further information on PROACT, email inquiries to
PROACT@eBay.com.
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Protection 1, a division of ADT, to Feature Advanced Network Security and
Location Analytics at 2017 NRF Protect Conference
Through Connect Mobile Experiences (CMX), Retailers can
Benefit from In-Depth User Presence Data and Enhanced Network Security
Boca Raton, FL - June 19, 2017 -
Protection 1, a
division of
ADT,
will feature advanced managed and monitored network security and location
analytics capabilities such as foot traffic, heat mapping, dwell time and new
vs. repeat customer visit using Cisco® Meraki™ Access Points (AP) at NRF
Protect.
To
streamline deployment and help enhance network security, Protection 1 offers
fully managed services from its Network Operations Center (NOC). Its engineers
are Cisco and Meraki certified and can help design, implement, commission,
manage and monitor a retailer's networks. Protection 1 Network Managed Services
can help insure your networks will operate as expected, are continually
monitored, software is updated and bandwidth is managed. They have been shown to
help reduce costs associated with travel expenses related to on-site visits,
improve business processes and help mitigate network security risks.
Cisco Meraki Access Points provide powerful and intuitive multi-site management
of networks via the cloud and eliminate the cost and complexity of traditional
on-site wireless controllers. They also provide an end-to-end solution that
unifies WAN, LAN, wireless LAN and mobile device management through one common
user interface. Meraki APs offer a secure WIFI with guest access, are PCI
Compliant with associated reporting and offer multi-site cloud management with
centralized control across all store networks from a web-based dashboard.
Whether used to deploy single or multi-site networks or as stand-alone
appliances, Meraki APs also provide integrated Bluetooth Beacons, streamlined
guest access and rich location analytics for unmatched opportunity for customer
engagement.
Read full press release
here.
Visit Protection 1's booth
#1013 at NRF Protect June 27-28, 2017 at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and
Convention Center in Washington, DC to learn more about how Protection 1 can
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The Buckle, Inc.
Notification of Data Security Incident
We became aware that The Buckle, Inc. was a victim of a security incident in
which a criminal entity accessed some guest credit card information following
purchases at some of our retail stores. We immediately launched a thorough
investigation and engaged leading third-party forensic experts to review our
systems and secure the affected part of our network.
Through that investigation we learned that our store payment data systems were
infected with a form of malicious code, which was quickly removed. Based on the
forensic investigation, we believe that no social security numbers, email
addresses or physical addresses were obtained by those criminally responsible.
There is also no evidence that the buckle.com website or buckle.com guests were
impacted.
businesswire.com
"Game changing facial
recognition technology"
Facial Recognition & Iris Scanner - 3D Sensors -
Coming in "iPhone 8?"
Though the company stopped short of saying who the components are for, Apple
supplier Largan has affirmed that it will ship 3D sensors capable of
scanning a user's face and unique iris, capabilities rumored to be a
part of the anticipated "iPhone 8."
Largan's 3D sensing module for smartphones will ship in the
second half of the year, CEO Adam Lin said in a press conference this week,
according to Nikkei.
The report went further in citing Yuanta Investment Consulting analyst Jeff Pu,
who believes that Apple will be the only smartphone maker to ship an iris
scanner this year. Rumors have claimed Apple plans to include
game changing facial recognition technology in this year's
flagship iPhone, known colloquially as the "iPhone 8."
appleinsider.com
Amazon granted
anti-showrooming patent
"Physical Store Online Shopping Control"
the patent prevents brick-and-mortar retailers from leveraging technology in
their own stores that would stop shoppers from comparing prices of
in-store merchandise to competitor's products online. The patent
describes a solution that can identify what content a shopper is
accessing via the retailer's Wi-Fi network. If the content is deemed as
product or pricing information from a competitor's website, Amazon can take any
number of actions - including blocking the request.
Editor's Note: If they can block that data it would make sense
then to use that same technology to monitor any in-store traffic for
safety, theft and fraud,such as flash mobs communicating, thieves
texting each other, virtually anything criminal. Once the court allows customer
monitoring to restrict their free choice for showrooming the natural next step
is to allow that same monitoring for safety and theft.
Now that Amazon has the patent, every retailer on the planet will be trying to
duplicating it. Or does Amazon actually offer it for sale? If not they just
dealt another blow to retailers and this time by controlling the consumer.
chainstoreage.com
Cloud Concerns: Data
Security & Lack of Key Management
Forrester: Rapid Cloud Adoption Drives Demand for
Security Tools
The global cloud services market is poised to skyrocket from $114 billion in
2016 to $236 billion by 2020. Its rapid growth is driving the market for cloud
security tools, which will increase from $1 billion in 2016 to $3.5 billion in
2021.
The market for products like cloud access security brokers (CASBs),
centralized cloud security management (CCSM), hypervisor security, and
infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service will grow over the next
five years.
Businesses are moving more analytics and core businesses applications to the
public cloud, driven by the flexibility it provides. While public cloud
providers run data centers more efficiently and securely than tech managers
would, cloud security is still a major concern.
Traditional security tools aren't enough to monitor data moving
to and from the cloud, and between cloud platforms. Forrester found the cloud
security market will grow 28% each year from 2016 to 2021 as the cloud grows in
complexity and more security is needed.
Andras Cser, vice president and principal analyst for security and risk
management at Forrester, says there are two key elements increasing cloud
complexity. The cloud is a changing and moving target to secure, for one, and
on-premise technologies aren't as effective in the cloud.
"Shadow IT causes a lot of concern," says Cser. Businesses are
worried about the complications of monitoring data in the cloud. "If you don't
understand what applications you're using, and the data in those applications,
you can't understand the risks."
Data security is one of the top drivers of cloud security spend,
especially the complications of monitoring data across cloud applications. Other
factors include conversion from on-premise to hybrid cloud, data loss
prevention, identity and access management, and compliance.
Businesses are also recognizing a lack of good key management among
cloud providers, he says. As a result, they're willing to spend more
money, resources, and time on management. Many are realizing the need to
automate security as they move workloads to the cloud.
Forrester found the growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) as slowed, but
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) are both
seeing aggressive growth. More than 50% of security leaders are worried about
the risk of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and virtualization in the data center.
darkreading.com
Security Experts Call for
Collaboration with Feds on IoT Standards
Cybersecurity experts presented
their concerns about IoT to a U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce
last week, urging collaboration between the federal government and the private
sector in developing IoT security recommendations. They named the optional
cybersecurity framework developed by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a good starting
point for conversation.
ioti.com
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Meeting LP Demand
Through Technology
Carlos Bacelis, Dir. of Analytics,
Walmart
As the retail shopping experience becomes more
fluid with an ever-increasing range of options and channels, LP professionals
must grapple with new demands while balancing exposure to shrink. Although the
mechanics of lost profit and theft may not have appreciably changed, the
transactional technology options available to customers certainly have. In this
session,
Carlos Bacelis, Director of Analytics for
Walmart, discusses how they're using new technologies designed to limit the
retail giant's exposure while preserving the shopping experience.
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Group Takes Aim at Ad Fraud
with Digital Advertising Blockchain Tech
The digital advertising industry drove $175 billion in spending in 2016, and
marketers want to know the money they spend will bring in a valuable audience.
The bad news is that bots regularly drive spam traffic to a huge portion of
sites all over the web.
But a new collaboration among the Data & Marketing Association (DMA) and two
technology companies-advertising tech startup MetaX and software developer
ConsenSys-will help the industry identify and combat ad fraud by using
blockchain software, the technology that underpins bitcoin, which enables secure
transactions online and can increase transparency and trust.
The product of the partnership,
adChain, is an open protocol on the public Ethereum blockchain that aims to
connect the digital advertising industry's disjointed supply chain, according to
a
DMA white paper.
The technology targets bot traffic and ad fraud to deliver transparency,
security, and verified impression tracking, a
press release notes.
"Advertising fraud ... is estimated to drive $16.4 billion in losses this year
alone. With nearly 20 percent of advertising spend wasted on fraudulent ads,
this is an epidemic creating massive losses for the industry," DMA CEO Tom
Benton said in a
blog post announcing the technology.
In the effort to eliminate misspent advertising budgets, adChain will provide an
encrypted, secure method for executing digital advertising transactions, with
the goal of establishing trust and accountability between advertisers and
buyers, DMA says.
AdChain will provide domain application vetting as well as a running registry of
approved domains, giving the publisher a "cryptographically secure signature"
that can act as an identifier in the supply chain, according to the white paper.
Additionally, DMA says, it will provide a secure transaction method that can
prevent spoofing so that ad buyers can feel confident in the supplier.
associationsnow.com
Online seller says he was
shot at McDonald's while meeting with would-be buyer
A man who was trying to sell an item online met up with someone at a McDonald's
restaurant to complete the transaction, but the would-be buyer shot the seller
in the parking lot and then took off, deputies said.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office learned of the shooting around 7 p.m., then
went to the chain restaurant at 3713 McCoy Road to investigate, according to a
news release. When deputies arrived, they couldn't find the shooter or a victim.
A short time later, officials with the fire department received a call about a
man at Semoran Boulevard and Hoffner Avenue who had been shot.
The victim told investigators about his experience trying to sell the item on
the internet, and said that's how he met the shooter. The two agreed to meet at
McDonald's, but then the would-be buyer stole the item for sale, took out a gun
and shot the victim, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The victim is listed as stable at a hospital. There's no word on who is
responsible for the shooting.
clickorlando.com
UPS to Add Delivery
Surcharges for Black Friday, Christmas Orders
United Parcel Service Inc. for the first time will tack a surcharge onto most
online orders shipping around the Black Friday shopping weekend and during the
week before Christmas. It is the latest attempt by the large delivery company to
recoup the massive increase in hiring and reserving extra trucks and plans
during the busiest times.
The charge only applies to residential deliveries, so retailers and shoppers may
be able to avoid the charges by getting orders shipping to stores, an option
retailers have been pushing for the past few years with varying success.
wsj.com
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Columbia, SC: Three men
wanted for purchasing over $7,000 of liquor and wine with cloaned Credit cards
The men on April 11 entered Sam's Wine and Spirits on Killian Road, loaded up
their carts and paid for their merchandise using credit cards that were cloned
from someone else's card and account information. Financial-card fraud is up,
and these crimes are being carried out more frequently using card skimmers and
cloned cards, authorities in Columbia and Richland County say. The Columbia
Police Department received 369 reports of card fraud in 2016 compared to 290 in
2012, according to agency numbers. The Richland County Sheriff's Department had
655 reports of card fraud in 2016 compared to 585 in 2012. Cases in Lexington
County were not immediately known.
thestate.com
Update:
Columbus, OH: Police in Ohio are looking for tips after an attempted grocery
store robbery escalated a violent altercation
It happened shortly before 3pm on April 23 at the Kroger on Sycamore Street in
the Brewery District. A pair of women entered the store and loaded their
shopping cart with $239 worth of Red Bull energy drinks and various bottles of
wine. The pair then headed for the door, bypassing the checkout. A loss
prevention officer confronted the women as they were attempting to get into a
vehicle in the parking lot, and that's when things turned violent. The women
started fighting with the loss prevention officer and a store manager. The
manager managed to wrestle the shopping cart and drinks away from the suspects,
but the loss prevention officer was caught in a struggle with the other suspect.
kron4.com
Update: Rockwall County, TX:
Two indicted in theft of $200,000
of Justin Brand Boots
The Rockwall County Grand Jury has indicted two Dallas men on charges of theft
of cargo over $200,000 for their alleged involvement in the theft of 3,520 pairs
of Justin brand boots from a shipping container and chassis in Dallas. Byron
Orlando Flores and Frank Ajadiz Perez were indicted on June 7. They were
arrested last Aug. 23 after they delivered 1,000 pairs of Justin brand boots to
a buyer at a storage facility in Rockwall. The man who was posing as the buyer
was an undercover law enforcement officer. According to affidavits for arrest
warrants, Flores made arrangements to sell 1,000 pairs of boots to the
undercover officer for $20 per pair.
roysecityheraldbanner.com
Police
Say Woman Training Teenagers As Shoplifters At Manchester Mall
A Hartford woman was grooming two teenage girls as shoplifters at the Buckland
mall, police said. Raven Simone Hardy, 26, was arrested Sunday and charged with
two counts of risk of injury/impairing the morals of children, along with
conspiracy and other charges. The two juveniles, both from Hartford, also were
arrested. Police were called to Macy's department store at about 11:30 a.m.
after store workers chased and caught two 14-year-old shoplifting suspects and
detained Hardy as a possible third suspect, Officer John Decker wrote in the
police report. Security staff had been watching Hardy as soon as she entered the
store Sunday because she was a suspect in a theft at Macy's on June 12, Decker
wrote. Video surveillance showed that at Hardy's direction, the two girls
grabbed armfuls of clothing and piled them behind a rack of clothes, police
said. Hardy then appeared to hand cash to each girl before the pair picked up
the clothing bundles and rushed through an exit. Eighteen articles of clothing
valued at $673.50 were recovered.
courant.com
Uttar Pradesh, India: UP
Police finds trail of online fraud selling luxury; techies and student groups
illegally using stolen credit card data to shop gadgets from online portals
An investigation carried the Special Task Force of UP Police reveal a widespread
network of youth have started business of selling gadgets, electonics and
cosmetics by using stolen data of international credit cards. "Most of these
cards belong to various international banks from Washington, New Jersey and Ohio
in the US. We have also found card details from Australia and European
countries, "UP STF's Superintendent Triveni Singh said.
indiatoday.in
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Shootings
& Deaths
Long Island, NY: 1
Dead in Wrong-Way Crash; Fleeing From Robbery
at Americana Mall
A car fleeing a robbery scene on Sunday was driving the wrong way on a road
off the Long Island Expressway when it slammed into another vehicle, killing
one person, authorities say. Police say the people in a black car had just
robbed a store at the Americana Mall in Manhasset when officers began
pursuing them. The driver in the suspect vehicle went the wrong way on South
Service Road of the LIE and crashed into a family's car around 3:45 p.m.,
officials said. Medics took four people to the hospital, including a
passenger in the black car who later died, police said. It was not
immediately clear if police were chasing the suspects at the time of the
crash.
nbcnewyork.com
Wichita, KS: One
person shot & killed at an area strip mall; gang-related
Police were investigating a fatal shooting Saturday night in a strip mall
parking lot at 13th and Vesta, between Oliver and Hillside. One person was
killed in the shooting, which police are calling gang-related. The victim
was shot in a crowded parking lot at about 7:30 p.m.
kansas.com
Myrtle
Beach, SC: Person shot in Coastal Grand Mall parking lot; 3rd shooting in
the city within 8 Hours
One person was shot Saturday afternoon in the parking lot at Coastal Grand
Mall in Myrtle Beach. Lieutenant Joey Crosby with the Myrtle Beach Police
Department said officers responded around 4:30 p.m. for a call about a
discharge of a weapon. The victim was taken to the hospital and treated for
a non-life-threatening injury. Officers are analyzing evidence in an effort
to identify a suspect, motive and determine whether the shooting is related
to shots fired at Crown Reef Resort.
wmbfnews.com
Myrtle Beach, SC: Tourist captures horrifying
Gunfight that left 7 injured
Myrtle Beach Police say the incident occurred Sunday around 12:30am near
Ocean Boulevard. Authorities say that a fight broke out among a crowd of
people after which the suspect pulled out a gun and began firing. Some
people were hit, and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening
injuries.
dailymail.co.uk
Bogota, Columbia: 3 Killed in Blast at Centro
Andino Shopping Center; Rebel group denies role in Bombing
The biggest still active rebel group in Colombia is denying it had any role
in a bombing that killed three people and injured nine others at an upscale
mall in the capital. Members of the National Liberation Army have carried
out several recent attacks in Bogota, but the group said it was not involved
in the explosion at the Centro Andino in the heart of the city's tourism
zone.
nbc29.com
Robberies
& Thefts
Saugus,
MA: Armed Mall intruder caught after search
A 16-year-old boy accused of breaking into a sporting goods store and
swiping a gun at a mall outside Boston was in custody Monday after a search
that stretched on for hours, police announced. Officers had warned that an
"armed and dangerous intruder" was inside the Dick's Sporting Goods at the
Square One Mall in Saugus, about 10 miles northeast of Boston. Saugus Police
Chief Dominic DiMella said police saw the suspect with a "long gun," but the
firearm has not been recovered yet. The mall will remain closed until
further notice.
fox25boston.com
Santa Clarita, CA:
Daylight Smash and Grab Robbery at Apple Store in Valencia
Police said preliminary reports indicate a "smash-and-grab" type operation,
noting no one was hurt in the stealing of the merchandise. Shortly before 2
p.m., four men wearing ripped jeans and gray hoodies, which they used to
cover their faces, entered the store, damaged the displays and then grabbed
merchandise before quickly leaving.
hometownstation.com
Anchorage, AK: Security
Guards shoot suspect in Ace Hardware store robbery
A man suspected of firing several bullets into a cash register while robbing
Andy's Ace Hardware store on Saturday evening was then shot by the store's
security guards while trying to escape, according to witnesses and Anchorage
police. The security guards shot the fleeing man, who has not been
officially identified, in the abdomen and the shoulder; not believed to be
life threatening injuries.
adn.com
Avocado thieves steal
$300K worth of fruit from California ripening facility from California
ripening facility
Given that the price of avocados has skyrocketed in recent months, it no
wonder a few criminals in California started dealing in black-market
avocados. Three workers at the Mission Produce ripening facility in Oxnard,
CA have been arrested and charged with grand theft of up to $300,000 worth
of avocados, says the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. The men had
reportedly been conducting unauthorized cash sales from the facility itself,
perhaps for several months.
foxnews.com
Boca Raton, FL: Sears Employee busted for
over $1,000 in refund fraud theft
Zales in the Birch Run Outlets, Birch
Run, MI reported a Grab & Run on 6/17, item valued at $3,700
Piercing Pagoda in the Dessert Sky
Mall, Phoenix, AZ reported a Grab & Run on 6/16, item valued at $999
Piercing Pagoda in the Arizona Mills
Mall, Tempe, AZ reported a Grab & Run on 6/12, item valued at $949
Piercing Pagoda in the Metro Centre
Mall, Phoenix, AZ reported a Grab & Run on 6/14, item valued at $1,999
Fred Meyer Jewelers in Wasilla, AK
reported a Grab & Run on 6/15, item valued at $2,895
Fire &
Arson
North Little Rock, AR: Fire destroys
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Ace Hardware - Anchorage, AK - Armed Robbery
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Apple Store - Santa Clarita, CA - Burglary
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B & T Shooting Supplies - Middleburg Heights, OH
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Burglary
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C-Store - Columbus, GA - Burglary
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Circle K - North Fort Myers, FL - Armed Robbery
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Cricket Wireless - Austin, TX - Robbery
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Dick's Sporting Goods - Saugus, MA - Burglary
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Dominos Pizza - Evesham Township, NJ - Burglary
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Green City Super Market - Newport News, VA -
Robbery/Shooting
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Kwik Stop - Bradenton, FL - Armed Robbery
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L.I.C. Bagel Store - Queens, NY - Robbery
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Lucky 7 Deli - Evesham Township, NJ - Burglary
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Mobile - Indianapolis, IN - Armed Robbery
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Ragazzi Restaurant -Evesham Township, NJ - Burglary
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Sunoco - Hillsborough County, FL - Robbery
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Turkey Hill - Lemoyne, PA - Robbery
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White Castle - Hammond, IN - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - Griffith, IN - Armed Robbery
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7 FoodMart - Golden Gate, FL - Armed Robbery
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12 robberies
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1 shooting
• 0 killed
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