All-Tag Releases Two New Premier Solutions

Q-Tag: A New Higher ROI Hard Tag

Q-Tag will deliver a higher ROI than any other EAS hard Tag on the market.

"The Q-Tag is an EAS and RFID solution that combines high security, versatility, efficiency, safety, and marketing/promotion," commented ALL-TAG's Vice President of Sales, Andy Gilbert.

"It is very challenging to create a revolutionary EAS hard tag these days, but I can honestly say we have done it with the Q-Tag. It is by far the most secure and attractive hard tag on the market, and it's the only one that can come equipped with AM, RF, and RFID technologies all in the same tag," Gilbert continued. "Due to the custom printing of brand logos, promotional messages, QR codes, etc., even marketing/merchandising departments will love the Q-Tag."

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Q-Wrap: A New EAS Clear Cover Label

The Q-Wrap is the premier solution for protecting high-shrink, high-value retail products that cannot be protected with traditional EAS tags or labels. The Q-Wrap provides a new, simple, quick, and effective way to protect articles from shoplifting such as small cosmetics, perfumes, and other high-value packaged or standalone items.

"Loss Prevention Executives had simply given up on protecting certain hard to protect merchandise such as cosmetics and other health and beauty products, but now they can circle back to those with the Q-Wrap," explained ALL-TAG's Vice President of Sales, Andy Gilbert.

"It is the only product on the market that will secure those high-value, high-shrink products without destroying them when customers remove the wrap from the products at home."

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First Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors
Results in Arrests of More Than 35 Individuals Selling Illicit Goods
Seizure of Weapons, Drugs and $23.6 Million
Today, the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced the results of a year-long, coordinated national operation that used the first nationwide undercover action to target vendors of illicit goods on the Darknet.

Special Agents of the HSI New York Field Division, in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, posed as a money launderer on Darknet market sites, exchanging U.S. currency for virtual currency. Through this operation, HSI New York was able to identify numerous vendors of illicit goods, leading to the opening of more than 90 active cases around the country.

The Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, working with more than 40 U.S. Attorney's Offices throughout the country, coordinated the nationwide investigation of over 65 targets, that lead to the arrest and impending prosecution of more than 35 Darknet vendors. justice.gov

Online Fraud Attack Rates Spike Following Recent Breaches
Digital Goods a Favorite Target of Fraudsters - Easy to Liquidate
Online fraud attack rates have increased 13% since the beginning of 2017, resulting in billions of dollars of lost profits for ecommerce retailers and producing negative experiences for customers.

According to Forter's Fraud Attack Index, the significant data breaches of 2017 and previous years (Equifax, Verizon, Yahoo, and Uber), wreaked havoc on the private data of millions of individuals, and fed fraudsters with new batches of consumer data readily available for the taking.

As a result, the 2017 Equifax breach resulted in a 53% increase in account takeover (ATO) attempts. Perhaps the most influential and impacted of all the industries, digital goods continue to be a favourite target of fraudsters, according to the report. Fraud rates increased significantly in 2018 by 167%. The ease by which fraudsters can liquidate these goods continues to make it a high risk target.

Also, return abuse (when people return goods after using them) has increased 119% since the beginning of 2017 and policy abuse (when individuals cheat merchants through inappropriate use of coupons, discount codes, multiple account creation or reward programs) is also on the rise. Thus, coupon abuse in particular surged 217% between Q4 2017 and Q1 2018.

Given expected fraud spikes around Amazon Prime Day in July 2018, it is important that retailers take the appropriate measures to protect themselves and their customers. thepaypers.com

R-CISC Insights: Growth of business email compromise in the retail sector
Over the past few years, business email compromise (BEC) attacks have expanded significantly. Threat actors have employed these attacks due to their combination of simplicity and effectiveness and the low level of sophistication needed to execute the attacks.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has broken down the five most common BEC attacks into the following categories. Review this resource here.

Insider Dangers Are Hiding in Collaboration Tools
Digital collaboration technologies are accelerating productivity in the post-phone-call workplace, but tools like Yammer, Workplace by Facebook, and Slack have their dark side. While these channels can help speed group decision-making, they also serve as an enterprise blind spot for insider threats to do their worst - not to mention being open conduits for spreading negativity and toxic behaviors among the ranks.

In a study of over 1 million employee messages, the "Human Behavior Risk Analysis" report found that confidential information is shared in one out of every 118 public communications. Meantime, passwords are shared in one out of every 262 communications. Private communication channels are worse. Private conversation messages are 165% more likely to contain identification numbers and 76% more likely to contain passwords. darkreading.com

Akamai: DDoS attacks on the rise, become more specialized

56% of workers frustrated by employers' outdated technology, study finds

Director of Information Security job for 84 Lumber was removed from website

More than half a million prescription drugs are stolen from pharmacies each year - and most are opioids: Health Canada analysis
More than half a million prescriptions drugs are stolen from pharmacies each year, with the majority being highly addictive opioid painkillers that end up on the street, according to an analysis of Health Canada data by CBC News.

The analysis found that overall, 1.8 million doses of controlled drugs were reported missing to Health Canada in the first nine months of 2017, a 64 per cent increase from 2012, when 1.1 million doses went missing.

A majority of the nearly nine million doses that were stolen or unaccounted for over those five years were highly addictive opioid painkillers, such as oxycodone, hydromorphone and codeine. In about one-third of the cases, there was no explanation for how they went missing.

Some of the missing drugs inevitably end up on the black market, where they are in high demand by those addicted to opioids who can't get them by prescription. cbc.ca

Moving to Self-Checkout Could Hurt Your Bottom Line
Stephen O'Keefe Issues Warning For Retailers Adding Self-Checkouts
The proliferation of self checkout lanes in retail stores continues but companies need to consider some important things when implementing these systems, cautions a Canadian retail security expert. And one of the major considerations is theft, said Stephen O'Keefe, a Toronto-based veteran of the retail industry.

"If at the end of the day that math shows an ROI (return on investment), great. If it shows a bottom-line impact, then the retailer needs to decide if they will be the ones to lose market share if they do not put in self checkouts," said O'Keefe, President of Bottom Line Matters, a web-based loss prevention and risk management solutions company for small to mid-sized retailers.

"There are several things to consider when implementing a self checkout system. The sales must offset the anticipated increase in shrink just to break even," he said.

His advice to retailers is simple. Do a full analysis and return on investment research. Take into consideration some of the deferred expenses.

"If you're prepared to accept the fact that your shrink can go up a little bit because of that then you better make sure that your sales go up a lot more to offset it or at least to take market share away from a competitor. There's got to be a strategic reason why you're going to do it and not just I'm keeping up with the Joneses." retail-insider.com

Consumers in Canada are going Trump-free - until it becomes too expensive
Everywhere on social media, Canadians are encouraging one another to go "Trump-free" - that is, to shop for groceries without buying a single American product. Even restaurants are jumping on the bandwagon by serving "Trump-free" dishes. These are interesting reactions in the face of Washington's somewhat contradictory foreign trade policies.

But consumers have busy lives, fixed habits and, most importantly, specific budgets. Patriotism ranks second to price. Consumers are fickle and will opt for the product that offers the best quality for the lowest price. In other words, they will most often choose the lowest-priced item, regardless of country of origin.

If our trade war with the U.S. escalates, not only will we not have a choice in buying Canadian, it will also cost us a lot more to feed ourselves. retail-insider.com

Trade war with U.S. could tip Canada into recession, trade committee told

Trump's tariffs will be more painful for Canada than the U.S.

Canadian feds take aim at terrorist use of cryptocurrencies, prepaid cards
Virtual currency being used to commit fraud, buy illicit goods
The federal government is proposing measures that take aim at shadowy payments made by terrorists and money launderers using virtual currencies and prepaid credit cards.

The planned regulations would help close loopholes in Canada's anti-money laundering regime and address shortcomings pointed out by an international watchdog.

Virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, are increasingly being used to commit fraud and cybercrime and to buy illicit goods and services in the darker corners of the internet, notes a federal summary accompanying the proposed changes. ctvnews.ca

Prime Minister Trudeau delays marijuana legalization until Oct. 17
At a news conference on Wednesday to mark Parliament's summer break, Mr. Trudeau said provinces asked for more time to prepare their retail cannabis outlets, online mail-delivery systems and production regimes before marijuana can be legalized in Canada. theglobeandmail.com

Store Openings in Canada
● Jollibee to Open 100 Canadian Locations in 5 Years
● 'UNTUCKit' to Enter Canada this Fall with 1st Store
● La Maison Simons to Open 1st Standalone Home Store
● Laline Announces Canadian Entry with 7 Confirmed Store Locations
● Chloé Opens 1st Standalone Canadian Store
● Kimberlite Diamonds Opening 1st Store & Danier Opens Flagship
● Furla Plans to Enter Canada with Standalone Stores
● The Big Carrot opens second location
● McDonald's to expand McCafe concept in Canada with two openings

Publishing Note
Due to next week's Fourth of July holiday, 'Canadian Connections' will return on Wednesday, July 11th

Canadian online retailers could face tax on U.S. sales after Supreme Court ruling

Canada April retail sales drop as bad weather hits auto sales

86% of Canadians Believe They are Increasingly at Risk of Identity Fraud: Study

Tim Hortons plans $100M investment in distribution after complaints

Ontario Restaurant Mistakenly Targeted By Trump Fans Over Sanders Spat

Top 5 reasons why counterfeit goods are getting harder to spot
A big reason for the increase in counterfeit goods is that quite simply, that they are getting harder and harder to spot, both by consumers and also by the authorities. Here are 5 key reasons why this is the case:

1. Increased quality - Counterfeit is no longer a code word for poor quality. In fact counterfeit products are increasingly manufactured in the same factories and using the same raw materials as their genuine counterparts. However, these products will have a fake label and serial number attached to them before leaving the factory through the back door.

2. Production moving abroad - The vast majority of counterfeited items originate in China, India, and Turkey. It therefore comes as very little surprise that as fashion houses and electronics companies increasingly move their production to Asia in an effort to cut costs, the level of fake products originating from these factories is also on the rise.

3. The role of the internet - The explosion of e-commerce has made it simpler not only for counterfeiters to avoid detection, but also for would-be customers to obtain these goods. Anyone can open an online selling platform, and can just as quickly close it down to avoid exposure should they believe the authorities are growing suspicious. Not only can personal identities can be hidden, but customers can easily be fooled regarding the location the product is being shipped from.

4. Improvements in packaging - It is not just the quality and look of the products which has improved, counterfeiters are now increasingly concerned with copying everything from the packaging, through to the label sewn in to a garment, making the products more and more difficult to differentiate from the genuine article.

5. Counterfeits are going unreported - The increase in quality of the products and the attention to detail put in to pass these goods off as genuine not only makes the items difficult for authorities to tell apart from authentic products, but it also means customers are much less likely to report these products as fake. ipwatchdog.com

E-retailers react to the Supreme Court's sales tax decision with confusion and frustration
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week to allow states to require out-of-state merchants to collect and remit local sales tax on goods sold to their residents, some e-retailers are questioning what this means to their business.

While larger e-retailers and store operators are applauding the decision, citing how it "levels the playing field" among merchants, small and medium-sized online retailers say the court's decision leaves too many questions unanswered about how to proceed.

"I was waiting for clarity [from the Supreme Court decision]. I got none," says Leon Rbibo, president of The Pearl Source, a Los Angeles-based jewelry e-retailer that's been selling online for 12 years. He says that while the court did its job in ruling on the constitutionality of states' rights to collect, the question now is, what's next?

"The difficulty with the decision is the Supreme Court has left it up to Congress to come in and enact some rules, and that's a little scary because to enact legislation will take forever," says Danny Gavin, vice president and director of marketing at Brian Gavin Diamonds, an e-retailer of custom jewelry based in Texas. digitacommerce360.com

Sonoma County, CA: Safeway Shoplifting apprehension leads to $9,500 of stolen merchandise
An Antioch woman and a San Francisco man were arrested Sunday after deputies from the Sonoma Police Department, responding to a shoplifting in progress at the Safeway, discovered about $9,500 in purloined goods in the couple's vehicle. Deputies saw several items of store merchandise in plain view inside the back of the minivan. The witness was taken to the traffic stop and identified the woman as the suspect observed stealing several items of merchandise. The merchandise consisted of baby formula and multiple packages of over-the-counter medication that requires an ID to purchase. During the investigation, deputies recovered more than 400 items of similar store merchandise believed to have been stolen from other Safeway's in Napa County and Contra Costa County. The value of the suspected stolen merchandise is approximately $9,500. sonomanews.com

Sahuarita, AZ: Two charged with ORC theft after man Impersonates an Officer
Sahuarita Police officers arrested a man and woman involved in a shoplifting incident at a Walmart in Sahuarita, in which the man impersonated an officer. Police say Darrick Thomas used a Walmart phone application to upload receipts for items he did not purchase before entering the store. Thomas entered, gathered the items on the receipts, and left without paying. Thomas returned with the items wearing a Arizona Department of Corrections uniform in an attempt to receive a refund. He was arrested along with Tiffany Weilburg in the parking lot on Monday night. Detectives determined Weilburg acquired the uniform used by Thomas in the shoplifting. The pair was arrested on charges for impersonating a peace officer, organized retail theft, shoplifting and criminal trespassing. tucson.com


Marlin, TX: Tires, wheels worth nearly $100K stolen from car dealership
Dozens of wheels and tires were stolen from vehicles at the Apple Sport Ford in Marlin on Friday. According to Apple Sport Owner Sam Sinno, they received a call from the Marlin Police around 6 a.m. on Saturday about the theft of wheels and tires at their lot. Some of the cars, which were left on blocks, had some damage after the crime occurred. "We feel like it's nothing local, whether it's Marlin, Falls County or even in Central Texas. We think it's a bigger scale than that," Sinno said. ksla.com



Peachtree Corners, GA: Police looking for Two Women who tried to steal over $1,000 from Target
Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Jake Smith said, "The suspects exited the store with the full cart and were stopped by loss prevention officers," Smith said. "The suspects fled on foot through the parking lot; no vehicle was seen." gwinnettdailypost.com




Spokane, WA: Detectives searching for suspects who stole over $1,800 worth of power tools from North 40 Outfitters

Arlington, TX: Alleged Thieves Used a Stroller to Steal More Than $1,000 in Beauty Products from Ulta

New Zealand: Sticky-fingered thieves take $5,500 of manuka honey from Pak'n Save Supermarket
 

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