Metro One’s President Phil DeJulio honored for work with returning Veterans  De Julio has always offered opportunities to military veterans, but has recently become part of the Army's Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Program, which connects private sector businesses with soldiers transitioning back into the work force. "When Army veterans who have signed up for the program come off active duty and are looking for a job there are a lot of companies like us where they can come for an interview," said De Julio. "This is an opportunity for us to help veterans. This allows us to hire individuals who have a strong work ethic, loyalty, commitment and self discipline." To find out more about Metro One's participation in the PaYS program, call (718) 370-6778. (Source silive.com)

Amazon has also been searching for a senior Loss Prevention executive for their North American Fulfillment Centers out of Seattle  A position that reports to the Global Security and Investigative Executive at Amazon.

The Small-Format Explosion Is Coming
The workforces of the 1980s and 1970s were forced out of urban centers into the suburbs,” he noted. “Now, empty nesters are moving back into the cities, new corporations are going into downtowns again, and young consumers are returning to urban and exurban communities.” The small box trend is the logical extension of retailers’ growth plans following the consumer. -The small box trend is the logical extension of retailers’ growth plans following the consumer. Small stores allow you to get into deep urban markets,” O’Connor said. These high-density urban neighborhoods provide less flexibility for retail development so large retailers are using smaller stores. Any big-box retailer you can think of -- from Target to Tesco -- are all looking at how they can experiment with smaller stores, whether that be through a new format or a smaller versioned box. The trend also makes financial sense to a big company with limited growth options after saturating the country with its large stores. Walmart’s comparable store sales in the U.S. have been flat or down for several quarters. This year, the retailer announced it would open up to 300 small-box format stores, including up to 200 Neighborhood Markets and up to 100 Walmart Express units. The company has not announced expansion plans publicly for Walmart to Go. (Source csnews.com)

Malls are the New Anchors
With the exception of a hundred or so A malls, the B, C, and D malls are learning the hard way what they should have anticipated and acted upon a decade ago. Instead of the heavy dependence on their anchors for generating traffic and profitable growth, mall developers should have realized that nothing stays the same forever. It didn’t require a rocket scientist to predict that technology would drive a fundamental transformation across the entire industry and threaten to the very existence of retailing, as we knew it. The Internet is Not the Only Culprit - 1. Millennials Are Replacing Boomers as the Largest Consumer Segment. 2. Cash-Strained, Lower Income Consumers. 3. Outlet Malls On Fire. What’s an Anchor to Do? If you happen to be a retailer “anchoring” dying malls, you need to determine how you can get the heck out of there without paying huge penalties. Then craft a new, smaller neighborhood store strategy that can be freestanding or as a part of one of the new lifestyle “villages” mentioned earlier. (Source therobinreport.com)

LVHM Settles With Ebay - Combating Counterfeits
In a joint statement, the companies announced today they have engaged in “a cooperative effort to protect intellectual property rights and combat counterfeits in online commerce,” adding that “thanks to the cooperation measures put in place, the companies have settled ongoing litigation.” (Source wwd.com)

Companies Are Outsourcing the Chief Compliance Officer Job
A handful of companies have cropped up that provide these outsourced CCOs, who may fill the role at a number of companies at once. Proponents of the approach say it allows a smaller company to have the expertise of a full-time, independent compliance professional. But even they concede that the outsourcing option isn’t the best choice for all firms. (Source wsj.com)

US Credit Card Fraud Is Spiking Ahead of EMV Secure Chip Introduction
The belated rollout of EMV security chips in credit cards in the US is expected to lead to an increase in fraud. In fact, more fraud is already here, said Allen Friedman, director of payment services at Ingenico, a provider of card payment terminals and services. “Sixty-seven percent of the UK-issued card fraud is from the US.” “We are the last G20 country to go EMV and the criminal rings behind card fraud come with P&L demands,” said Julie Conroy, research director for retail banking at Aité Group, a Boston-based firm specializing in financial technology. “The transition will be challenging,” she added. “We are going to have all these different permutations of transactions at point-of-sale terminals — EMV- enabled with EMV terminals, some terminals will be ready and some cards will have EMV chips. (EMV stands for EMV for Europay, MasterCard MA -0.84%, Visa, the three companies that developed the standard for the security chip.) In her report on EMV, Conroy predicted that fraud would migrate to ATMs and e-commerce fraud, called “card not present.” But Friedman said that the US delay in moving to EMV has meant that fraudsters can use the mag stripes on European cards for fraudulent transactions at American merchants. (Source forbes.com)

Building a security awareness program on a shoestring budget
Implementing a security awareness program seems rather straightforward, until you actually start to implement one - factoring in things like resources and the people (users) to be trained. At that point, it can seem complicated, costly, and unnecessary. However, the process doesn't have to be a logistical and expensive nightmare, and it's certainly worth it in the long run. Organizations both large and small have implemented awareness programs for next to nothing, and while they're not perfect, many of them are able to show measurable results. The key to these successes however, is based on understanding what it is that the organization is actually trying to accomplish. There's also a shakeup happening - thanks to a seemingly endless stream of data breaches this year that have placed several large companies in the headlines. The result of this shakeup is fear, and sometimes fear has a way of producing the budget needed to strengthen security. In some circles, this additional funding opens the door to the development of security awareness programs. (Source csoonline.com)

World Customs Organization, International Trademark Association join forces on counterfeit fight  The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Trademark Association (INTA) have agreed to collaborate in the fight against counterfeiting. A memorandum of understanding - signed this week at the WCO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium - will strengthen "coordination through education and training projects, and through the exchange of information and best practices between Customs and the private sector", with a particular emphasis on public awareness raising, said the two organizations in a joint press release. (Source securingindustry.com)

Lowe's workers fix vet's broken wheelchair; Michael Sulsona had been waiting 2 years for a new one from the VA   Michael Sulsona said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had denied his requests for a replacement. Last week, his wheelchair fell apart while shopping at a Lowe's on Staten Island. Three employees immediately jumped in to help, taking the wheelchair apart and replacing the broken parts while a tearful Sulsona watched. Forty-five minutes after the store closed, Sulsona left in a wheelchair that was "like new," he wrote in a letter to the Staten Island Advance newspaper. "I kept thanking them and all they could say was, 'It was our honor,'" Sulsona wrote. Since the letter was published, VA officials sent Sulsona a custom wheelchair and have pledged to service his chair when needed. (Source kwch.com)

H&M Opens it's biggest store in the world in NYC and says they want more in NYC

Nearly 1 million fake apps targeting Android phone users

Sherwin-Williams opening 80-90 new stores

Demand for Clothing, Supplies, Electronics Drives Back-to-School Spending Up

Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th to Open Store in Charlotte, NC and Louisville, KY

Starbucks to Open More Apple-Style Flagship Stores

Quarterly Same Store Sales Results

Sherwin-Williams Company up 9.8% with net sales up 12.1%

Las Vegas Police hold a Press conference regarding the Fashion Show Mall shooting  Fights are getting ramped up, according to Metro Police. Police say they are noticing people getting more brazen, willing to open fire in public places and putting other people at risk. Police made the comments during a news conference Wednesday about the shooting at the Fashion Show Mall. That shooting started with words exchanged between two groups of young men at the food court. Things quickly ramped up and ended in gunfire. Police say it is just one example of what they are noticing lately. “This on the Strip was a shocker to me. Right at Fashion Mall? We were like, ‘wow,’” tourist Maurice Sims said. Metro Police are noticing more people are getting more brazen. (Source 8newsnow.com)


Man accused of pulling a gun on Loss Prevention at Target in Salem, OR caught  Police arrested a man accused of pulling a gun on a Salem Target store security guard during a theft on Monday. A Salem police officer spotted and recognized 28-year-old Kraig James Fox of Keizer on Tuesday night. Fox was arrested on warrants for parole violation and taken to the Marion County Jail. Fox pulled out a gun when a security member confronted him during a theft at the Target store on Center Street in Salem Monday afternoon. (Source katu.com)

Possible RI suspects sought in North East credit card fraud probe
Multiple suspects believed to be from the Cranston, Warwick or Providence area are being sought by Cambridge, Mass., police in connection with a credit card scheme that has taken place in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Cambridge Police Department is investigating multiple incidents of credit card fraud at a local business. The majority of the compromised accounts are being used in the Rhode Island and Connecticut area. (Source warwickonline.com)


Deputies searching for 2 suspects in Smash-and-Grab Robbery at Costco in Augusta, GA  The Richmond County Sheriff's Office says that deputies are searching for two suspects in a smash-and-grab robbery at Costco Wholesale off Riverwatch Parkway. Deputies responded at 7:40 p.m. Wednesday. Investigators say the suspects smashed the glass at the jewelry counter and took merchandise. (Source wrdw.com)


Burglars cut hole in wall in Verizon store theft in Carver Co., MN
The thieves demonstrated a little planning. Initially, they broke into the nail-and-spa salon next door by prying open a rear door, investigators say. They then went up into the ceiling, crawling over a common wall and dropped down into the Verizon Wireless store. (Source bringmethenews.com)

Suspect arrested in Ukiah, CA Walmart robbery; Driver of getaway car still being sought  According to the UPD, a man stole an undisclosed amount of money from the store on Airport Park Boulevard shortly before 8 p.m. after showing a firearm to an employee at the Customer Service Counter. The man, identified as Michael C. Drebaum, 33, of Clearlake, then reportedly left the store and got into a car being driven by someone else. Drebaum was identified as a potential suspect after UPD detectives learned that he was suspected in a similar robbery at the Clearlake Walmart. (Source ukiahdailyjournal.com)

High-end purses, watches stolen from Phipps Plaza Versace store in Atlanta: No sign of forced entry  A group of burglars with exquisite taste broke into a high-end Phipps Plaza clothing store early Thursday, and took expensive purses and watches before apparently fleeing in a luxury car. Officers called to the mall on Peachtree Road in Buckhead about 6:30 a.m. Thursday discovered that a number of handbags and watches had been stolen from the Versace store, but were baffled over how the thieves got into the store as there were no signs of forced entry. (Source ajc.com)

Australian Jewelry Store Owner injected during robbery
A Melbourne store owner was injected with a substance that rendered him unconscious during a robbery, police say. The 63-year-old man woke several hours after his Footscray jewelry store had been robbed of cash and jewelry. Police have arrested a 38-year-old Ardeer woman and are interviewing her. They say she may have dropped one of the stolen bags as she ran from the store about 5.30pm on Wednesday. (Source dailymail.co)

One arrested, another sought in High Point, NC T-Mobile burglary
Police have arrested one man in connection with a burglary and they are looking for person. High Point police were called to the T-Mobile Store at 2645 N. Main St. early Wednesday to check on an alarm that was set off, according to a news release. The front glass of the store had been broken out. (Source news-record.com)

Miami man arrested in Boca after $10,000 fake gift card shopping spree at Bloomingdales

2 Arrested, Charged After Skimming Device Found At Chase Bank In Prospect Hts, NY

Erie, PA woman shoplifter arrested for Robbery after slamming the Topps Store Manager into a door

SWAT team sweeps building after standoff at Breckenridge, MN Thrifty White Pharmacy; no suspect found

North Olmsted, OH police receive multiple theft reports from Home Depot

Burglars hitting Convenience Stores all over Albuquerque, NM: already hitting at least 15 stores

Kay Jewelers in the Pueblo Mall, Pueblo, CO hit with a $3699 diamond ring Grab and Run

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