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Carlos Prudencio named
Associate Vice President, Loss Prevention
for Canadian Tire
Carlos was previously the National Manager of Loss Prevention for Sephora before
taking this new leadership role. Carlos has also held other loss prevention
managerial positions including Regional Loss Prevention Manager for Gap Inc. and
for American Eagle Outfitters. Congratulations Carlos!
Jeffrey Freedman named Vice President Technology
for Agilence
Freedman
brings over 30 years of diverse management and hands-on technical experience in
Information Technology and Software Development. In his new role, he is tasked
with management of all software development and operational technology
infrastructure. Prior to joining Agilence, Freedman was CTO for a
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company specializing in eProcurement.
"Agilence's customer community contains some of the best known brands in the
world," said Freedman. "I am excited to join the company at a time of such rapid
growth and look forward to building software solutions that help our customers
improve store performance and increase margin." Congratulations Jeffrey!
Read more here
David Pettit named Vice
President, Food & Beverage Sales for Agilence
Pettit
comes to Agilence with 25 years of experience in sales and business development.
In his new role as VP of Sales, he will be responsible for overseeing the Food &
Beverage sales organization. Before joining Agilence, Pettit was the Executive
Sales Director for Alchemy Systems where he was responsible for developing the
go-to-market strategy for the quick service and fast casual markets.
"Agilence is still new to the restaurant world, but has already made a big
impact," said Pettit. "We have the right tools, and we have the right people,
now it's just a matter of connecting the dots for decision makers across the
restaurant space. It's exciting to be on the ground floor as we revolutionize
what data can do within the food & beverage industry." Congratulations David!
Read more here
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Pence: 'The best days
for American retailers are ahead' Vice
President Mike Pence took the stage at the National Retail Federation's
Retail Advocacy Summit in Washington D.C. Tuesday to address some of the
biggest public policy issues facing the industry. Key on the agenda - tax
reform.

"I want to assure you that our president knows as retail
goes, so goes America," Pence told a group of roughly 200 mostly small
business retailers. "Our administration is very focused on the issues that will
encourage economic growth, growth you will need to grow and succeed."
Namely, Pence conveyed President Donald Trump's support for a plan that
cuts the corporate tax rate to 15%, implements a territorial tax and brings
money back into the United States to grow the economy.
"This
president is going to work with this Congress this year, and we are going to
pass the largest tax cut since the days of Ronald Reagan," he said to a
cheering audience of retailers eager to get down to work on the advocacy
front.
Over the next few days, executives attending the summit will
move from the Hyatt Regency, where they will discuss positions on tax
reform, healthcare and the regulatory environment, to the Hill to meet with
dozens of legislators to convey their message. Their biggest lobby effort is
against the border adjustment tax, which has been hotly debated in the House
of Representatives Ways and Means committee for months.
Pushing back on the retail apocalypse narrative
Matthew
Shay, NRF president, also used the summit kick off to push back on an
"apocalyptic narrative" conveyed by the media, which has consistently
reported on the
record number of store closures and bankruptcies announced so far this year.
"The story being told about the retail industry right now is clearly not
an accurate story. We need to push back on that narrative," Shay said. "We
need to tell the story of an industry that's in transformation for sure, but
industry that is not going anywhere anytime soon."
Pence also voiced
his optimism for the industry. "The NRF slogan sums it up best. Retail
means jobs, and the best days for American retailers are up ahead, I promise
you."
retaildive.com
Agilence Adds Key Hires
to Executive Leadership Team
New
VP's of Technology & Sales provide upward momentum as Agilence continues
focus on scalable software solutions and expansion within the global food
and beverage industry.
The leader in cloud-based data analytics for
store operations and loss prevention, today announced the additions of
Jeffrey Freedman as Vice President, Technology, and David Pettit as Vice
President, Food & Beverage Sales. These
key
executive hires bring a depth of strategic expertise as the company
accelerates into its next stage of growth. See the full story in press
release column below. agilenceinc.com
Chipotle Stock Drops 5%
Yesterday
Could Have Predicted This One
Chipotle closes Virginia restaurant - Reopened
today - reports of norovirus yesterday
Chipotle Mexican Grill temporarily closed a store in Sterling, Va., Monday
after eight reports of norovirus were linked to the restaurant. Thirteen
people were sickened.
Chipotle faced an infection crisis nearly two
years ago, when
E. Coli sickened more than 50 restaurant patrons in
California, Washington, Minnesota and several other states, and more than
120 Boston College students were contracted norovirus.
The restaurant
shutdown Monday caused Chipotle's stock to drop as much as 7.6 percent, the
largest decline in several months. The company is scheduled to report
financial results for its second quarter on July 25. At the end it leveled
down 5%.
The company says the Sterling restaurant was sanitized
during the two days that it was closed.
denverpost.com
Chipotle's customers are
fleeing the brand in a 'nightmare scenario' - and they're all wrong
People took to social media on Tuesday to say that the Sterling, Virginia
incident was the final straw and that they would never eat at Chipotle
again.
businessinsidercom
Undercover
investigation finds fecal bacteria in ice at McDonald's, KFC,
and Burger
King A BBC undercover investigation has found fecal
bacteria in the ice served at McDonald's, Burger King, and KFC locations in
the UK. The news comes weeks after the BBC discovered that samples of iced
drinks from Starbucks and two other UK chains - Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero
- contained "varying levels of the bacteria."
The coliform bacteria,
which is found in human and animal feces, was discovered in three out of 10
ice samples from McDonald's, six out of 10 samples from Burger King, and
seven out of 10 samples from KFC.
"Like many UK food retailers, our
ice is made by freezing drinking water using commercial ice machines. As the
investigation highlights, there are no specific ice production standards in
place, only those relating to unfrozen drinking water. We would therefore
welcome the introduction of an agreed standard and would be happy to work
with relevant industry bodies," a spokesperson for McDonald's told Business
Insider.
businessinsider.com
How Health Issues Can Impact
Business Continuity - 5 Things You Need to Know
Yesterday's Chipotle Scare Perfect Example Of How
Human Illness Impacts A Retailer
Security and business continuity managers are monitoring events and their risk
to personnel on a real-time basis, but often health threats are not on their
radar when it comes to their risk to business operations.
In fact, it's more likely that an infectious disease outbreak could
significantly disrupt your workplace than the risk of terrorist attacks,
earthquakes and bombings all put together. Over 50 percent of companies
have had an infectious disease case in the workplace - so while these events are
rarely in the news, they impact operations every day around the world.
The good news is that most health threats are known - we know how to reduce the
risk of spreading and how to manage them. Here are five ways you can deal with
these health threats and keep your business going:

1. Monitor global health incidents - Your security and crisis
management teams are probably already monitoring for civil unrest and terror
incidents, but monitoring health threats is also critical. Outbreaks can evolve
very quickly and, once active, can last for days, weeks or months. Ensure you
have the capability to receive real-time health incident information that you
can rely on.
2. Develop an Incident Management Plan - Health threats do not
fit into the "all-hazards" approach common in many crisis management plans,
since each disease requires its own unique incident management process.
3. Create frequently asked questions documents - Employees will
want to know what to do when there is an incident, and they will want to know it
fast. As the management team, you need a FAQ document in place for each health
threat, so that you can respond quickly to your employees' concerns.
4. Monitor the impact to all your operations - Health incidents
are unique because they can impact multiple locations simultaneously. Therefore,
you need the ability to track and monitor what is happening locally at all your
offices and workplaces.
5. Know who and when to call - Once your documents and plans
are in place, it's important to know where your nearest hospital is and maintain
contacts with your local public health authority. securitymagazine.com
Editor's Note: A widespread pandemic would have a significant
impact on your entire operation, from your employee population, your customers
or lack thereof, and your solution providers partners. Not to mention the
increase security risks of theft, vandalism, burglaries, etc. Even a significant
flu outbreak would cause loss of sales and store associates. Just look
at Chipotle's current scare yesterday which probably was caused by one or two
employees coming to work sick.
Walmart Opens Up About
Automation
Robots Are Replacing Workers In Retail
Wal-Mart & other large retailers, under
pressure from Amazon, turn to technology to do workers' rote tasks
Almost all of Wal-Mart's 4,700 U.S. stores have a Cash360 machine, turning
thousands of positions obsolete. Most of the employees in those positions
moved into store jobs to improve service, said a Wal-Mart spokesman.
More than 500 have left the company. The store accountant is now a greeter
at the front door, where she still earns $13 an hour.
"The role of
service and customer-facing associates will always be there," said Judith
McKenna, Wal-Mart's U.S. chief operating officer, in an interview. But
"there are interesting developments in technology that mean those roles shift
and change over time."
Shopping is moving online,
hourly wages are rising and retail profits are shrinking-a formula that
pressures retailers from Wal-Mart to Tiffany & Co. to find
technology that can do the rote labor of retail workers or replace them
altogether.
Economists say many retail jobs are ripe for automation.
A 2015 report by Citi Research, co-authored with researchers from the Oxford
Martin School, found that two-thirds of U.S. retail jobs are at
"high risk" of disappearing by 2030.
Self-checkout lanes can
replace cashiers. Autonomous vehicles could handle package delivery or
warehouse inventory. Even more complex tasks like suggesting what toy or
shirt a shopper might want could be handled by a computer with access to a
shopper's buying history, similar to what already happens online today.
Nearly 16 million people, or 11% of nonfarm U.S. jobs, are in
the retail industry, mostly as cashiers or salespeople. The
industry eclipsed the shrinking manufacturing sector as the biggest employer
15 years ago. Now, as stores close, retail jobs are disappearing.
Since January, the U.S. economy has lost about 71,000 retail jobs,
according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"The decline of
retail jobs, should it occur on a large scale-as seems likely long-term-will
make the labor market even less hospitable for a group of workers who already
face limited opportunities for stable, well-paid employment."
"We want to simplify the stores so that we can free up
our associates...so they can focus on selling," Carol Tomé, Home
Depot's chief financial officer, said in an interview.
Wal-Mart has long squeezed efficiency out of its business, both in
stores and throughout its vast supply chain. Although it employs 1.5
million people in the U.S., it has around 15% fewer workers per
square foot of store than a decade ago.
Several of Wal-Mart's recent
published patent applications propose technology to improve customer
service, including a system that
uses facial recognition to detect customer dissatisfaction and adjust
staffing accordingly. Jobs at hundreds of stores are shifting to support new
services such as grocery pickup for digital orders.
In two stores,
Wal-Mart is testing touch-screen displays that show shoppers the differences
between devices like internet-connected speakers and thermostats. "We
don't need an associate to understand how that works, but the
associate is there to service customers and check them out," said Ms.
McKenna.
wsj.com
They are capturing the
fall of legacy retailers in real time. Is your store next?
Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio - The Most
Requested Location Dan Bell and Erik Pierson
feel your pain. The two online video stars are chronicling, to a growing
YouTube audience, the decline of stores nationwide. Pierson specializes in
shooting video inside struggling stores; Bell has made a name for himself
showing malls in their final stages of demise.
"I've had nothing but
negative experiences from retail," he said. "Malls contact me and are
livid they are featured but the reality is, what are they going to do?"
 He also checks out the financial reports of stores. That has stopped him
from filming sites that might not be doing so great where he is, but that
are doing well elsewhere.
For
Bell, preserving malls in digital form, and in quality fashion, is
paramount. It's the least they deserve, he says, as the social epicenter for
a generation of teens. "With all these malls closing, I thought, 'I should
start filming them.' "
He did, and the videos became a part of his
This
is Dan Bell YouTube channel.
An excerpt from Dan
Bell's YouTube Dead Mall Series: "Rolling Acres Mall:
BUSTED BY AKRON POLICE!!" Dan Bell.
thenewstribune.com

California Cargo
Theft Report: $55.2 million in loss in 2016
According to
CargoNet's California Theft Report, there was $55.2 million
estimated loss value in cargo theft incidents in California in
2016. As the image to the left shows, most of those cases involved the
theft of food and beverages, with electronics coming in
a close second.
The day of week with the most incidents
is Friday, and most thefts take place in a warehouse or
distribution center. The city with the most cases is Los Angeles.
calamp.com
Speedway to Hire 2,000 in
9 States
Kwik Trip Acquires 34
PDQ Food Stores - To Add 1,000 Jobs
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Tyco Retail Solutions (now Johnson Controls) Unveils
New Virtual Retail Experience Center
A 360
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House panel signs off on
$1.8B for DHS cyber office
House lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a spending measure that would provide
roughly $1.8 billion in funding for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
cyber unit
The
bill would allocate the money for the National Protection and Programs
Directorate (NPPD), the DHS office tasked with securing critical infrastructure
from cyber threats.
NPPD, which is charged with protecting U.S. cyber and physical infrastructure,
would
receive nearly $1.4 billion to help secure civilian networks, prevent
cyberattacks and espionage, and help modernize emergency communications
infrastructure.
thehill.com
RFID tech firm may be
part of Amazon Go The internet of things and
automated store technology mean a boom for tech firm Impinj, especially when
it comes to Amazon and online grocery.
Impinj Inc., whose
so-called radio-frequency identification technology allows users to tag and
track data on products, is widely speculated to be part of the
Amazon
Go automated store experiment. Shares have more than tripled since its
initial offering last July, making it the best performer in the Bloomberg
IPO Index over the past 12 months.

"Connecting everyday items
just has to be the next step for the Internet," Impinj
CEO Chris Diorio said in a phone interview. "At some point in the future you
will be able to get information about an item you own or want to buy and you can
get it directly."
While other companies like
Zebra Technologies Inc. make tracking software and NXP Semiconductors NV
makes the so-called endpoint chips that go on products, Impinj offers a
complete system. Apparel retailers are currently the biggest users
of Impinj's products. Diorio estimates there are about 80 billion
connectable items a year sold in that industry, with current penetration by
Impinj and others around 5 to 10%.
Analysts say that Amazon already
uses Seattle-based Impinj's technology in its
bricks-and-mortar bookstores.
"All signs point to Amazon Go utilizing
RFID in some capacity."
Amazon, No. 1 in the
Internet Retailer 2017 Top 500, is part of the
RAIN Alliance, a group
co-founded by Impinj which promotes the universal adoption of ultra-high
frequency RFID.
digitalcommerce360.com
Execs Expect More
Cyberattacks, Higher Costs A survey of 400
C-suite executives and board members by global management consulting firm
A.T. Kearney found 85% said they think cyberattacks will become
more frequent and cost more money, while 43% ranked
cybersecurity as the top operational challenge for their business,
up from 40% in 2016. Equal to or more important than shoring up cyberdefense
capabilities to the executives is finding and retaining qualified
cyber professionals and improving employee training and awareness on cyber
issues.
"Cybersecurity experts consistently point to employee
training as a key cyber vulnerability."
wsj.com
Huge Cyber Insurance Gap
Between Actual Loss and Coverage
Insurers Need Handle on Data to Understand
Cyber Risks The estimated costs of a malicious
outage at a cloud-service provider or bad actors exploiting a previously
undisclosed software vulnerability are approximate to those of a
major hurricane, according to a report spotlighting risks facing
insurers and companies buying policies. The data highlights the problems of
insurers not offering enough coverage, insurers being afraid to take on risk
they don't completely understand and of companies not buying enough
cyberinsurance or any at all, stated the report from cyber risk
analytics firm Cyence and specialty insurance market Lloyd's of London.
Under the cloud-services outage scenario, the report estimates an
insurance coverage gap of between $4 billion and $45 billion-meaning
no more than 17% of losses are covered. The underinsurance gap is
even worse, finding just 7% of economic losses are covered.
"Insurers' understanding of cyber liability and risk aggregation is an
evolving process as experience and knowledge of cyberattacks grows."
wsj.com
From Russia With Love -
Online Cyber Crime School
A $945 class teaches online scammers of the
future
The six-week seminar
works just like other online courses, with tuition, alumni testimonials and
real instructors This school isn't a scam. It teaches
you how to commit one.
Digital Shadows, a security firm based out of
the United Kingdom, followed the online fraud ecosystem, and released its
research on Wednesday.
The company found several guidebooks online,
that can sell for $1, or forums where thieves can trade tips in secrecy, but
nothing as in-depth as the six-week course. Digital Shadows enrolled in the
WWH-Club's online seminar, where "tuition" cost $745, with an additional
$200 for course materials.
"It's on a scale that haven't seen
before, and they refresh the course material every six months."
New students had to pay in cryptocurrency, like Webmoney or Bitcoin.
WWH-Club advertises itself as the "world's largest carding forum."
Like any online course, WWH-Club has a curriculum. There are 20
lectures, with five instructors, required reading and quizzes. Each lecture
lasts more than an hour, and there is a maximum class size of 15 students.
The lectures touch on topics like "Bruteforcing Paypal," "Working on
Android," and taking advantage of specific industries like hotels and
flights. The classes are only in
Russian and offer retraining every six months -- if you can
afford to pay again.
The instructors would tell students that they
could make more than $3,000 a month for less than 12 hours a week. They
suggested websites where a newly minted scammer could buy a stash of
stolen credit cards, and then how to turn it into cash.
One
of the lectures listed websites that allowed purchases with stolen
credit cards, follow by instructions on how to sell the goods for
cash.
cnet.com
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Sears Canada's Thousands Get
No Severance Key
Workers get $9.2M Retention Bonuses Plan we
approved June 22 at initial filing of 59 store closures and 2,99 lay offs.
Sears Canada plans on rewarding select employees with retention payments
totalling up to $9.2 million while laying off thousands without severance, a
move met with public outcry and criticism from some former employees.
Under the court-approved retention plan, 43 senior management and key
employees will receive up to $7.6 million while Sears undergoes
restructuring, and 116 employees of closing stores will receive up to
$1.6 million. The payments to senior management would be made in
several instalments over 180 days, and closing store employees would
receive bonuses equal to 25 per cent of their base salary once the
store is shuttered.
"If these key insiders with key corporate knowledge
of the company's history walk away, it would not only delay restructuring, but
it may make it impossible. If you don't have these people, you can't
restructure. If you lost them all, it could be the end for Sears,"
David Lewis, an assistant professor of retail management at Ryerson University,
said.
financialpost.com
Sears Canada Gets OK to
Start Soliciting Bids
Court grants Sears Canada
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Ironic Twist
First Nations Tribe Suing Canadian Fed. Gov't For
$3B Failing to
Stop Contraband Tobacco Producers The lawsuit,
filed in the Ontario Court of Appeal at the end of June by Grand River
Enterprises', the biggest manufacturer of Native cigarettes in Canada, accuses
the Attorney General of Canada of "malfeasance in public office, negligence,
breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of aboriginal rights."
Seeking
$1.5 billion in damages for revenues allegedly lost to the
approximately 50 unlicensed and therefore illegal cigarette
manufacturers in the province competing with their brands, and
another $1.5 billion for the government's failure to close them down.
The irony, of course, is that GRE manufactures millions of
cigarettes a day at its processing plants on the Six Nations reserve
near Brantford, cigarettes that show up at smoke shacks on reserves across the
province, and are then sold illegally to non-aboriginals for almost
two-thirds less than smokes sold legally at convenience stores.
The lawsuit is based on two theories of liability - the "forced incorporation"
of GRE, and the "failure" of the federal government to "enforce" its agreement
to come down hard on First Nation cigarette manufacturers churning out products
without a license.
It was a raid by the RCMP on GRE back in the mid-1990s
that resulted in GRE reluctantly agreeing to pay federal excise taxes to avoid
being shut down, with the feds then promising to "ntensify enforcement against
contraband to level the playing field between GRE and other on-reserve tobacco
manufacturers."
A recent study by the National Coalition Against
Contraband Tobacco shows a full third of cigarettes in Ontario are
purchased illegally, with Northern Ontario breaching 60%.
GRE
argues in the court document that the federal government, namely through the
Attorney General's office, has "failed to implement or administer what has been
cited as the 1994 Anti-Smuggling Initiative and, as a result of not enforcing
laws against the production of contraband cigarettes by other First Nation
profiteers, it has caused Montour and company to "incur substantial losses."
torontosun.com
Woodbridge firm, Creation
Foods, fined $25,000 for distributing fake kosher cheese
It is the first Canadian case related to misrepresentation of kosher food to be
brought before Ontario court.
A Woodbridge, Ont. company,
Creation Foods Company, has been fined $25,000 by the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) after using a forged kosher certificate to sell
non-kosher cheese to two Jewish youth camps in Ontario.
canadiangrocer.com
Exact Same Patterns Emerging
as U.S. Online
Sales Growth Continues Upwards +9.9%
Canada's June Retail Sales Relatively Soft - Up
3.2% Compared to the strong growth seen in
May (5%+), June's retail sales were relatively softer. All Store Sales
were up 3.2% while All Stores Less Automotive, Food, Pharmacies was up 3.8% in
June. While two categories performed significantly poorly this month,
the remaining categories were all over the map, contributing to what was
essentially a lukewarm month for retailers.
No surprise that
Department Stores were down (-4.2%) as discussed in length last month,
but the category that continues to see negative growth this year is
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores which had a -7.7% decline in sales
in June.
We continue to see strong growth in the
Building Material and Garden Equipment Stores (6.6% year-to-date sales)
and decent growth with the Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores (3.2%
year-to-date sales). Home Depot saw strong growth in the first quarter with a
4.9% increase for their comparable store sales. Apparel fared poorly
in part due to the variant weather throughout the country which has not been
conducive for shopping.
Non-store retailers continued to be
strong with a 9.9% increase in sales for June.
jcwg.com
Halton police launch ID Me
Monday initiative to catch shoplifters
Canadians at risk as
counterfeit goods sneak through customs
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Winnipeg, MB: 7-Eleven Parking Lot Package
-Turns Out to Be Bomb
A
22-year-old Winnipeg man says he is happy to be alive and praying for his
injured friends after a bomb exploded in the pickup truck they
were in on the weekend. Police reported Tuesday morning that two people - a
27-year-old man and 20-year-old woman - were in critical condition after the
explosion, which took place 50 metres from a 7-Eleven.
The person who brought the bag to the 7-Eleven was also not an intended victim
and might not have known what was inside. The improvised explosive device was in
a bag inside the cab of the truck when it accidentally went off.
Initially, emergency crews responded to what was believed to be a crash that
caused the truck to go up in flames. The four people were found outside the
vehicle suffering from severe burns.
cbc.ca
St. John's, NL: Would-be armed robbers locked out
of St. John's drug store Part of One-Hour Narcotics Robbery Spree
Police in St. John's are investigating an armed robbery, and an attempted
robbery, at two drug stores on Thursday. Officers were called to a pharmacy in
the Churchill Square area around 4:20 p.m. Staff reported there were two men
with their faces covered, carrying what appeared to be a weapon, outside the
store. The workers refused to release the electronic lock to let them in the
store, so the two suspects fled the area.
Then, about an hour later, the
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was called to a pharmacy in the Major's Path
area. Two men, with their faces concealed and carrying a weapon, entered the
store and got away with an undisclosed amount of narcotics.
cbc.ca
Sarnia, ON: Crew busted for $30K credit card fraud
after hitting 10 stores Sarnia police have
arrested four people from Toronto who allegedly went on a $30,000 shopping spree
with stolen credit cards. Two men and two women are believed to have purchased
jewelry, cellphones and a host of other items from 10 different stores using
phony credit cards, according to police. The four suspects, ranging in ages from
27 to 42, have been charged with a total of 64 criminal offences, including
theft, possession of stolen property, credit card fraud and breach of
recognizance.
cbc.ca
Toronto, ON: Chaos Erupts At
Pizza Parlor As Crazy 10-Person Brawl Breaks Out
Barrie,
ON: Customer helps clerk during convenience store robbery
Edmonton,
AB: Truck backs through Sobeys store in attempt to steal ATM
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Mac's - Windsor, ON - Armed Robbery
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Northgate Pharmacy - Sarnia, ON - Armed Robbery
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Petro Canada - Barrie, ON - Armed Robbery
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Undisclosed pharmacy - St. John's, NL -
Armed Robbery (Churchill Square)
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Undisclosed pharmacy - St. John's, NL -
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through restorative justice. Lohra Miller, CEO, Turning Point Justice,
tells us about the Cloud Justice Platform, which provides consistent, quality
reporting based on retailers' individual policies and procedures, while
Barbara Staib, Director of Communications,
National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, tells us how the proactive
approach of TPJ's Court Alternative Program is a win-win-win for retailers,
their communities, and the offenders who are given the opportunity to change
their lives.
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Counterfeit consumer
goods online pose risk to shoppers' health
27% of online shoppers duped into buying fake
make-up, skincare, medicine New research from
MarkMonitor, the world leader in enterprise brand protection, reveals
counterfeit goods still pose a significant risk to consumers. More than
one-quarter of respondents (27%) said they had unwittingly purchased
non-genuine consumer goods online. This included every day items, such as
make-up (32%), skincare (25%), supplements (22%) and, worryingly, medication
(16%).br> Respondents found these non-genuine goods were found through a
variety of online channels, including online marketplaces (39%), search
engines (34%), mobile apps (22%) and social ads (20%).
"The threat
of counterfeiters is ever-present, affecting both brands and consumers. For
brands it's all about the loss of revenue, reputation and customer trust.
However, when it comes to non-genuine consumer goods such as cosmetics,
skincare, sun care and medicines, the consequences for shoppers are far
greater, affecting their health and wellbeing. As a result, it is up to
brands to ensure they have a solid online brand protection policy in place
to deal with the counterfeit threat and keep their customers safe from
harm," says Anil Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer of MarkMonitor. Read
the full report
here
prnewswire.co.uk
What retailers need to
know about the new ad-blocking initiatives In
the span of two weeks recently, the two largest internet companies, Google
and Apple, announced ad-blocking initiatives that will have major
ripples on the internet ecosystem. Retailers, who are increasingly
looking at e-commerce as a vital revenue driver, need to pay attention to
these changes, which will have significant impact on their online marketing.
Google will only block ads that don't follow the guidelines set
out by the Coalition for Better Ads. To pass through Google's ad
filter, retailers will need to think carefully about aligning the consumer
experience with their display strategy.
For starters, retailers will
need to limit the reach and frequency of their ads by carefully selecting
where and when to place media.
The stricter prohibitions on digital
ads will also lead retailers to focus more on in-app advertising efforts,
since apps are not impacted by the ad-blocking measures.
Lots of
retailers use display advertising to market to consumers early in their
shopping journey. With Google's stricter rules, retailers should consider
turning to search marketing, which is not affected by the ad-blocking
initiative, for top-of-the-funnel marketing.
digitalcommerce360.com
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Cupertino, CA: Burglars enter through Verizon
store roof, steal $138,000 in merchandise
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has arrested two men in connection
with a daring burglary at a Verizon store in Cupertino. Two burglars went to
extreme lengths entering through the roof and cutting through a metal door
to steal more $138,000 in merchandise. Deputies said the two burglars were
bold and brazen. Suspects caught 10 miles away, cell phone tracking device
gave them away.
ktvu.com
Redlands, CA: Amazon
warehouse employee accused of $30,000 in thefts
An employee of the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Redlands has been accused of
making fraudulent returns on hundreds of items worth tens of thousands of
dollars. Jacob Andrew Knox, 24, of Yucaipa was arrested July 10 on suspicion
of grand theft and burglary, according to the San Bernardino County jail
log. Knox bailed out the next day. Knox made fraudulent returns totaling
more than $30,000 between February and July. About $6,000 in stolen property
was recovered.
redlandsdailyfacts.com
Update: Chad Johnson has
Hilarious Reaction after being Identity Theft Victim
A 25-year-old man attempted to assume the identity of a well-known former
National Football League receiver Friday in a bid to purchase more than
$18,000 worth of merchandise from Louis Vuitton in downtown Aspen, police
said in court documents. At that point, Cabe gave Johnson's name but was
unable to give the phone number corresponding to Johnson's account. Johnson
got a kick out of it when he saw the story, but was also mystified.
sbnation.com
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Palm Desert, CA: Man Arrested in $10,000 theft
from Westfield Palm Desert Mall
A man was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of grand theft for allegedly
stealing up to $10,000 worth of merchandise at the Westfield Palm Desert
mall last month. What stores reported thefts was not disclosed by deputies.
patch.com
Destin,
FL: Shoplifter Uses Box Cutter as a Weapon inside Best Buy
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office stated that a man was caught
shoplifting inside Best Buy. 36-year-old Kelly Hurley was using a box cutter
to open merchandise, and was suspected of shoplifting what he found in the
boxes. When employees tried to stop and confront him about the stealing, he
pulled the box cutter out on them threatening to use it as a weapon. One
worker took Hurley to the ground, and kept him there until Deputies arrived.
After deputies arrested Hurley, they found a Bluetooth speaker, headphones,
and a portable charging device on him. Hurley is being charged with
aggravated assault, larceny (third or more offense), and the use of an anti
shoplifting control device.
mypanhandle.com
Arlington Heights, IL:
Guitar Center thieves hit for over $5,000
Thieves stole a black American Vintage Fender Stratocaster guitar and a blue
American Elite Telecaster Fender guitar between 8 a.m. July 7 and 8 a.m.
July 14 from Guitar Center, on S. Arlington Heights Road. Value was
estimated at $5,000.
dailyherald.com
Des Plaines, IL:
Mariano's Grocery reports $650 ORC theft
A man was seen taking boxes of shaving razors, baby formula and nicotine
patches around 1:37 p.m. July 7 from Mariano's, 10 E. Golf Road. He left in
a white SUV driven by an accomplice. Value was estimated at $657.
dailyherald.com
Orland Park, IL: Apple Store Security
Guard arrested for $1,700 theft
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Shootings
& Death
Hardware store Owner
Killed in 'brazen daytime shooting' in Boston
Andres Cruz, owner of AC Hardware was a popular figure to local residents.
Cruz was shot at the address of his shop after three men tried to rob him,
according to police. Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans called "a
brazen daytime shooting of a good, well-respected man doing the right
thing." Three suspects have been taken into custody.
masslive.com

Clarksdale, MS: Kroger shooting: Man shot
inside Mississippi grocery store
A gunman opened fire inside a Clarksdale grocery store Tuesday night. Police
were called to the Kroger on State Street. Investigators said one person was
shot in the leg inside the store. The accused shooter is in custody. The
victim said he got into an argument with someone he knows. He said they were
friends and claimed he was in the wrong. The victim does not want the
suspect to be locked up.
fox13memphis.com
Robberies
& Thefts

Indianapolis, IN: Dollar General Robbery
suspect smashes into Police Car, Officer injured
A robbery suspect crashed into multiple vehicles, including a police
cruiser, while trying to get away Tuesday night. He eventually crashed into
a car and continued eastbound on 10th Street, where the car struck another
vehicle at an intersection. Police said the man then intentionally rammed an
IMPD car; the officer suffered minor injuries. The man was taken into
custody.
cbs4indy.com

Watertown, MA: Police searching for six in
connection with CVS robbery
Watertown Police are advising residents to keep an eye out for six
individuals wanted in connection with an assault and robbery at CVS on
Monday. According to police, the six men were involved with a theft at the
CVS located at 27 Main Street on Monday at 5 a.m. Watertown Police said that
the individuals are also suspects in an assault and battery that occurred in
the area on the same night against a man over 60 years old.
wickedlocal.com
Armed robbers targeting Metro PCS
stores in Minneapolis, St Paul
Salt Lake valley, UT: Police searching
for suspects in string of overnight robberies in Salt Lake valley
Piqua, OH: Ohio State Troopers chase
down Walmart shoplifters
Great Falls, MT: Woman kneed Police
Officer in groin during shoplifting stop
Counterfeit
Toledo,
OH: Ringleader pleads guilty to selling counterfeit merchandise and stolen
electronics, shipping the money overseas
Mamoun Awwad, 45, of Toledo was then found guilty by Judge Jack Zouhary of
conspiracy to commit racketeering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
He was one of 26 Toledoans indicted in 2015 by a federal grand jury on
accusations that through a number of stores and businesses owned by Awwad
and other family members they sold stolen computers, cell phones, and
tablets in Ohio, Michigan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine between 2006
and early 2015. They're also accused of cashing checks and laundering them
through nearly 90 different bank accounts.
toledoblade.com
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AC Hardware - Boston, MA - Armed Robbery/ Owner shot & killed •
Amazing Glazed - Chesapeake, VA - Armed Robbery •
Chevron - Columbus, MI - Armed Robbery •
Circle K - Cedar Park, TX - Armed Robbery •
CVS - Seal Beach, CA - Robbery •
CVS - Jacksonville, FL - Armed Robbery •
Dollar General - Indianapolis, IN - Robbery •
Dollar General - Haysi, VA - Robbery •
Henry County Gun and Pawn - Henry County, GA - Burglary •
Kum & Go - Sioux City, IA - Armed Robbery •
Target - Waldorf, MD - Burglary •
Verizon Wireless - Cupertino, CA - Burglary •
Walgreen's - Mentor on
the Lake, OH - Armed Robbery •
Wine & Spirits - Brentwood, TN - Burglary •
7-Eleven - Millcreek, UT - Armed Robbery •
7-Eleven - Midvale, UT - Armed Robbery •
7-Eleven - Salt Lake City - Armed Robbery
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13 robberies
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4
burglaries
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1 shootings
• 1 killed
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