ECR Europe
This organization is a collaboration of leading European retailers, manufacturers, and academics conducting research in shrinkage reduction issues. Below are several free reports resulting from their past research. Other reports are available for a fee from their web site.
View items...Loss Prevention Research Council
The Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) is a small, highly focused organization of retailers and their suppliers whose mission is to rapidly evaluate and develop innovative crime and loss control techniques that can improve the performance of its members. The LPRC provides research grants to the University of Florida and other insitutions, hosts industry workshops, and conducts specific research and development for its members.
View items...National Retail Security Survey
This survey is the prinicipal activity of the Security Research Project of the University of Florida headed by Dr. Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D. Since 1991, the survey has focused on retail loss prevention practices and results. To obtain a copy of the latest survey, email your request to Dr. Hollinger at rhollin@crim.ufl.edu.
View items...Perpetuity Research & Consultancy International
The PRCI is a management and research consultancy based in Leicester (UK) that includes researchers and analysts who conduct crime and loss prevention-related research.
View items...University of Florida Loss Prevention Research Team
The LPRT is a multi-disciplinary research group comprised of criminology, retail marketing and consumer behavior, building construction, architecture, interior design, asset protection, and urban planning experts whose goal is to provide crime control recommendations to corporate security decision-makers. The team has extensive experience conducting risk assessments of spaces, places, and processes using site- and asset-specific security audits, failure mode and effect analysis protocols, offender interviews and site visits, surveys, focus groups, CCTV video analyses as well as predictive modeling and field experiments.
View items...One of the most important issues raised by citizen groups and local communities in the growing public debate about Wal-Mart is whether or not a relationship exists between Wal-Mart stores and crime. In the last few years, anecdotal news accounts of crimes at Wal-Mart stores or parking lots, coupled with statements made by law enforcement, have raised a public concern that Wal-Mart stores may be, as one court has described it, a "magnet for crime"
The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities offered by recent developments within the sphere of product Auto Identification (Auto ID) technologies to impact upon the problem of shrinkage in the retail sector and their suppliers (both manufacturers and third-party logistics providers). Its purpose is not to provide specific strategies for its implementation, but to consider the potential to impact upon shrinkage in the short, medium and long term.
Good research often generates more questions than it answers. But so does poor research. A brief review of the May 1, 2006 white paper Crime and Wal-Mart- “Is Wal-Mart Safe?”: An Analysis of Official Police Incidents at Wal-Mart Stores raises many questions about the motives, methods and conclusions of its unnamed authors due to serious and avoidable flaws.
There is a need to measure shrinkage in order to determine its extent and trend. This white paper presents a review of shrinkage measurement in grocery retail and the findings from a survey of European companies in this sector.
This report details the findings from the second ECR Europe survey on stock loss in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector in Europe.
Stock loss in Europe's consumer goods/grocery industry is an astounding €18 billion per year, causing the typical retailer to lode one-third of their profits. Since 1999 ECR Europe has worked to show how companies can collaborate to address this issue. The success of the ECR approach is demonstrated in the concrete results achieved by companies that applied the shrinkage reduction roadmap.
