Retailers are constantly struck by outside influences out of their control. Rising cost of living, less consumer spending and increases in operating expenses erode profits. But what the retailer can control is its methods of loss prevention. Preventing shoplifting, stopping employee theft and reducing shrinkage can help ensure the retail store is keeping the most revenue possible. Here are the top picks in loss prevention books.
1. Preventing Shoplifting Without Getting Sued: Practical Advice for Retail Exec...
Praeger Pub Text
Sound advice with many real life examples from Michael Budden. The author helps retailers better understand shoplifting's enormous financial hazards to their businesses. A great guide developing a loss prevention plan. (Quorum Books)
2. Retail Manager's Guide to Crime and Loss Prevention: Protecting Your Business...
Looseleaf Law
Liz Martinez provides a rare, insider look at the world of retail theft and the strategies that effectively combat it. She explains the best way to prevent and prosecute retail theft is to know the tricks of the trade. (Looseleaf Law)
3. Loss Prevention in the Retail Business
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Based on a series of seminars given by a retail security and loss prevention specialist, this book covers a wide range of critical loss prevention subjects which have been tailored specifically to the retail trade. (John Wiley & Sons)
4. Biting the Hand That Feeds: The Employee Theft Epidemic--New Perspectives, New..
Infinity Publishing
Mr. Shulman tackles the employee theft epidemic in a whole new light. He debunks the myths and exposes a problem that affects us all—offering unique personal and professional insights from his decade of working with theft addictions and disorders.
5. Reducing Employee Theft
Quorum Books
This book provides a practical theft reduction strategy, based on techniques that have proven successful in a variety of firms. A valuable asset in a retailers efforts to confront the growing problem of employee theft. (Greenwood Publishing Group)
6. Loss Prevention Threats and Strategies: How People Steal From...
Advantage Source Inc
The top 20 security threats to a business are closely examined in this comprehensive loss prevention manual. Learn the ways people can destroy your profits and what you can do to eliminate the threats. (Advantage Source)
7. Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business
John Wiley & Sons
Real-life examples show managers and executives how to identify business, customer, and employee identity theft, how these crimes are committed, how best to prevent them, and overall, develop an honest company culture. (John Wiley & Sons)
8. Loss Prevention and the Small Business: The Security Professionals Guide...
Butterworth-Heinemann
A comprehensive guide to developing and maintaining a loss prevention strategy. This book assists the reader in creating a dynamic proactive plan for protecting hard-earned profits from the menace of internal and external loss. (Butterworth-Heinemann)
9. Shoplifters vs. Retailers: The Rights of Both
New Century Pr
Written by a security management consultant, this book shares the author's professional expertise in the field of retail security with actual cases from the perspective of the person stopped, then from the point of view of the security agent. (New Century Press)
10. Retail Security and Loss Prevention
Palgrave Macmillan
Based on systematic research and field experience, this book was designed to provide loss prevention managers, store managers, and retail and security students with a powerful problem-solving resource. It describes the most common retail crime and loss problems along with a step-by-step process for diagnosing and treating these problems. (Palgrave Macmillan)
