Retail Loss, Safety and Security
This Working Group is focused on enabling retailers to understand, measure and control the increasingly complex array of loss challenges they now face.
From incidents of violence against store team members to corporate fraud events, the retail risk landscape is forever changing, requiring those tasked with its management to constantly learn, adapt, and respond.
By listening to the evolving needs of its members, this ECR Working Group provides a forum for loss prevention leaders to share, engage and learn from an innovative research agenda.
Research papers
Our research papers offer groundbreaking insights and actionable outcomes to help retailers and their partners better manage the many ways in which profits can be negatively impacted by all forms of retail loss. Produced by some of the leading academic experts in the field of retailing and loss prevention, they are all free to download.
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Most at-Risk Stores: How to Engage Others in a Cross-Function Risk Mitigation Strategy
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Measuring Retail Shrink
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Understanding the Retail Loss Problem in the New Era of High Inflation
Lisa Jack
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Fortress Stores: Keeping the most-at-risk grocery stores trading
Emmeline Taylor
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Beyond Shrinkage: Introducing Total Retail Loss
Adrian Beck
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Engaging Retail Buyers in Loss Prevention
Insights on buyers, and case studies on how to engage them to reduce losses
Nicole De Horatius
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Understanding Hot Products
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Understanding High Shrink Stores
Developing an understanding of what makes some retail stores vulnerable to shrinkage
Adrian Beck, Paul Chapman
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Staff Dishonesty in the Retail Sector
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Improving Employee Engagement to Reduce Retail Loss
How improving engagement in just the bottom quartile of stores can reduce unknown loss (shrink) by 12.5%
Adrian Beck
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Designing Packaging to Prevent Unknown Loss and Shrink
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Amplifying Risk in Retail Stores
The evidence to date on the technologies that aim to make shop thieves think twice
Adrian Beck
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A Proven Approach to Shrinkage Reduction
How adopting a systemic, systematic and collaborative approach has been proven to sell more and lose less
Adrian Beck, Paul Chapman
Learn moreOur Meetings
ECR Retail Loss Group regular working group meetings provide an opportunity to network with industry peers, hear updates on the latest research and sector initiatives, and development new skills and insights. All retailers, CPGs and academics can participate at no cost.
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Finding the Shrink that is NOT Shrink
Feb 13th - 1pm UK
UpComing
Finding the Shrink that is NOT Shrink
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Fresh Meat Losses - Latest Thinking
March 11th - 1pm UK time
UpComing
How to reduce losses on fresh meat?
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Internal Theft: Exploring the Impact of Advertising
April 8th - 1pm UK time
UpComing
Reducing Internal Theft - Updates on Communication and Advertising Campaigns
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Security Guarding Budget - Exploring the New Ways to Improve the ROI
June 4th - 1pm UK time
UpComing
Retailers share their latest Security Guarding Strategies
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Product Protection Innovation - Retailer Updates
Sept 24th - 1m UK
UpComing
Retailer Updates on Product Protection Innovation
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Cash Loss - The Case for Change
Oct 22nd - 1pm UK
UpComing
Latest Retailer Initiatives to Manage Cash Loss
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Online Innovation Showcase Finale
November 6th - 1pm UK
Past
What are the hottest innovations in retail risk, safety and security?
Joel Wallington, CEO, Co-Cubed...
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Access Control - Latest Retailer Thinking on Biometrics
November 5th - 1pm UK
Past
Exploring the emerging use of biometrics for access control in retail
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Training Security Guards - Latest Retailer Practices
October 31st - 1pm UK
Past
Training Security Guards - Latest Retailer Practices
Joe Rutlidge, UK Guarding & External Partnerships Manager, Tesco UK...
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Cash Loss - The Case for Change
Oct 23rd - 1pm UK
Past
Latest Retailer Initiatives to Manage Cash Loss
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Store Incident Reporting - Retailer Updates
Oct 3rd - 1pm UK
Past
Updates on progress made by retailers strengthening their store incident reporting capabilities
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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How do you optimise your security guarding budget?
June 5th - 1pm UK time
Past
Retailers share their latest Security Guarding Strategies
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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New Research: Retail Risk Models: Exploring Current Practices
May 2nd - 1pm UK
Past
Join us for the launch and learn about how you can participate in this new research
Professor Emmeline Taylor...
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Advertising Works - How Winning Ad Campaigns can Reduce Staff Dishones...
April 11th - 1pm UK time
Past
Reducing Internal Theft - Best Practices in Deploying Advertising that Works!
Professor Adrian Beck...
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Developing a Loss Prevention Programme from Scratch
April 9th - 3pm UK
Past
How to develop an LP programme from scratch?
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Fresh Meat Losses - Latest Thinking
March 14th - 1pm UK time
Past
How to reduce losses on fresh meat?
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Retail Loss - Managing Forecourt Losses
Jan 9th - 1.00pm UK TIme
Past
Managing Petrol / Gas Forecourt Losses
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Access Control - Latest Retailer Thinking
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Loss Prevention Leaders Meeting - Oct 18th & 19th
Oct 18th & 19th
Past
Shaping the future of loss prevention (including ecommerce)
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Store Incident Reporting - Retailer Updates
Oct 3rd: 1pm UK time
Past
Unleashing the power of data to monitor, measure and engage others
Professor Emmeline Taylor...
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Innovation in Product Protection - Retailer Updates
September 28th - 1pm UK Time
Past
Learn about new ways to protect high theft items
Colin Peacock...
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Distribution / Fulfilment Centre - Innovations in Loss Prevention
June 27th - 3pm UK tme
Past
Innovations in Upstream Loss Prevention
Colin Peacock, ECR Retail Loss...
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Measuring and Monitoring Internal Theft
June 27th - 1pm UK tme
Past
How do we know if internal theft is changing?
Professor Adrian Beck...
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Fortress Stores: Keeping the most at risk stores trading
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New Research - Understanding the Impact of Inflation on Shrink
April 19th - 1pm UK
Past
Exploring the relationship between shrink and inflation
Professor Lisa Jack, University of Portsmouth...
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Fortress Store - Research Findings
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Retail Loss - Managing Forecourt Losses
Jan 10th - 1.00pm UK TIme
Past
Managing Petrol / Gas Forecourt Losses
Sameer Ali, Operations & Fuel Loss Prevention, EG Group...
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Exploring the Impact of Inflation on Shrink
December 8th - 1pm UK
Past
Honey, what's happened to my shrink? Is it inflation?
Professor Lisa Jack, University of Portsmouth...
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Retail Loss: Updates on Incident Reporting
Nov 15th - 3pm UK Time
Past
Moving Incident Reporting into the Digital Age
Wade Schillo, Senior Manager, AP...
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Imagining the Future Shape of Loss Prevention
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Use of Hard Tags in Retail - Latest Thinking
Sept 29th - 3pm
Past
Latest Thinking on the Use of Hard Tags in Retail
Phil Williams, Retail Risk Business Partner, River Island...
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Distribution Centre Loss Prevention - Managing DC Shortages
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
On Shelf Availability - Innovations in Practice
Retail Loss, Safety and Security
Future of Product Protection - Future Thinking
September 20th - 1pm UK Time
Past
Future Product Protection Technologies - What is the future?
Colin Peacock...
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