The Loss Prevention Chronicles

1. March April 2006 The Slaughterhouse Suprise
2. May June 2006 Mom and the Money Room
3. July August 2006 Completing Tasks with Force!
4. September October 2006 A Fugitive From the Law of Averages
5. Nov Dec 2006 The Innocent Have Nothing to Hide ...The Guilty Can Hide Nothing 2
6. The Monk Incident Jan Feb 2007
7. The Magic Key March April 2007
8. The Four Principles of Chess May June 2007
9. Climbing the Theft Ladder July August September 2007
10. It’s the Money Room Stupid
11. The Route to Perdition
12. The Route to Perdition is Paved with Greed - Part Two
13. The Betrayal
14. Jam’em Up and Flip’em Over
15. People of the Lie -The Security Guard -The Delivery Driver & The Vending Attendant
16. The Dynamic Duo: Batman and Robin
17. There is Always a Better Way

Loss Prevention Specialist's 8-month Probe Nabs Thieves and Creates a Culture of Controls

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The Retail Ride-

Published Monthly-Loss Prevention & Security Journal Magazine-2002/2003-Virgo Publishing Inc.

Introducing “The Retail Ride” a 13 part fictional serial of the real world challenges facing
the men and women of the retail Loss Prevention profession.

Eric Landers, the Director of Loss Prevention for Concord Inc., a privately held five
company retail group, (nicknamed by the employees the Big Grape) has hit the field with
an unannounced visit to the Big Grape's new showcase store, the gleaming flagship of
their Knob Hill supermarket division.

With a field Loss Prevention staff decimated by budget cuts, shrink, and controllable
expense spiking up throughout the company (and Sr. Management unable to connect the
dots…Hello!) The P&L of Knob Hill’s showcase store’s first inventory recently bled red
ink all over Eric’s boss the Big Grape’s owner, Mr. Concord, AKA The Big Raisin.

Intending to demonstrate to the owner, (a shrewd bean counter, but still a bean counter)
that down sizing a savvy field Loss Prevention staff to save payroll makes about as much
sense as yanking up plants to see how well the roots are growing. Eric Landers left the
seclusion of the corporate glass cocoon, to get his hands dirty and make a point. He
slipped unannounced into the troubled showcase store during Retail Ride prime time,
Saturday night.

Table of Contents
1. Pain and Suffering is in Aisle 4
2. Sun Tzu and The Art of Loss Prevention War
3. Lead, Follow or Get Out of The Way
4. Enter the Lizard
5. One Third Were Tories, One Third Were Timid, and One Third Were True Blue
6. Force, Time, Space, and Pawn Structure
7. Revenge of the True Blue
8. A Motivated Citizen
9. The Cream and the Scum Always Rise to the Top
10. It won’t be long now
11. I have seen the enemy and he is us!
12. Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
13. How sweet it is