Shopping Center & Retail

Shopping center owners and managers strive to minimize vandalism, loitering, dumpster diving and other unwanted behaviors that could devalue their property and decrease visitors to their bricks-and-mortar establishments. This month’s video shows how owners and managers rely on…

The latest growing problem for retailers is smash-and-grab theft. This is a form of a burglary that involves smashing into a barrier like a door or breaking a window, grabbing anything of value, and quickly driving or running away. Often, the costs to repair the damage to the…

No doubt, everyone is tired of the crisis. But the reality is that it still requires adapting and doing things differently. It has hit the supply chain hard creating serious and expensive bottlenecks. It has affected employment as many people lost their jobs, which created…

Shopping center environments can provide many unique security-related challenges with two of the most common being: breaking-and-entering and copper wire theft. Thieves break in searching for various goods from retail stores while wire thieves are usually in pursuit of copper…

The illegal activity of car side shows has picked up steam in recent months. The events are a type of car rally where people show off their vehicles and do burnouts and donuts. In this month’s video, one such event took place in a shopping center parking lot under our watch.…

Suspicious activity at shopping centers can make it seem unsafe to potential shoppers, who may choose other, perceivably safer places to spend their hard-earned money. Even after-hour activity can be a threat to the success of your retail location as information about a specific…

Another Halloween has come and gone. The brisk Fall air has extinguished brightly burning candles inside intricately carved jack-o-lanterns. Children’s stomachs (and apparently their parents, too, as parents steal 1/3 of their children’s Halloween candy) are filled with sugary…

It's not your imagination. Cybercrime comes with a huge price tag and it's growing. Insights from IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report says 2021 saw the highest average cost of a breach at $4.24 million. The annual cybercrime report from FBI reveals the FBI received 300,000…