When we come together, we can effect greater change. This is your chance to collaborate with other retail members and solution partners! Each working group sets quarterly deliverables in order to meet their objectives while generating ongoing, actionable results to all members. R&D and research includes offender interviews, surveys, focus groups, locational innovation via StoreLab, data analytics, and randomized field experiments.
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Product Protection Working Group
LP Innovation Working Group
Supply Chain Protection Working Group
ORC Working Group
Retail Fraud Working Group
Violent Crime Working Group
Data Analytics Working Group
PRODUCT PROTECTION WORKING GROUP
Develops packaging, benefit denial, and other product protection technology innovations, to cost-effectively reduce merchandise shortage while improving sales and the customer experience.
LP INNOVATION WORKING GROUP
Conducts research to leverage and integrate new technologies, processes, and systems to reduce shrink, fraud, and violence throughout our retail enterprises.
SUPPLY CHAIN PROTECTION WORKING GROUP
Designed to reduce shrink, enhance efficiency, and improve safety and security throughout the supply chain by conducting R&D and evaluation on best practices and emerging technology.
ORC WORKING GROUP
Reduces the impact of ORC on retailers through collaborative data collection, emerging trend analysis, and development and sharing of best practices.
RETAIL FRAUD WORKING GROUP
Provides a platform for retailers to share benchmarks on mitigation strategies of return fraud, gift card fraud, e-commerce fraud, and more.
VIOLENT CRIME WORKING GROUP
Conducts offender-focused R&D and evaluation research to improve methods of violent crime prevention and deterrence.
DATA ANALYTICS WORKING GROUP
Constructs monthly webinars touching on many areas of data analysis to provide members insight on different ways of looking at complex analytical problems. The group aims to explore methods & key indicators in identifying fraud.
NEW WORKPLACE PERFORMANCE WORKING GROUP
Focuses on projects dealing with employee deviance and employee optimization. Call series starts after Q4.