Brush Up on Loss Prevention Best Practices Before the Holiday Shopping Season Hits
Join the BBA and the CSMP for our Retailer’s Empowerment Meeting. This event is intended to be a training session that offers retail owners, managers and staff a refresher on best practices to prevent retail theft.
Attendance is free, just RSVP here.
We’ll also inform retailers about BBA’s work in partnership with VT Retail & Grocer’s Assoc. and CSMP on Organized Retail Crime, as well as changes to the city’s trespass ordinance and what that means for your business.
Retailers are encouraged to come with questions for our panel of loss prevention specialists.
Agenda:
How to spot a shoplifter, what to look for: Dress/Act/Move/Carry
Preventative steps you can take to avoid retail theft: Store layout, cameras, customer
service, etc.
Best Practices: Register: Checks, Large Bills, Returns etc. , Bag checks, fitting rooms
Working with police officers to report and follow up on crimes
Upcoming changes to Universal Trespass
Q & A with retailers
Handouts
Provide handout to retailers with info on each of the above topics
Provide data on hot spots for police calls
Updated copy of Retail Safety & Security Guide