Latest Retail Industry Insights | The Auror Intel Blog

Apr 10, 2025

1 in 8 US retail crime events involve threatening behavior

Auror’s US Retail Crime Insights Report shows violent retail crimes are increasing. Learn about what this means and what to do about it in this article.

Loss Prevention

Feb 20, 2025

3 loss prevention innovation trends to watch in 2025

From AI and automation to a more advanced ecosystem, we look at some of the top LP innovation trends for 2025.

Store Safety

Feb 19, 2025

Safer stores and communities with Auror

Improving retail safety is more crucial than ever as violent retail crimes increase. Learn how Auror helps improve safety for retailers and their communities.

Auror Insights

May 6, 2024

How insights guide retail safety strategies

Discover how retailers and law enforcement can unlock crime insights and why structured data is so important to guide safety strategies.

Auror Insights

Feb 27, 2024

Introducing the US Retail Crime Insights Report by Auror

The Retail Crime Insights Report is a data analysis and trends commentary managed by Auror. We’re excited to introduce the first edition of this report to the US and to make retail crime insights more accessible and easier to act on.

Loss Prevention

Jul 6, 2023

Why AP/LP is more important than ever

The challenges retailers and communities have faced when it comes to crime has grown in scale and complexity over the past three years. Many customers from across the world have asked us about the impacts that COVID-19 has had on the AP/LP retail industry, and how they’re dealing with new crime threats and new economic pressures.

ORC insights: Dave Thompson, President at Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates

Auror Insights

Nov 8, 2022

ORC insights: Dave Thompson, President at Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates

On this episode of The Intel by Auror Podcast, we chat about the latest ORC trends and insights with Dave Thompson, President at Wicklander-Zulawski.

ORC insights: Cory Lowe, LPRC Research Scientist

Auror Insights

Nov 2, 2022

ORC insights: Cory Lowe, LPRC Research Scientist

Join Hedgie Bartol in this conversation with Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) research scientist Cory Lowe about Organized Retail Crime (ORC).

The latest ORC trends in Australia and New Zealand

Auror Insights

Oct 24, 2022

The latest ORC trends in Australia and New Zealand

Discover the latest ORC trends in Australia and New Zealand and how Auror is helping retailers in ANZ.

How fuel retail crime is changing & what you can do about it

Crime Intelligence

Sep 18, 2022

How fuel retail crime is changing & what you can do about it

Learn how fuel theft is changing around the world and how retail leaders are successfully addressing it.

Addressing retail violence & ORC around the world

Store Safety

Aug 18, 2022

Addressing retail violence & ORC around the world

Learn how some leaders are successfully addressing retail violence in their stores, whilst aggression and ORC are on the rise around the world.

Organized Retail Crime

May 31, 2022

The latest ORC trends in North America

Learn about the latest ORC trends in the United States and Canada and how North American retailers are taking action.

Loss Prevention

Jan 27, 2022

You picked an interesting time to get involved in Retail Loss Prevention

Ensuring associate and guest safety during the pandemic has been a huge challenge for the industry, and as usual, retail professionals have risen to meet it.

Why solving Organized Retail Crime needs a purpose-built approach

At Auror

Jan 27, 2022

Why solving Organized Retail Crime needs a purpose-built approach

The reality of today’s retail environment means there is not a single retailer these days that does not have a problem with Organized Retail Crime (ORC). This makes it more important than ever for Asset Protection/Loss Prevention (AP/LP) teams to find the right solution for the job.

Auror Insights

Jan 19, 2022

The best Auror partner wins of 2021

2021 was a big year of wins for Auror customers, who reported a record 100,000 events per month in the platform, helping to prevent more loss and harm than ever before.

How Ulta Beauty proved ORC needed to be addressed

Organized Retail Crime

Aug 3, 2021

How Ulta Beauty proved ORC needed to be addressed

Building the capability to deal with and solve ORC incidents at Ulta Beauty.

Understanding anger and how to de-escalate conflict

Retail Crime

Aug 3, 2021

Understanding anger and how to de-escalate conflict

Conflict comes with the territory of retail and loss prevention, but it doesn’t need to escalate into something serious if you know how to handle the situation well.

Store Safety

Dec 7, 2020

Analyzing the Impact of Retail Crime on Workplace Health & Safety

Despite a large drop in serious workplace injuries across most industries in Australasia since 2007, retailers are yet to see the same level of decline. With retail crime increasing consistently over the past 2 years, and subsequent aggression and threatening behaviours reaching unprecedented levels, we take a look at the impacts and lessons for retailers.

Loss Prevention

Sep 10, 2020

Incident Reporting Best Practices: The Key to Moving Unknown to Known Shrink

How much of our shrinkage number is due to theft? If you’ve been asked this question once, you’ve been asked it a thousand times. How do you answer this question? Educated guess? Based on indicative feedback? Through deep data analysis? Read here to find out how to move unknown to known shrink.

Community

Sep 10, 2020

The Global Retail Crime Summit: Why we did it

As the major conferences began to postpone, reschedule, and cancel due to covid-19, we saw the opportunity to create something different, to democratize the conference experience so anyone in AP/LP could participate for free, to learn and network, from anywhere in the world.

Retail Crime

Jun 24, 2020

Using Lessons from the GFC and Great Depression to Help Retain your LP Budget

The GFC and post-GFC period may provide the best blueprint as we look ahead to the impact of COVID-19 on the retail sector.

Retail Crime

Apr 15, 2020

Will COVID-19 further Accelerate the Decriminalization of Shoplifting in the US?

As we all know, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic the loss prevention (LP) industry was already in a dramatic shift due to the decriminalization of retail theft.

Retail Crime

Jul 11, 2019

The Catch Phrase that Helped Briscoes Group to Achieve Their Lowest Loss in a Decade

We chatted to Nathan Breed from Briscoes Group about how he built a prevention first culture across the group, how it continues to drive his losses down and how you can employ the same strategies in your store.

Auror Insights

Jul 10, 2019

How 20 Stores Crowd Sourced Intel to Help Police Stop a $16,000 Crime Spree

Here’s how 20 Auckland retailers helped Takapuna police crack a $16,000 case in record time (and what you can do to get better outcomes from your incidents).

Loss Prevention

Dec 6, 2018

The White Gold Epidemic

Anyone who works in loss prevention, knows that the majority of losses from theft aren’t a result of kids stealing candy bars, rather the result of organized retail crime (ORC) syndicates stealing specific goods to sell on the black market for profit.

Loss Prevention

Aug 5, 2018

New Study Examines Global Shrink Rates & Drivers

A recent report examining retail shrink rates around the globe has offered new insights on theft and shrink-related issues in 14 countries. We've summarised the key takeaways for you here.

Law Enforcement

Jun 6, 2018

Joint Operation Puts Organised Retail Crime On Ice in Melbourne

See how a major retailer and Victoria Police recently worked together to break up a multimillion-dollar international theft ring targeting vitamins and infant formula.

Law Enforcement

Apr 5, 2018

The Best Thing We Learned at the Police Technology Forum

Find out how Victoria Police are investing in technology to transform their service delivery to keep the community safe.

Retail Crime

Feb 7, 2018

Share, Comply and Thrive: how to Share Information Legally to Fight Crime

Privacy expert Gavin Smith examines the legal framework around privacy and sharing information between retailers for the purposes of crime prevention.

Organized Retail Crime

Feb 7, 2018

Are ORC Groups Targeting your Stores?

See how data and intel can help identify organised retail crime in this month's column from our data geek, Lucas Chan Andreassend.

The Data Network Effect for Crimefighting

Community

Feb 7, 2018

The Data Network Effect for Crimefighting

Discover the secret superpower of the Auror platform: the data network effect. Listen along in our first-ever podcast!

How Woolworths stopped 60% of high-profile offenders

50 in 5: Reduce violent retail crime by 50% in 5 years

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Insights

1 in 8 US retail crime events involve threatening behavior

3 loss prevention innovation trends to watch in 2025

Safer stores and communities with Auror

How insights guide retail safety strategies

Introducing the US Retail Crime Insights Report by Auror

Why AP/LP is more important than ever

ORC insights: Dave Thompson, President at Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates

ORC insights: Cory Lowe, LPRC Research Scientist

The latest ORC trends in Australia and New Zealand

How fuel retail crime is changing & what you can do about it

Addressing retail violence & ORC around the world

The latest ORC trends in North America

You picked an interesting time to get involved in Retail Loss Prevention

Why solving Organized Retail Crime needs a purpose-built approach

The best Auror partner wins of 2021

How Ulta Beauty proved ORC needed to be addressed

Understanding anger and how to de-escalate conflict

Analyzing the Impact of Retail Crime on Workplace Health & Safety

Incident Reporting Best Practices: The Key to Moving Unknown to Known Shrink

The Global Retail Crime Summit: Why we did it

Using Lessons from the GFC and Great Depression to Help Retain your LP Budget

Will COVID-19 further Accelerate the Decriminalization of Shoplifting in the US?

The Catch Phrase that Helped Briscoes Group to Achieve Their Lowest Loss in a Decade

How 20 Stores Crowd Sourced Intel to Help Police Stop a $16,000 Crime Spree

The White Gold Epidemic

New Study Examines Global Shrink Rates & Drivers

Joint Operation Puts Organised Retail Crime On Ice in Melbourne

The Best Thing We Learned at the Police Technology Forum

Share, Comply and Thrive: how to Share Information Legally to Fight Crime

Are ORC Groups Targeting your Stores?

The Data Network Effect for Crimefighting

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