Retailers organize against crime.(influence of growth in crime on retail trade)

Security Management, July, 2007 by Thuermer, Karen E.

This year, the popular television show The Sopranos, a fictional account of a mob family, comes to an end. Unfortunately, in the real world, organized crime is not ending, it's booming, especially in the retail environment. A 2007 National Retail Federation (NRF) organized retail crime (ORC) survey of loss prevention executives found that 79 percent of respondents said their companies were victims of ORC, and 88 percent rated the problem between important and severe.

(For 2006, only 41 percent found the problem significant or severe.) Seventy-one said the problem for them is getting ...