Today, people in loss prevention need to have skills in finance, inventory control, accounting. They really need to understand the retail operations thoroughly.

It's really critical that we address prevention. If we take everybody off the streets today, there would be new people on the streets tomorrow.

She was caught by a loss prevention officer at Wal-Mart.

We realized that the POS data is not only important for loss prevention, but a lifeline for other business units.

Businesses are realizing that an effective loss-prevention program can become a competitive advantage. If a company has a pretax profit rate of 4 percent and cuts shrinkage in half from 2 percent to 1 percent, that represents an increase in profitability of 20 percent.

Contact your financial institution and explain what you have done. Hopefully you will fall under the loss prevention and only lose up to fifty dollars, but then again you have to get that done pretty quickly, you only have thirty days to contact your facility and let them know you have become a victim of fraud.