The LP Brief

Weekly intelligence for retail loss prevention and asset protection leaders. Tech, tactics, ORC, and the numbers that matter. Every Tuesday.

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Oct 20, 2026

The Law Nobody Has Switched On

Britain passed the retail crime law the US industry keeps asking for. Six months later it is still not in force, and the numbers moved anyway.

Oct 20, 2026

Five Straight Years

Canada publishes the national shoplifting series the US does not have. It shows theft rising alone while almost every other property crime falls.

Oct 6, 2026

Three Years, One Enforcement Action

The federal law written to choke off stolen-goods resale has produced a single enforcement case — about a missing telephone number.

Sep 29, 2026

Two Things Work. Most Don't.

Fourteen years after the strongest controlled trial in retail loss prevention, the evidence base for what this industry buys is thinner than the spend implies.

Sep 22, 2026

The Budget With No Benchmark

Shrink vanished from six of nine retail earnings calls this quarter. You are defending next year's budget in the one risk function with no published spend figure.

Sep 15, 2026

No Liability Shift Exists Yet

Amazon spent nine months trying to keep an AI agent off its store and lost. Nobody has written the rules for what happens next.

Sep 8, 2026

The List Nobody Audits

Cross-retailer offender databases now span 85,000 stores. No independent evaluation has ever shown they reduce loss.

Sep 1, 2026

The Thinnest Crew in Fifteen Years

Peak concentrates the exposure onto the smallest seasonal workforce since 2009 — and the count that would tell you what it cost happens twice a year.