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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Sep 8, 2026

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

Sep 1, 2026

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.

Aug 26, 2026

Three years of ORC legislation, record enforcement, and improving shrink — and nobody can connect them.

Aug 18, 2026

Gift card draining is organized, federal, and growing 25% a year. It appears nowhere in your loss reporting — by design.

Aug 10, 2026

NRF killed the shrink survey and replaced it with a theft and violence report. Nobody told the audit committee.

Aug 4, 2026

Cargo theft losses rose 60% on flat volume. Six in ten retailers don't count any of it as shrink.

Jul 28, 2026

Edition #13 — 1.2 million demand letters a year. Fewer than ten lawsuits. A court called it extortion.

Jul 21, 2026

Edition #12 — Returns fraud runs USD 76–101 billion a year, several times the ORC number. It reports to nobody.