One key to staying competitive in today’s marketplace is brand imaging. Over the last few years, we’ve seen dozens of companies re-brand in an attempt to both maintain their current customer base and to appeal to a larger market. Part of this re-imaging often includes giving facilities a more polished feel by specifying upscale doors […]
Read moreThe retail industry faces countless issues ranging from petty theft to credit card fraud, but no issue has grown more rapidly in recent years than Organized Retail Crime (ORC). The National Retail Federation (NRF) recently reported on its ninth annual Organized Retail Crime survey, finding that 94 percent of Loss Prevention executives say they’ve been victims of ORC […]
Read moreRetailers lost $34.5 billion due to shoplifting and Organized Retail Crime according to the most recent National Retail Security Survey by the National Retail Federation. This is undoubtedly a serious problem that affects millions of retail operations and end customers. We would never make light of such a widespread issue; but there are always head-shaking cases […]
Read moreOver the last 20 years LockNet has become a familiar face at each of the tradeshows we regularly attend. The team is in San Diego this week for the NRF tradeshow, National Retail Federation’s Loss Prevention Conference and Expo. Not only are we known as an industry expert, but for having one of the most fun […]
Read moreWith Father’s Day rapidly approaching, we wanted to wish a happy Father’s Day to the father of the oldest known lock. The inventor’s name is not known, but the oldest one found by archeologists dates back 4,000 years to the Khorsabad Palace ruins near Nineveh. It used a large wooden bolt to secure the door and had […]
Read moreStories like these are, unfortunately, the reason the US has strict safety standards in place. Last week a swift-moving fire trapped workers inside a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China. The factory had only a single open emergency exit and killed at least 119 people in the scurry to find an open door. This accident, like […]
Read moreThe Bangladesh Factory Collapse The Bangladeshi government has been under a tremendous amount of pressure to make serious changes after the April, 24 factory collapse at Rana Plaza which killed over 1,100 people. Working conditions and wages were the top priorities for the garment factories to address, and the government along with several of […]
Read moreSecurity firm Rapid7 recently performed a study that found 114,000 point of sale terminal servers, mostly from Digi International or Lantronix, were configured to let anyone gain access to their underlying systems. A terminal’s server (also referred to as a network access server) makes any equipment with a serial port accessible through the Internet. […]
Read moreMany of our readers as well as those of us at LockNet work in security. It’s our primary responsibility to minimize risk, be it life safety or theft. We make contingency plans, backup contingency plans, and then backups for the backup plans. Unfortunately, regardless of how much forethought we give, no amount of planning could […]
Read moreYesterday, I was cleaning up my email after being out of town for a while and I came across a couple strange WalMart thefts and got the idea that I wanted to do a wrap up of some ridiculous shop lifting stories that come out of WalMart. This encompasses the absurdity of the industry we […]
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