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 15, 2026

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

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.