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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Jul 14, 2026

Edition #11 — The vendor's own patents put the cost of locked cases at 25–50% of sales. Nobody reports that line.

Jul 7, 2026

Edition #10 — Self-checkout was a labor decision. The loss data arrived eight years late.

Jun 30, 2026

Edition #09 — Why the number AP reports up the chain is not the number that matters

Jun 23, 2026

Edition #08 — Who funds the studies your business case is built on

Jun 17, 2026

Edition #07 — The surveillance apparatus AP built is becoming the lawsuit AP defends

Jun 9, 2026

Edition #06 — Eaten from below. Capped in the middle. Closed at the top.

Jun 2, 2026

Edition #05 — Why retail employee theft has $26B of investigation behind it and employer wage theft has almost none

May 26, 2026

Edition #04 — Why returns just ate the loss prevention conversation