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How Amazon’s Anti-Counterfeit Unit Keeps Fake Products off its Site

Retail TouchPoints

The Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU), established in June 2020 , stopped more than 700,000 attempts by bad actors to create fake selling accounts in 2023. That’s down from 6 million would-be fake account attempts that were thwarted in 2020, the year that the CCU launched — an 88% decrease in less than four years.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Reduce Retail Theft . However, the value of each incident increased.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Reduce Retail Theft . However, the value of each incident increased.

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Retail x Fintech: The Importance of Security in Retail’s Adoption of BOPIS and Payment Installment Plans

Retail TouchPoints

Over the past several months, retailers have experienced challenges and changes they thought they would never see in 2020. When they do, they create accounts and pass credit checks using stolen consumer information. The process of tokenization makes use of secure, randomly generated tokens in place of a primary account number (PAN).

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Count on Webex for your Data Locality and Sovereignty Needs

Cisco Retail

Additionally, EU customers who had set up their accounts in the US prior to data residency availability have an option to migrate their organization’s data and user content to the EU. Granular Controls and Data Loss Prevention. Germany: BSI C5 2020 Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog.

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Retail Returns Increased to $761 Billion in 2021

VMS

This accounts for an average of 16.6 percent during 2020, but online returns are in line with recent years at an average of 20.8 According to NRF, online sales accounted for $1.050 trillion of total U.S. The categories with the highest return rates were similar to 2020 metrics: auto parts (19.4 percent of total U.S.

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Don’t Measure? Don’t Believe It!!

DMS Retail

Loss Prevention. Tuesday, April 7 and Wednesday, April 8, 2020. DMSRetail believes strongly in building a performance culture; in holding people accountable. April 8, 2020. In every area of your business, you have to properly apply retail math to make good decisions… • Sales Generation. April 7 and Wed.,