Research Report

Organization physical theft Erin Siewert Introduction Professional shoplifters have been practicing their trade throughout recorded history. More recently, as the numbers of professional shoplifters has continued to increase and as their actions have culminated in retailers sustaining greater losses, retailers have focused additional attention on theft by organized groups. Many organizations are facing issues in respect to physical theft in the organization. Problem or Purpose Statement: This statement should explain your report topic and specify the aspects of the problem you will cover. Remember, your research paper is a problem/solution report, and your purpose statement should reflect the problem you are addressing in your paper. (See page 303.) Theft continued to increase at an astounding rate, yet merchants were more concerned about problems associated with false arrest and were vehemently opposed to creating a hostile and intimidating atmosphere for their customers. Retailers were willing to lose merchandise to theft rather than lose good customers that might be stealing from them. (Segrave, 2001). Organized Retail Theft (ORT) is a problem in the retail loss prevention industry. In spite of spending increases to develop and deploy effective merchandise protection strategies consumer theft continues to increase (Miller, 2005). The problem of ORT has negatively impacted consumers who must pay higher retail prices to cover the increased spending on loss prevention as well as the financial losses attributed to ORT. One possible cause of this problem is that retail loss prevention leaders continue to employ situational strategies that have not been evaluated for their effectiveness (Glasscock et al. 1998) Thus the main problem that needs to be addressed in this research paper is the organizational physical theft. Full Outline: Submit an outline for the body of your paper. The outline should include the aspects of the problem listed in your purpose...
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