Mar 10, 2008

You may be paying $400 to $600 a year to offset shoplifting costsBy Toni WhittHeraldTribune.com

Retail theft used to get little attention and retailers were just fine with that.

Little press meant that potential thieves could not figure out how to steal from them and that the public would not learn that most of the theft was done internally or that theft is widespread throughout the industry.

But Dan Doyle, the 50-year-old vice president of loss prevention and human resources for Bradenton-based Bealls Inc., has spent the past few years talking about it — with everyone who would listen: other retailers, law enforcement and even the public.

As a spokesman in the retail loss prevention industry and the former chairman of the National Retail Federation’s Loss Prevention Advisory Council, he has brought the issue to the forefront and helped change attitudes that retail theft is a petty crime and that teenagers who shoplift are the typical perpetrators.

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