TalkLPnews Retail Rundown 2025
August 14 – AI Cuts Jobs, Hackers Crack Passwords & Trump Drives Oversight
August 13 – Street Takeovers, Corporate Retention Battles & the Future of Retail Stores
August 12 – New Director Job, Grocers play nice, and Affordable AI
August 11 – New Director Job, Shooting Updates & More Court Battles
August 8 – Ex-CEO Drama, Retail Crime Act, Gift Card Scandal and Surfers’ Lessons for LP Pros
August 7 – Phishing. Fraud. $15M Gone. What Just Happened?
August 6 – NRF Sues New York, Executive Protection Budgets Soar
August 5 – Retail Hackers, Stabbings & Your ATG Award Winners
August 4 – Director Job, CFO to speak at APEX, Real AI for all departments
July 31 – Triple Threat: Store Shooting, Employee Death & Major Breach
July 30 – Ben Borer with AE talks Six Sigma, $150M Recovered in CA, and Locked-In Innovation
July 29 – Arrogance in AP, Strikes, Scams & Safety: Your Retail Survival Guide
July 28 – New Director Job, More Looting & Mass Stabbing at Walmart
July 25 – ICE crackdowns, Legal Storms & Retail Workers’ Wild Confessions
July 24 – Tariff Fears Ease, Theft Schemes Explode & AI Stores Rise
July 23 – Fraud Trends of 2025
July 22 – HR Exec Gone Wild, Thieves in Rafters and You Got Replaced. Now What?
July 21 – The Silent Breach: What Microsoft’s SharePoint Hack Means for Retail IT
July 18 – Director Job Post, AI Deep Fakes & the Self-checkout Crime Loop
July 17 – Against the Grain Reactions, Chargebacks & Courtroom Chaos
July 16 – Ports in Chaos, Trucks Under Attack, and Congress in the Crosshairs
July 15 – Scott McBride Testifies Before Congress, New Director Role, Integrity in LP Lacking?
July 14 – Director Opening Posted, Podcasts at NRF, and New Threats for Retail
July 11 – Are you a Holy Fool?
July 10 – Shelf Wars, Cyber Threats, and Why Retail Can’t Blink Right Now
July 9 – False Confession Podcast Reactions, Active Shooter Incidents, Part III, Shooting at THD
July 8 – Active Shooter Incidents, Part II
July 7 – From Fireworks to Firestorms – Inside Retail’s Most Explosive Headlines
July 3 – Run, Hide, and Lawyer Up: Active Shooters, Silent Threats & NRF Lawsuits
July 2 – Vanishing Workers, Vendor Fraud & Surveillance Pricing – Retail’s Latest Curveballs
July 1 – Store Shootings, Cargo Thefts, and the Risks You Can’t Ignore
June 30 – Walmart Goes Dark, Target Unlocks — The Battle for Retail’s Future
June 27 – From Major Breaches to New Workplace Violence Rules — Insights You Can’t Ignore
June 26 – CAL/OSHA Workplace Violence Reg Update, Cargo Theft Rising, Ransomware Falling
June 25 – NRF PROTECT highlights (That Weren’t Sponsored) + The Headlines That Matter!
June 24 – Inside the TalkLPnews Hot Seat, a Major Acquisition & What’s Next for Employee Safety
June 23 – VP Opening. Jugging. Phishing. That Escalated Quickly!
June 20 – Director Opening, Shoplifting Subject Stabs Self, $58 Mil into Retail Robots
June 19 – CA Workplace Surveillance Bill, War Zones, Workforce Shifts, & Today’s Top 5
June 18 – Retail Crime, Workplace Violence, and the AI Divide – What’s Next?
June 17 – Theft, Tech, Tensions & Today’s Top 5
June 16 – Shots Fired, Strikes Loom, Shoplifting Surges & Today’s Top 5
June 13 – Fraud Tactics, Fee Cuts, Federal Testimony & Today’s Top 5
June 12 – More unrest, New Data, Real Costs & Today’s Top 5
June 11 – Nationwide Retail Crackdown, AI Serves Pikes Peak and a Useless Stat
June 10 – Retail Mayhem: Troops in LA, Hackers in the Cloud & Ships at the Dock
June 9 – Looting, Laws, Luxury Knockoffs & Today’s Top 5
June 6 – Looming Security Threats, Layoffs & Today’s Top 5
June 5 – Luigi Was Right, Retail Crime, Robots & Today’s Top 5
June 4 – AP Woman of Influence, Supply Strains & Today’s Top 5
June 3 – Mass Retail Theft Arrests, Store Closures, and an Industry on Edge
May 30 – Retail Crossroads: Crime, Closures, Cyber Threats & Today’s Top 5
May 29 – Is Your Brand Ready? Smarter Tools, Rising Crime, and the Return Fraud Epidemic
May 28 – Another Mass Shooting & Today’s Top 5
May 27 – Director of AP Named, Body Cams, Breaches & Bad Actors: Hitting Retail the Hardest
May 23 – The state of the store, shoplifting, and the fight for safer retail
May 22 – Risk, Reform & Retail Moves – Plus Today’s Top 5
May 21 – Policy Shifts, Public Safety & the Fight to Stay Open
May 20 – Tariffs Hit Security Industry, and Today’s Top 5
May 19 – Fraud, Lawsuits & Leaks: What Retailers Can’t Afford to Miss This Week
May 16 – Return Fraud, Credential Crooks & Today’s Top 5
May 15 – Shoplifters, Strikes & Cyber Spikes – Retail’s Wild Week + Today’s Top 5
May 14 – Inside Jobs, Outside Threats, and the War on Workplace Violence
May 13 – Resilience, Retail Reinvention, Robots & Today’s Top 5
May 12 – Tariff Agreement, Tough CEO Talk, Digital Overhauls & Today’s Top 5
May 9 – C-Suite Security Risk, Power Moves and Today’s Top 5
May 8 – Cyber Threats, Policy Shocks, and Today’s Top 5
May 7 – Cameras Are Watching, CEOs Are Talking, and Today’s Top 5
May 6 – Smackdowns, Court Battles, GROC Win and Today’s Top 5
May 5 – Self-Checkout Rollbacks, Shoplifting Surges, and Today’s Top 5
May 2 – Empty Retail Shelf Warning, Luigi the Murder Musical, and more
April 30 – Workplace Violence Law, Part II
April 29 – Protecting Your Executives, RILA Monday Wrap up
April 28 -VIDEO: Shoplifter Violence, TalkLPnews attends RILA
April 25 – AI Remote Guarding?
April 24 – Shoplifter was Planning a ‘Mass casualty event’
April 23 – GRAPHIC VIDEO: Police Shoot Armed Suspect
April 22 – Top Retail CEOs called for tariff meeting
April 21 -Sam’s Club Replacing All Checkouts with AI
April 18 – $4.4 Million in Stolen Merchandise Recovered
April 17 – Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters
April 15 – Retail Sales Rose 4.75% in March
April 14 – Murder and ORC cases Collide
April 10 – Walmart positioned to play offense on tariffs
April 9 – Microsoft back on top
April 8 – Biometric lawsuit dropped without settlement
April 7 – Amazon mulls TikTok bid
April 4 – Tariffs won’t drag consumer spending
April 3 – Man accused of killing Walgreens worker
March 31 – The news for the retail sector isn’t as bad as you might think
March 28 – Macy’s to close underproductive stores
March 27 – Bill Gates predicts AI will replace many doctors and teachers
March 26 – Dollar Tree sells Family Dollar
March 25 – Alleged shoplifter dies in NYPD custody
March 24 – 4 large retailers caught hiking prices
March 21 – What Retail leaders are saying about tariffs
March 20 – Starbucks ordered to pay $50 million to burn victim
March 19 – US shoppers uneasy despite “healthy” economy
March 18 – Why retailers should update workplace violence policies NOW
March 17 – Target engages in grocery war by arming supply chain
March 14 – White House focused on the “real” economy not market volatility
March 13 – Walmart testing a new form of self-checkout
March 12 – Chris Harris tapped by BGC
March 11 – Workplace Violence Legislation
March 10 – LP industry celebrates International Women’s Day
March 7 – Layoff announcements soar
March 6 – Retailers push back against tariffs
February 28 – Retail crime pushing shoppers online
February 27 – AG leads effort against ORC
February 26 – Next Wave of Retail Tech
February 25 – California’s Prop. 36
February 24 – Podcast Preview of RILA
February 21 – Self-Serve Retail Rises
February 20 – Gift Card Punishment Bill
February 19 – NY Workplace Violence Bill
February 11 – Eagles Fans Arrested