Editorial standards

Who writes and who checks

Articles are drafted with AI assistance from a curated list of primary sources, then reviewed line by line and approved for publication by Tom Walsh, the site's editor and publisher. Tom Walsh is a finance and operations professional, not a store-level loss-prevention practitioner; the site does not claim field LP experience. Operational review by a named retail LP practitioner will be added to articles as that reviewer joins, and each reviewed article will say so with a date.

Sources

Every statistic links to the organization that produced it (for example NRF, LPRC, FMI, LP Magazine, OSHA). If a number cannot be traced to a primary source it is not published. Corrections are noted on the article with the date changed.

What we do not do

No vendor placements, no affiliate links, no first-person store anecdotes, no content generated at scale without a human approving each page.