by Mike Duff | Apr 7, 2025 | Retail Articles
The 15th edition of its annual LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study: E-commerce and Retail Report, U.S. and Canada Edition indicated that the impact of bad actors is a growing challenge, with merchants in the United States incurring an average cost of $4.61 for every...
by Mike Duff | Nov 5, 2024 | Retail Articles
As retail theft remains at elevated levels, a study by market researcher Numerator indicated that about a quarter of shoppers won’t purchase items that are locked up. If they want an item that’s locked up, 62% of shoppers responding to a survey said they would usually...
by Mike Duff | Sep 25, 2024 | Retail Articles
According to Cequence, an API security and bot management firm, freshly mined data revealed a 96% surge in attack traffic targeting retailers occurred during the Labor Day weekend. The data is based on real, anonymized traffic and attack data from the Cequence retail...
by Mike Duff | Sep 17, 2024 | Retail Articles
The scale of e-commerce fraud is accelerating at an alarming rate, powered by Gen AI, human trafficking and the exploitation of new targets, according to a report from commerce protection provider Signifyd. Signifyd’s “State of Fraud and Abuse 2024”...
by Mike Duff | Jan 3, 2024 | Retail Articles
Retail merchandise returns in 2023 totaled some $743 billion, accounting for 14.5% of total sales, according to a report published by the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail. The total included about $101 billion in fraudulent returns, which translates to a...
