What podcasts say about Scott Glenn

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What Scott Glenn has said on podcasts

15 statements · 3 positive · 9 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral

on Home Depot stolen productsNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Power drills are commonly stolen by volume; copper and wire are major theft targets by dollar value.
“Volume or dollars?”
Listen at 5:56
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on Copper theftNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Higher copper prices increase its attractiveness to thieves.
“It is definitely a commodity that fluctuates in price. And when the price goes up, it becomes really valuable to the bad guys.”
Listen at 7:01
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on Retail shrinkNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Industrywide retail shrink is estimated in the billions to tens of billions of dollars.
“It's in the billions. It's in the tens of billions, the shrink problem.”
Listen at 12:39
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on Organized retail crime reportingNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Organized retail crime losses have been underreported since COVID.
“And I also believe since COVID, they've been underreported.”
Listen at 14:44
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on AI retail theft detectionNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
AI-based retail theft detection is expensive and hardware-intensive.
“But it is expensive. And it's a lot of processing power. It's a lot of hardware that you have to put into your stores.”
Listen at 23:54
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on RFIDPositiveSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
RFID could improve theft tracking, inventory location, sales, replenishment, and stock accuracy.
“RFID has a lot of promise in terms of tracking, not just the theft side of product, but like, where is this product in the store? Has it been sold? What's the replenishment look like? How do you get your on-hands corrected?”
Listen at 25:16
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on Passive RFID in Home Depot storesNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Passive RFID does not work effectively in Home Depot stores because steel blocks signals.
“We are a hardware store with basically a Faraday cage of steel throughout our stores. We do a passive RFID does not work in our stores.”
Listen at 28:29
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on RFIDMixedSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
RFID remains expensive to deploy at scale, though future costs are uncertain.
“It is truly the hardware capabilities to be able to put it everywhere you want, to be able to read the way you want it to. It's still a very expensive technology to this point. Three years from now, who knows?”
Listen at 29:12
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on Stolen retail goods resale pricesNeutralSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Many stolen retail products resell for roughly 70%–80% of retail price.
“So we see a lot of our products selling in the 70% to 80% of retail range.”
Listen at 37:46
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on Consumable stolen goods resale pricesNeutralSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Consumable stolen goods often resell for roughly 30%–40% of retail price.
“Whereas in some cases, you'd think about the deodorants and the T-shirts and the Tylenol and some of that tends to be in the 30% to 40 cents of retail. market.”
Listen at 37:51
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on Meta peer-to-peer marketplacesNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Meta and peer-to-peer marketplaces could do more to combat stolen-goods sales.
“We think they could do more.”
Listen at 39:00
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on Merchandise lockupsPositiveSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Locking merchandise can increase sales in categories by preserving inventory availability.
“There's also many, many categories where actually sales go up because you're in stock.”
Listen at 43:11
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on Online retail shrinkNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Online shrink commonly involves payment, gift-card, and credit-card fraud.
“But it's typically around the payment side and the gift card and credit card fraud.”
Listen at 44:15
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on AI-generated fraudulent shipping paperworkNegativeSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
AI enables criminals to create convincing fraudulent shipping paperwork for cargo theft.
“AI is playing a space in this where they're able to kind of duplicate some of the capacities that allow a driver to walk, just drive straight in and say, I'm here to pick up trailer one, two, three, four, five. And they go right out because their paperwork looks really real.”
Listen at 45:47
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on Organized retail crime enforcementPositiveSep 10, 2026· Odd Lots
Federal and state efforts against organized retail crime are moving in a more supportive direction.
“So the short answer is absolutely, I think the tide is changing.”
Listen at 51:27
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