Forget Curfews. Try Mosquitos
Oct 1, 2007
An increasing number of U.S. mall owners are adopting curfews to control teen populations at their properties. But here's an interesting alternative being...
Cracking Down on a 4-year Old
Oct 1, 2007
Security guards in a shopping center in Britain threatened to throw a 4-year-old girl out of the property for wearing a hooded sweatshirt, according to...
Curbing the Mall Drive-Thru
Sep 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, one of the most famous scenes is an over-the-top car chase in which Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, on the run from...
Preparing for the Worst
May 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Anyone driving past the Northpark Mall in Ridgeland, Miss., early one March morning saw a nightmarish scene. About 50 people were strewn on the ground, being helped from the property by emergency crews as a veritable army comprised of mall security, government agencies and local first responders attended to the sick...
A Breast of the Situation
Mar 1, 2007
Mall security officers may have played no role in stopping the mall shooting that occurred in Utah last month, but there is one that was stamped out at the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, Pa.: Breastfeeding...
EDITOR'S LETTER: Insecurity Complex
Mar 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
In late February, five people went to the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City and never returned home. They were gunned down in a Columbine-esque shooting...
Safe And Sound
Mar 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
For years, industry experts have complained that shopping center security departments are under-staffed and under-trained. Those shortcomings became painfully obvious last month....
EXPERT Q&A: Securing Malls
Mar 1, 2007, Mert Price
Retail Traffic: To what do your attribute the recent spate of shootings, terrorist threats and attempted suicides at malls? Mert Price: I don't think it's any more prevalent in retail. Because we're in retail we're more sensitive to it...
For Adults Only
Mar 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Ever since an expansion in 2001 brought a teen-oriented retail wing to Mayfair Mall, a 1.1-million-square-foot superregional center in Wauwatosa, Wis., unruly teens have been plaguing the property....
Mall Shooting Spree Raises Security Questions
Feb 14, 2007
In perhaps the deadliest incident ever at a U.S. mall, six people were killed Monday at Trolley Square, a 239,000-square-foot mall in Salt Lake City ...
