Summary
"Crime and loss are facts of life when managing a business. Yet managers rarely know of one of the best ways to
fundamentally improve their business while resolving these types of problems. Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) is a proactive set of procedural and design principles that fundamentally helps various
disciplines do a better job of achieving their primary objective with the added byproduct of improved security and loss
prevention. This has been demonstrated in the convenience food industry where the application of CPTED (pronounced
sep-ted) techniques has resulted in new store configurations that have increased sales as much as 33% and decreased
security problems by 50%."