RAP2023Retail Asset Protection Conference
Together, we’re shaping retail’s future.
Retailers are all competitors. But at the RILA Asset Protection conference, we’re on the same team: exploring, sharing, and learning to lift the entire industry. We’re a resilient bunch, willing to take on any challenge that enhances our stores and communities. Together, we’re shaping retail’s future.
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Our Focus
The Retail Industry Leaders Association is the US trade association for leading retailers. RILA partners with leading retailers to meet the challenges of a dynamic economy. Through collaboration and thought leadership, we advance ideas that foster free markets, competition, economic growth, and sustainability.
More About RILA
Legal Affairs and Compliance
RILA provides a network for leading retailers to share best practices and act on the most pressing legal issues of the day.
Technology and Innovation
The retail innovation ecosystem, which includes RILA’s RTech community, works strategically together to address critical retail industry needs.
Asset Protection
RILA is committed to supporting the AP industry’s efforts to adapt to today’s consumer needs without compromising safety, security, and profit.
Public Policy
RILA engages policymakers at the federal and state level to advocate for policies to allow retailers and the communities they serve in to thrive.
Supply Chain
RILA is committed to providing retail leaders with knowledge and innovative solutions as ubiquitous and evolving consumer shopping disrupts retail.
Workforce
RILA advocates for sound policies that support diversity, flexibility, upward mobility, and the power to choose one’s own path.
Sustainability / Environment
RILA uses benchmarking studies, partnerships, and research to help leading retailers collaborate and tailor their programs and initiatives.
Finance
RILA is focused on serving as a resource for our members as they navigate finance-related challenges and opportunities by offering several networks.
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We represent the leading brands in retail.
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) is the trade association for retail leaders.
Take it from our members
"Learning from each other has been one of our greatest strengths as an industry. We’re all competitors in one form or another, but it’s the moments of common purpose and collaboration that truly allow us to do great things as an industry."
Richard Johnson
- Chair, RILA – Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
- Foot Locker, Inc
- New York, NY
Explore how our members are making an impact
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Retailers announce deepened sustainability work in celebration of Earth Day 2022.
Read MoreStrategic Initiatives that support performance, compliance and transform the industry
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