Really OT Shop assistant stealing money

[ARW]

Had my suspicions, so laid a trap with the shop owner.

Hook line and sinker.

[Owain Lastname]

Do tell us more.

Owain

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Could not have been very bright then. On today's monitored systems each till has its own check anyway.

Unless of course the shop is really paying a pittance to its employees of course. Brian

[Jethro_uk]

The trick has always been to snaffle the money *before* it goes in the till.

[Robin]

where I am confident that, should the need arise, "trap" would be seen as shorthand for "a perfectly normal, legitimate transaction carried out so as to enable the owner to see if my concerns were well-founded"

[The Natural Philosopher]

The trick varies according to how its done. With cash, you simply let the till go out of balance by short changing the customer. Relying on their total lack of mathematical skills. Or the Blatant Blag, where you hand em a twenty and get change for a fiver...

THEN come end of shift you total up the cash that should be in the till and transfer to the safe, and pocket what's left over.

Can't do that with debit cards tho.

[alan_m]

The other one is mates rates where they don't ring up the expensive items in the basket when serving their mates.

[ARW]

What I spotted was that he was scanning all the items and then cancelling the bottle of whisky/wine/packet of cigarettes from the till before I paid cash.

So he takes the full amount for the goods from me and later takes the difference from the till.

[Robin]

A classic one for shops where it's easy to spot people who pay cash - either regulars or those who approach the till with cash in hand. Even easier in corner shops where things aren't scanned.

[Peter Johnson]

There was a cort case reported in the Leicester Mercury a long time ago about an ASDA store detective who noticed two women loading their trollies with all sorts of stuff with complete disregard as to price, and they didn't appear to be people who would normally afford some of the stuff they were selecting. Followed, it became obvious that one of the cashiers was colluding with them to undercharge for their 'purchases.' All three appeared in court. I don't remember the sentences.

[Andrew]

Neighbours daughter works part time in ASDA on the south Coast. More than once per week security guards have to go after people who just wheel full trolleys right out the building and not bother with checkouts.

[John Rumm]

Does the cancellation not show up on the receipt, or did he not give you that?

[ARW]

I do not ask for a receipt. It's alcohol and tobacco.

[ARW]

Point noted. And to make it worse it was her brother.

[Cursitor Doom]

You must be going back a few years. I don't think the coppers are interested these days and the shops have to rely on civil recovery instead.

[ARW]

I once bought a tool box at B&Q. I was the only customer in the shop as it had only just opened.

The security guard watched me purchase the box and asked to look inside it as I left the counter.

My normal response would be "Of course you can but I charge £50 per hour or per part of an hour for my time - would you like to pay upfront?"[1]

Now I new this bloke from when he had a different job as a dry stone waller and decided that at 60 years of age and being named Norman Bates he did not deserve that.

When I asked him why he checked he said "You could be working with the shop assistant and filled the toolbox up with items"

[1] Bound to get me into trouble one day but so far I have only had to say that twice - and both times the security guards have let me go.

[charles]

The only mate's rates that I've met are more expensive than normal, presumably on the basis that you'd never check.

[Robin]

Fraud by abuse of position is way above a bit of shoplifting: can easily result in a custodial sentence, even on a first offence.

[Andrew]

It's common at Wickes where customers place other ssmall items underneath bags of sand etc hoping to get them through checkout for free

[Dave Plowman (News]

Wise. You don't want to be reminded how much they cost you. ;-)