Did you lock the trash compactor?

Depending upon the size and location of your trash bins, you may have access to an open top trash compactor. In some of the stores I worked in, we were fortunate enough to have them built into our receiving department.

The plus side was that we could empty the store’s trash at any time of day or night and in any sort of weather, without somebody actually having to tote the trash outside.

Most companies have policies against using opaque trash bags, so no one can hide merchandise inside the bags and then take it out the back door.

When you have a trash compactor that is open, you need to be just as mindful about what and how things are being thrown away.

I recall an employee theft investigation that revolved around the night stocking team. The store was missing large quantities of power tools. We would reorder, but we never actually saw them on the selling shelves.

We started an employee theft investigation and noticed that we were showing receipts for the product. We set up surveillance on the night stocking team. Sure enough, they would pull the power tools off the truck, set them to the side until the end of the night. Then they would toss them out the compactor before the day mangers came back.

The day crew was busy getting the store ready to open, so no one ever saw the stockers drive around to the compactor and take out the power tools.

The employee theft investigation revealed that no one ever locked up the compactor. It was left open 24 hours a day and anyone could access it.

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