This doesn’t necessarily apply to everyone company out there, but if your store or company possesses an employee run satellite property like a warehouse or shipping site you may want to give this a read.
Catching internal theft in your immediate vicinity is tough enough as it is. If you give said employees a building all to themselves with nothing but product and time they will figure out a way to fleece you good. Even if you implement standard methods of catching employee theft like installing cameras or making random inventory counts they will still find some way to get around it.
My store in particular has an off-site warehouse which is manned for eight hours out of the day by two members of the stock team. It is a dull post and the warehouse is filled to the rafters with expensive product ranging from appliances to overstock clothing. After a few reports of large quantities of items going missing my team conducted a full inventory of the property and found the stock levels were all wrong in comparison to what was in the system. We tried reviewing the tapes from the warehouse cameras but came up with nothing. Instead we used a more ‘old fashioned’ employee theft investigation to uncover the truth.
With an agreement from a nearby fast-food restaurant we established a rotation of stake-outs. It is just as it sounds. A member of my team, armed with a pad and a long zoom camera would sit in the parking lot across from the warehouse and watch it.
It took only two days of this to catch someone in the act. It amounted to was a massive employee theft case that resulted in the prosecution of three employees because of their parts in the matter. Sometimes it takes a more traditional approach to employee theft investigation to get results.
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