When Dishonest Employees Aren’t Alone

It’s hard enough to think that one of your own employees has been stealing from you. It’s even harder to think that often, employee theft involves either multiple employees or an employee working with someone outside the company like a friend, a relative, or even a vendor.

Benjamin Franklin once said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is so true when you are trying to prevent internal theft from happening. One of the most common forms of prevention is to use inventory control products like Checkpoint’s RF tags and labels. Their use sends a clear message to your employees that you are watching and you will not tolerate internal theft.

I remember an employee theft investigation where a cashier was ringing up her boyfriend. Underneath his cart was about $300 dollars in product that she did not charge him for. Because she did not want to draw attention to the items, she left them under the cart, and did not realize that the items had RF tags on them. When the boyfriend tried to leave, he set off the alarms at the door alerting everyone around to the situation.

Another employee theft investigation I resolved started out by watching an employee going up to a register with his arms full of merchandise and started to deactivate the clothing RF tags. The clue that made me realize I was looking at a case of employee theft was that there were no customers around. He then bagged up the merchandise and walked out the door. Had there not been tags to remove, I may not have been able to detect his activity.

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