Supermarkets reported about 3.4 employee thefts per store, averaging $ 411 per theft . Most employee thefts occurred at the cash register, followed by the sales and service area, customer service, back room and cash office, respectively.
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It is unsafe to send money by wire to an unknown person to collect at a cash office; the receiver of the money may, after collecting it, not provide whatever goods or services they promised in return for the payment, but instead simply disappear.
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Bar-code scanners and computerized cash registers were supposed to make the long lines a distant memory, just as the vacuum tubes that department stores once used to ferry payments and change between the sales floor and the central cash office were supposed to make shopping a little easier.
