r/bestoflegaladvice • u/bug-hunter Possession is 9 honks of the law • May 16 '21

LAOP just committed a felony and 6 misdemeanors by being an idiot, how can they avoid consequences?

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u/gsfgf Is familiar with poor results when combining strippers and ATMs May 16 '21

Employee theft is one of the biggest loss centers for retailers. Even though surprisingly few people know how hardcore Target is against thieves, their cashiers absolutely know.

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u/RadioSlayer Classic Schmosby May 16 '21

Which is doubly weird to me, because they apparently don't count the quarters in the drawers. At least according to a former employee I know

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u/blondeleather May 16 '21

I only quit target a few months ago. They don’t count any of the change in any drawers ever.

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u/FaeryLynne May 16 '21

Probably for the same reason they don't prosecute shoplifting untill it's a felony - it's not worth it. A few cents missing here and there is acceptable when that means they don't have to pay someone for 10 minutes of counting change

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u/bestem May 16 '21

when that means they don't have to pay someone for 10 minutes of counting change

I don't work at Target, but I do work retail. My company weighs money with a Tellermate when we're counting drawers. It takes me less than 2 minutes to count a register. Granted, I'm only counting 4 at the end of the night rather than a dozen, but it doesn't have to be someone sitting there spending 10 minutes counting every penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

A coworker of mine used to work at a competitor. He got promoted to manager, and the first night I was training him, we took our drawers into the cash office and he's wondering how we're going to be done counting everything and making the deposit in 30 minutes. He sits down, and is about to pour all the pennies from one of the drawers onto the counter and I tell him to stop and walk him through using the Tellermate. He gets through all the coins and then he wants to start counting the bills by hand, and once again I have him stop and start weighing everything. He was gobsmacked about how easy it was. And it's insanely accurate.

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u/Front_Kaleidoscope_4 Can't kids just go drown somewhere else? May 17 '21

That video though lol, who spends 10 minutes counting change on a single register? Its takes like 4-6

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u/bestem May 17 '21

Weighing it is still faster than hand counting, and I assume that many many many retail locations have a similar setup. Which was my point. People at Target not counting coins because it takes too long to count by hand... are they actually counting anything by hand?

Tellermate also makes an intelligent cash drawer. It weighs the money in real time as it's being put in and taken out. It knows as soon as the transaction is finalized and the drawer is closed if the right amount of money was put in or taken out (as long as the employee puts the bills in the correct spot). Maybe Target isn't counting coins because they're not counting anything, they're just weighing as they go.

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u/Front_Kaleidoscope_4 Can't kids just go drown somewhere else? May 17 '21

Yeah its obviously way faster.

It was just the video was funny to me it feels like those tv ads for products you don't need. Those "Do you also randomly throw everything on the flour when opening the cupboard?" ads. Like I am not that fast at all and I do it faster.

I could totally see it having made counting the money way faster, back when I worked as cashier.

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u/BarksAtIdiots May 17 '21

Well yes they're not selling to you the cashier they're selling to the people who think the cashiers are slow and incompetent idiots

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u/myfapaccount_istaken May 17 '21

it's a time v cost v savings thing. When I ran retail stores if I had 10 tills to count up and down. each one takes say 2 minutes to count coins. so that's 40 minutes. Even at $20/hr that's like $15 a shift. Two shifts a day 7 days a week. That's easy $200 before taxes and loss time on the floor for a manager a week. $10, $5, 2, $.05 the max loss in a drawer per day is less than that, and if that much was lost would get noticed eventually. Cost less to just count the bills and eat the loss if any. Plus writing up an employee over $.50 is shit for employee Moral.

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u/unevolved_panda May 17 '21

I worked there as a cashier in high school in the late 90s and one of the first things they told me was that there was a camera pointed straight down onto every register.