Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The case of a pharmacy employee in Sidrap, South Sulawesi, who allegedly bought land and a car from the proceeds of the sale immediately went viral. Reportedly, the perpetrator with the initials SS carried out a money-grabbing action every day in different amounts.

As reported by detik, this action was carried out by SS after SS had worked for three months at the pharmacy.

“He admitted that while he was working at first he didn’t (didn’t look at it). Later, when he was 2-3 months into the process, he (started to look at money),” said the owner of the pharmacy, Bakri, as quoted by Detik.

“He admitted himself that every day he takes it, he doesn’t know what he takes. Sometimes it’s Rp. 500 thousand minimum, sometimes Rp. 1 million, sometimes above (more than Rp. 1 million),” he continued.

Learning from this case, it is worth knowing that fraud committed by cashiers can be very dangerous for business. And the longer someone works, the more they understand the ins and outs of the store or stock turnover.

The following are a number of cheating methods that are commonly used by naughty cashiers.

Stealing money

Stealing money from sales or inventory is an action that has the potential to be carried out when there is an opportunity and there is minimal supervision.

Every transaction made by a customer is of course carried out at the cashier, and when customers make payments with cash, the potential for this problem to occur is even greater.

Didn’t give a receipt

This act of stealing money is generally carried out simultaneously with not giving a receipt to the customer.

When customers themselves don’t know the costs they should incur for shopping, cashiers can manipulate the prices to take advantage.

They could tell customers that the printer is damaged and so on.

Create fake sales reports

This fraud is often committed if the place of business in question still uses a manual financial recording system.

It could be that the cashier makes a fake transaction report whose value is lower than the original sale. As a result, the rest can go into the cashier’s personal pocket.

In the case of the South Sulawesi pharmacy, the pharmacy owner admitted that SS was given full trust to deposit the money from pharmacy sales.

This case certainly teaches us that being selective in choosing employees is certainly not enough. As an entrepreneur, you must be diligent in carrying out stock taking, as well as utilizing various technologies such as cashier software to monitor sales activities at your place of business.

The presence of surveillance cameras can certainly prevent cashiers from committing fraud. However, this is only one of the many solutions available.

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