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A store owner decided to prevent robbery by creating an alternate routine for moving his day's receipts. An armored car arrives on daily basis to the business, and the cash is handed to them for depositing. However, in actuality only about 10% of cash is handed over. Out of fear that the armored car may get robbed, the owner decides to carry the rest of the money in a brown lunch bag, and during the lunch break he deposits it in the bank. He assumed that no one would suspect that in the bag was the money rather than the lunch.
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·This was a bad tactic for few reasons. Primarily, the insurance that the owner had, covered only cash that was deposited through the use of armored car, and thus only about 10% of the owner's money was insured against robbery. Make sure that you understand your insurance policy well before you decide to make some interesting procedure for money depositing.
·Also, anyone observing the place for a few days can detect that the owner drives away every single day around same time with his lunch. Wouldn?t one be expected to sometimes eat lunch in the office? If a potential robber followed the owner during his lunch break only once, he would figure it out!
·Finally, if the armored car is already coming to the store and you are paying for the service, why not let them handle the whole thing on their own? Carrying money around on your own is not a very good idea when you have alternative.