Sounds like a former employee to me, who had made a copy of his name tag and knew the combination to the safe. That didn’t take a genius, but it did take nerve.
NOw THAT is LOW Prices!!! I wonder what the yellow smiley wallmart Icon would say about this!!
“Clean up on Aisle 1 in the Back Room!”
At 9:38pm he went in, appearing very comfortable. He entered the combinations to the safe, opened it and filled the two boxes up with the cash...
Got to be an inside job!
I wonder if there was computer hacking involved in this. Where does a company like WalMart store safe combinations? Decades ago, I was a fast food manager for a while, and I can’t really recall how the safe issue worked. I know the norm was for a store manager to just tell assistant managers the combination, but I don’t recall if the safe also had a key lock, that presumably somebody at corporate headquarters would have had the key or key-making info for. I suspect that nowadays big companies have some sort of central safe combination repository, and also uses computers to track when safe combinations have been changed, and make sure they’re being changed when there
s change in a store’s management team.
Many types of safes are incredibly hard to get into. I remember about 8 years ago, a fireproof file-drawer safe at my office had to be broken into by a locksmith — it had a combination and I think it had a key lock as well, but nobody had the combination or key or key-making code. The locksmith spent a whole afternoon drilling away with a huge drill bit, and had to come back the next day to finish breaking in (the noise was deafening!). For a business like WalMart, having a store safe out of operation for even a few hours would be incredibly disruptive to business, so I suspect they’ve got some sort of central repository for combinations.
The list of those with the safe combination is very, very short. There is almost no way for the confederate not to get exposed.
....this kind of thing happens...our local WalMart just remodeled...an outside contractor came in to do some of the work...they were issued name tag badges...after the job was done, two of them came back to the store....they walked into the store pharmacy and proceeded to steal drugs...they got caught leaving with $6000 worth of street value pills.
Most posts are assuming a confederate gave the thief the combination. Is it possible, he was able to get some form of surveillance to obtain the combination?
It is odd they say how much was stolen. Smart companies won’t report this. Is the reporter just guessing?
WMT ping.
I’ve got lots of questions about this story.
- The article says the thief, “stole as much as $200,000.” Why don’t they have a more exact amount? Wal*Mart has very strict rules about how money is accounted for and counted in the cash room.
- I doubt Wal*Mart corporate would allow a store to have $200,000 in the cash room. I don’t think the average store would have use for that amount of cash. Maybe it’s a typo and the amount was really $20,000?
- I’d assume, since Wal*Mart is a retail store that the bills in the cash room would be rather small. Mostly 1’s, 5’s, 10’s and 20’s with maybe a few 50’s and 100’s? Probably no bills larger than $100. If so, $200,000 would be a huge number of bills. I’m wondering how the thief got $200,000 into two “small white boxes?”
I like one of the comments - “this isn’t spectacular. I can’t get the employees at WalMart to notice me either”.
This is why my stores, and most grocery and drug stores, have their safes in plain sight.
Looks like an older guy.
Perhaps with a dash of stupidity on management's part.