[CowboyConservative]

What rock did you just crawl out from under?
I am involved with a local bar/package store and I'm curious how if somebody purchased a 6pack with a hundred dollar bill you would be able to make change without showing where the real money was? This happens all the time if you worked for me with that mentality you would also be looking for another job!
There is no difference in a threat from a would be criminal no matter how much cash is in the drawer and if your busy would you have a cashier deal with extra cash in front of customers of when they are alone?

[PeteB570]

What rock did you crawl out from under?

Ever see the sign “No $100’s” in a small store.

I see plenty of them around here.

[Poser]

He didn’t crawl out from under a rock. He knows something about retail money handling.

The money should be put through the slot in the drop safe. The store wouldn’t accept a $100 dollar bill. That customer would have to buy elsewhere or use a credit card.

The employee has no access to the drop safe and in many locations, the manager doesn’t either. The manager has one key and the armored car company that picks up the money has the other.

I ran a gas station during the last gas crisis (Jimmy Carter). The armored car company would often pick up more than $20,000 daily from the safe. Every $50, I or my employee on duty would put the money in an envelope and push it through a slot in a floor safe that we couldn’t open without the armored car company.

[gogeo]

You're a fairly stupid person, the kind I used to unapologetically tell to shop somewhere else.

You can set any policy you wish for any operation you run or own. The same is true of anyone else.

The facts:

---The more money in the till, the more likely a store will be robbed.

---The more robberies, the greater possibility that someone will be hurt or killed.

---Stores with this policy post it clearly for all to see.

---Funds in excess of the limit are dropped into a drop safe, the contents of which are not available to the clerk...that's where the "real" money is.

---The policy of limited cash didn't have the effect of increasing store sales, obviously, but of increasing clerk safety.

--To be effective, any policy has to be enforced. It appears that management was lax in this case.

As I told one indignant would-be customer many years ago, yes, sir, it is inconvenient for you. But I have no interest in calling Maggie's husband to tell him his wife won't be coming home.

You put a lesser value on your employee's lives. That is your choice...but it is hardly something to brag about.