For the past 6 weeks, I have noticed some fairly odd things at the cannabis store.
The stock and inventory numbers don’t match, everything seems to be correct when the products are entered into the system, but items regularly end up missing by the time we do our final count! I have often wondered if it is an employee that is taking things or if someone is making serious mistakes at the register.
I finally figured out the drawback and I caught the Bandit red-handed. We had a shipment of cannabis concentrate on Monday. The crew of 6 were arranged to work and I noticed a totally different car in the parking lot. I didn’t overthink the weird car in the parking lot until the delivery distributor arrived with our cannabis shipment. I got everything out of the truck and performed that count. Everything was correct from what I could see. I left the warehouse location and headed back into the cannabis store. I chose to walk back to the area, which is something unquestionably strange that I would not normally do. I saw a single of my employees and they were carrying a bucket of things out the emergency exit door. The alarm was not going off, so it must have been disarmed. I immediately shouted to the employee, and that’s when he stopped and dropped the bag. He begged me not to press charges. The guy had $1,500 worth of merchandise in the bag. I truthfully was stunned about this. I trusted the employee for as many as 2 years and the whole time he was stealing from the cannabis store. I didn’t assume I had any choice other than to reach out to the police.