Written yesterday 06/11/09
Today -We were nearly robbed
Thank God, because of some presence of mind of our employees, our store was prevented from being robbed by a group of bad elements.
The time is between 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. wherein some of our sales personnel were having their lunch break and only a handful of customers were around the area.
Here is what happened as recounted by my Store Supervisor:
One old lady positioned herself near the guard and was trying to distract the guard by asking him a lot of question. Then three people pretended to be customers asking and ordering stocks to our three salesladies who were on duty at that time. They spread each other far apart to prevent being covered by one saleslady.
One tried to circle behind our counter while trying to peek on the content of our cash register. While another one is on the right side of the cashier counter pretending to be another customer. They are communicating by their eyes as recounted by our Saleslady who at that time was feeling nervous.
My Store Supervisor was on the left side of the cashier counter wary of the things that are happening at that moment.
This means that one of them at least covers one of our personnel and committing the crime only needs a “go ahead” signal.
With God’s grace, one of our stock man who just came from the stockroom gets inside the counter and gets himself water from our drinking station. He noticed the action of the two men near the counter so he closed the upper and lower swinging door of our counter.
They now have second thought because of the presence of our stock man. Also, realizing that the cash register contains only a handful of bill they must have realized that the risk is not worth taking.
All of them immediately left our store in a hurry.
Life is so hard these days robbers became bolder. I knew that they would come back but this time, we have prepared a more detailed security measures.
Some Tips to consider:
- Big cash money should always be removed from Cash register and placed in a more safety location frequently leaving only loose change.
- Guard’s schedule of break time must vary from time to time. Burglars are good at surveying their victims.
- Advised our guard to refrain from answering queries of customers but concentrate on monitoring movements of customers. If they persist, call the attention of sales personnel to attend to them.
- Manpower must be taught of things they should do during emergency situation such as these. Such as one person should call other personnel as back up to let them know you are aware of the situation.
- Hotline numbers of police and other government agency should be posted near the telephone for easy reporting of incident.
- In the event that the holdup/ robbery materialized, don’t attempt to resist. Life is more important than all the material wealth they could get into.
- If you have other idea please leave a comment. Let us help one another in preventing another crime from happening. Prevention is better than cure!
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sabi nga nung security officer nung nasa bank pa ako, “kapag may hold-up ‘wag magpaka-bayani!”
dapat talaga walang naiiwan na malaking cash sa cash register, buti na lang at hindi natuloy ang balak nila sir mon. akala siguro nila, dahil busy sa rally ang mga tao kahapon hindi sila papansinin
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I am so glad Kuya nothing bad happened to you. God bless.
OMG, nkakatakot nman un, buti na lang po at walang nangyaring masama sa inyo…
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grabe naman to, nakaktakot! good thing nothing really happened bad to you bro… kunin na nila mga gamit wag lg buhay.
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Roy- oo nga. Talaga lang siguro may blessings pa rin ni Lord at naitabi na yung pera nung time na yun. Kaya wala silang nakitang malaking halaga. Hindi worth kung mahuli sila. hehehe.
Snow – oo nga. Praise God!
Kelvin – oo nga, sinulat ko na rin para yung ibang makabasa maging aware how bold these people are now.
elmot- sa panahon ngayun parang wala nang takot mga criminal. one time may nahuli kaming nag shop left na bata. Nasa 15 years old. Alam mo sabi sa akin? “Kuya mag lilinis na lang ako dito sa store niyo. Wala din naman mangyayari kung ipakulong mo ako.”Alam niya itu-turn over siya ng police sa DSWD eh! Grabe hindi ba?
Hala, buti wala pong nasaktan. Beginners pa lang siguro sila and nangangapa pa.
Same thing goes with our computer shop, muntik na rin. Buti may alarm system yung door, ayun nagulat ang mga robbers and ran away. We just woke up na bukas ang door, at walang nawala. Tentive time ng pagnakaw is 2AM.
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Ada – Buti nga. Mga desente naman daw mga suot. Nakita kasi walang pera ang kaha. Dumungwang yung isa sa Cash register eh! sinilip kung me pera. Masyadong bulgar ang ginawa. Pati guard na namin nabigla eh.hehehe
Shocks, good thing walang nangyare na masama. Everyone was safe and all that. Hay. Mhirap na talaga siguro ang buhay kaya may mga ganyan. This is the first time I saw a picture of a robbing scene though, I seriously thought sa palabas lang na nagmamaskara sila lol.
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Oh my gosh buti okay naman kayo. It’s so sad that people have to resort in doing this.
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I am glad nothing bad happened to you and your colleagues. It’s sad what people need to resort to because of hard life. I am not trying to defend them or anything…
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Jade – The day after this thing had happened. I heard that somebody was shot at the mall near our store. According to the stall where i bought a chess board, one victim of pickpocket resisted. The reason why he was shot. Imagine doing pickpocket inside a mall with a gun.
@ Fatherlyours – Oh my gosh! Nakakatakot naman- looks like there’s no safe place na talaga.
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