In the U.S. alone, a commercial robbery is committed every four minutes. That’s more than 100,000 robberies each year.

The attitude and performance of store employees directly reflects the attitude and performance of store management.

Creating a work place that addresses, discusses and actively engages the employees is a great way to stop internal theft

Many of these suggestions and tips seem very simple and obvious, yet many businesses don’t use them, and in turn experience a much higher level of employee theft than they are aware of.

Here are a few tips on how to deter would-be shoplifters in your business.

Retail theft is common. One way to deter would-be shoplifters is to supervise the sales floor personally.

Your employees are 15 times more likely to steal from you than your customers.