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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2525902" data-attributes="member: 3649">That's the best advice. Know what you should have and know what you do have. I'm sure there is a security primer somewhere for small businesses and the local Chamber of Commerce or businessman's organization should be able to point you to resources.Some online advice is <a href="http://crimeprevention.rutgers.edu/crime/emp_theft/emp_theft.htm" target="_blank">here </a> or just Google 'Preventing employee theft retail' and see the vast amount of stuff you come up with. Have him look at some of the ways other places minimize employee theft. They have accounting systems in place to spot when someone is, for instance, ringing up a sale then later voiding the sale and pocketing the cash or filling out a 'return slip' and pocketing the cash. They also do things like surprise audits of the cash drawer. The manager just walks up and temporarily closes the register, takes the tape and drawer, replaces it with a new drawer and goes to do the audit.Don't hire friends. It's probably not a good idea to hire your customers either.If you really get paranoid, have two cameras. One they know about, one they don't. I have no idea how you'd arrange that, though.One of the best ways of preventing theft, though, isn't available to him, which is not giving one person the keys to the kindgom. If the employee is the only guy there, he has to have pretty much total autonomy.</blockquote>