What do you think?

Question

Lets say someone walks into walmart goes to the cashier to purchase a nice tv for 1200 dollars the customer pulls out all cash

1. Do you think paying 1200 dollars cash in walmart is weird?

after the customer has payed at the end of the cashiers shift the manager checks the till and all the cash is fake... and the guy is long gone...then what can they do?

for a student investigation

Answer 1

Pull the tapes, call the feds, fingerprint the money, run imaging on the thief, then start tracking him or her down.
Do not fire the employee as you will need that person as a witness.

Answer 2

I wouldn't think paying $1200 cash for a television or anything is weird. The fact that the cashier didn't use one of those makers to check and see if the money was counterfeit, that might be weird, depends a bit on the neighborhood it was purchased in. A Walmart, might be considered "low-end" shopping, so I would think they would be trained to check for counterfeit bills. It is fairly certain the gentleman who passed the fake bills is on camera, and then of course as someone mentioned above there is always the issue of finger prints. However, a $1200 loss, is not going to be a large enough loss for a police department to get that involved in. At least that has been my experience, I've had my check book stolen and gone through the motions of filing police reports, which is basically for the purpose of not being held liable myself for the debt to the stores, but did the police go out and hunt down some loser over a couple grand? No, they have much bigger fish to fry. That's just the way it works. So most times, the small time thieves can get away with things easier if cashiers don't do their jobs correctly, that's why they are so on to this marker deal with the fake bills.

Answer 3

Funny how everyone just assumes it must be the person who paid cash for the tv... Do you folks have any idea how much money changes hands during a full shift in a Wal-Mart? I can tell you it's WAY over $1200, especially now during the holiday shopping season.
As another person already said, they'll have to look at the security tapes of the cashier and the parking lot, fingerprint the money etc. if only just to question that person.
Even if only $1200 is counterfeit, it's still circumstantial... How do we know the 12 people that were in line behind the tv purchaser didn't each pay their bill with fake $100 bills?

At any rate, I'm sure Wal-Mart would cover themselves with insurance. If I was Wal-Mart, I'd file a police report and then an insurance claim.

Answer 4

Maybe a little weird, but not unheard of. Its still legal to spend cash, so far. The government and major business would love to get rid of most cash so they can track every single transaction; from cards, chips, etc.
If they are 50s and 100s, the cashier is required to use a special marking pen to check the bills. In Las Vegas businesses and casinos are even checking 10s and 20s now.
If they passed but still found to be counterfeit, they must be turned over to the U.S. Secret Service for investigation. Wal Mart loses out, unless insured for this.
Wal Mart (and most other major retailers) have comprehensive video surveillance. The crook would probably get caught, sooner or later. Secret Service doesn't give up.
Protecting the White House, etc is a very small part of their job. Counterfeit investigation is their major mission.

Answer 5

They can then call the cops, start an investigation, then have a much needed seminar for the cashiers on how to detect phony money. (Oh yeah, and hope the TV blows up in the guys face.)

Answer 6

You fire the cashier for not getting a supervisor or a manager over to look at the cash to make sure it was not counterfeit. Its a real simple procedure.

Answer 7

file a police report, have the police take finger prints off the money, ask if there is any security cameras in the store and see if the cashier can find the guy who paid with the counter-fit money, if so, send the pic to the local T.V. station see if anybody watching can I.D. the person,.....

Answer 8

The cashier should have used the special pen that you mark on the dollars to see if they are real bills. I think anything over $20, they check to see if they are real, that's what they do where I live anyway.

Answer 9

I wouldn't say it's that weird. As to the second part, I would think they have security cameras that would show the person, and give the police a lead.

Answer 10

They can file a police report. That's about it. They can't make the employee pay the money back.