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COWORKER Cash Handling and Deposits
It’s absolutely critical that, if you are ever
alone in the store, none of these security
security precautions are forgotten. You should:
• Never leave the showroom
unattended while there are customers
Safe Environment in the store
• Never allow customers to be left
A lot of the work that goes into keeping your coworkers and unattended in the staging area.
your store safe and secure involves common sense.
• Keep an eye on your cash drawer
and have a firm understanding of the
Select the things that help create a safe environment: company’s deposit procedures.

Using cables, locks and other theft protection devices At Rent-A-Center, corporate stores and
on any merchandise that might be easy to walk out some franchise stores, time-lock drop-
with safes are used, meaning cash can go in,

Check your electronic merchandise to make sure they but cannot come out until it is time to
have appropriate safety devices before you open your make a deposit at the bank. Deposits can WELCOME & ORIENTATION / TRAINING ROADMAP
store each morning only be taken from the safe at specific
times, usually only once a day, by your
Carrying a weapon of any kind in the store, on your store manager or the assistant manager
person, or in your personal vehicle on duty.
Locking your back room door when you’re not using it When it's time for a deposit, one
Locking the front doors any time you aren’t open for coworker should bring the RAC vehicle
business to the front doors, while the other holds

Locking the front doors when you are preparing a onto the deposit inside the store. Then
deposit the driving coworker should come in for

Activating the alarms when leaving for the night the deposit, while the other watches
them make it safely to the vehicle to lock
Leaving the box truck’s rear door open to show the its doors and head to the bank.
truck is empty
In the event of a robbery, knowledge
Follow up with your manager to discuss these. of Rent-A-Center’s deposit procedures
makes it easy for you to calmly explain
the safe’s limitations to any criminals
When it comes to who may want access to it.

Now, partner with you franchise owner
Security, and store manager to learn your

franchise deposit procedures.

you
carelessness Did Know?
Spells
Nearly 60% of the robberies that

Disaster. happen at a Rent-A-Center store
actually happen outside the building!
Be sure to watch your coworkers as
they leave the building, for deposits,
for the end of the day, whenever.
Protect each other when you can.
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