• Keep your doors and windows clear of signs and posters to allow good visibility.  Employees can see suspicious people outside, and  passers-by and police can see inside.
• Keep the outside of your business well lit.
• Make sure your cashier is clearly visible to outside observers.
• Practice good cash control.  Keep a minimum amount in your cash drawer and make regular drops into a safe.
• Advertise outside that you keep a minimal amount of cash in the register and that you will not accept large bills.
• Don't keep large bills under the cash drawer.  If you don't have a safe, find a less obvious place to hide your extra cash until you go to the bank.
• Use a safe that the clerk cannot open alone or that requires two keys.  Post that fact conspicuously, including on the safe itself.
• Use quality video surveillance and make it well known.
• Always have at least two clerks working at night.
• Greet all customers - this reduces their anonymity and lets potential robbers know you are paying attention.
• Be alert for 'customers' who seem to be loitering or glancing around the store while appearing to shop or browse through a magazine.
• Watch for suspicious persons outside the business - especially in parked cars and around telephone booths.
• Report suspicious people to the police.
• Two employees should be on hand at opening and closing times.
• At opening time, one employee should enter the store and check to see if it has been disturbed.
• Before closing, one employee should check the office, back rooms and rest rooms to make sure no one is hiding inside.
• Keep side and back doors locked.  Have employees use the main entrance.
• Place markers at the main entrance that employees can use to help gauge the height of a robber as he leaves.
• Watch for suspicious customers.  Robbers often 'shop' until all other customers are gone.
• Encourage credit card use by the customers.  Some offenders may think you won't have so much cash around, and if you are robbed, you will lose less money.

Some things you can do to reduce the  risk of a cash deposit robbery:

• Make bank deposits on a routine basis utilizing an armored service.
• If this is not possible, take a second person along.
• Vary your banking routine.  Carry cash in a variety of ways - a lunch sack, attaché case, flight bag, picket, etc.  Money bags are pretty obvious.
• Vary the times and routes you use to go to the bank.
• Make deposits as often as possible, never less than one a day.

If you notice someone following you when you're driving, head for the nearest busy, brightly lit area.  Write down a description of the vehicle and call 911.