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Fraud and Theft in Focus: Protecting Your Firearm Store This Holiday Season

Holiday traffic is great for sales, but it’s just as good for thieves. This week’s blog shows how to stay sharp when your store is busiest.

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Cash rounding is live, simple, and ready to take pennies out of your day. And if you’re tightening staff access for the holidays, this week’s guide walks through quick, clean permission setup.

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Fraud and Theft in Focus: Protecting Your Firearm Store This Holiday Season

The holiday shopping season brings tremendous opportunity for retailers. Customers are shopping in higher volumes, looking for gifts and great deals. Unfortunately, the same spike in traffic and distraction creates ideal conditions for fraud and theft. Criminals know stores are busy, employees are multitasking, and procedures may be rushed. For firearm retailers, the stakes are far greater because guns, ammunition, and accessories can be quickly resold for significant profit.

This article highlights common fraud and theft schemes affecting firearm retailers both online and in person, along with practical strategies to counter each one. From stolen credit cards and fake IDs to smash and grab break-ins, awareness is your first line of defense. You will also find a prevention checklist at the end that you can share with employees to keep your business protected throughout the season.

From The Help Desk

coreSTORE- Sales - New Cash Rounding Feature

Cash Rounding - New Feature

What It Does

Automatically rounds sale totals to the nearest $0.05 when customer pays with cash only. Eliminates the need for pennies.

Configuration

Store Config → Sales Tab → Cash Rounding Mode

• Disabled — No rounding ($10.02 stays $10.02)

• Round to Nearest 0.05 — Standard rounding ($10.02 → $10.00, $10.03 → $10.05)

• Always Round Up — Only rounds up ($10.01 → $10.05)

coreSTORE- Employee: Managing Employee Permissions

In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of assigning employee permissions to a user. This can be done during employee creation or later if you need to modify existing permissions. The permissions you set will depend on your business practices and what you want your users to be able to do in coreSTORE.

1. Click on Employees

Navigate to the Company menu and select the Employees sub-menu.

Replay Ready: Finish the Year Strong, December Sales & the Penny Shift

Missed it live? No worries.

You can still catch the quick, practical breakdown of what retailers should be doing from now until Christmas to lift sales, create urgency, and build momentum going into the new year.

The replay walks through real-world December tactics, positioning, timing, last-minute shopper strategies, and simple adjustments that make your final weeks smoother. Plus, a brief rundown on the penny shift so your counter stays ready and customers stay informed.

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