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Super 1 Grocery Fraud Prevention and Detection Policy
Acct 421 Final Project
Fraud Prevention and Detection
LaTonia Gray
Southern New Hampshire University
Aug 14, 2021
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For this paper, I will be doing a fraud prevention program for Super 1 Grocery stores.
Super 1 Foods is a supermarket chain that is located in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. It
focuses is on provided high-quality meats and produce and is operated by Brookshire Grocery
Co. based out of Tyler Texas. "Grocery store fraud includes the use of fake identification,
fraudulent or stolen credit cards, counterfeit funds obtained through counterfeit money, altered
checks, counterfeit coupons, and phony travelers/gift checks as well as return receipt fraud".
(Fraud Fighter, 2019). For the Duration of this paper, I will be discussing what fraud prevention
is and ways it can be detected and prevented.
Fraud awareness and Prevention policies
Fraud awareness and prevention polices are policies set in place by a company to help
prevent fraud and provided steps and actions to be taken if fraud is committed. These policies
are provided to employees during new hire orientation and training. The training material will
include ways to notice fraud attempts and how to notice if fraud is being committed. It will also
include when and where to report fraud that is safe and confidential for employees. If policies
are change the necessary training for all employees will be done.
Super 1 has reported fraud attempts or theft attempts by customer but the most
cases at the grocery chain, where employees have attempt to steal groceries and money from
conduct an investigation in the issue which either leads to and employee being fired and have
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criminal charges filed. In very small cases employees have been cleared after an investigation
by the team has concluded.
Individual risk factor management
Super 1 encourages its employees to report any suspicious fraud or unethical type
behavior. Even if an employee is not sure of what exactly is going on but suspects wrong during,
they are encourage to report it. Super one asks that employees report details immediately to
management, but if an employee is not comfortable reporting to management or wish to be
more confidential, Super 1 has and ethics hotline where employees can call anytime day or
night to report suspicious behaviors and this hotline allows for employees to be discrete if they
wish, as they do not have to provide their name or any other personal details. Since most of
Super 1's fraud is committed by employees, the fraud triangle should be used to help notice
individual risk factors.
The fraud triangle will help management pin point possible risk factors on its employees.
It will help to determine if an employee is under any type of financial pressure. An employee
will not normally tell management if they are having financial difficulties, but doing a credit
check on new hires before they are