Retail brick/mortar specialty food store. Trying to decide how much of a deal to make of this. Is it a ‘hey guys, let’s remember our policy’ or is it ‘if this happens again, you are fired’ kind of a thing? Would appreciate another perspective as I’m triggered.

I don’t typically monitor my team, but we were short cash on a register (which is unusual for us) so I watched the end of the day video from our security camera to see if they incorrectly made change (which was what was reported as the likely cause) or if anything was obvious. We have a policy of documenting everything that is taken home. Both the Team Lead and another team-member are shown taking home product that was expired without documenting it. I don’t care about the $10 worth of product (although one item could have been repurposed) and would have happily said ‘yes’ to a take-home request, but I do care about the policy violation, especially from our Lead who is supposed to be making sure everything is proper.

Would appreciate any thoughts on how to proceed. Thanks, and Onward! to my fellow small business owners! The job ain’t easy, especially in the area of team management, for me.