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The whole thing took about a minute. Big giveaway? Hoodies and moving fast. If you are in a "Stop-N-Rob" in the middle of the night keep an eye out on the front door. So if you see a hoodie moving fast toward the front door, you can expect to be in the middle of a robbery pretty quickly.

So what are you going to do?

Notice the bad guys didn't look around for any customers, but they may have been watching for a while and knew there were not any customers.

Before going in, surveillance of the store is appropriate, maybe drive around the store looking for someone that looks out of place. Observe the store for a few minutes prior to entering the store. Look across the street areas of darkness, cars parked across the street in parking lots of closed businesses. Is anyone watching the store?

If you are in the store and observe the hoodies moving towards the door to enter, move to a stock room and try to observe without being seen. Seek cover and get low. Look around things not over them, slice the pie.

If you are noticed, have them come to YOUR kill zone.

Consider distraction, throw a can of coke across the store, the noise away from your position may give you the element of surprise.

The objective is to get them to leave the store without harming you. You really don't want to try to take multiple suspects into any type of custody with no handcuffs, let alone the training to do so.

These people were stupid to have $2K in the store. Someone knew and told the crooks. Have a plan and then practice the plan.