Standing behind the cash register during a robbery reduced the risk of injury for salespeople.

Psychologists from Canada and the United States studied videos of attacks on 760 US stores to understand how the behavior of the seller depends on the risk of injury during a robbery. It turned out that if at the beginning of the attack the victim is behind the cash register, then the risk of using weapons by the perpetrator is reduced. How the raid ends for the seller depends 6-11 percent on the place where the employee meets the beginning of the incident.