Coop believes in various perpetrators behind the robbery

Coop in Blomstermåla on Saturday became the sixth store affected by robbery or attempted robbery in a short time in Kalmar county. Of six affected stores, four have been Coop stores.

But that Coop has been hit more than other chains, Richard Hedsand thinks it's a coincidence, and he doesn't think it's the same perpetrators behind all the robberies.

- I don't think it is the same perpetrator. There are different approaches in the different places, he says.

The robbery in Målilla is different from the other five. There, the robbers entered the store through the back door, after the store closed. During knife threats, they forced the staff to open a larger safe, and came in over SEK 100,000.

He interprets this weekend's robbery in Blomstermåla as more amateurishly implemented: The robbery was over in a minute and the robberies came to about SEK 4000-5000.

- There are different strul you see that they have done. I do not think this is something that has been planned for a long time, but it has been done on the rise, says Richard Hedsand.

Today, many stores lack ordinary cash registers, and cash is instead placed directly in machines that cannot be unlocked. In the shops that still handle cash in the usual way, Coop has now increased the number of occasions each day when the cash is emptied, so that the robbers will bring less money with them when they strike.

- We have looked at security and done everything we can to improve it. We already have good routines, but more frequency to collect money from our security companies, so we have as little cash as possible in our stores

The trade union recently expressed its concern that the robbery took place in stores where the shop staff worked alone. Richard Hedsand, however, says that none of the robbery in the Coop stores took place during the work alone.