Massy Stores has con­firmed that a rob­bery took place at its Mar­aval branch ear­li­er to­day be­fore open­ing hours.

In a state­ment, the com­pa­ny said no cus­tomers were in the store at the time, and none of the em­ploy­ees were harmed. It added that sup­port has been of­fered to staff af­fect­ed by what it called a “trau­mat­ic event”.

Massy al­so ad­dressed “mis­in­for­ma­tion cur­rent­ly be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed” and clar­i­fied that on­ly a small sum of cash was tak­en. The com­pa­ny said its long­stand­ing pol­i­cy is to keep min­i­mal cash on hand to re­duce risk to staff and cus­tomers.