Did a wee bit of grocery shopping this afternoon, got me some cheese, tuna, sunflower seeds, coffee and cherry tomatoes. The total price of these exciting purchases came to £5.09. I handed over a £20 note but was only given £9.91 change! Obviously I pulled the person on this saying "Um, there's only the one fiver here" whilst holding out the change so they could see. "Eee, I'm sorry, I'll get the other ten for you in a sec, have to run another purchase through". Now I heard ten and realised that I only needed another five but something in my brain must of went, "Ssshhh"! And sure enough, I was handed a ten pound note. Which if my thinking is right, means I got £5.09's worth of shopping for a mere 9p! It's made me day! (It was the Co-op though so I did feel a little bad, but not much!) This kinda thing happened to anyone here? What happened? Were you honest?
Haha ... we all have moments of not being as honest as we'd like to think we are ... like the inland revenue getting their sums a bit wrong and me keeping the cheque
No, certainly not..! I'd always take the money if someone made a mistake in a supermarket, or other large stores, the mark-up profit they make is obscene..!
I don't really have a problem where it's a victimless crime. Like stealing from old ladies, they'll be dead soon anyway! (And it's just so easy...)
Nope. They made a fault, they pay for it. They make millions of pounds an hour in those supermarkets. Especially coop. It costs more to buy a weeks shopping and their dividends thing is useless. It would take you twenty years to get enough to buy a weeks shopping on dividends alone.Plus in my nearest Welcome coop store, the queues are unbelievable.
When I was 10 I remember that I went to the post office to send something for my dad, and I was supposed to get $4 in change, and as I was walking out and counting there were two 20 dollar bills beneath the two singles. Now being 10, I was amazed, but that little good girl complex that every 10 year old girl has made me give it back and get two singles... But if that happens now, fuck it, it's mine.
Once I put a chocolate bar in my pocket whilst reading a magazine, then walked out of the shop. Honesty attacked and I went back and paid for it. Taz asked me to get a catalogue from a shop once and I walked out with it thinking it was free and not £2. This time it was too late to do anything about it. This made me realise how easy it is to shoplift when you don't know you're actually shoplifting, it removes the shiftylooks element entirely!
I once bought a pack of fags [£2.10] and paid with a £20 and they gave me a £20, a £5 and £2.90 in coins so I got £7.90 more than I had before. They probably thought the £20 was a £10 or they were getting fired soon. sami xx
something similar just happened to my hubby when i was out with him earlier this week. he wanted to get Scarface for the PS2 and we decided to go to HMV to get it as they were running a special where they had it for £27.99 not the £32 most places are charging. He had looked briefly at the 2-disc collector's edition but didn't want to shell out the £34 they were asking for that. We get to the till, and the clerk was in super-fast mode (which seemed odd as we were only the 2nd people in line) and he wasn't paying close attention to what he was doing. We walked out of the store, and my hubby turns to me and says "I just got the two-disc collectors edition. The guy put two discs in a box, and the one I bought should have only had one." We waited till we got back to the car, and sure enough, sitting in the bag was the £34.99 2-disc collector's edition of the Scarface game, not the £27.99 version we paid for. Twas a nice bonus .. and I'm certainly not going to go back and tell them.
