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So you get out to your car after grocery shopping...

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waggy said:
Leros story is not the 1st i have heard happen like that. there was a story posted here where something happened like this. someone forgot something in the bottom of the cart. went back in to pay and was arrested.

it's happening often enough i don't think i would take it back in and offer to pay.

I would go to the self checkout line and do it.

though i try my best to look at the bottom of the cart. I do put stuff under it a lot.
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I'm at work so I don't have access to MS Paint, but I'm talking about the shelf at the bottom of the cart that is right by your shins. Not the one under the main part of the cart. I always thought this was the designated milk spot?
 
waggy said:
Leros story is not the 1st i have heard happen like that. there was a story posted here where something happened like this. someone forgot something in the bottom of the cart. went back in to pay and was arrested.

it's happening often enough i don't think i would take it back in and offer to pay.

I would go to the self checkout line and do it.

though i try my best to look at the bottom of the cart. I do put stuff under it a lot.
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Personally I hear this story told a lot by people that seem to end up with 'free shit' all the time and as an excuse when it's seen to not go back in and pay.

I also don't get why 9 times out of 10 the person goes back through a random line, rather than to the person that checked them out to begin with and at the same time not just going right back directly to customer service.
 
alkemyst said:
Personally I hear this story told a lot by people that seem to end up with 'free shit' all the time and as an excuse when it's seen to not go back in and pay.

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I have read it at different forums and newspapers enough to think it happens more then every now and then. seems many places have a Zero tolerance policy and have everyone arrested.

rudeguy said:
I'm at work so I don't have access to MS Paint, but I'm talking about the shelf at the bottom of the cart that is right by your shins. Not the one under the main part of the cart. I always thought this was the designated milk spot?
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some carts that works great on (target has great carts and they fit well there) the local market (can't remember the name fo the store) has TERRIBLE carts. the milk will not fit in the area you are talking about.
 
those of you that wouldnt go back and pay for the item, i hope u get diarrhea from drinking that milk. it has become satan's milk. losers

btw Leros, stop lyin
 
With the stupid stories the newspaper prints today, if someone was indeed caught up in this it would be printed.

What probably is true is a known shoplifter has come back to mock the store with an unpaid item trying to make it look like the store is at fault.

The fact that 'being detained' is added would definitely make the news.
 
This actually happened to me, I once forgot to pay for a small bottle of milk. But it was after I had flown back to America from Europe. I immediately booked a ticket back to Vatican City and "paid" (donated) $50,000 to get an express booking to confess to Cardinal Bertone (The pope was busy that day). After hearing my story, he got up out of the booth, came over to my booth and slapped me in the face, then told me to go home.

I was very relieved that I had been forgiven for my very obvious attempt at sacrilege and derailing the human race from its normal genetic improvements.

To be sure, I also wrote an apology letter to Saddam Hussein's next of next of kin (since his sons were killed too) about that whole "baby milk plant" thing.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Complete strangers don't push a cart around my house to do their food shopping, your analogy is completely baseless. Honestly, some of the responses in this thread.. it's a fucking gallon of milk, you're not going to bankrupt the store by letting it go.
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It's the principle of it all. I know full well the store would not be hurt at all. But if I am going to think of myself an honest person, I take it back.
 
Alot of people in this thread are worried about their online reputation and therefore state that they'd feel terrible and their conscience would force them to run back in and pay.

I on the other hand, couldn't give less of a shit and wouldn't think twice about just going home. In fact I'd make up and sing a free milk song on the way.
 
chalmers said:
Alot of people in this thread are worried about their online reputation and therefore state that they'd feel terrible and their conscience would force them to run back in and pay.

I on the other hand, couldn't give less of a shit and wouldn't think twice about just going home. In fact I'd make up and sing a free milk song on the way.
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It's not my online reputation I am worried about (WTF is that anyway).

The problem is I am the one putting my groceries on that little belt that takes them down to be totalled up. I am the one that neglected to place that item on that little belt that takes them down to be totalled up. I do care about my real-life reputation in that if say the store manager (who I chat with often) or another person I know witnessed me 'hiding' products in the bottom of my cart, I'd be embarrassed by that.

It's a major problem down here. In fact many counters have cutouts with glass to see under the cart and mirrors that show this next to the scanner. It's easy to walk out and say "oh sorry mang, I didn't know 'bout all dat stuff under der. I go back and pays for it. My bad, word to your mother!"

That is not the type of person I want to be. If I got all the way home, yeah perhaps I wouldn't drive all the way back...my time would be wasted and it's not an urgent matter.

However, I would be sure to go up to the counter and say "last week I was in here and my milk wasn't rung up...I'd like to pay for it now."

Simple and the HONEST thing to do.

If you want to be DISHONEST (and no the store is not going to be gravely harmed over losing a gallon of milk, but that's where the masses all think "FUCK, I am going get me some free milks too" and the next thing I know is I have to go to a clerk to have them unlock a case with milk inside it to take one), party on!
 
amicold said:
You always talk about your local stores and forget you live in the woods.
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We don't have grocery stores in the woods. The nearest store has two locations; one in each of the largest two villages in the county. It's a full-sized grocery store. The difference is that it's locally owned, and the owners aren't penny-pinching, calculate the minimum number of cashiers possible to get by on types of guys. In fact, I'd say that occasionally, the number of cashiers at that grocery store is about the same as the number of cashiers with open registers at the nearest Wal-mart, where you DO wait in line.

Anyway, I was going to post that there's got to be more to Leros' story that we're not hearing. I've walked out once in the past year with something under the cart that I completely forgot about until I got to the car. After loading the rest of the stuff, I went back in and said "sorry, I forgot to have this scanned that's under the cart." No problem, they scanned it, I paid for it.

If ANY store attempted to treat me like a shoplifter for doing that, I would make sure that they received a shitload of negative publicity. There are sites like The Consumerist for stuff like that; not to mention a lot of local options. I would also clearly ask if I was allowed to leave, or if I was being detained. If I was being detained, I'd seek legal advice to see if it was actionable - not just to get money, but to clear my name.
 
phhh, lol, hell i tip a waitress more than the cost of milk for some toast and coffee. Even i don't worry about $2.50, much less should the grocer, if so your doing life wrong.
Once i walked out of a station and realized i handed a cashier a $5 instead of a $1, we both missed it, i live paycheck to paycheck like many people and even i didn't even give a f** enough to walk the 20 steps back just for that. Any grocer that can run a business can afford mistakes by customers, if not they needed to go bankrupt anyway.
 
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alkemyst said:
hope you aren't one of those people that put the milk back in the frozen goods section...

Also it may a stretch, but if I am out already buying groceries I think it would be easier to just throw milk in my cart while there.
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Only if it were frozen milk to begin with 😉
 
Without question, I'd go back and pay for it.

I've been in a similar situation. Back in college, I had some fees to pay and did so through student services. The girl working the desk wrote everything off but forgot to charge me, and let me walk away. A few minutes later, guilt got to me and I returned. She was not only surprised but relieved, as this sort of thing would have come straight out of her paycheck (and it was not a small fee).

You never know who might be affected by your indifference, however small the item. Who's to say this wasn't the cashier's first time, and they were fired as a result?
 
AFurryReptile said:
Without question, I'd go back and pay for it.

I've been in a similar situation. Back in college, I had some fees to pay and did so through student services. The girl working the desk wrote everything off but forgot to charge me, and let me walk away. A few minutes later, guilt got to me and I returned. She was not only surprised but relieved, as this sort of thing would have come straight out of her paycheck (and it was not a small fee).

You never know who might be affected by your indifference, however small the item. Who's to say this wasn't the cashier's first time, and they were fired as a result?
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Nobody would know. It's not like they scanned the milk, then somehow just didn't take the money. It would just be missing inventory that nobody would be able to explain.
 
You never know who might be affected by your indifference, however small the item. Who's to say this wasn't the cashier's first time, and they were fired as a result?
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the fact that since they didn't know you took it, they don't know it's that checker.

Unless its an M&P, in which changes the teleological perspective on how ethical the action was.
 
alkemyst said:
Personally I hear this story told a lot by people that seem to end up with 'free shit' all the time and as an excuse when it's seen to not go back in and pay.

I also don't get why 9 times out of 10 the person goes back through a random line, rather than to the person that checked them out to begin with and at the same time not just going right back directly to customer service.
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For me, it was simply the case of going to the shortest line available at the time I went back into the store. Didn't think I needed to go to customer service since I just needed to pay for an item which is what the checkout lines are for.
 
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