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What Would YOU Do?

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
How honest are you?


I was at a farm/yard type store today. Selected my stuff including a large battery. Put everything on the counter, leaving the battery in the cart due to the size and weight, but in plain view of the checker. This store usually does that for larger items and uses a hand scanner wand for them.

She rings everything up and gives me the total. I look at it, realize it's wrong and point to the battery. She had not scanned it. She's apparently new and has to call a helper to show her how to correct the error and get the new total.

I could have kept my mouth shut and walked out with a free $60 battery. I don't know when or if they would have caught the error, or how they would have handled it.

What would YOU have done?
 
Pointed out the battery. I'm not out to screw anyone over. When I got my used chainsaw, I had put $100 down so he'd hold it til I got back to pickup a reel of chain. He rang everything up, and was ready to send me on my way without taking the other hundred I owed him for the saw. I told him about, and paid the money I owed him.
 
Same case in Costco for large/heavy items that are left in the cart, associates are supposed to use a portable barcode scanner to ring it up.
If they "forgot" I'd point out the error. 😉
 
Often the poor cashier will be the one to get toasted by something like not paying for an item if it gets noticed. Not cool.

I've handed an extra $100 back to a bank-teller several times mainly for the same reason. (don't care too much about the bank itself)
 
Had a similar experience a couple of years ago at Menards. I needed a large commercial duty tarp and the one they had was a little over $200. It was big and heavy so I left it in the cart but even after pointing it out to the cashier he forgot to scan it.

So next time I was at Menards I went up to CS and explained what happened and then paid for it. I have to admit it was tempting to just let it go but I was raised right and not paying for something I needed just didn't feel right.
 
I would've paid for it. I had something similar happen at Costco couple weeks ago. I purchased box of king crab legs along with other items. King crab legs were like $259.00. The cashier girl was new and rang it up as $25.90. Instead of scanning the box, she inputted the price and left out a zero. That's big difference in price and over $200 mistake. But I'm pretty sure the mistake wouldn't have been caught by the door receipt checker because they count number of items rather than the price. My receipt was still several hundred dollars.

I asked the cashier girl to double check my receipt and that the total seemed off. I told her to double check if she correctly rang up the price of the crab legs. She thanked me for pointing out the error and directed me to the customer service desk to correct the error. I happily paid the difference and exited the store with clear conscience. As others have said, karma is real and why would I want to take advantage of error like that?
 
Here's the real question... if the cashier forgot to scan the battery, and you weren't thinking and put it in your car and drove all the way home before realizing, would you go back to the store to pay for it?
 
snoopy7548 said:
Here's the real question... if the cashier forgot to scan the battery, and you weren't thinking and put it in your car and drove all the way home before realizing, would you go back to the store to pay for it?
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I've had this happen, next time I was at the store I just got another, told them to ring it up twice because they forgot last time.

Anywhere I shop is 'my people'. You don't steal from your own.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
How honest are you?


I was at a farm/yard type store today. Selected my stuff including a large battery. Put everything on the counter, leaving the battery in the cart due to the size and weight, but in plain view of the checker. This store usually does that for larger items and uses a hand scanner wand for them.

She rings everything up and gives me the total. I look at it, realize it's wrong and point to the battery. She had not scanned it. She's apparently new and has to call a helper to show her how to correct the error and get the new total.

I could have kept my mouth shut and walked out with a free $60 battery. I don't know when or if they would have caught the error, or how they would have handled it.

What would YOU have done?
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this seems like a joke. why would i even be buying a 60$ battery? is it for a lawn mower? i dont steal things so of course i would pay for it this kinda thing happens a lot,
 
skyking said:
no, that is not the right reason or even likely. It's not like grocery stores have Vegas-style systems hovering overhead.
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you dont think grocery stores have cameras with people watching the checkout? OK i wonder where you live, they even show off their camera system (or maybe so checker can view?) at the local owned grocery on a 65" tv with 30+ cameras hah. but again why are you buying a battery from a grocery store 😉 prob was more like walmart.
 
snoopy7548 said:
Here's the real question... if the cashier forgot to scan the battery, and you weren't thinking and put it in your car and drove all the way home before realizing, would you go back to the store to pay for it?
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I'd probably just take a pic of bar code and then go in, they should probably be able to scan it off your phone. If it's far I'd call first in hopes I can just do it over the phone.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I'd pay for it. You're most likely on camera anyway so you'd eventually be found.
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skyking said:
no, that is not the right reason or even likely. It's not like grocery stores have Vegas-style systems hovering overhead.
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See, here's the thing. I went through the line. Everything was in plain sight. The cashier did their part. I ran my card. A receipt was printed.

How would someone watching a camera know something wasn't scanned? It's not like I walked through the line without stopping. Or made an effort to conceal items.

Now maybe if that particular clerk was under surveillance for some past mis-deeds and they were watching the scanned items and running total being tallied also.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
See, here's the thing. I went through the line. Everything was in plain sight. The cashier did their part. I ran my card. A receipt was printed.

How would someone watching a camera know something wasn't scanned? It's not like I walked through the line without stopping. Or made an effort to conceal items.

Now maybe if that particular clerk was under surveillance for some past mis-deeds and they were watching the scanned items and running total being tallied also.
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how would they know!? you know how things are scanned right? 🙂 they would see the checker not get out of their area to scan it. (unless they memorized the upc and typed it in manually 😛 )
 
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