Eeeek a moral Dilemma!!!!!(long post)

ummmmm......ok i respect alll of you opinions.....and thank you giving them.....
i kinda took kind of a different approach.....i took the 35$ iand i gave it to unicef for the flood victims....i would not have been able to donate if this didnt happen so i figured maybe it was a sign to help......................
im also collecting old coats from my family members for the charity "Coats for Kids" its a local charity..................
so i feel better now........... ....lol

Just another thought, it is mistakes like these that will cost you in the long-run for when the store runs end of the year inventory and finds items missing and not enough cash to cover them, they will increase their prices to compensate. I would have gone back, especially to let the checker know of the mistake. At end of shift if your drawer is short, some places make the checker pay for it out of their own check.

Originally Posted by hissy

Just another thought, it is mistakes like these that will cost you in the long-run for when the store runs end of the year inventory and finds items missing and not enough cash to cover them, they will increase their prices to compensate. I would have gone back, especially to let the checker know of the mistake. At end of shift if your drawer is short, some places make the checker pay for it out of their own check.

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I thought of that, but being a former employee because it was a self scan its not anyones drawer if you get my drift.....as for them raising the prices I had never thought of that.....
also on a side note...Stop&Shop has a very big union, and the union would step in if the store ever made a cashier pay.......the union is so big that you can not be fired from there unless they blatently see you steal
But thank you for that side of it i had not thought of that yet.......

Originally Posted by hissy

Just another thought, it is mistakes like these that will cost you in the long-run for when the store runs end of the year inventory and finds items missing and not enough cash to cover them, they will increase their prices to compensate. I would have gone back, especially to let the checker know of the mistake. At end of shift if your drawer is short, some places make the checker pay for it out of their own check.

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I've just thought of another one-

The other day Mum went to the bank and she has a trainee teller and mum asked for a withdrawl of $30 but instead the lady gave her $100, mum of course corrected that because it would have came out of her own till.

At least you're aware enough to notice it. I just recently started checking my receipts and trying to keep tract of what I spend at the store and find that the grocery store/convience store are more likely to charge too much for something than not enough. I know this is going to sound awful, I've come the conclusion that if you get something free on accident, in other words you didn't plan it, then it's just karma making up for the all times you got charged too much. Then again maybe others are better at keeping track of what they spend.

Originally Posted by GrayKittenLove

At least you're aware enough to notice it. I just recently started checking my receipts and trying to keep tract of what I spend at the store and find that the grocery store/convience store are more likely to charge too much for something than not enough. I know this is going to sound awful, I've come the conclusion that if you get something free on accident, in other words you didn't plan it, then it's just karma making up for the all times you got charged too much. Then again maybe others are better at keeping track of what they spend.

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When I go grocery shopping, I estimate as I'm going along and then again as I take the items out of my cart. I am usually within a couple of dollars. Once Super Wal-Mart charged me twice for an $17.00 item! I am glad I caught that before I left the store.

I'm the type of person who would immediately point out the mistake. I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. I ordered some books online, to be sent to a U.S. address, and gave my own address as the billing address. The company screwed up, and sent the same set of books (children's books in English - the bookstore isn't international, like Amazon,) to both addresses, but only charged me for one set. When I pointed out the mistake, they told me it wasn't worthwhile for either the company or myself to pay the return shipping costs, and asked me to donate the books to a library or school here in the company's name, which I did. I printed up little labels - "Gespendet von ...@www....." (Donated by....) and put them inside the books. The local elementary school was thrilled to get them (and noted the co.'s Internet address, so maybe they've placed further orders there).

Originally Posted by jcat

I'm the type of person who would immediately point out the mistake. I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. I ordered some books online, to be sent to a U.S. address, and gave my own address as the billing address. The company screwed up, and sent the same set of books (children's books in English - the bookstore isn't international, like Amazon,) to both addresses, but only charged me for one set. When I pointed out the mistake, they told me it wasn't worthwhile for either the company or myself to pay the return shipping costs, and asked me to donate the books to a library or school here in the company's name, which I did. I printed up little labels - "Gespendet von ...@www....." (Donated by....) and put them inside the books. The local elementary school was thrilled to get them (and noted the co.'s Internet address, so maybe they've placed further orders there).

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The same thing (kinda) happened to me. I received a package from Amazon.com and it had my name and address on it, although I couldnt remember ordering anything at the time. I opened the box and there were 2 barbies - I certainly don't buy them! And inside was an invoice for someone else in Virginia!!!! So I contacted Amazon and let them know of their mistake, because I am sure someone was waiting for their barbies! They took their sweet time sending me the return box to return the stuff, and finally it arrived and I sent it back. I was not acknowledged of my honesty or any appreciation was shown. Nice people.

Oh that's a tough one.......what MA said is true, but still, I think these stores and big companies are so aggravating with their high prices, that if you can get something for nothing once in a great while, and it was unplanned on your part, then I say, why not!

Here's another story for you.
A long time ago (probably 2 years I think) Brad and I went thru the drive thru at BK. Well the girl was not very bright( to say the least) and even thought Brad kept telling her "here's the money." she never DID take it! she just shut the window after giving us our drinks and then gave us our food and hustled us out of the way. SO Sorry, I didn't feel sorry for her either. She was pretty out there.
But working in a restaurant, I know that it has basically become about how fast you can get the customers through the lines, both at the drive thru and the front counters, and not about customer service. OH they preach customer service though. But when you try to talk to the customers in the drive thru, they get mad because you aren't serving them fast enough. We are supposed to have 60 seconds to serve them from the time they get to the counter of the window and I'm sorry, but that's not enough time to be customer friendly in my opinion.

I bought two cases of bottled water not too long ago. They were buy two for five dollars I think. When I got home I realized that the cashier had only charged me for one case. I ended up paying $2.50 for 24 bottles of spring water. I felt bad about it and wanted to return the one case, but never ended up doing it. I still feel a little guilty about it! I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I had a similar thing happen to me. I was buying a computer for my parents from an electronics store but the were out of stock of the CPU so we just bought the monitor and went to another location to buy the rest. When we got there we realized it was actually cheaper to buy the CPU/monitor/printer package and we decided to do that instead. It was no big deal all we had to do was bring the monitor and the receipts to customer service so they could return the monitor and ring it up as the package. I go up to customer service to pay and the cashier rang up everything. I wrote the check and the cashier noticed she forgot to take of one of the discounts so I tore up the check and wrote another. That happend twice.

On the way home I looked at the receipt to make sure we had all the rebate forms and I noticed that when the cashier refunded the monitor but forgot to recharge me for it . So when we got home my Dad called the store. He said they store looked up the receipt and was told everythng was fine. That was the 3rd store employee that looked and the receipt and said everything was fine. At that point I gave up trying to show them their mistake.

I would have had to be honest and tell them we just figured out we didn't pay for the groceries. I have had that happen to me and they told me thanks for being honest, and I didn't have to pay it either. That is just me though, if you needed it that badly, I guess I wouldn't tell either.