Why would you do this?
A large company can easily absorb such a small loss (and factors such shrinkage into it's budget). All you did was make the cashier look foolish, which would explain why she was so frosty with you.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 14:59, 3 replies)

Difficult to explain...
I've been brought up to be very honest that way. Perhaps it's some kind of personality quirk - although my dad doesn't share it now.. there was a head of garlic in his shopping trolley when he picked it up yesterday, he took it all around the shop, through the checkout and when he got to his car he put it in his shopping bags, saying he'd got it free. I felt uncomfortable with it. I don't like 'stealing', even if it's by accident.. I like things to be exactly honest that way. I'm a wee bit funny that way but surely I'm not alone.
( Halk, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:06, closed)

I was the guy on the customer service desk at a large multinational supermarket
when a woman came back in with a garlic bulb she'd found in her shopping trolley, requesting to pay for it. While it's not something I would have bothered with myself, I did what she would probably have expected: I smiled, thanked her for her honesty and charged her 47p for it.
( AWPS, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:28, closed)

47p is worth it
To feel all is right in the world.
( Halk, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 16:41, closed)

10p
Back in the seventies, I bought something from a local stationers. The woman undercharged me by 10p (not much now but fortune back then) so I said "that's not right".

She snapped back "oh yes it is" without letting me explain so I just left the shop.
(BearWithLittleBrain, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:52, closed)

It's not stealing,
it's just a happy accident that worked out in your favour.

Still, I suppose I should admire your unwavering honesty high placement on the autistic spectrum.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:58, closed)

And if they're too incompetent to get basic transactions right, then frankly they deserve all they get.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:51, closed)

This has been a party political broadcast,
on behalf of the Conservative party.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 15:54, closed)

No, then I'd have advocated changing the law to accommodate folk who can't or won't do their job right.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 18:00, closed)

I think it's safe to say that if it was her that served you the night before
she was pissed off 'cause she was probably going to get a bollocking from the manager for fucking up in the first place.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 10 Feb 2012, 8:16, closed)