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Default OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges

On 8/8/2016 7:39 AM, KenK wrote:
> Doesn't happen often, but often enough to be annoying. Got home last
> Saturday after grocery shopping and found I didn't have ~$5 worth of stuff
> I was charged for. Possibly previous customer got the stuff, or perhaps I
> left it behind. Why can't these checkout people be more careful? Usually I
> check bag turntable to be sure I got everything. Can't recall if I did so
> this time. Checkout people should do that. Check stuff in bags against cash
> register list? Way too much trouble - and hard to do - for such an uncommon
> event.
>
> What to do? Live with it? Something else?
>
> TIA
>
>

I realised that I'd left something behind at the s/m a couple of weeks
ago. I went back the following day and found out that they kept a "left
behind" book and sure enough, my item was listed.
Graham