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Default OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges


"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2016-08-08 9:39 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?
>>
>>

>
> Did you check your car? A friend of ours has a strange smell in her car
> and it got worse and worse. It turned out to be a package of cream cheese
> that had somehow ended up between the passenger seat and console of her
> car. She had been sure that she had bought cream cheese but when she went
> to get some a few days later she could not find it and thought she had
> simply forgotten to buy it.


That too. The car is always the first place I check. I've found oranges that
rolled up into a weird spot and once I think it was a loaf of bread.
Sometimes it's an entire bag. I think Angela got it and she thinks I got it.