jmcquown > wrote in
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> On 8/8/2016 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?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> Ken, I don't know about your grocery store setup where you shop. The
> ones I shop in have those little bars you put on the conveyor belt to
> separate your purchases from the person in line ahead of you (and
> behind) your items. Meanwhile, as items are scanned the bagger is
> loading items into my shopping cart. I watch them scan and watch the
> display (I pretty much know what I've bought and check whether or not
> the price rings up correctly).
>
> I truly cannot remember ever leaving the store without everything I
> purchased. In your case, I'd have called the store when I got home
> when you noticed you were overcharged or charged for items you did not
> actually receive. They'll usually make good on things like that.
>
> Jill
>

This store doesn't use a bagger. Just a turntable holding empty bags, and
full bags of your purchase. Sometimes the previous customer is still
loading bags of stuff into their cart from the turntable even as cashier
is filling new bags. A wonder that more stuff doesn't disappear.

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