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Default OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges

"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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> "KenK" > wrote in message
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>> 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

>
> Call the store and tell them. This has happened to me before. They'll
> give you the missing items. Once for me it was some meat and something
> else. I sent husband to go get it. He wound up getting a refund on the
> meat. Apparently they had no more of whatever I bought and they were
> trying to make him take something else instead that was lesser
> quality.
>
> I once rang up and put quite a few pairs of women's panties into a bag
> for a man. He was buying something for a party and neither he nor the
> customer behind him were paying attention when I rang up the panties.
> Our store had no dividers at the time to separate orders. He paid with
> a credit card and didn't pay attention to the total which IIRC
> correctly was well over $50. What he intended to buy was only about
> $5.
>
> I have also gotten home and found weird things in my bag that I did
> not buy or pay for. Often it is candy. Once it was some eye product
> that was badly expired. Once it was some sort of produce.
>
>

I got a bag of croutons once. Never used them. Still in the produce
drawer in the fridge.



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