If you found out after your left the store..?

Question

...that they gave you more money,would you go back to store and be honest and give money back?

Answer 1

nope i would keep it. stores take more money from you then you know. how many times have you got something that rung up different when you checked out that you never cought until you got home? then your here like i don't want to go back or you say you will and you never do? I'm not that honest on that part. put if they gave me change and it wasn't enough you bet i would be saying something and i count my money before i even leave or i watch them the ones that count the money back to you!

Answer 2

Depends on the amount. I work retail. Actually in my time I have seen maybe 2 people actually bring money back. The amount as I recall was $20 and under. If it was that small amount I would probably not bring it back. Over $50 I would.

Answer 3

Yes, I have. I have also argued with brain dead cashiers right there in the store when they give me back to much money. They let machines do all the work. Can't do math without the computer

Answer 4

Depends how far away from the store I am. If it were just a few dollars, probably not. If it were a large amount, I would have to go back. Once again, that Karma thing.

Answer 5

Definately

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

That actually happened to me and I did give the money back.

Answer 8

Thank God your question has 3 days left to answer…I may need all of those…lol
My answer may be long and I apologize for that in advance. It is not one of those endless answers because somebody copy/pasted a WebPage instead of just the link. Everything following is just my fingers dancing on the keyboard, trying to follow my thoughts…on a lonely Friday night.

Your question really should start with the word “when” instead of “if” because this happens so often, I am sure everybody had experienced it. So it’s not “would you go back” but rather “did you go back?”.

If you pay with cash, Dead Presidents and coins (like for under $20 or whatever), the cashier usually just gives you the money that the machine tells him/her that you should get for change. Now, some cashiers do not know how to count. Never assume because somebody is handling money all day long, they can add or subtract. I was at a dry cleaner one day where I paid cash. The charge was like $12.77 so I gave $13 to the cashier but since I did not want 0.23 in change (five coins), I also gave her two pennies so she would have to give me a quarter for change (one coin only, that’s how I get rid of my coins…). The cashier (a teenage girl) did not know what to do with my two pennies but when she entered my $13.02 in her machine and she saw she was supposed to give me back a quarter, she acted extremely surprised like I just did a magic trick!

Now if a cashier would give me more cash that I was supposed to get, this would be a different story. Also, why would a cashier do that? Even if you don’t know how to add or subtract, the machine tells you the amount of change and you know the difference between a $5, a $10 or a $20. Unless…distraction? attraction? (I’m hoping). Maybe the cashier girl just got dumped by her boyfriend and thought a $20 was a $10 because all she would see was her boyfriend’s face instead of Jackson or Hamilton’s faces. Maybe the cashier guy thought I was so hot, he couldn’t see straight anymore? (and unconsciously wanted to give me something extra…)
Whatever the reasons, I would always point out the mistake because:
1) I pity the girl and I think the guy is hot too…
2) This is just the right thing to do and unless you’re a psychopath, you know the difference between right and wrong.
3) I do not want my nightmares to be about dealing with my guilt…
4) I believe in Karma
5) It just feels so, so fraking good to not be greedy and do something right, and the feeling of goodness is priceless, like MasterCard.
6) The person who made the mistake has a low-paying job where he/she has to stand all day long. If I had that job, I would be standing on top of that thing where you scan stuff, with a “Union” sign in my hand, asking for the right to sit down… (I would personally bring my own stool to work if I had that job…), and the mistake in their cash register may be blamed on them and they really don’t need more crap that they can handle.
7) I am a good person, or I think I am and I will not do anything to jeopardize that and if I can even reinforce that idea, I will jump at the opportunity to always do the right thing or correct the wrong. Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. A lot of good stuff happen to me all the time. Complete strangers are extremely nice to me and I do not think it is only because I look so good. Sometimes I go out of my way to help a stranger (like the completely lost American couple on a Paris Subway – I’m French and bilingual), because I know it brings me purpose and everything is really more about giving than receiving, and, whatever, you get the point.

There may be other reasons to do the right things or other reasons to do the wrong things. Everybody make their own choice in life and that is OK with me. Some people might think that a small error is not enough to rectify it but I personally think that even a little small good thing can bring you a lot. It is not how small or how big, it is a matter of principle. And if a little thing can make me feel so good, then I will stop at nothing to make it right.
Some people just do not care…their choice and also their loss.


Anyway, usually, I pay with a credit card so if a mistake is made, I may not see it right away because I can see it later, in the comfort of my own home. I know that if the mistake is that I was charged too much, I will go the customer’s desk at my next trip to the store and get my money back. A month ago, I bought three onions at $1.99 a pound and when I got home and looked over my receipt, (which by the way everybody should do unless they don’t care about money), I realized they charged me $1.99 for each onions for a total of $5.97 for three onions that were pretty small since I chose the smaller ones over the big ones (my knife is small…lol). Three small onions for $6.00! I might as well go to McDonald and get whole sandwiches for that price…On my next trip to the store, I just went to the customer’s desk and they realized that their automatic system was wrong and I got all my money back and I kept the onions (which had been already eaten anyway). As a matter of fact, my free onions were just a way for the store to pay me to make them aware of their problems…and if a lot of people paid a lot of money for those onions, too bad for them if they did not check their receipts…
And that is how you get free onions.

For the other way, when I end up paying less for something…I very often put that on the fact that the item was on sale but I did not notice (makes me happy so…). Or it was on sale in the automatic system but not yet on the price on the shelf because human beings who change those prices are not as fast as the computer (let’s have fast robots, like the ones in the car industry, changing prices in the aisles…).

Everything is automatic nowadays and there is a lot and I mean a lot of mistakes by the system (like the price of my onions per piece instead of per pounds) which are only spotted when somebody is complaining about it. The cashier very often just scan the thing and push buttons. Checking your receipts, spotting the mistakes, complaining about them and getting free stuff for your effort is like coupons…your time will be rewarded…

Answer 9

Well, if I didn't give it back, I would buy something from the store for me with it.

Answer 10

Yes. I don't want a hard-working (usually underpaid and underappreciated) cashier to lose their job over an oversight like that.