Today I went to Walmart and when I got into the parking lot I unloaded the groceries into the car and pushed the buggy over to where the other buggies where. I tried to line it up with the buggy in front of me when i noticed something was stuck so I looked to see what it was and it was a brand new pack of batteries. Not thinking to much about it I took the batteries and just thought today really is a lucky day being it 07/07/07, but when i got home and showed them to my brother he made me feel guilty and said that it was like stealing from the store. What do you think?
2007-07-07 11:14:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Someone else most likely purchased them and they fell out of their bag. I would keep them.
If your that guilty take them back. Just tell them you found them outside. They have a book to log items left by customers. In case they come back for it.
I have gotten many things from the cart return area.
2007-07-07 11:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it was the completely ethical thing to do. You could have taken them back to the store and turned them in. Or waited to see if someone came back looking for them.
What I would have done was just left them.
However, I don't think you were a bad person for taking them (unless you saw the last person leave the cart and you knew who the batteries belong to). And I wouldn't have given you any trouble for taking them.
2007-07-07 18:22:08 · answer #2 · answered by Kenneth C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is NO stealing from the store. It may be stealing from whoever lost them. Then again, they MAY be considered "abandoned property". If they are, the law actually is "finders, keepers".
Edit: I agree with BarB. It didn't occur to me to ask which cart they were in.
2007-07-07 20:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were already paid for if they made it outside of the store. take 'em and don't worry about it. if you found a dollar on the side walk you wouldn't feel like a theft picking it up would you? how is this different
2007-07-07 22:17:10 · answer #4 · answered by catch me if u can ;) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you hadn't taken them , someone else would have. Or they would have got wasted and ruined.
It wasn't in the store. If there was no one around who looked like they had lost it. Its not as bad.
if however you just saw the person drop it (which i guess you didn't) Its like stealing.
2007-07-07 18:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by wjs2oo7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
someone had already payed for them so its not like stealing from the store! It is however like stealing from the person who bought them maybe they came back looking for them and they were gone!
2007-07-07 18:20:19 · answer #6 · answered by hoey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is stealing.
However, you did what I and most people would have done.
You didn't intentionally go to Wal Mart to steal batteries!
2007-07-07 18:25:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the batteries were in your basket and you forgot to pay for them....it's stealing.
If they were in another basket that someone else overlooked..... it's finding them.
2007-07-07 18:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Walmart(multi million$ company), they dont care.
2007-07-07 18:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah... finders keepers...
2007-07-07 18:24:28 · answer #10 · answered by Chrissy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋