Would you point out a cash register error (in your favour)?

[History_Buff]

It depends what the mistake is. I'm a cashier, and so I know just when someone is likely to get in **** for something they screwed up. If someone overchanges you, people counting at the end of the night will notice something is wrong, and the cashier may or may not take flak for it.

If however something is just left off the bill, I wouldn't bother to correct it.
Usually the problem is the cashier is trying to do things too quickly without thinking, so it's their fault really (and I'm sure I've done it hundreds of times). But since the item was never actually rang into the computer, nobody will really know it was the cashiers fault, someone could have just stolen the thing somehow. The store looses money, but whoever screwed up won't take any real heat. (Unless of course it's a common occurrence, in which case it's easy to notice, and they'll just get fired for incompetence. )

 

[Perfection]

Depends on quality of service, presence of supervisor, and all sorts of factors.

 

[JohnRM]

Of course I would, for any amount.

 

[shortguy]

Generally speaking, I would, though if it's a matter of change I probably won't count it anyway, so I wouldn't notice.

 

[Godwynn]

I'd keep it. I need it more than any corporation does.

I bought a sandwich that was $5 once. I handed the guys a twenty, the phone rings, sets my twenty down. He answers the phone comes back and picks up my twenty again, and my change of $15, so I got paid $15 to eat a sandwich. He should have re-counted it.

 

[Sidhe]

but if she never rings it up, it won't show up on her register, and her boss would never know. If she rung it up, but misquoted, that would be different, but in this situaion, no one would notice.

Voted honest Abe btw.

Well pardon me for trying to bring a little humour to the thread . Ok let's say the boss notices after doing stock that 1 bottle of wine is missing and doesn't tally with the figures, since this has been happening consistently he decides that it must be the new girl and fires her for stealing, she becomes a crack whore. this time though because there was no proof (and it is in actual fact Gregor Mitrovski the mild mannered lithaunian,alcoholic janitor: no let's say he's Polish (no reflection on Poles btw or Hong Kong Fuey)) She becomes a bitter crack whore who goes on to gun down several grocery store managers in a fit of extreme insanity caused by the drugs and her fragile worldview that everything always works out for the best crumbling to pieces.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

I haven't used a cash register in months. Back in Canada, I rarely noticed such errors anyways unless purchasing a small amount of goods. If it was an insignificant amount, I'd point it out, if it wasn't, I wouldn't.

 

[GenMarshall]

I would double check and would point out the error and return the extra money.

 

[silver 2039]

I wouldn't say anything, instead I would be quite happy.

 

[bhsup]

Well pardon me for trying to bring a little humour to the thread . Ok let's say the boss notices after doing stock that 1 bottle of wine is missing and doesn't tally with the figures, since this has been happening consistently he decides that it must be the new girl and fires her for stealing, she becomes a crack whore. this time though because there was no proof (and it is in actual fact Gregor Mitrovski the mild mannered lithaunian,alcoholic janitor: no let's say he's Polish (no reflection on Poles btw or Hong Kong Fuey)) She becomes a bitter crack whore who goes on to gun down several grocery store managers in a fit of extreme insanity caused by the drugs and her fragile worldview that everything always works out for the best crumbling to pieces.

Wow, really a half-empty outlook there, eh?

 

[Truronian]

I point it out and return the money, unless I was miles away when I noticed.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

I would notice the extra money.. look at the person on the till, then try and get out of there as quickly as possible, without looking guilty.

 

[GenMarshall]

I point it out and return the money, unless I was miles away when I noticed.

How often does that happen to us, when we notice an error in our change just as we are on our way home?

 

[Truronian]

How often does that happen to us, when we notice an error in our change just as we are on our way home?

Well, I generally keep a mental note of how much money I have so can tell if I have too much in my wallet.

 

[Mathilda]

I don't NEED a $15 bottle of wine... but we drank it tonight and it was FANTASTIC.

The wine reviewer in the Toronto Star claims that this stuff "drinks like a $90 bottle"... I've never had a $90 bottle to compare with but it WAS damn good.

What was it?

 

[nonconformist]

Depends on the shop, but if it's a bigone, then the money's mine.

I'd also buy a mis-labelled product, or one that has a sale price on it once it's ended, since the shop is legally required to sell it to you at the marked price

 

[Sidhe]

How often does that happen to us, when we notice an error in our change just as we are on our way home?

Has anyone ever had this themselves or seen this situation, it's quite rare but it happens because sometimes people don't keep track of their money ok:-

I'm standing at a train station kiosk waiting to buy some gum so that I can break a ten pound note. When I notice the lady in frount hand over a note, looked to me like a fiver, but anyway, she then recieves her change about 3 gold nuggets(Earth pounds) She says "I gave you a ten pound note?", the cashier says "no you didn't I don't have it in my draw, if I did I'd of seen it." the lady argues and argues saying she gave the cashier a ten pound note, untill bemusedly the Cashier decides to go for the customer is always right deal, now I'm in a hurry to catch my train and being a typically resreved Brit I don't particularly want to get involved with this increasingly frustrated lady.

So any way off she goes up a fiver. Now I'm pretty sure she believed she handed over a tenner but it was in fact a fiver, but have you ever been in that situation and then later on thought, hold on didn't I break that ten pound note earlier on the bus? Oh crap, oops What do you do when this happens, drag your sorry arse back, swallow your pride and fork over the ill gotten but unintentional gains, or dismiss it from your mind and resolve to give the money to charity or something to assuage your guilt, or think to yourself wow that was cool I might try that again deliberately next time?

 

[GinandTonic]

It depends on the store. I've had this happen at an LCBO too and I walked away -- government is making a killing through taxes there as it is. I've also had it happen at small independantly-owned stores. I pointed out the error there.

Bout the size of it. Big multi/ national corp messes up more fool them, the guy who runs the corner-shop Ill give him a "dont you want to reconsider that" look.

 

[RedWolf]

What was it?

Deen de Bortoli Vat 8 Shiraz 2004

I'm not a wine expert by any means - but it was certainly better then most wines I've had at that price point.

 

[puglover]

If I owe money and am charged less than the real price, then I should point out the error, or I've stolen.