Nuff said.
So, we get to check out and the cashier says “$15.57″ just as I am about to swipe my card, pay and head for the door, Hubby says:
“How much is it?” (I repeat the price to him)
“How?” (“I don’t know” I say)
“All that stuff?…” (I say nothing and I swipe my card)
The cashier hands us the receipt and we head for the door. I take a look at the receipt and notice it only has three items on it: fingerpaint, paper and a tee shirt. I look at Hubby and say- “She didn’t charge us for the beanbag… but I saw her scan it… what do I do?”
Let’s pause for a minute
In all honesty, if this was say… five years ago, I may have kept walking and said “oh well, her bad”
BUT
It’s 2010 and I’m a Mom with a conscious and so we walk back to the register, wait our turn in line and kindly tell the teeny-bopper that she didn’t charge us for the beanbag. She then shouts to the manager “My scanner hasn’t been working properly all. day.” to which the manager shouts back “move to register four!!” She thanked us over and over again for coming back and I basically said: “I don’t want to be a thief or anything. Plus if I took this beanbag Karma would totally bite me in the ass and something bad will happen to me down the line and it’ll be like see- remember that time you stole that beanbag?” (Cause yeah… that’s the kind of luck this family has)
I look at Hubby as we walk out of Target and say- “See honey? We are good people.” (To which he says “yup”) And I just say “that’s how this family rolls…”
Hopefully the Big Man Upstairs was saying “well done good & faithful servant…”
What would you have done?
“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”
~ Matthew 25:21
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I think it would depend on the situation. If I didn’t notice until I got home, I don’t think I would drive back. But in 99.9% of all cases, yes I’d go back.
And “Targhetto” is my favorite freaking store. Mr teases me all the time about it.
Would have done the exact same thing. I always have to remember I’m setting the example for my children. Last year my daughter (who was 12) was checking out at a Tar-ghetto (sorry, but I’m so going to have to use that) and the cashier gave her back $10 too much. My daughter handed the money back to the cashier and told her the error. The lady could. not. believe. that my daughter was being honest. I think that’s a very sorry state of our society that she was shocked.
You’re a good mom!
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I’d like to think I’d do the same as you, particularly since you hadn’t left the store. Truthfully, it did happen to me the other week with a smaller purchase. The cashier and I had actually had a conversation about the item and she somehow didn’t ring it up. I didn’t realize it until I was in the parking lot, had the toddler buckled into his carseat on a bitterly cold day and the engine was running. The previous week I returned an item to the same store, an item that was unopened and was selling from a shelf in the front of the store. They charged me a 20% restocking fee which I thought was utterly outrageous (it’s a craft store and it was a storage item). In the end, I reasoned that the item I ended up getting for free was paid for with that restocking fee. I’m not necessarily happy about that decision but I wasn’t about to take a 2yr old BACK out of his seat, into the cold, and wait in another 10min line to tell them they forgot to ring up a $10 item. In my own defense, I have pointed out missed items in the past when I’m still in the store.