purplebee
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Posts: 6,738
Jun 27, 2014 20:37:34 GMT
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Post by purplebee on Dec 6, 2018 2:31:05 GMT
My huge crime was a toothbrush at Target. Got to the car and realized it hadn't been wrung up. The kids were babies and I was suddenly panicked that Target wouldn't believe me and would have me arrested w/CPS involved, all because of a toothbrush. So, I left it in the cart and saved myself from a lifetime of inmates named Moose. I'm also toothbrush thief! Found it in my cart in the Wal-Mart parking lot, and carried it back in. Figured my teeth would start falling out if I used a hot toothbrush!
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 6, 2018 2:32:40 GMT
I have several times been shopping for a purse and will have one in my hand and go about my business and still holding it while paying for my other stuff and realize at the last second. I have done that at least 2 or 3 times!
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Post by ajsweetpea on Dec 6, 2018 2:32:57 GMT
I accidentally stole a bag of candy corn that somehow got positioned under my infant son while I was shopping. Ugh.
Also, we ordered a cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory for a dessert for Thanksgiving. My husband had pre-ordered it. I got there and they just put it in a bag for me and handed it to me and said "here you go", without asking for payment. I assumed he had given them a credit card number over the phone. However, it didn't feel right to me for some reason (I remember we pre-ordered one in the past and I had to pay in store with my credit card). When I got home, I called hubby and asked if he had pre-paid for the cheesecake. He said no. I immediately called Cheesecake Factory and explained the situation and gave them my credit card info so they could charge me for it. I would have felt too guilty otherwise! They thanked me for calling and being honest.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Dec 6, 2018 2:36:40 GMT
A live Christmas tree. Seriously.
I don’t remember the exact sequence of events, but it was really early in our marriage. DH worked retail and during the holiday season that meant 60 hr work weeks. So off I went by myself one night to get a tree and all new decorations - with a 5 month old in tow.
Back then Christmas trees were about $10 - 15. I paid inside the store for the tree and decorations, went outside where they tied the tree to the top of my car. When DH got home he asked about the price of the tree and checked the receipt - and I hadn’t been charged! It was after 10 pm on a Saturday night and the store was closed. It was also closed the next because it was a Sunday. I remember one of us called the following Monday about paying for it, but for some reason we never did (that’s the part I forget).
Amazingly enough, something similar happened the next year at the same store - this time involving a revolving Christmas tree stand! Never paid for that either. Somehow, it just didn’t get rung up with all the other purchases. We didn’t discover the mistake until after Christmas and the store manager said to keep it and not worry about it.
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samantha25
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,931
Jun 27, 2014 19:06:19 GMT
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Post by samantha25 on Dec 6, 2018 2:53:38 GMT
When my kids were little and hanging out in the shopping cart, they managed to put things into my cart unseen and I didn't notice until I got home and unloaded the groceries. Even though I paid for the items, I never knew I bought these things! There's some expensive stuff displayed at their grabbing range- for example a package of Boars head meat and cheeses and mints! Good thing I liked them.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Dec 6, 2018 3:26:54 GMT
Two sheets of stamps from the post office, for last years card swap. Just as she started ringing the stamps up, my mom called. My stepdad was in the ER via ambulance from his Dr's office, and we were waiting on some test results, so I apologized to the cashier that I needed to take the call. The cashier rang up all the sheets, as far as I could tell, I swiped my card and left. When I got home I realized the two sheets of winter birds stamps were not on the receipt. I had planned to go back and pay for them, when the lines died down after the holidays, but I spaced it until I ordered my stamps on line this year. Since I've ordered my stamps, I've had the 6 packages I ordered the same day, delivered for free, while my USPS order was still processing with a $1.75 delivery fee. Six days since my order finished processing, and still no stamps. I decided USPS can suck it.
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kelly8875
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Posts: 4,391
Location: Lost in my supplies...
Oct 26, 2014 17:02:56 GMT
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Post by kelly8875 on Dec 6, 2018 13:02:31 GMT
2 DVD’s. And I don’t notice until I got home. They were in a basket, and even the check out girl at target didn’t notice. I saw them in the basket when I got home, and they weren’t on the receipt.
And the other day it was almost Mountain Dew and Gatorade at my grocer. I caught them last second while checking out, they were on the bottom of the cart.
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maryannscraps
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Aug 28, 2017 12:51:28 GMT
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Post by maryannscraps on Dec 6, 2018 13:16:56 GMT
More often, I lose things from when the grocery bagger puts them on the bottom of the cart. I never put things there because it's very awkward for me to pick them up (shoulder issues), so I don't bother looking. I've had to go back more times than you'd imagine.
Once I walked out of Staples with $180 worth of color printer cartridges that they didn't charge me for. I went back in and the cashier was astounded that I didn't just keep them. He kept saying "But we'd never know". I kept explaining that would be wrong and that I was trying to model ethical behavior for my 7-year old who was standing there. He really didn't get it. I was so annoyed with him that I wished I'd just kept them so I didn't have to listen to him anymore.
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Post by lbp on Dec 6, 2018 15:05:46 GMT
I can't think of anything that I accidentally stole, however; when my son was about two we left K-mart and when I went to put him in his car seat I noticed he had on red Elmo slippers! We went back in and his shoes were laying in the aisle in the shoe department! I have no idea how he did that without me seeing him!
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Post by alexa11 on Dec 6, 2018 15:20:34 GMT
Anyways...there have been a few times while checking out that I inform the cashier of said 24 pk of water and they dont get scanned. I am busy looking at the screen or still unloading. Its not until I get home that I see them missing from the recipt. I've done this, too. I always tell them first thing that I have it, but sometimes they don't remember to scan. Also, an avocado that got left in the cart by accident. I came home with someone's OJ one time-not sure how that happened because I take my own bags in.
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milocat
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Location: 55 degrees north in Alberta, Canada
Mar 18, 2015 4:10:31 GMT
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Post by milocat on Dec 6, 2018 16:10:56 GMT
When my kids were little one in a baby carrier in the shopping cart, the other a toddler in the front part of the cart. When I got out to the vehicle, put the kids in and was putting the bags in there was one small thing, not in the bag, under where the baby had been. Screw it I wasn't unloading the kids again and going back in the store to wait in line to pay for it and it was probably winter and cold and pushing the cart through the snowy parking lot.
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iowgirl
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Jun 25, 2014 22:52:46 GMT
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Post by iowgirl on Dec 6, 2018 16:26:02 GMT
Unloaded my groceries and found a package of chicken breasts and a box of chocolate christmas tree cakes. THey weren't mine, and they weren't on my receipt. Someone's last sack of groceries must have got put in my cart by mistake. I cooked the chicken, and the cakes are still sitting here because no one will eat them. I live 45 minutes from the grocery store, so I wasn't going to take them back.
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Post by littlemama on Dec 6, 2018 16:28:01 GMT
An entire cart full of groceries.
(and yes, I went back in and paid for them when I realized what had happened)
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Dec 6, 2018 16:30:53 GMT
from Hobby Lobby, a package of replacement blades for my original purple Fiskars paper-cutter. The package is pretty small, so I set it in the top of my purse so that it wouldn't fall through the edge of the shopping cart... realized it was still in my purse when I got to my car. I felt so guilty about that, even though it was only something like, maybe $3? I think I stayed away from HL for months afterwards due to the guilt. lol.
ETA: I usually have a 20-oz soda and/or a protein bar or nuts, etc. in my purse to snack on when I'm stopping at the grocery store on my way home from work to stop me from impulse-buying snacks because I'm hungry. I always worry that they'll think I stole it off the shelf in THEIR store, instead of bringing it in with me!
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