Knowingly stealing - food shop delivery

Don't judge others by your low standards.

You accepted it - they have your credit card so sure they can charge you.
You said you didn't plan it - but you sure planned to try and scam them when the van showed up!

I found out that asda cancelled my order and refunded it. I saw it when I was looking at my orders. This had happened months before and i definitely had the order and no notification they’d refunded.
I then went and checked bank and sure enough it had been refunded. I didn’t call them and tell them they’d made a mistake. I think I would have if I’d had noticed on the day. Months later? Nope.

No. I once got home from a day's shopping and found I hadn't been charged for an item. I went back the next day and paid it.

That makes no sense. If they knew to give it to you they had it to charge you for.

It’s very different if it’s their error and they tell you to keep it.

It’s a bit of a pain for the OP life admin wise but I’d rather let the supermarket know and them say I could keep the order rather than me keeping it and saying nothing.

That's up to you but it's certainly not helping!

NO, because I know that all these loses arising from little and ‘innocent’ things people do (e.g accepting deliveries they haven’t paid for, not paying for their travel ticket, claiming on insurance when they shouldn’t) are eventually passed down to the rest of us consumers

No I wouldn't have thought to do this but you have dubious morals as do the company that you keep.

Exactly.

The definition of theft:

the dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive the other of it. The principal aim of theft is to acquire property.

That's what you have done, you did it knowingly as you have admitted, you are a thief not something I would ever aspire to be but you @Ponter clearly do.

Like a pp, a similar thing happened to me from a well known wine merchant. They delivered my Christmas wine order then 3 days later delivered it again. I rang up but they had no record of the second delivery so told me to keep it. I wouldn’t have just kept it though without saying anything. I’m not a thief.

The OP doesn't feel in the least bit bad - isn't she on here crowing about how clever she's been!!!

So you’d steal then would you?

Knowingly stealing is theft. How many more people have to say that here?

Very different to someone accepting a duplicate or more in an online shop, where you’d be told to keep it if it was an error by the supermarket and their warehouse/packing staff.

lol. You’re a common thief. lol. Even if you return a purse. You’re still a common thief. So funny.

(sarcasm in case you don’t get it)

One of mine stole a packet of Jelly Tots once and I cottoned on because there was evidence - sugar leaking from the pocket of his trousers!! I marched him up to a bemused checkout assistant to apologise and pay!

No, sorry. I wouldn't have done that. It's stealing and someone somewhere will have to take the blame.

Everyone is so righteous, and full of shit.

No, I wouldn’t. I know i wouldn’t because the exact same situation happened to me. I phoned up to cancel an order first thing in the morning, it was cancelled, but the driver still arrived with it that evening. I just apologised to him and explained it was cancelled.

I’m a very honest person though and it didn’t occur to me to do differently.

If you’re used to taking advantage/trying to get something for nothing/pulling wool over people’s eyes I guess you do you - you’ll probably get away with it!

If you want to thieve, then go for it. I wouldn’t, but each to their own. The shop will probably bill you though. 🙄

No I wouldn't have thought to do this but you have dubious morals as do the company that you keep.

I had ordered some items from a big retailer and they had put in a pair of men's shoes. They were expensive, definitely not a free gift and a mistake. I checked I hadn't been charged for them and then phoned customer service to tell them. They thanked me for my honesty, said it was rare these days, sent me a returns label and when they received them I got a voucher.

Recently I was in a cafe and realise they had undercharged me by £10, not adding on a meal. So I let them know and they amended the price and I paid more.

So you are thief and you are planning to lie to cover it up. I hope to goodness you don't have children as you don't seem to have any value system. Shameful.

No. Things like this just causes prices to increase, and the delivery driver is probably going to be the one who gets it in the neck.

The problem is they don't though. Regardless of what you think should happen

Mumsnet surprises me sometimes. Why would you come on a public forum and admit to stealing ? You cancelled the order and instead of being truthful to the delivery driver you took the delivery anyway and deliberately kept quiet to see if you would still get the refund. I could maybe understand this if you were on the bones of your arse and needed the food to feed your family, but it was ‘nice’ items for a dinner party. You should be ashamed.

Surely this is a wind up?