Should I tell Tesco I basically stole £300 from them?

This has happened to me 3 times , not cancelled my end but the supermarket made the mistake on 3 large shops.
I wouldn't dream of saying a word...why would you ask on here though...just decide for yourself

This cannot be serious. 🤦‍♀️😭

Pay it forward in some way. Even if its £30

I would contact the shop immediately because I am not a thief. Use any excuses you want but this is theft. We are not all wallowing in the gutter like you.

Same, can’t believe what I’m reading 😭🤣🤣

I definitely wouldn’t tell Tesco, and I am a law abiding person.. but they made a mistake, there was a confusion (not yours.) If you tell them, in my opinion the person at Tesco will think you are mad!

No. I can see why people might choose to think that.

But I think laws are.meant to protect us all, from contract law to criminal law.

My point is that a lot of people are wriggling around trying to justify something that is wrong (Tesco are nasty, Tesco make too much money, it's karma, etc).

And yet we would be (rightfully) livid if men went "her skirt was short", "she sh*gged all my mates" "it was only a bit of fun".

I chose an offence that I thought MNers might relate to, and therefore make them think.

It seems some people can hold two opposing views at the same time 😥

The thing is OP didn’t want that food, was proactive and cancelled the order in good time, the cancellation was accepted and they still delivered the food. The food she didn’t want. Bad customer service if she then has to pay for the shopping she didn’t need/want and just put up with it even though she now has too much food/not the right food.

If it will make you feel better, wait about 10 days, then go into the shop and tell the people at the customer service desk what happened. As PP have noted they almost certainly have no way to claw it back, and it would probably take them all day to process it if they could. So now someone from Tesco will have told you to forget about it, which makes it an official windfall. Put £20 in the collecting tin that they sometimes have standing there. Job done.

I know, it's truly outrageous. I refuse to believe that poster was listing in good faith. Nobody is quite that dumb, they just want a reaction.

JFC!

I believe I have just witnessed sexual assault being on par with a technical error by a company worth multi millions of £s???

I phoned them in a similar situation when I realised they’d refunded but still delivered and they said there was no mechanism for taking the payment now. Said they used to be able to take payment but no longer the case so it was free

Do Tesco chase people/give automatic refunds when they have overcharged. Nope.

No, it isn't. And even if it was, there are worse things than theft. But it isn't theft anyway, there was no attempt to defraud or deliberately deprived Tesco of anything. I don't believe for an instant that the virtue signallers on here wouldn't do exactly the same thing in OP's position. They just enjoy pretending to be perfect.

This. Why should you be out of pocket for their error? You cancelled it in time; they accepted that cancellation, so you technically shouldn't have to now pay for food you'd decided you didn't want.
If the food would be put to good use, eg, food bank donations then fine, I'd send it back, but it will simply be thrown away, which is so wasteful, so I wouldn't be able to do that either.

Can someone please tell me where on the scale of Small, Medium, Large, Huge International Corporation, organisations it is OK to benefit from by not letting them know they have delivered £300 worth of goods which you ordered but then cancelled and have now not paid for ?

Oh my word 🫣🫣🫣.

On this thread there seems to be a lot of people thinking it is ok to steal if the target of your theft is rich. They are all thieves just with negotiable targets of their theft.

Surely, you must see you've gone too far with that comment?

It 100% is stealing. Keeping goods that are not yours is stealing.

Are they both prohibited by law? Yes.

Can you pick and choose which laws you obey? No.

You seem to be happy to have laws enforced if they protect you, but ignore them if they protect others.

Give your head a wobble about your own moral compass, not mine. Or start explaining to men why they are subject to laws and you are not.

I would call them, because the idea that I am a honest person matters to me.

Whether it's ma and pa's shop down the road or Tesco, it doesn't matter. It just comes down to whether you are fundamentally a decent, honest person or not.

If the OP did not want the order she was under no obligation to safeguard it and therefore under no obligation to pay for it. She could have put it outside and told them.

However she enjoyed thr use of it and gave the company no opportunity to recover it, or to gift it to her (which they may well still do).

I don't know why people are so happy to twist an argument to avoid the fundamental truth.

Do people not understand why laws exist and how they underpin a fair and just society?

Did you seriously compare not refunding Tesco to SEXUAL ASSAULT?! You are the one with a skewed moral compass. I don't think that you can compare actual shoplifting to sexual assault, and what the OP did wasn't shoplifting. Good Lord.

You tell them about it.