If you broke something in the supermarket?

[notevenamousie]

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Just that really.
Assuming there were no staff around that really seemed to notice, etc.

um, I have been known to pick it up, find a staff member and say that I found it on the shelf and thought it was a bit dangerous in case small children got hold of it.

If I could afford to confess I would. If not, I wouldn't.

Have to say it depends what shop I'm in. If it is a shop I feel fleeced in and undervalued as a customer anyhow then I'd less likely confess. If it were a shop I felt valued in and where I felt I received good value for money, then I'd more likely confess.

Also depends a bit on the item concerned.

Put it this way. If it was the end of the month before pay day and my CSA money hadn't gone in, and I was in Asda as opposed to Sainsbury, then I'd probably scarper.

I'd go and tell someone and offer to pay (but hope that they wouldn't accept the offer! )

At the supermarket I shop in people arent charged for breakages, the staff just send someone along to clean it up, so I dont think it would matter if you owned up to it.

I would tell someone so it could be cleared up
mostly it happens to me after I've paid, sadly

I took a bottle of wine from the shelf once and another fell off (must have been leaning against it). Very snippy woman came over and said 'you will have to pay for that dear' and I said 'do you have cctv on this aisle' and she sniffed 'yes'.

'Well watch it back then as I did not touch the bottle, it must have been leaning against it'.

The manager hurried over very apologetic as he had been watching the cctv and gave me the wine for free and said I could choose another bottle as if it had fallen on me they would have been liable.

I was very happy

I would tell someone and offer to pay for it which is what I have done when I have broken things.

if it made a mess I would go and tell someone to get it cleaned up. If it didn't, I probably would walk away quite quickly, or do what DiffID said.

If it was any other shop than a supermarket, I would offer to pay for the damage.

It was a cheap and cheerful bottle of wine.
No spillage. But I didn't offer to pay. Just wondering if I have committed a terrible crime against Tesco

I go find someone, or at the very least stand by is bright red..........never had to pay, which is a good job or I would have paid out millions to shops in my time......tad clumsy at time is me

no spillage? I dropped one in the co-op car park, there was a lagoon! had just bought it!

I have dropped (in the supermarket) a bottle of wine and a large carton of cream. Confessed both times and never been asked to pay.

Lol Nina! When I dropped the wine it went everywhere. I swear there was a gallon in that bottle and not 70cl!

I've never known Tesco ask for you to pay for something that got broken.

I was VERY impressed when I broke something in Sainsbury's once, AFTER paying for it, but while still in the store. They replaced it for free!

cor! should've gone to sainsbury's
or should one say sainsbury?

I went in to Asda to tell them I had dropped a carton of soup in the car park so they could give me something to clean it up, and they sent someone to do it and gave me another carton for free.

i had jsut paid for 12 eggs in sainsbury's, and the woman on the till said, Say I did it! and got me a repalcement!

they do allow for breakages, i am sure

I break things quite often... [clumsy]

I always tell them so they can clean it up and I've never been asked to pay for it. I even dropped a six-pack of bottled beer in the carpark at Sainsburys once and they gave me a new one even though I'd paid for it.

I'd tell them.

Waitrose policy is that anything broken in store is replaced - i once dropped a bottle of wine after paying for it and they just got me a new one.

I'd also worry that something broken could be dangerous.

I once saw a man lift up a case of wine in Tesco and the whole lot fell out of the bottle, the stench of wine was quite overwhelming. He was v embaressed but staff just cleaned up, didn't charge him, helped him pick up a new box.

Personally, if I had been clumsy I would own up and offer to pay but be miffed if they actually took my money! If I felt it was their fault, ie something stacked carelessly or put in a silly place I wouldn't offer to pay.

Fell out of the bottom not bottle!

dd's buggy i think, bashed into a bottle of Vimto,
what a mess, and a smell but they were ultra fine in the co-op

I have dropped a jar of jam and a jar of pasta sauve (seperate occasions)

I made everyone near aware of the glass and went and found someone to clear it up

I never thought to offer to pay

if it was a supermarket i would own up to an assistant. never been made to pay as yet! ds has broke bottle of wine, ive broke a few jars

if it was a posh snobby craft shop or something like that i would probably slyly pick it up, hide it or disguise it somewhere and then quickly leave