AIBU to think I was being unreasonable in the supermarket?

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On our way home today we called into Tesco to buy something for tea and a box of eggs. Picture the scene, I was the only adult with four primary age children (all mine). I was holding a hand basket containing three large pizza in one hand and was keeping a hold of my wandering four year old with the other hand.

We walk down the egg/bread aisle and I ask my 7 year old DD to pick up a box of eggs from the shelf. So she carefully bends down picks up a large box, straightens up as she stands and then for some unfathomable reason drops the entire box of eggs on the floor upside down. For this act there is an audience of course of a man and a lady also shopping.
I put my basket down and pick up the egg box. Nearly every egg is broken I stand there while the lady shopper giggles helplessly and I make an effort not to cry (long day - don't ask).
Then DD says "Put it back mummy and I'll get another". I reply "I can't do that because we broke them so we should pay for them." The lady shopper whispers to me "Put them back love, Tesco can cover it."

So I did. I put the broken box back and picked up a new one myself, paid and left asap.

So WIBU? Now I think so, at the time I didn't.
I feel guilty.

I know....I felt so guilty. I woke up a couple of nights thinking about it. I would never make a good intentional shoplifter!

I left some clothes on a trolley once and drove away. They never found them, but still replaced them.

OP I would have done exactly the same as you, so don't worry

I once knocked a 6 pint of milk on the floor in the supermarket and it burst open. I panicked but did manage to find a member of staff to tell, mostly worried someone would slip. I probably would have done the same as you and put broken eggs back. My DD poked a hole in a tomato once whilst I looked for something. I just pretended I didn't notice and moved away quickly.

you where not being unreasoable at all. i would even have had the brass neck to have altered someone to clean up the mess so no would slip

Did you hear the spillage on aisle 5 call. If not then you got away with it. They would not have charged you for it however if you try it again in the Peter jones wedgewood department...leggit fast

I picked up a 4 pack of beer in the supermarket and they all slid out and smashed on the floor in front of a member of staff. I was mortified He just handed me another and said that it happens a lot and not to worry about it. They wouldn't have made you pay for the eggs.

So many people saying "I'd have done exactly the same, op".
Putting it back on the shelf was sneaky. And you didn't do it yourself, you got your child to do it. Nice.

You sound like a lovely person and so does your daughter. No use crying over broken eggs but I totally understand the shitty day egg crying reaction you mentioned.

Could be worse. When I was a child my mum dropped a bottle of hair dye at the checkouts. It went everywhere and stained the floor and the side of the till permanently. SHe had to look at it every week for abour 5 years till they refitted the shop.

It was Tesco, forget it. Hate that shop. They had it coming!

My friend dropped a bag of vodka, wine and alcopops on his foot just after we bought them when we were about 19. We prepared to be told off and were absolutely gobsmacked when it was all replaced, free of charge, and offered first aid for my friend's bruised ego foot.

YABU 'cause YWNBU
I've broken eggs at the checkout and in more than one supermarket and they always replace them without question. I think eggs are covered by a special egg clause.
If you had left the shop with an unpaid for bottle of gin under your coat that would have BU.

My toddler, for reasons unknown, tossed a carton of eggs into the shopping trolley. They all broke and raw egg spread across the entire haul of groceries then dripped through the trolley.

I accidentally drank a bottle of wine after I'd paid for it.

They didn't offer me a free replacement

flogginmolly thank you for your criticism. At the time I did not think through the full moral and ethical impacts of my actions.

But I do fully accept that Is should have mentioned it a staff member. I didn't realise they would not be concerned.

I am also glad that I am not alone in my experiences.

PigletJohn I wish . . .

Don't worry, ds pulled the bar code off a box of fresh brownies the other day. We asked a member of staff what we should do and he said don't worry just get a new box and had a good tea break there was nothing wrong with the product just the bar code.

I dropped a bottle of red wine as I was packing it, it had been through the till. The chap buzzed someone and they bought me a replacement which they wouldn't let me pay for

Don't give it another thought

Actually what Dixie did wasn't theft. In order to steal something you have to intend to permanently deprive someone of their property so forgetting to pay isn't theft but not going back and offering to pay once you realise your mistake would be because you've then made the conscious decision not to pay.

Op, I would have done the same.