To ask how honest you all are ?

[fourfingerkitkat]

I'm no saint... I have, on occasion, told the odd wee porkie pie but my experiences at work recently have left me wondering if everybody nowadays is quite happy to be dishonest and lie to get what they want...

I work for a large high street store and there have been lots of offers on in the run up to Xmas, 3 for 2's, half price offers etc. A few weeks ago a particular 3 for 2 offer was flying off the shelves as the customer was saving approximately £40. In the past week I've loads of people bringing this particular item back claiming it was bought as a gift and they don't have a receipt so they're offered an exchange for the full value. After speaking to my colleagues they say the exact same thing happens every year, people buy loads of the 3 for 2's then bring back the "free third" item and get goods in the shop effectively for nothing.

Is this wrong or just a sign of the times ? Don't think I would ever have the bottle to do it myself. Whilst the money lost isn't coming out of my pocket directly, I'm more pi**ed off by the time it takes to serve all of them when the shop is already mobbed with Xmas shoppers !

I walked out of quality save with an 89p bottle of pepsi max on my buggy hood and made DH walk back and pay for it.

Last week my grocery order arrived with the wrong receipt. The food was right, but the receipt was wrong. I told them this and they took back the receipt, and they assured me that I would have been charged for my shopping, not for the shopping on the receipt.

A few days later I check my credit card and they have charged me for the amount on the wrong receipt, about £30 less than mine should have been.

I've emailed them telling them this, because it makes me worry that some other person has been charged for my shopping (and that they don't have internet banking so aren't yet aware that they've been charged £30 too much).

No reply yet.

If it was just Sainsbury's not charging me for some of my shopping then I might not bother, but in this situation I feel it's pretty likely that an actual person will be out of pocket if I don't speak up.

DD went through a bit of a kleptomaniac phase when she was about 2 until I learnt to keep her away from the shelves in shops. There was many a time I had to either take something back that I didn't need or go and pay for something! I have walked out of Sainsubury's local with a box of formula balanced on the buggy hood while in a new baby haze, went back in and apologised, tried to pay but the manager told me to take it as a new baby present . It's a very local store..

antsypantsy what an awful reaction to your honesty . If it had been me, I'd have been so pathetically grateful, you'd have backed away nervously from the crazy woman!

I wouldn't do it, but obviously some do. A friend once told me as I was admiring her baby swing and she told me she had bought the original off eBay but it was a bit grotty when it arrived so she bought a new one from
Argos and put the grotty one in the box and took it back to Argos for a refund. I confess I was a bit shocked, but hey, none of my business!