To keep these clothes that weren't charged for?

[MinecraftWonder]

Yesterday I went shopping and picked up a new coat each for the dc (at Matalan if it's relevant)- total cost was £45.

I got to the till, went in my bag and didn't have my purse
So I apologised, said i'd nip home and the man on the till put them behind the counter for me.

Returned a couple of hours later and picked up some packs of pants by the till when I was queuing, which were a fiver. Handed them over and asked for the coats behind the till that had been put by for me (this was a woman). She put everything in a bag for me, I paid with my card and out I went.

Anyway, it's only tonight I've pulled them out of the bag along with the receipt - and I have a receipt for £5.05 (the pants and a 5p bag charge). The coats weren't charged for. I didn't even check the amount at the checkout, just stuck my card in and paid.

WWYD? I feel really guilty even though it wasn't my fault. I don't know if the second person who served me just made a mistake or thought maybe they were already paid for (but why would they be?!). They've not got security tags on so one of them must have taken them off.

So keep and look at it as good luck or be honest and go back and pay for them? Opinion is currently divided in my house!

sleepy I get why your posting about Matalan and their questionable morals but you (the Royal 'you') do lose the moral high ground by shopping there in the first place!

sapele sorry but you're wrong. zebra could easily have moved cashier to pay full price for the goods or indeed said no actually what you're doing isn't right and I'm not going along with it Sorry zebra I'm not having a go at you here as id have probably done a little dance of that happened to me. What I have a problem with is your logic sapele don't come on here riding your moral high horse and deign that the OP lacks morality yet decide that another PP is completely blameless. How strange that your morals Should work in this way.....

So one person gets the humphy wee face for not paying for their goods, and I get a humphy face for talking about moral compass (having stated that I would always go back and pay) - so dishonesty gets the face, but so does honesty.

And I think the humphy faced was directed at me, because I made the last post mentioning OP's moral compass - so I don't think you needed to name me for it to be clear to people who you are addressing.

Why do I deserve humphy face for saying I am honest if I have been undercharged or given something by mistake? Why is that such an unbelievable concept? Is it so impossible that people can be honest? I would hate to have that low an opinion of people.

Prettyeyed, that's pretty much what I was thinking/getting at! Goodness, don't be sorry! In hindsight I could have just said no, or even offered to go & try & find a chair with the label on. At the time we were students and pretty broke, so I was rather pleased.

SDTG I'm not sure if you're referring to me in your post but my has nothing to with whether or not you're honest or dishonest. It's more to with a PP making a case for one person being honest yet deriding the OP when the situations are not that much different. One rule for one but another someone else.... zebra no one is honest 100% of the time....it's just not possible. Yet the way some of PPs are going on you'd think they'd been canonised

Hi Prettyeyedpiratesmile

Are you saying that you are allowed to determine that Zebra's behaviour was immoral, but I'm not allowed to determine that the OP's is?

You can't seem to distinguish between a transaction with an agent of the store, where the store's representative OFFERED the discount (Zebra's example) and a transaction where the store's representative was unaware of the error/discount.

If there were to be any comeback in Zebra's situation, it would fall on the shoulders of the representative of the store.

Zebra I would have insisted on paying for the chairs properly. If he had of refused to scan them then I'd have found someone who would or I would have left them.

sapele are you Not able to understand that the situations are virtually the same? OP and PP have both Been dishonest.....that halo is slipping if you can't see that....

I disagree that the situations are virtually the same.

And please stop the daft jokes about halos and saints, they just aren't funny and it's making me cringe.

I'm happy to admit that they've both been dishonest. My point all along has been that it's not the end of the world if it crosses your mind to not pay for the goods. people are human and it's not even the end of the world if OP chooses to not pay for them. I've made my
Point earlier that I'd pay for them...after thinking yippee! You seem to be comfortable deriding one person but making excuses for another and that to me makes you looks morally questionable. Both have/had the chance to do the right thing so I don't know how you can differentiate them

Regarding people 'defending' Matalan - I don't think anyone is. It's not about Matalan. It's about personal integrity, and what's more, two wrongs don't make a right.

^^This

Hahaha sapele if that's making you cringe then you need to get out more

One thing I've just thought of - I was fully aware that I wasn't paying the right price for my goods, but the OP wasn't. The money that Tesco wanted in exchange for the chairs was clearly marked on the shelf, so maybe I was actually implicit in appropriating them dishonestly? From a moral point of view anyway.

I don't need to get out more.

I don't get why people are arguing for stealing and dishonesty and anyone who is anti that is a do-gooder, holier than thou angel, who needs to get out more.

What a strange thread this is.

mileend I'm more Concerned that some posters can denigrate one act of dishonesty yet see another as nothing more than an opportunity..... that is strange to me. Also to be clear to you, the reaction on here has been hysterical. I'm convinced that there will a proportion of those up in arms who would, like me, think initially Think oh great and then get an attack of the conscience and go back to pay. That's just my opinion though....

I think you're either not reading my posts properly, or you're simply failing to understand them. I don't think I can be bothered to explain again.

Just because you can't understand something it doesn't necessarily mean that the person saying it isn't making sense.

PrettyeyedPirate - apologies if I misunderstood your post.

No sapele I understand you perfectly. You can't see the similarity in two acts of dishonesty so what's the point in continuing? Don't point out other people's questionable morals when yours are hardly anything to write home about.

No worries SDTG

OK - I am taking my leave of this thread for the next 100 minutes or so - Wales v Fiji, so I will be otherwise engaged! All those muscular thighs aren't going to ogle themselves.

So play nicely until I get back - OK?

sigh

I cannot engage with this nonsense. I'm out of here.

Years ago my DH bought my DDs some lovely clothes from a well known clothing chain store in Glasgow. When he got home he realised they had not charged for a coat and boots. I went into our local branch to tell them and the manageress just told me to forget about it. At least my conscience was clear, but it just goes to show they seemed less bothered than me.

Goodbye then sapele it's nice to see you can engage in a debate

Of course I can. I just don't want to any more, with you.