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To be fuming with this supermarket?

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 15:45

I've name changed because this is quite

On Monday Ds lost his prepaid kids debit card in Our local supermarket. I went to customer service to see if it had been handed in. It had so I showed Id, wrote down my name and address, signed for it and left.

What I didn't know was that I had been told to write it in the wrong place and had signed for some cash that had been found instead. So then the person who lost the cash comes to claim it and is told I've already claimed it and is shown my name and address and told to phone the police.

I found out today from a friend that I was being accused of stealing this money. So I go to the supermarket, they admit it what happened straight away and get the police to come so they can let the person who's money it was know I hadn't claimed it. The money was still in the safe.

I don't like people thinking I'm a thief. The person who's money it was could have come to my house and done anything.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:06

It's my friends friend, I don't know her personally.

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Sparklingbrook · 21/10/2015 16:06

Have you left your glasses at the supermarket?

Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:07

OP, your friend is friends with the woman who was told you had stolen her money? Why didn't you say that in the first post?

Jellytot321 · 21/10/2015 16:09

Even then, if they were together when she was given the address, surely your friend would pipe up that she knew you and there was an easier way to sort it out?

If they did give out your address, then they are obviously in the wrong. What a strange thread, but sounds like you are having a bit of a stressful time, OP Flowers

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:10

The page I signed when looking at it again today did have cash found in car park on it but I didn't notice it at the time. I didn't have my glasses on again, maybe I should find them.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:11

Sorry I thought I had said that in the first post. I hope my glasses aren't at the supermarket.

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GruntledOne · 21/10/2015 16:12

So if your friend was there because she was friendly with the other woman, and if your friend knew you couldn't have stolen it, why didn't she stop the other woman going to the police? Surely the obvious thing to have done would have been to tell the woman then and there that there must be a mistake and offer to sort it out?

And anyway, if the shop thought they'd handed the money over to the wrong person by mistake, surely they would simply refund it themselves because it would be down to their negligence?

Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:12

Wouldn't it be funny if you went back to the supermarket to ask about your glasses and someone else had signed for them?

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:13

I don't know why my friend didn't message me at the time and waited two days.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:13

Shall I try?

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Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:13

Exactly GruntledOne. I thought the same as you.

73dexter · 21/10/2015 16:14

Gruntfuttock Grin

Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:14

She waited 2 days? Shock

Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:15

This thread is making my brain hurt.

PrivatePike · 21/10/2015 16:16

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Sparklingbrook · 21/10/2015 16:17

Mine too Grunt. I have read it 3 times now but still not quite sure of the exact course of events.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:18

It's making mine hurt too, I think I'm going to stop posting. I guess I ABU.

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TheFairyCaravan · 21/10/2015 16:19

I don't think OP is either Sparkling!

Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:20

Is it possible this was all a dream, OP?

Axekick · 21/10/2015 16:24

So when your friend told her friend (who thought her money had been stolen) that she knew you and you would never do this, why did the woman call the police?

Surely your friend could have sorted this in two mins.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:25

Ok I will try again.

My son lost his debit card on Monday in the supermarket. I claimed for it and inadvertently wrote my name and address in the wrong place.

Also on Monday Doris who was shopping with Edna lost £30 in the car park. When Doris and Edna went to customer service to see if it had been handed in they said yes but it's been claimed by me and showed my name and address and told them to call the police.

Today Edna sent me a message on fb telling me that Doris had gone to collect her lost money and was told I had claimed it. She said she thought I wouldn't have stolen it but wanted to let me know what was going on.

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Gruntfuttock · 21/10/2015 16:26

The woman must surely have asked how the supermarket came to give the money to the wrong person.

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Fuminglikeafumingthing · 21/10/2015 16:28

I don't know why Edna only told me today and didn't contact me at the time. Maybe she thought I had stolen it, I don't know.

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Pensfriends · 21/10/2015 16:29

Why would the supermarket have given the money to the wrong person? This is all very confusing.

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