To be fuming with this supermarket?

[Fuminglikeafumingthing]

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.

I would wonder why your friend didn't tell you first off, but waited days to speak to you about it- i wouldn't say that friendship is going to last.

That's an excellent point thunderbird69. They would have said, "Sorry, the only money that has been handed in has been claimed, so it looks as though yours hasn't been handed in."

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Frankly, I blame Gladys.

What begging thread me ?

How would the supermarket reach the conclusion you falsely claimed the money? Surely if it was cash it could have been anyone's? I know you didn't claim it but still

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That's me and Doris and edna

Nice dress though Chilli. Where's it from?

Love this thread

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I lived in a small town where I can well believe something like this would happen. Even now I can guarantee that in the city I live in I will know that when I meet them we will have a mutual acquaintance......as long as they're a long term local and not one of them there Uni students. It is a fairly small city but it's still a city.

Struggling to understand how you could sign in the "wrong" place. Wouldn't you have signed your name against "credit card found " record? Wouldn't the nice lady behind the desk have said "now if you can just sign here to show you have your card back safely" ?? Are you saying not one but two people cocked up got it wrong??

Piss up and brewery are words that spring to mind

Or maybe shaggy dog story ....

When I was a student I worked on the Customer service desk of a supermarket. ALL lost property claimed for had to be given a receipt on production on ID. The receipt book was in duplicate, so a record was kept of every item handed back even if it was a babies rattle. If cash was found and handed in, it would never be possible to see who it belonged to so we locked it away until the security people had looked at that days cctv and if nobody was seen dropping cash we were told to put it in the charity box

I wish I had a MN sister.

I really am her sister

I'll be your mumsnet sister sparkle .. Sparkle runs away

I might ask DB to register on MN in case I need back up at any point.

I understood this thread.

I am not a genius and I click on numerous threads I don't understand, or don't follow, so well.

Generally, I just go back and don't comment.

Oh. My. Days. Fuming I'm so sorry for you, and Sixpence.
In what way is this post unclear or unbelievable? There's just loads of people asking the OP why other people who are not her, did what they did (how should she know) harping on about an incomplete sentence (she typed something a bit badly) I'm embarrased at posters falling over themselves to have a dig and "misunderstand" or "disbelieve". If I want to watch someone being taunted and made to feel shit I'll watch x factor.

Did NOBODY read my post pointing out that it could be a fiddle on the part of the customer service staff? If you know there is hard cash in the safe, plus some identifiable or worthless items (eg named cards, babies' dropped toys, glasses), you get the customer collecting the latter to sign for the former, and pocket the cash yourself after a suitable waiting time. If someone turns up to claim the cash, you could get found out, but buy yourself time to replace the cash by sending them round to OPs house. Or it is a different person on the desk by then who genuinely thinks the cash has already been taken.