Shops deliberately short changing

[ThisLittleKitty]

Anyone else feel like shops try to do this on purpose sometimes? It's happened way too frequently for my liking. Just now I was in the shop I bought 3 drinks and a packet of crisps. I handed the woman £10 and she gave me back a couple of pound coins. I told her I gave her £10 she said are you sure, this went on for a few minutes, eventually I tell her to check the cameras which she does and there it is £10. Aibu in thinking sometimes they do it on purpose hoping you don't notice?!

when I worked for a big cinema chain in my teens lots of the other staff used to do this deliberately - give back between 20-50p less per customer to save enough to buy lunch. they were really blatant about it. This was nearly 20 years ago and the tills were quite old and didn't tell you how much change to give, you had to work it out yourself, so if anyone did pick up on it they just pretended they accidentally got it wrong.

And of course the tills still balanced (or were close enough, they didn't worry about anything other than a fiver either way) because the right amount of change had been taken out, just not all of it given back to the customer.

edited because didn't realise it was such an old thread! Was going to say it can't be a very good (in terms of earnings) scam these days because so many people pay by card!