She shortchanged me but denied it.

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Recently bought something from local shop/newsagents

When I got home I realised she had shortchanged me so I went straight back and showed her the change she had given me.
It was only a matter of five mins or so.

Instead of going to the till and apologising to my horror she denied it. She said she had given me the right change. It was then awkward.
Why would I go back with the money in my hand to show her what shed given me if it hadnt happened?
I just left it, as I need to go in there alot it didn't seem worth arguing. Could not believe the attitude though. Something I won't forget.
Why didn't she just apologise and go to the till and give me the missing coin?
AIBU.
No one else around at that mo just her and I.

Unfortunately I think this is a case of needing to take responsibility for your own actions in this.

You didn't check until it was too late. Businesses can't afford to take customers words for it. That's life. Next time check.

My local Nisa shop refunds you if they charge too much. I've left the shop and got home then walked back up and got refunded twice. I know family have too. They have cameras on the tills so could check technically.

They need to change a cashier😳

what OP is doing is a common scam... regardless of if OP is honest or somehow genuinely mistaken 99% of the time its a scam, of course they arent just handing out money to anyone who walks in demanding it.

And it has nothing to do with special needs, I have special needs as do many I know and can still grasp this very basic concept... stop trying to use us to grasp your pearls, we dont exist for you use in terriblely made arguments.

It was much better all round when people used to count change out that stopped any problems all round.
Never see it now.

there is literally nothing stopping you checking your change. I've done that before and realised that they gave me way too much and handed it back (change for a 50 instead of a 10).

I always check my change, and i always check the machine when i tap or put my card in. Especially after someone in a café once tried to charge us EUR 2,100.00 instead of EUR 21 (a mistake we all laughed at because we all spotted it at the same time)

If its a shop I don't know well, I make a mental note of the last 4 numbers on a £20 note so I can prove it is what I handed over.

I had someone try to scam me with that. Person 1 pays with the £20, person 2 pays with £10 then tries to give me the number on the £20 to scam an extra £10.

If they have already put your note in the till what good is questioning your change straight away? When I was a teenager I worked at M&S and we had to put the money we were given on the shelf over the cash drawer, then give the change and only then put their money away when the change wasn't questioned.

where i live (not UK) most of the tills have a little clip on the front above the drawer and they put notes there, and coins go on the shelf thing until they've given you your change.
Often in shops, in UK and elsewhere, I've handed over a note and they've said something like "thank you, that's twenty pounds" and given change accordingly. If you're haiding over a 50 or a 10 that's the time to draw their attention to it.

But i also get that people can't perform simple arithmetic in their heads. I had to pay 4.21 in a shop once, handed over a fiver and she just looked at me and said "i need to get the calculator, just a sec" and when i said "it's 79p" she looked at me as though i was Brian Cox or Marcus de Sautoy with my mad maths skills. She was about 20.

Weirdly enough I had someone claim I'd short changed him today at work. Said he'd given me a £20 and I'd only given him change from £10.

The unfortunate thing for him was the till had only been put out about ten minutes before and only had one note in it which was £10. 😂😂😂