Would you take the bottle of good wine out of the trolley

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The other day, I went to the supermarket with my young Dd, I had no coins so we went to look for a trolley not connected to the others. There was one and Dd went to grab it, I was just putting her in when she said there was someone’s shopping in it. I looked down and there was a bottle of very good wine left in it, I’m guessing someone had forgotten it 🤷🏻‍♀️
I took her out and we got another trolley and left it there
What would you have done? Left it there, taken the bottle yourself or taken it inside the shop to a member of staff?

Yes I would actually, hence the laughy face. I was just visualising sitting in the car park with a bottle of wine and phoning my dh to pick me and the dc up and it made me chuckle.

If it was in the shop then customer services or member of staff. Outside the shop (ie in the car park near the cars) and it’s very much been forgotten and no one is likely going to claim it - finders keepers.

I'd have taken it.

This. I don't drink, but if it had been coffee, I'd have taken it to customer services, too.

How nice are we talking? £10, £30, £50?
Personally if I'd left anything in a trolley it wouldn't occur to me to go back for it. I would assume it was gone.

I would have handed it into customer service.

if I had left something behind I’d be grateful if someone did that for me.

Taken it in to the shops Customer Services

I wouldn't leave an age restricted product.

Me too. I don't believe most of the people who say they would have queued up a customer services to hand it in, or left it in the trolley for the next person who comes along to take.

Taken it home and bloody well enjoyed it.

Wish there was a lie detector on MN
There would be many of those that have said they would hand the wine in that would be found out.
😉😁😁.

Yeah but you just tell yourself you'd have to queue to justify that you'd nick it. Actually you'd just walk in and hand it to the first person you saw or stick it on a counter

I don't benefit from another's direct misfortune, the wine is cursed, I'd get drunk and fall out of a tree or something

Again honestly that's just the kind of thing a person that steals thinks

If someone hands in a bottle of specific name wine, and a second person comes in looking for specific name wine, then of course they'll be able to claim it! They'll have a receipt to show they bought it, and if it's an expensive bottle the supermarket probably doesn't sell many of those in a day, so if the only person (or even one of the only 3) who bought a bottle that day comes back and says they left it behind, of course they'll give it to them, because how else would the bottle have gotten there?

If the person came in and the bottle hadn't been given in I agree it's unlikely the shop would give them a new one, which is why OP should have handed it in to customer services.

It would have to be a chancer who could produce a receipt for the same wine

Not sure that there is a link between being forgetful and having money!

Agreed. I’m always suspicious of people who think too readily how another person can be defrauding. If an employer is being too nit-picky over your expenses claim it says more about their honesty than yours

I'd hand it in to customer service. I'd get pissed off if I had to wait, but I still would. I got home from Sainsbury's a few weeks ago and realised I didn't have my fancy magnetic shopping list. It had cost me £3! Went to customer service and someone had handed it in! I'd left it in the trolley.

I thought this post would be about none left on the shelf but you spot one in someone's trolley (pre-checkout). I might have done that when no sprouts left on Christmas Eve. (Don't think I actually did. Was tempted though!)

Blimey! What would have said if she'd taken the wine?

Death penalty?

Taken it in and handed it to customer services. I have done that.

And if you have a receipt they will give it to you. Dh once left behind in the trolley quite an expensive technology item he'd just bought. We phoned up and they immediately said they had it and come with a receipt.

Just showing their receipt would be enough

How bizarre. I'd definitely have handed it in. Hope it wasn't for a celebration.

@dontstopmenowimhavingagoodtime Well that would just be ridiculous, wouldn’t it? Almost as ridiculous as finding a left behind item in a trolley and not taking it in to the store you’re entering to hand it in. Because that’s what any reasonable, honest person would do, as another three quarters of the people who voted on this seem to think. It’s called integrity, and I’m thankful to have it.

Because if it was a treat or something you hardly ever bought you would look after it and not leave it in the trolley! I said careless not forgetful