Money on floor - WWYD?

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You’re minding your own business completing the food shop in store when you notice £10 on the floor in an aisle? No other customers or staff in the aisle

what would you do? Would you be unreasonable in picking it up and pocketing it for yourself?

Karma has worked for me...

I've always tried to find owner /handed in stuff...

Lovely fairground people contacted the cops when I dropped my wallet with £100 in it getting out of car in dark. we found them the next day and took around a bottle of wine to thank them.

Twice it didn't... Just taken out 200£ for shopping - had coffee with pal, I had no bag and shoved my wallet in back of bucket seat... And promptly forgot...went back less than 5mins later... Nope wallet had gone.. all my details in there too...

Really upsetting one.. My grandad had just died... Was pushing my nan into town with wadge of cash donated in his memory... She was holding it on her lap in a wallet while I pushed her.

We arrived, no wallet... About 400£ this was 30years ago.... Never saw it again..
That was really upsetting... We replaced the money.

I hate the person who took that... My grandad. Was. A lovely man

I’d hand it in.

If they had no money what were they doing in the supermarket? Shoplifting? The person with no money needs to find a food bank or ask in the shop if they have anyway if helping them etc,

Ahh back in the day when police stations existed & we took their existence for granted.

I used to run a busy library and from time to time my staff and I would find a small note folded up in a book - usually ten shillings or a pound. Presumably a reader used it as a bookmark at time tme in the past. There was no way to telling who had left it there once the book was on the shelf. There was no cctv in libraries in those days. I would keep the money in a drawer for a few months with a note of when and where it was found. No one ever asked about it. I then added it to the staff tea fund.

I believe that what I did was thoughtful, fair, and rooted in good faith. I made a genuine effort to return the money by holding onto it for a reasonable period and being open to inquiries. Since no one claimed it, using it for a communal benefit like the staff tea fund was a kind choice since it benefitted the team.

I'd hand it in to customer services. I found some money sticking out of a cash machine at a supermarket once and took it into the shop. I hope it found its way home.

I'd pick it up and see if anyone is looking for it. My daughter when quite little saw a pile of cash on the ground at a small theme park and we picked it up to hand in. A minute later a woman came round the corner looking up and down and quite frantic. We returned the money and she was obviously absolutely delighted. She gave DD2 £10 which made her day.

I am one of those ridiculously honest people , when I was about 18yo I stood on a pile of money, like so big that's why I noticed. It was in a shop = a deli with the round glass counter. Nobody saw me , I ummed and ahhed and thought I should take this to the police, this was the early 90's and at a glance over a thousand dollars. Instead , stupid me says to the deli owner "excuse me but I think someone has dropped this" and handed it over. Thick as a brick I am.

in a shop... hand in.

on the street/public land etc. that is going in my pocket.

(unless it is in a wallet or something)

We parked in the dark last night next to another car and my DH found a wallet on the floor. I told him to tuck it in the door handle so hopefully some poor panicked person found it on their return.

This . I’d hate to think it was a pensioners so I’d try and find the owner or hand it in. A tenner blowing in the wind in the street is fair game for keeping imo

It’s happened to me more than once over the years, always my children were amazed that I handed it over to staff in the nearest shop (once in a bank ).
looking back I realise that it was a good lesson for my kids too.

I’d hand it to customer services. I can’t imagine keeping it.

Of course I’d keep it. Finders keepers. Honestly what do you think think happens if you hand it in?

Years ago I saw a security man pick money off the floor and pocket it. I was disappointed he didn't attempt to find the owner.

In a shop definitely hand it in. In the street keep it.

I found £20 in a botanist bar recently.
Handed it to the barman put it in his back pocket and said "cheers mate, that'll get me a pizza on the way home".

In a shop/ public building with I’d hand it in. If I found it on street I’d donate it to charity. Large amount I’d had into the police

I found one in a little Sainsburys and handed it to the staff, in case the person needed it back. In the street near an ATM, I waited 10 mins to see if anyone was looking and used it to buy food for the food bank when I went shopping

In a shop hand it in, in the street if you didn't see who dropped it, pocket it.

I lost £20 in a shop, no-one handed it in. It was my birthday present from my mum. I was in the shop seeing if there was anything I wanted. I was gutted as I was short of money.

Although another time I left £10 at an ATM (thanks ADHD) and someone passed it in to the shop next door. I only realised when I was in the chippy that I hadn’t picked up my cash and said I had lost my tenner I had just lifted from the bank. A nice lady l said ‘did you leave it in the cashline? I just handed it in to Sainsbury’s’

I used to work in a supermarket. We had a special pot in the safe for found tenners etc. At the end of the year it would accumulate to a decent amount which would pay for drinks at the staff Christmas do.

Hardly anyone asked if anyone had handed cash in. I reckon if people even do notice, they mainly assume straight away it's gone forever.

Coins, I would pop it in the charity box at the till. Notes I would hand in, if they aren't claimed after a certain period of time they will be donated to charity if its a shop like Tesco/Asda.

My work (Council Townhall building) used to have a lot of 'found' things handed in. If money wasn't claimed after 2 years we donated it to the local kids home for their Xmas present budget.

I'm not mega rich but wouldn't ever keep money that doesn't belong to me.

I found two £10 notes in Morrison's car park. I always think it might have been lost by someone with no other money and who desperately needed food. I took it inside to customer services and handed it in. The man there kept saying how honest I was as though it was unusual! Surely most people would hand money in, I'd have thought. Anyway, he took all the details of where I found it etc. and I said if it's not claimed, give it to their chosen community charity.

I found a twenty pound note in a puddle on the beach. I kept it and used it to buy ice creams for us all.