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gees, I accidentally left a self checkout shop yesterday without paying for half my items.
What do? It was only $22.
Mistakes are made. Don't worry. If it's gonna bother you, go and donate that money to a charity.
Don't worry, there are many many other people who are similarly "forgetful". Nothing will come of it unless you do it all the time at the same shop
This is the first time ever. I'm not so silly as to do it on purpose and risk ruining my name. My good name is about the only asset I have.
The irony is at the same time the shop was busting another customer for changing or removing price tags off a heap of items.
and thanks for reassurance, it did worry me , especially in this age of surveillance
Absolutely nothing will come of it, it has already been factored in to their profits and losses with self service. Going back and returning it would be worse as they'd have to bin the items (potential contamination etc) and they'd have you on admitting to "theft".
So please don't stress. As someone else said donate to help those in tough times if you're still feeling guilty.
Story time: a couple of years back we were at Vic markets right before Chrissy and they loaded all our stuff onto a $750-$1k cheese wheel.
I was paying and my partner loaded up the bags in the chaos that is the markets this time of year.
I noticed a puzzled glance and they put out another cheese wheel with reflex.
Couple of mins later that look of confusion was bugging me so I checked the bags and yup, my partner had grabbed the whole wheel. We returned it and all parties involved had confused "wtf?" faces for a 5 second interaction.
(My partner may kill me for sharing this story as it's an embarrassing but hilarious brain fart that happens to all of us this time of year).
Edit: and if you're looking for a charity ~ Childs Play giving the gift of gaming/toys to sick kids.
That's what I thought. I don't know store policy, they might have a policy of calling the police for every single case, no discretion by store manager at all. That's why I did nothing.
You did right by doing nothing. On the grand scheme of things you did nothing wrong so please try and let it go despite it bugging you! It's no worse than you not noticing that your card didn't register when paying and then walking out. It happens with these automated systems.
Don't stress it, as long as you don't make it a habit nothing will come from it lol. They only get ya if ya steal over certain amount, I want to say north of $1k.
When self checkouts were new, I accidentally stole a 4pk of mugs lol!! I had placed some bags on top of them without realising and didn't end up scanning them. 2 have since broke, but I still have the other 2 haha
I think it happens quite a bit, it's rather easy to do. Especially if you expect the sensors to go off but they don't haha
I stole soooooo many bags when they first started charging for them. My local store decided to make it "easier" by putting the bags in the bagging area like where those grey plastic ones used to live and expecting you to scan a barcode they taped to the self checkout. That didn't last very long. You had everybody stealing them, even grandmas were forgetting 😂
Even once I removed them sometimes I'd forget (genuinely) I had to scan every bag, not just the first one
@Seagoon_ @melbaboutown Woolworths made ~$1,700,000,000.00 profit last year, Coles made ~$1,100,000,000.00. They'll survive, don't worry.
It happens occasionally.
I once had my entire grocery shop accidentally unpaid for because the attendant canceled my shop and took me to a manned teller to only pay for a gift card and activate it there assuming I had paid for everything else.